Making Worlds

We are a nonprofit, worker cooperative bookstore in West Philadelphia. Through books and events, we are making space for abolition, autonomy, ecological self-determination, and affirmation of worlds imagined and made by Black, Brown, Indigenous liberation.

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Making Worlds

Global Abolition, Decolonization & Social Policy

Kindred (Anniversary)
Patternmaster
Parable of the Sower
Clay's Ark
Mind of My Mind
Dawn
Wild Seed
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
The Politics of Care
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?
For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity--Reflections from Greece
Interior Chinatown
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Committed
The Refugees
Making and Remaking Asian America
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
The Making of Asian America: A History
Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation
Revolution and Evolution
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #Nodapl Movement
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning of the West from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume I: The Impact of American Indians o
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume II: The Continuing Impact of American Indian Wa
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume III: What Would Be Good to Continue Learning fr
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume IV: What Would Be Good to Continue Learning fro
Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire
Abolishing Carceral Society
Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis
Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
On Palestine
Ardh Al Burtuqal Al Hazin: Short Stories in Arabic
Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
Futures of Black Radicalism
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment
Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State Volume 43
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Revised and Updated Third)
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Assata: An Autobiography
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party (New Edition)
Resisting State Violence
Prisons on Fire: Attica, George Jackson and Black Liberation
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition
Blood in My Eye
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Black August
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
Black August: 1619-2019
Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Antiracist Baby Board Book
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
The Day You Begin
Woke Baby
How to Be an Antiracist
Carefree, Like Me! - Chapter 1: Root the Brave
Carefree, Like Me!: Chapter 2: Sacra the Joyous
Tar Beach
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
The Undefeated
The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families
Ikenga
Hurricane Child
Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Where We Stand: Class Matters
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Belonging: A Culture of Place
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism