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This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...

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 9780472084784Author John ChiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860577Author William Keyse RudolphFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U...

A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541372Author Giuseppe PrezzoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060928827Author Carlos CastanedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550172454Author Anne CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America...

Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans,...

When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black nearly all were poor. The Federal...

In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and...

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine * Winner of...

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings and incarceration inequalities in the US and UK are just two examples of the legacy of slavery today. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001998Author Daina BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on...

"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...

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Leah Penniman - recipient of the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019'An extraordinary book...part agricultural guide, part revolutionary manifesto.' VOGUE 'Farming While Black offers a guide to reclaiming food systems from white supremacy.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960229475Author J. A. RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Helga M. RogersPublisher Helga M. Rogers

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for poetry 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award finalist 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award finalist Named a top poetry book of spring 2016 by Library Journal Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998599014Author Jacqueline a FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint G PublishingPublisher G PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students...

"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of...

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)...

Today, South Korea as an economic, technological, and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war, poverty and political unrest? And how can that success be replicated in other cultures? These answers can in fact be found in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615391080Author Joy a DegruyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Joy Degruy Publications IncPublisher Joy Degruy Publications IncWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429096171Author Zora HurstonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint American RootsPublisher American RootsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 107mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353977Author Alexis Pauline GumbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905466Author EbonyJanice MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House Publishing

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply...

Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a twentieth-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. In this moving narrative...

A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the "miseducation of the Negro" in America, this timely and provocative volume explores the men and ideas that helped shape educational and societal apartheid from the Civil War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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

Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177140Author Cara PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.