Books like The West and the rest of us

The West and the rest of us by Chinweizu reads as critical, polemical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Les damnés de la terre

Frantz Fanon · 1961

Both explore decolonization

62% genome match

Decolonising the Mind

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo · 1986

Both explore postcolonialism

68% genome match

Culture and imperialism

Edward W. Said · 1993

Both explore postcolonialism

68% genome match

The invention of women

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí · 1997

Both explore postcolonialism

68% genome match

Toward the decolonization of African literature

Chinweizu · 1980

Both explore african identity & eurocentrism

66% genome match

AFRICAN LITERATURE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICISM AND THEORY; ED. BY TEJUMOLA OLANIYAN

Ato Quayson · 2007

Both explore postcolonialism

66% genome match

Postcolonial Ecocriticism

Helen Tiffin · 2008

Both explore postcolonialism

65% genome match

Civilisation ou barbarie

Cheikh Anta Diop · 1981

Same nonfiction feel

63% genome match

Histoire de la sexualité

Michel Foucault · 1976

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Black Athena

Martin Bernal · 1987

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

World Orders Old and New

Noam Chomsky · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

61% genome match

Desiring Arabs

Joseph Andoni Massad · 2006

Both explore postcolonialism

63% genome match