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I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant
RRP: €22.60€16.20A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and... -
Social Mobility: And Its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major
RRP: €13.08€9.25What are the effects of decreasing social mobility?How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances?Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills 9780801484636
RRP: €29.74€25.26A very important book.... The Racial Contract has the potential to radically challenge many of us to reevaluate how we think about social contract theory. As well, to take the arguments that Mills makes is to be prepared to rethink about the concept of... -
Black is the Journey, Africana the Name by Maboula Soumahoro 9781509548330
RRP: €15.46€14.21In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces... -
Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S Medwed
RRP: €29.75€19.49Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. In Barred, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system's stringent procedural rules are... -
Moynihan Report: The Negro Family: The Case for National Action by U S Department of Labor 9781945934520
RRP: €35.69€28.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934520Author U S Department of LaborFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
RRP: €30.93€26.23Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has... -
Fast Forward: The Autobiography: The Hard Road to Football Success by Andrew Cole
RRP: €23.80€16.36SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021'A moving chronicle of a journey' - Mail on Sunday'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' - Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme'It really is an... -
An Inconvenient Minority: The Ivy League Admissions Cases and the Attack on Asian American Excellence by Kenny Xu
RRP: €30.93€20.65From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, the false narrative of American meritocracy, and the attack on Asian American excellence with its... -
Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell
RRP: €29.75€22.82How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals... -
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew 9780674237698
RRP: €21.36€17.21A Guardian Best Book of the Year"A gripping study of white power...Explosive."-New York Times"Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right."-Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart... -
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? by Yomi Adegoke
RRP: €11.89€7.90An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices... -
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award by Lee Lawrence
RRP: €20.22€13.73WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging' AKALA What would you do if the... -
Locking Up Our Own: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by James Forman
RRP: €13.08€8.81Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLonglisted for the National Book AwardOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its... -
Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi 9780198834793
RRP: €10.70€7.68There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In... -
Striking Out by Ian Wright 9780702306860
RRP: €15.46€14.02From the writing team of Ian Wright and Musa Okwonga. Inspired by the story of the superstar striker, Ian Wright. CO-WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 "A thrilling book ... an uplifting... -
Reprieve by James Han Mattson
RRP: €20.22€19.36An autumn 2021 pick for New York Times * Observer * Esquire * O Quarterly * Chicago Tribune * Shondaland '[A] gripping piece of storytelling' GUARDIAN 'Brilliantly conceived and unsettling' SUNDAY TIMES 'Clever, insightful and unnerving' OBSERVER ... -
Anti-racism in Education: Stories of Growing Activism by Geetha Marcus 9781915713001
RRP: €23.79€20.96A powerful book comprising stories of anti-racist action by higher education scholars including researchers and teachers at various stages of their careers. Aimed at and relevant for anyone in education, it encourages reflection on the tolerance of... -
Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne 9780241629390
RRP: €23.80€17.01'Required reading for everyone who lives in an unruly human body... elegant, fierce, and profound' Roxane GaySize discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it.For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has... -
Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race by H. Samy Alim
€45.86Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us... -
The Hounding of David Oluwale by Kester Aspden 9780099506171
RRP: €13.08€9.25'David Oluwale's story has a raw power...and Kester Aspden makes it relevant for the reader of today' Mishal HusainAn award-winning microhistory that examines the death of David Oluwale and institutionalised police racism in Britain.When, in May 1969,... -
Reimagining Black Art and Criminology: A New Criminological Imagination by Martin Glynn
RRP: €33.31€25.67It is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice... -
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523091300Author Mary-Frances WintersFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour by Samara Linton
RRP: €20.22€15.09'An invaluable collection' BBC'A seminal body of work that centres our voices authentically and unapologetically'Melissa Cummings-Quarry, co-author of Grown and co-founder of Black Girls Book ClubThe Colour of Madness is a groundbreaking anthology... -
The Trayvon Generation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Elizabeth Alexander
RRP: €20.22€13.73*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more*In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander-one of the... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption by Matthew Hughey 9781439910016
RRP: €32.12€28.44The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in unfamiliar or hostile settings discovering something about... -
Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room by Foluke Taylor
RRP: €24.98€22.63"Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection-of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air-and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice." Part... -
The Rage of a Privileged Class by Ellis Cose 9780060925949
RRP: €16.65€13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925949Author Ellis CoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
RRP: €11.89€8.09How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past?Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? ... -
Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves by Charles Fernyhough
RRP: €11.89€7.91'I cannot think of a time in living memory when this book would have been more urgent or more necessary' Sarah Perry, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Essex Serpent'There are some books which are necessary and there are some which are enjoyable and... -
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: €33.31€28.10This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the... -
Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present by D.B. Paul 9781573923439
RRP: €23.79€21.57In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: €13.08€8.63Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human ... -
Decolonizing the Theatre Space: A Conversation by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway 9781350205130
RRP: €23.79€19.682020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking: was it a moment or is it a movement, and what fundamental changes within... -
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
RRP: €11.89€8.09***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old... -
Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality by Imogen Tyler
RRP: €16.65€13.29Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day... -
Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear by Klaus-Michael Bogdal 9780241519028
RRP: €47.60€33.78'A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. ... nothing short of astounding' Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: €15.46€10.82WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand... -
Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond by Lenny Henry
RRP: €9.51€6.50** PRE-ORDER LENNY HENRY'S NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RISING TO THE SURFACE NOW ** Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United Kingdom's... -
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective by Francoise Verges
RRP: €15.46€10.23'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words...