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Sinti and Roma: Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature by Susan Tebbutt 9781571819222
RRP: $50.30$40.93"...this collection ...is most welcome ...presents aspects of a fascinating and complex picture ...this informative and thought-provoking project calls upon us, the readers, to re-examine our own moral and ethical positions." * Monatshefte... -
The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration by Montserrat Guibernau 9780745647029
RRP: $52.48$46.64The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extended editorial... -
Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America by Gary Alan Fine
RRP: $63.00$48.91Legends are arguably the most common narrative form of folklore in American society. From sex acts to business transactions, from fashion to food, from heroes to heroin, rumors and legends take on every charged topic. Children circulate texts about toys... -
Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
RRP: $33.58$28.16The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists When #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on... -
Women, Madness and Medicine by Denise Russell 9780745612614
RRP: $37.78$33.68This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social underpinning. Arguing at both an epistemological and empirical level, Russell challenges the biological... -
Race and Racism by Bernard R. Boxill 9780198752677
RRP: $111.28$85.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Race and Racism by Bernard R. Boxill 9780198752677 [USED COPY]
RRP: $111.28$20.03The eighteen essays in this new book deal with the meaning of two highly contested ideas: race and racism. Race is variously declared to be a self-evident fact of nature, a natural kind, a biological category, a political category, a social construction,... -
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan
RRP: $58.78$46.35How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or... -
Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike by Project Novel Graphic Stanford
RRP: $31.48$23.06After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU... -
Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Race in Colonial Algeria, New Edition by Patricia M. E. Lorcin
RRP: $54.58$43.76Imperial Identities is a groundbreaking book that addresses identity formation in colonial Algeria of two predominant ethnicities and analyzes French attitudes in the context of nineteenth-century ideologies. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the process... -
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin Diangelo
RRP: $41.98$26.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807074121Author Robin DiAngeloFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism by David Theo Goldberg
RRP: $67.10$60.25Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today's world. A major new study of race and racism by... -
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Walter Laqueur 9780195304299
RRP: $126.00$112.92For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London, the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism, Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this... -
Transnational Migration by Thomas Faist 9780745649788
RRP: $35.68$31.96Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong contributions to immigration studies and holds great promise for deepening insights... -
Love: An Unromantic Discussion by Mary Evans 9780745620732
$33.98Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more... -
Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil by Edward E. Telles 9780691127927
RRP: $67.20$52.00This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key... -
No Country for Black Men by Theotis Jones 9781514662106
RRP: $27.20$23.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514662106Author Theotis JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome 9780813539522
RRP: $58.78$28.27Nearly fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein remains one of America's foremost cultural icons. A thicket of materials, ranging from scholarly to popular, have been written, compiled, produced, and published about his life and his teachings. Among... -
The Dalit Truth by K. Raju
$47.42The Dalit Truth contains a symphony of Dalit voices as they call out to the future. A multitude of Dalit truths and their battles against the lies perpetrated by the caste system are reflected in the pages of this book, pointing towards a future filled... -
Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies by Christine Delphy 9780745609850
$41.98This important new book creates new terms for thinking about gender and generational relationships. In so doing it recasts conventional understandings of the family as an institution for organizing labour and consumption. Delphy and Leonard present... -
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington 9780316509442
RRP: $33.58$26.04A powerful indictment of the notion of hereditary intelligence, A Terrible Thing to Waste shows how environmental racism drives the black-white IQ gap and explains what can be done to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.The 1994... -
Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader by Sunaina Arya
RRP: $83.98$73.63Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by... -
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M Blow
$24.11INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Editor's Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, "a must-read in the effort to... -
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness by Trica Danielle Keaton 9780822352624
RRP: $54.58$43.76In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category... -
Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars by Irshad Manji 9781250182852
RRP: $29.38$24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250182852Author Irshad ManjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots by Brenda Stevenson 9780190231019
RRP: $58.78$48.95Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage,... -
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals: The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals by Katja M. Guenther
RRP: $54.58$43.58Unlocks the hidden world of a high-intake animal shelter, revealing the inequalities that lead to one million animal deaths each year. Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many... -
Feminism and Ecology by Mary Mellor 9780745614182
RRP: $37.78$33.68The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within it. Mellor... -
A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools by Michael Hines
RRP: $48.30$31.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007426Author Michael HinesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Gender on Planet Earth by Ann Oakley 9780745629643
RRP: $41.98$40.49A provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet. In this wide-ranging and powerful new book, the influential author and social scientist Ann Oakley mounts a devastating argument about the state of our... -
The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Corey Dolgon 9780814719978
RRP: $58.78$45.51Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology A portrait of the contentious, controversial history of the Manhattan elite's favorite fabled summer playground In this absorbing account of New York's famous vacation... -
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
RRP: $63.00$46.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2023. Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction) 2023. Nominated for NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2023.Book InformationISBN... -
Howard Zinn On Race by Howard Zinn
RRP: $20.98$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609801342Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 216g -
Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine by Michelle Stanworth
$37.99The creation of 'test-tube babies' acted as a spur to public debate about the implications of research on embryos, in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and the whole range of technologies concerned with human reproduction. The scope of... -
Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism by Jodi Melamed
RRP: $50.38$40.30In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white... -
City of Segregation: One Hundred Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles by Andrea Gibbons
RRP: $35.68$20.03City of Segregation traces the central role racism has played in shaping modern Los Angeles-as it has shaped all US cities. Andrea Gibbons documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets,... -
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance by David Lyon 9780745641560
$35.97New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and above all, may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this timely new contribution,... -
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism by Sherene Razack 9780802086631
RRP: $69.30$61.01Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture. The first... -
Contesting Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim Prejudice in Media, Culture and Politics by Peter Morey 9780755641215
$67.79Islamophobia is one of the most prevalent forms of prejudice in the world today. This timely book reveals the way in which Islamophobia's pervasive power is being met with responses that challenge it and the worldview on which it rests. The volume breaks... -
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon
RRP: $46.20$37.78In the last decade Black Americans have gone from exhilaration and hope with the election of Barack Obama to the malaise and fear of the Trump presidency. Both Administrations serve as tacit examples of the gains and regressions of minorities. From...