The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon

It’s really important in my field, political theory, to get perspectives different from our own. That’s why I go to Fanon.

Many Americans have a tendency of seeing the projects of empires as nations trying to remake the world over in their own image, and we frame the conflicts in places like Africa in those terms. Fanon challenges our notions and invites us to see the colonial enterprise from a widely different perspective that will likely challenge much of what you think you know. That makes this a winner.