Black Studies

The multi-century event of enslavement and colonialism changed the cultural and political imagination of the Atlantic world. We still live and work in the horizon of that event. It was an event that placed a violent Manichean structure of antiblackness...

Colorism – discrimination based on skin darkness within a racial group – has plagued Black Americans since their first arrival in this country. Although colorism has taken different forms over time, lighter-skinned Black people have always received...

Despite the island's long-simmering tensions, Dominicans and Haitians once unified Hispaniola. Based on research from over two dozen archives in multiple countries, Siblings of Soil presents the overlooked history of their shared imperial endings and...

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436619Author Bernard M MagubaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 1059g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865434899Format PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798347671403Author Charles W ChesnuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798210929563Author Lea Schoening BbFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 4mm

The largest urban center in Appalachia, Pittsburgh has long been a hub of Black freedom work. It has also been an enduring center of carcerality in the United States. Local experiences reflect a strong tradition of resisting systemic antiblackness, state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798210265609Author Jenny KellettFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553480Author Barbara EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798211965607Author Maximillian MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889924302Author Lucina DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Leeds Press CorpPublisher Leeds Press CorpWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148758Author Nicole GregoireFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University Press

Moving Blackness: Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace delves into the intricate connections between communication, culture, power, and racism in relation to blackness. Through a blend of interviews, oral histories, and meticulous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohanna M. Lukate is an author and academic based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cambridge and appeared on the TEDx...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215616Author Tracey Owens PattonFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

An Introduction to Black Psychology is designed to help students develop a strong intellectual orientation and practice of Black psychology. The anthology features readings that encourage students to break from the western way of thought that pervades...

Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" is one of the most-cited essays in African American...

Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" is one of the most-cited essays in African American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798210326201Author Preme MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 5mm

Solving the Mystery of the Model Minority: The Journey of Asian Americans in America introduces students to current debates surrounding the concept of model minority and its relation to the greater Asian American experience.The book defines the term...

At the heart of racist attitudes and behaviors is anti-Black racism, which simply put, is the disregard and disdain of Black life. Anti-Black racism negatively impacts every aspect of the lives of Black people.Edited by renowned scholar and psychologist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034968153Author Preme MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 5mm

In early 2022, protests rocked Kazakhstan. Initially peaceful demonstrations soon turned violent after brutal government crackdowns, leaving at least 238 dead during ‘Bloody January’. But despite fears that Kazakhstan might split along ethno-linguistic...

Elijah Muhammad-Original Man Know Thyself: A Pedagogy for Black Liberation introduces students to the works of Elijah Muhammad, a thought leader who championed the development of Black education and helped to raise the consciousness of Blacks in America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732840546Author Toni Coleman-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Collaborative Experience, Inc.Publisher Collaborative Experience, Inc...

Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007), have been...

This edited volume qualifies black love on the basis of black identity. Much of what is experienced of blackness as an identity arises out of a juxtaposition to other races and identities, particularly whiteness. The contributors in this volume resist...

This book understands the postracial as a genre-like the zombie apocalypse-that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259078Author Tracey Owens PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645041320Author Thomas Rashad EasleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Dio Press IncPublisher Dio Press IncWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Deconstructing Prehumanity is an investigation into the role of archaeological perception in the construction of race. It explores how social knowledge and disciplinary subjectivity have shaped our organization of the human past and how this organization...

In Someone Else's Country is a groundbreaking work that details the current situation of racial profiling in Caribbean countries where certain citizens are denied any documentation to become a citizen of the country they were born and raised in. They now...

Facing South to Africa is a bold synthesis of the ideas that have made Afrocentric theorists the leading voices of the African renaissance. Written from the vantage point of the philosophical and political discourse that emerged over the past twenty-five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006588181Author Preme MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

In parts of West Africa, some babies and toddlers are considered spirit children-nonhumans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the family. These are usually deformed or ailing infants, the very young whose births coincide with tragic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865434776Author Osayimwense OsaFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865431751Author Sharifa M ZawawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 757g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949206312Author Sally MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...