Biracial & Multiracial Studies

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old...

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760992224Author Renee Pettitt-SchippFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 421gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

A must-have collection of folktales for anyone interested in Korean literature and culture!Tales of Korea is a classic collection of Korea's best-known folktales--presenting all the imagination and wonder of Korean storytelling in a single volume...

When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Why do actors of...

Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text both illuminates and moves forward debates over 'race' and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy.Reviews`Will prove useful as a textbook in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728293523Author Matson BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983779Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625294Author Iceberg SlimFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062966728Author Emma DabiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807026366Author Samira MehtaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 145mm * 19mm

Drawing on interviews with over 100 first generation migrant women in the London borough of Tower Hamlets (home to the largest population of Bangladeshis in the UK) the report: * presents the first detailed study of this significant ethnic minority...

A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912997633Author Yasmin Ghazala FarooqFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898951Author Michelle ZaunerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Runner Up, Memoir) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780671866396Author Melba Patillo BealsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Pocket...

The Art of Being Black explores how young black Britons create their cultural identities. Claire Alexander rejects the common tendency to view black communities in terms of conflict, or as the focus of a problem; she offers a fresh exploration of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982186487Author Myriam GurbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864123Author Carol AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 523g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832807Author Anandi RamamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648236702Author Stella StamatakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Butter Fingers BooksPublisher Butter Fingers BooksWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175863Author Vanessa Rochelle LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258373Author Simon Gwyn RobertsFormat PaperbackImprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press

How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up...

The authors review the twentieth-century history of Hungarian communities that became minorities within Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria after World War I. They trace these developments over ninety years of social, political, economic,...

Cultural Diversity: Its Social Psychology shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and multiculturalism. Shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and cultural...

The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the...

During the era of French colonial rule in Indochina, as many as two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France. Subjects and Sojourners is a vivid and comprehensive social, cultural, and political history of this diverse group, which ranged from...

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to be valued, seen, heard and perhaps some advice on how to navigate life amongst white supremacy...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old...

This book focuses on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers in the years 1608, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when a treaty effectively removed the Cherokees from the region. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732031500Author Traci D O'NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Icart Media LLCPublisher Icart Media LLCWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Bishop E.W. Jackson's life story unites Americans around a shared legacy of freedom. As a great grandson of slaves, he believes that the promise of liberty has always belonged to all Americans. For some, only their heirs would be the full beneficiaries...

In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and...

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307463005Author Brooke NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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In Race and the City, Shanti Fernando presents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories...