Biracial & Multiracial Studies

'A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. ... nothing short of astounding' Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their...

** LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE LONGLIST 2022 ** 'Really packs a punch' Aja Barber, author of Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier...

A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684338771Author J D LenoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Black Rose WritingPublisher Black Rose WritingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739812119Author Brian LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Brian LewisPublisher Brian LewisWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive a human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310667Author Olukemi OgunyemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

What is antiracist activism? And how do we organise for power around antiracist principles? In this groundbreaking collection, long-time activist Joshua Virasami gathers the voices of some of our most inspirational organisers, thinkers and collectives. A...

'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow do you find hope and even joy in a world that is...

This Element explores Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its potential application to the field of public administration. It proposes specific areas within the field where a CRT framework would help to uncover and rectify structural and institutional racism...

How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our...

Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie. Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she...

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its values, we have at the same time become...

In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their cultureWho are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral...

Is social integration all it's cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author Louisa Yousfi, who herself has North African roots. Taking its inspiration from the leading Algerian writer Kateb Yacine ('I'm better off not being too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027308750Author Mary SeacoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow do you find hope and even joy in a world that is...

One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books for 2023 A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people at a critical juncture in their country's history. Despite Israel's determined...

In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view...

Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism. ...

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the trailblazing African American author, Encounters with James Baldwin is a wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections, interviews and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of...

Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528718059Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 756Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 943gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 42mm

"Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis. Historical and broad in its coverage, this is one of the best...

In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "War on Terror." Importantly, Kumar contends that Islamophobia is best understood as racism rather than as...

American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd like to imagine it has? This sweeping history of race in...

From Special Forces veteran and internationally respected teacher of Ronin Tactics to streaming and videogame fan favorite, Tu Lam's memoir will captivate, astonish, exhilarate, and even profoundly resonate.Tu Lam has become known not just for his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054418Author Lilian ThuramFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199376568Author Associate Professor Jason Morgan WardFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes,...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeWinner of the Harriet...

On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578817965Author Shirish V PatelFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Shirish PatelPublisher Shirish PatelWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641529044Author Williams B aFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge Press

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal...

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027308378Author Madison GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054746Author Vanisha ParmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus. Simply Institutional...