Black Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098333362Author ZULU ALIFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 117gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 5mm

In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772583786Author Denise Davis MayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm...

'An illuminating portrait of Baltimore ... Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and...

Featuring a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Black public intellectuals of the 19th century, is as timely and radical...

This book outlines the so called 'contemporary Asian matriarchate'. In the twentieth century, six women have held the office of prime minister in South Asia. The pioneers were Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka-the world's first female prime minister-and...

'An illuminating portrait of Baltimore ... Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and...

Throughout their award-winning careers, visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and poet, memoirist, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts have shed light on the violences of incarceration and the underexplored contradictions of American history. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013212Author Yaba BlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonization. What is there to be understood and done when it is evident that the search for justice, which dominates social and political philosophy of the North,...

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039009110Author Dele AdeyemoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Knopf CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship's hold to the racist encoding of 'cuddly' toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black...

People, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others' prejudice.During my childhood, many stars were...

Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the suburbs and the city; the north and south. Pursues a...

Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association Winner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given by the Association of Internet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715414498Author Robert F WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and...

In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African...

In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham's 1937 remark "we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in...

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A...

Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in...

In There's a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls "Black gay habits of mind." In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from...

Cedric Robinson was one of the most important and influential Black radical scholars of recent times, best known for the pathbreaking Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. In this late major work, he turns his attention to European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637120231Author Olufemi OluniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly...

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 9781633451148Author Sean AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 720g

At only twentyone square miles in area, Bermuda saw slaves and slaveholders working and living closer together than in other societies. The colony's maritime pursuits o ered slaves a degree of autonomy un- equaled in other English colonies. Bernhard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788745498399Author Mefire DialloFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint BN PublishingPublisher BN PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 4mm

A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly-dark...

Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Whilst scholarship has increasingly moved to consider mixedness and the experiences of mixed-race people, there has been a notable lack of attention to the specific...

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term "fetishism" chiefly to assert the irrationality of...

A full understanding of Black and Asian history within the British context is integral to achieving a truly multicultural Britain. In this landmark book, Ron Ramdin offer the first complete history of both the Black and Asian experience in Britain ...

Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958947074Author Wesley MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 818Imprint A-Team PublishingPublisher A-Team PublishingWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In Kincraft Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals, who are often overshadowed by white evangelicals and the common equation of the "Black Church" with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Drawing on fieldwork in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647130190Author Kamilah Marie Woodson (Ed )Format PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Fielding University PressPublisher Fielding University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547642Author Kimberly Juanita BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra,...