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And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
RRP: £9.99£6.80The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love,... -
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: £10.99£7.77'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His... -
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview by Toni Morrison 9781612198736
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198736Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Omeros by Derek Walcott
RRP: £17.99£12.20A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African... -
And Still I Rise by Dr Maya Angelou
RRP: £10.99£7.40A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am... -
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
RRP: £25.99£22.04"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: £18.95£14.26"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered... -
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99£7.11"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades,... -
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
RRP: £19.99£13.56"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." -Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the... -
The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America by Kevern Verney
RRP: £15.99£11.80Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American... -
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
£13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508609Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
RRP: £11.89£10.07'Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its... -
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: £21.99£16.41In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"-the path... -
Cane by Jean Toomer 9780393931686
£14.28Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a... -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
RRP: £9.99£7.11*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's... -
Rape, Race, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 by Sandra Gunning 9780195099904
RRP: £57.00£56.69In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this... -
This is the Canon: Decolonise Your Bookshelves in 50 Books by Kadija Sesay George
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature'Nikesh Shukla'The ultimate introduction to post-colonial literature for those who want to understand the classics and the... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £20.99£14.94The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
RRP: £19.95£15.77America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What... -
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by James Baldwin
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612194004Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 134g -
The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation by Julie Buckner Armstrong
RRP: £28.95£23.36This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement... -
Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin
RRP: £20.00£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006429Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm * 13mm -
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Elizabeth Ammons 9780393283785
RRP: £12.99£11.86This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons's preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations.A rich selection of historical documents on slavery and abolitionism... -
Collected Plays: Volume 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £19.99£17.13`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
RRP: £25.99£22.04Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies Argues that... -
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History by Robert P. Green 9780719070136
RRP: £19.99£15.23The American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: £16.95£13.54Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others... -
The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood by Sara Clarke Kaplan 9780816695690
RRP: £22.99£19.60How Black women's reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy-and remains key to their dismantling In the United States, slavery relied on the reproduction and other labors of unfree Black women. Nearly four... -
Who Writes for Black Children?: African American Children's Literature before 1900 by Katharine Capshaw
RRP: £25.99£22.44Until recently, scholars believed that African American children's literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume's... -
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being by Kevin Quashie
RRP: £22.99£19.60In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face... -
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert
RRP: £28.99£24.46Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute... -
Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 by Daniel G. Williams 9780708319871
RRP: £14.99£11.66Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between... -
Selected Poems by Rita Dove
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750802Author Rita DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison 9780674673779
RRP: £30.95£23.93Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument... -
This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books by Joan Anim-Addo
RRP: £10.99£6.47'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature'Nikesh Shukla'The ultimate introduction to post-colonial literature for those who want to understand the classics and the... -
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 9781479806072
RRP: £18.99£16.36Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
RRP: £16.00£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00£16.99Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker 9780820363967
£30.09In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,... -
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross
RRP: £27.99£24.06In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality,...