Ethnic Studies

Offers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the author of over...

Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the ""keeper of the sacred pipe,"" he said, ""It is my prayer...

The Everyday Life Reader brings together thinkers ranging from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources. It thus provides a complete and comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life.Ben Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought...

How to reduce the dropout rate and motivate black children.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the author of over 65 books, including Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Good Brothers Looking for Good Sisters, and Black College Student...

In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined...

The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought-showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early...

When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982532768Author Adebayo C AkomolafeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Universal Write Publications LLCPublisher Universal Write Publications...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618087280Author James S HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 494g

Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he argues that if we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873514002Author Gerald Robert VizenorFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives)Nominated for 3 Gourmand AwardsAn Atlantic BestsellerA Hill Times Top 100 SelectionFebruary 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Tareq Hadhad was worried about his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604592276Author Carter G WoodsonFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling...

The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and...

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588254Author Pamela NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982327418Author Thomas MailsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Millichap BooksPublisher Millichap BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm...

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of...

This book is based on the premise that understanding fascism is crucial for defeating it.Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements suggests fascism must be understood according to two "dimensions." First, fascism is a social movement seeking power,...

First published in 1977, The Samurai has long since become a standard work of reference. It continues to be the most authoritative work on samurai life and warfare published outside Japan. Set against the background of Japan's social and political...

As seen on The Today Show! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowWhite Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561323Author Meredith TalusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how...

'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens...

This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and...

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising...

Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception...

"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan...

The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free...

Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485432Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder PressWeight(grams) 300g

Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of...

In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Graves traces the development of biological thought about human genetic diversity. Greek philosophy, social Darwinism, New World colonialism, the eugenics movement, intelligence testing biases, and racial health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913408209Author Howard ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Friends United Press,U.S.Publisher Friends United Press,U.S.

In 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880413Author Matthew F. DelmontFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

As editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Clayborne Carson, with the assistance of his staff at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, had access to a variety of documents relating to all aspects of Dr. King's...

A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. WatkinsTo many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American...