Ethnic Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631827884Author Nat Hentoff Nat ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Guyanese society. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312423728Author Tricia RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 398g

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154197Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935295112Author Mustafa OEzcelikFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637560Author Miss AidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Book. Nominated for Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780385265560Author Alex KotlowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies in archaeology, history, literature and art.The chapters from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361873Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

This book critically and comprehensively examines China's welfare development amidst its rapid economic growth and increasing social tensions. It covers the main policy areas from China's inception of the open door policy in 1978 to the new...

This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on...

Vira hasn't seen her sister Deesh for years. Deesh's kids, Amy and Bill, want to know why but nobody's telling them anything.When Deesh invites her sister to Amy's flashy party, Vira reckons it's time to come home and move on. Time to stop watching the...

This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of...

Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed in 1999.Since founding the project, McGill has been touring the country, spending the...

This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis (1909-1979). Lewis was the sole African American artist of his generation who became committed to issues of abstraction at the start of...

"Brilliantly reveals a China that has always been lively and pluralist in its political thought...His analysis has immense relevance for China today." -Rana Mitter, Foreign AffairsThe definitive history of China's philosophical confrontation with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506489834Author Jasmine L. HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121263Author Yosef Ben-JochannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S.

The 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison is well established as one of the leading voices in American letters. Even so, her novels are often read narrowly rather than expansively, read as literary artifacts rather than as dynamic cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345400314Author Brooke Medicine EagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Hailed as "a captivating and thorough study of a long-ignored aspect of America's art history" (CHOICE), Creating Their Own Image offers the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, spanning from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance...

Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some...

The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes,...

Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal...

In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the...

Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication Association Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist...

Modern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview. Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635610277Author George G M JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint 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 9781879181496Author Michael GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

The four life histories collected here-personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with the Mexican Revolutionary army, emigration to Arizona to escape persecution, the rebuilding of the Yaqui...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671505615Author Derek S. HopsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A contribution to black studies, this book examines the issue of racism in modern society today.Book InformationISBN 9780853157410Author Terri SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452278738Author Barbara Diggs-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of non-violence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate...

Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and...

Where racism and sexism meet-an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767084Author Sister SouljahFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...