Ethnic Studies

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)...

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 *...

Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx...

Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest triumphs as a nation--and some of our most shameful failures. In this important book, Mark Noll, one of the most...

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609334Author Robert S. GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 655gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Providing a systematic and complete overview of the highest scholarly quality on Tantric mantras in Hinduism, this book presents a summary on the nature of Tantric mantras, their phonetic aspect, structure and classifications. Additionally, it explains...

This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the traditional ideas that inform practice in clinical psychology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982770078Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies. Since its original...

'I never knew how fascinating a book about herding and grazing could be... This book is remarkable.' Joanna Lumley 'Ilse's deep understanding of herding cultures, and their relationship with the land and life itself, is both moving and revelatory... I...

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention.Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors...

Get to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island-and their unusual stories and secrets-through this fascinating, intimate collection of portraits."This book beautifully describes the residents of tiny Shiraishi Island as well as telling how Amy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780808501480Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 114mm *...

In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understanding the nation shaped by white nationalism that acts as a powerful tool of racial bordering, separating...

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African...

"Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024" -Ms. Magazine A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who ventured to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world's primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings-modern media in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806518688Author Mark RibowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded.Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385239547Author John EhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

"You have to take the children away."-Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426916830Author Karen R. HurdFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 469gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the...

To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black...

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion-dubbed "banking the unbanked"-which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779220172Author Chiedza MusengeziFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic...

"His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were when they were first set down . . . " -Long Beach Press-TelegraphBook InformationISBN 9780253201218Author Webster SmalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Indiana University PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892811342Author Ross HeavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply...

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened over...