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A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in daily life and their common sense of a people's destiny...

Has your bicycle become your biggest escape of late? Are you rediscovering the joy of two wheels? If so, then Back in the Frame from award-winning blogger, Lady Velo, is the book for you Jools Walker re-discovered cycling aged twenty-eight after a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542761Author Dr Ronald SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615391080Author Joy a DegruyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Joy Degruy Publications IncPublisher Joy Degruy Publications IncWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807000670Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and...

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 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 9780735224957Author Jennifer L. EberhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

First documentary history of immigration into postwar Britain. Looks at all aspects of immigration into postwar Britain. Uses a wide range of official and unofficial sources.About the AuthorPanikos Panayi is Reader in History at De Montfort...

"Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time."-Samuel Moyn"Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history...

The 8th edition, already significantly updated, has now been further updated in 2023 to include the likely impact of the post-pandemic cutbacks, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and the Trump indictments on the 2024 national elections. These factors could...

Drawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media...

A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115341Author Lerone BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 615gDimensions(mm)...

*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ***'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating . . . tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES'One of the literary world's most promising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9780060974152Author Shelby SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint...

In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have...

Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on...

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more...

Young people who come into contact with police officers on the streets today have little idea of the significance of the stabbing to death of Stephen Lawrence in a racist attack in 1993. Only their parents or grandparents remember the daily exposures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983083Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture.Most studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593418628Author Alison Mariella DesirFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people: straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. It is within the family that homophobia begins to control the lives of...

"Can preaching recover a Blues sensibility and dare speak with authority in the midst of tragedy? America is living stormy Monday, but the pulpit is preaching happy Sunday. The world is experiencing the Blues, and pulpiteers are dispensing excessive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784529604Author Furkan KarayelFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

'I thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this...

In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberte, egalite, fraternite. But who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741178210Author Thomas MayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant ExploreWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864130Author Carol AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 332g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622127221Author Jacqueline BattaloraFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

We live in enormously polarised times. From politics to race, religion, gender and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were "downright evil." In 2019, hate crimes reached a...

Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed...

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983854Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013553Author Donald WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

Racism has no place in our society, we are told. In fact, its role is crucial but today public debate on race in Britain is constrained by a facile postracialism. Its features are colourblind narratives, an ‘anti-antiracist’ discourse and erasure of...

Do you love your natural hair? Some of the world's most inspiring black women tell us about their attitudes to, and struggles with, their crowning glory. Kinky, wavy, straight or curly, this book will help you celebrate your natural beauty, however you...