Ethnic Studies

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature...

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals,...

Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198144Author Christina SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

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This book provides a rare opportunity to follow the daily life on and around plantations and towns in the first years of the German colonial presence in East Africa, as seen through the eyes of a Danish master farmer working for the German East Africa...

Explore the spiritual practices, legends, and traditions of various Indigenous tribes throughout the North American continent. The Indigenous peoples of North America have followed a wide variety of spiritual traditions, many of which have been carried...

The impact of slavery and colonialism still reverberates in black and ethnic minority communities, but counsellors are often given little training on how to respond effectively to the profound effects on their clients. Inspired by the author's own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638683Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science.In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model...

This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing...

From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737982975Author Lg ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Outcast PressPublisher Outcast PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

WOMAN explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman - from organs to orgasms - Natalie Angier presents an extraordinary new vision of the female body as an evolutionary masterpiece.'Anyone living in or near a female body...

'A story of passion, hardship and endurance' - Reinhold Messner'There is much to marvel at in these pages. It taught me a great deal... Enthralling' - Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into Thin AirIn this gripping and inspirational book, Jamling...

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and...

Samskrta-Subodini: A Sanskrit Primer marks the culmination of Professor Deshpande's experience of teaching Sanskrit at the University of Michigan for over twenty-five years. Tested in classes at Michigan and elsewhere and successively improved for over...

'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, GuardianA powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte...

In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.Russell argues that without the...

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial...

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary...

As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable--food, weapons, baskets, clothes, shelter, and medicine. Indigenous peoples the world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by communicating directly with plants and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036692Author Vicky OsterweilFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485463Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 420g

THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of...

The literary beauty of the King James Version and the most comfortable reading experience imaginable with Thomas Nelson's custom KJV font in a super-giant-print format. Don't miss anything God's Word has to offer with the KJV Super Giant Print Reference...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936367856Author Waldorf Multicultural CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Waldorf PublicationsPublisher Waldorf PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760099Author Gail Lumet BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488g

Amilcar Cabral was an agronomist who led an armed struggle that ended Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. The uprising contributed significantly to the collapse of a fascist regime in Lisbon and the dismantlement of Portugal's empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935721048Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Proven PublishingPublisher Proven PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578630035Author Marie HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178475Author Christopher MarmolejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

As the "Giant of Africa," Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."-Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present...

Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of...

Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645149104Author Stacey M KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Banaban Vision PublicationsPublisher Banaban Vision PublicationsWeight(grams) 91g

One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140424300Author Phillis WheatleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...