The Nation on No Map

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By William C. Anderson & Saidiya Hartman &

Publisher Description

The Nation On No Map uses Black anarchism as a tool of survival in an age of crisis. Picking up where his co-authored debut As Black As Resistance left off, Anderson rejects nationalism, the State, and citizenship as avenues to achieve liberation. He issues a bold case for prioritizing basic survival as social and environmental conditions grow worse and global disasters abound. In order to overcome oppression, he says, people will have to first overcome certain barriers to and ways of thinking about liberation that go beyond mere critique of the U.S. By broadening our understanding of what stands in our way to include things like celebrity, dogma, and the idea of nationhood itself (Black or otherwise), The Nation On No Map encourages readers to utilize, and then exceed, the ideals and strategies of Black anarchism, regardless of what term they use to describe the struggle for liberation.

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The Nation on No Map Reviews

4.5

Fiona 🏳️‍🌈♾️🏴

Created 5 months ago

“One of many aspects that makes anarchism so compelling is the fact that it has emerged independently all over the world and all throughout history. I really enjoy reading from different anarchist traditions because it makes for an incredibly rich understanding of these similar, but not identical, and generally compatible sets of beliefs and analyses. It's a delight to see how people in such different circumstances and from such different cultures have come to the same conclusion: that the nation-state is where human progress and freedom go to die, and that the prime function of any social organization is to provide for all according to their needs. In The Nation On No Map, William Anderson is very much in conversation with other leftists and Black radicals, people from all over the world spanning a period of 200 years. This book is short, concise, and makes no effort to be any kind of definitive text. It is very clear that it should be read as one of many. Personally, I'm now intrigued to read the work of Kuwasi Balagoon, who was not only a Black anarchist but also a queer elder who we lost to the AIDS crisis. His quotes in particular caught my attention. I appreciated the resounding practicality of this book. Perhaps it's because I've read a lot of older anarchist works lately, but I felt that this small tome could easily be put into the hands of anyone without a ton of political knowledge but who knows things must change radically and has the beginnings of ideas as to how. This is a book that means it when it talks about revolution, and addresses that fact directly. Much of the book is dedicated to exposing the flaws with other movements and ideological approaches, which is pretty common for any leftist text, but honestly I don't think that's a pitfall here because he does such a great job. The critiques of Black capitalism and nationalism, classical anarchism, and authoritarian leftism are pointed and honestly dead-on. I feel like I now have language to talk about things that have long bothered me but that I haven't quite been able to put into words, or felt that it was my place to do so. This is a book written very much for Black people, and as a white person I feel that it was a privilege to get this perspective not created with me in mind. I hope I can go forward with this book, as well as the ones it's inspired me to read, and be an even more anti-racist and pro-Black leftist.”

Absynthisis

Created 6 months ago

jessi

Created 7 months ago

“the kind of book that makes me wish i was still in school, a book that begs to be interrogated collectively and by a range of perspectives, identities, backgrounds, etc. just made me so curious to see how different people would react to the same information. lots of new ideas for me to sit with… tldr i will read anything andrew raine tells me to read <3”

Kiian Dawn

Created 9 months ago

dino

Created about 1 year ago

About William C. Anderson

William C. Anderson is an independent writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. He has written for The Guardian, Truthout, and the British Journal of Photography, among other publications, and has appeared on MTV and NPR. He is the co-author of As Black As Resistance, and has work in the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? He is cofounder of Offshoot Journal.

Other books by William C. Anderson

Anarchist Panther

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I Cannot Submit to Injustices

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Driven by the Movement

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Anarchism and the Black Revolution

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As Black as Resistance

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Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals and Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, among other works.