Ethnic Studies

The Sense of Brown is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Munoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho...

Black Police Associations analyses the new phenomenon of Black Police Associations established in the majority of constabularies in England and Wales. The author takes a sociological and theoretical approach to the subject, in contrast to current...

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history's most monstrous crimes: slavery. Millions of Africans were subjected to forced abduction, misery and death as part of the brutal Atlantic slave trade. However, since...

The more than 20 million Kurds in the Middle East are the largest nation in the world without their own independent state. Their struggles for international recognition may ultimately depend on their ability to convince the world that they have their own...

"Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." -The Daily TelegraphIn A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history-from a pop star's...

In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of...

Mark 1-8: A Handbook on the Greek Text offers teachers and students a comprehensive guide to the grammar and vocabulary of Mark. A perfect supplement to any commentary, this volume's lexical, analytical, and syntactical analysis is a helpful tool in...

"An elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race."-The Nation "A meticulously researched look into the development of King's thought. . . . Laurent's important new book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273780Author Stefano HarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia

This book focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy. According to this tradition, reality is identified as Brahman, the world is considered illusory, and the individual self is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864540Author Selma JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 447g

The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries...

The Dreyfus Affair comprises attempted assassinations, suicides, perjury, forgeries, invective, stunning reversals and abortive coups d'etat, involving the honour and destiny of an individual and of France. It is also a mystery tale that reveals the...

This teaching memoir by an Indigenous spirit talker includes stories about the author's reconnection with his Mi'kmaq heritage along with techniques for connecting to Spirit and developing your own intuition and psychic abilities.In this teaching memoir,...

NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What does it mean to belong? All her life, Tessa McWatt has been asked, 'What are you?' Born in Guyana to a...

In the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States-a greater number than in any comparable period, before or since. They were often greeted in hostile fashion, a reflection of American nativism that by the...

Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."--FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." --ElevenEleven "I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they...

This book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims. It challenges the prevailing myths and stereotypes through which Indian Muslims have come to be seen in the popular imagination. The volume engages with questions of...

A major publication about the revolutionary art collective that defined a new Black aesthetic in late 1960s Chicago and whose influence today is stronger than ever A Chicago Tribune 2020 holiday gift guide pick AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad...

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist Maria Lugones.Speaking Face to Face provides an unprecedented, in-depth look at the feminist philosophy and practice of the renowned Argentinian-born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250850058Author Nikhil GoyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Originally published in two volumes between 1923 and 1925, Africa for Africans: Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is a compilation of letters, speeches and essays by one of the Fathers of Pan-Africanism.Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637393Author Lara Veleda VestaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

This volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory. It looks at certain minoritarian-vernacular traveling cults - very rarely examined - that compel us to rethink, on the one hand, the conventional tropes of...

It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880390Author Matthew DelmontFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934645383Author Hannibal B JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876716Author Jenny MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams Publishing

This book, first published in 2005, opens up the much neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612931074Author W E B Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Whilst the Chinese Communist Party is one of the most powerful political institutions in the world, it is also one of the least understood, due to the party's secrecy and tight control over the archives, the press and the Internet. Having governed the...

'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism-some seen, many disavowed. But the...

Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political...

Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, the issues surrounding Black hair in America continue to linger as we enter the twenty-first century. Tying the personal to the political and the popular, Hair Story takes a chronological...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black...

*Winner of the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2017* Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the...

A sweeping 50th anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America and around the world that accompanies a major exhibit on black power at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Black Power 50 includes original interviews with key...