Library & Readings

The San Antonio DSA Library contains books, magazines, and PDFs that are shared by our members. Hardcopy versions are only available to DSA dues paying members, but PDFs are available to everyone. Check out the catalog adjacent or to view a spreadsheet version of our catalog, click here. Want to borrow a book? Click the button below.

Want to read what we're reading? Check out these videos, podcasts, and texts recommended to you by our members, or check out the topics below. * Indicates that the book is available in our library.

Imperialism and Colonialism

• "The Wretched of the Earth" - Frantz Fanon *

• "Open Veins of Latin America" - Eduardo Galeano 

• "The Shock Doctrine" - Naomi Klein

• "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" - Vladimir Lenin

• "Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism" - Kwame Nkrumah

• "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" - Walter Rodney

Prisons and Police Abolition

• "Are Prisons Obsolete?" - Angela Y. Davis

• "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" - Angela Y. Davis *

• "If They Come in the Morning" - Angela Y. Davis

• "Beyond Survival" - Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha *

• "Blood in My Eye" - George L. Jackson

• "Assata: An Autobiography" - Assata Shakur

• "The End of Policing" - Alex S. Vitale *

• "Golden Gulag" - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Race and Ethnicity

• "Black Reconstruction" - W. E. B. Du Bois​

• "Black Skin, White Masks" - Frantz Fanon

• "Class, Race, and Marxism" - David Roediger

• "Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race" - Patrick Wolfe