Ethnic Studies

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936. The book analyzes the strategies and conditions that allowed the institute to endure and...

From the dynamite husband-and-wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual...

The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories. This memoir by Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansiz is one of them. Sakine, whose code name was 'Sara', co-founded...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195320459Author Professor of History Emeritus Terry AlfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613822913Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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...

'Two Leggings ...was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian ...This is the poignant story of the end of traditional Crow life...

By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore's English language writings, this book places the work of India's greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115730Author J a RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)...

'I hope this book inspires you to kick down barriers, go on adventures and empower the people around you to do the same. That's how we create change.' Rhiane Fatinikun knows just what an impact a connection with nature can have on your life. Finding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143006Author Frantz FanonPage Count 240Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Murder in the Name of Honour is Rana Husseini's hard-hitting and controversial examination of honour crimes. Common in many traditional societies around the world, as well as in migrant communities in Europe and the USA, they involve a 'punishment'-often...

The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From "forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593335772Author Jessica P. PrydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to...

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)

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782828136Author Lucy ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration,...

The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in...

Farah Jasmine Griffin's beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand-a line from a note he wrote to her-she shares a...

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David...

This book examines the military collapse of China's Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming's defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese...

Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807081037Author Paula Gunn AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401968908Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Hay HousePublisher Hay HouseWeight(grams) 454g

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...

If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518628Author Asher HoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 205g

Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637812Author Laura DavilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608427710Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Kathode Ray Enterprises, LLCPublisher Kathode Ray Enterprises, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997157925Author Ronald DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 728Imprint G PublishingPublisher G PublishingWeight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 168mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809003Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gold Pen Awards (Nonfiction) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780060984380Author Lawrence Otis GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 433Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher...

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...

Grounded in trauma-informed approaches, intersectionality theory, and critical race theory, Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy for BIPOC Communities: Decolonizing Mental Health embodies psychotherapeutic practices via anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and...