Black Studies

In Performances of Spiral Time, famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins theorizes forms of African and African diasporic temporality, corporeality, and space that exist apart from and critique Eurocentric notions of linear time. Martins...

Despite Trinidad and Tobago's economic dependence on oil and gas production and its history of colonial exploitation of labor and resources, it enjoys relatively high democratic and redistributive development compared to other nations in the global South...

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

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432192Author James GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 577g

Black Americans have arguably arrived at the height of their cultural prominence. In politics, entertainment, academia, and nearly every sphere of influence, "black issues" dominate the national discussion. Yet many black Americans are suffering more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026458Author Mostafa HefnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology...

In 1978, the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925-1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African...

Winner, 2024 Anna Julia Cooper Outstanding Publication Award, Association for the Study of Black Women in PoliticsPoor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776145713Author Dr Malose LangaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Wits University PressPublisher Wits University PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...