Fugitive Materials is committed to the preservation of radical histories and the disruption of informational privilege through archiving and bookselling.
New York, NY
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Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide.
A landmark 1970 text of health activism, a critique of heroin usage in Black communities and the complicity of state & corporate actors in the drug trade, written by a Harlem-born member of the Black Panther Party & one of the New York 21.
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For War, Nothing is a blistering anarchist takedown of Colombian peace accords, with lucid meditations on violence, the State, and spectacle and is as relevant today as when it was published in 2016, translated by Evan & Max (of @unseenbookclub) and you can it @fugitivemtrls
Six rare booklets published by the Republican government in Barcelona during the #SpanishCivilWar - just added to our site
tinyurl.com/4rxbxdb6
On May 21st Dan White Got Away With Murder
A superbly illustrated incendiary pamphlet produced to raise money for the bail fund after the White Night uprising, and an extraordinary primary source document from the biggest gay rebellion since Stonewall.
tinyurl.com/5xevbsyu
We’ll be at Canal Street Research Association this Thursday for the launch of our latest publication: Chinatown Needs Housing Not Jail - sparked by the discovery of four placards worn by protesters in 1982. Join us 4-6pm at 264 Canal Street, #5E
The premiere issue of this influential Black literary journal, edited and with poetry by 20-year-old bell hooks, writing under her birth name Gloria Watkins, along with Nate Mackey. More info on our website - link in bio.#hambone #nathanielmackey #bellhooks #rarebooks
The first issue of a sparsely distributed, short-lived #anarchist newspaper in #Ireland, 1980. Now on our website, link in bio! #resistance #wewanthouses #notofficeblocks #MutualAid
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Merry Christmas, 1930, by Langston Hughes in New Masses
Langston Hughes Papers: bit.ly/2FKP6KP
Readings from last year: bit.ly/3rfN8rk
The program from #HarryBelafonte musical #SingManSing at #BrooklynAcademyofMusic 1956 w #AlvinAiley & produced by #ciainformant Jay Kennedy! More info on the website
ALT A letter sized sheet of paper slightly yellowed with age on a white background. The paper is a flyer with black text and a Brooklyn Academy of Music letterhead advertising the Harry Belafonte musical ‘Sing, Man, Sing!’. The bottom of the flyer also advertises the Gondola restaurant.
Speech by the VP of #TheNewYorkAfricanSocietyforMutualRelief - one of the earliest Black #mutualaid orgs in the US, who supplied health & life insurance to members at a time when insurance companies would not provide coverage to Black people. Available on our website. #rarebooks
A rate 1941 #ILGWU poetry anthology including two otherwise unpublished poems by the labor activist, social worker, educator, & poet #HildaWorthingtonSmith + works by #RalphChaplin, #WaltWhitman, #CarlSandburg, and union members. Learn more on our website #laborunion #rarebooks
The superb exhibition catalog for the 1970 show of contemporary Black artists with #RobertBlackburn #EmmaAmos #ThomasSills #FrankBowling and nearly 70 others. More info on our website
This rare study of #OnitshaMarketLiterature, the Nigerian popular literature of the 1960s with a foreword by #ChinuaAchebe is now available on our website. Read more: tinyurl.com/9989mkjt
We’ll be at our first book fair tomorrow, outdoors at Collect Pond Park!
130 Leonard Street, 11a-6p
~ hope to see you there
Take a closer look at item 33 from our catalog, ‘Looking Forward to Being Attacked’ by Lt. Jim Bullard. The questionably titled 1977 self-defense book by a Memphis police lieutenant. Learn more on our web shop or check out our insta: instagram.com/p/COidAEID5Yi/
#selfdefense
Check out #15 from our catalog, “Wanted for Murder: Nelson Rockefeller” produced and distributed by The Bronx Coalition in 1971
#bronxhistory #wanted #attica #protestposter #nyhistory instagram.com/p/CN3IWEKjevb/…
We are proud to announce our first antiquarian catalog ‘Dead Men on Furlough’. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/kcdrredz