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Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco by Daryl Easlea 9781785588440
RRP: $39.88$30.24With their era-defining music and instantly recognisable look, Chic's reputation as pioneers of disco has endured long after the movement itself. After their initial success in the 1970s with classics such as `Good Times', `Le Freak' and `I Want Your... -
Ride-Or-Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women by Shanita Hubbard 9780306874680
RRP: $33.58$22.95Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being.A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your... -
Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism by Charles W. Mills 9780190245429
RRP: $71.38$65.35Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism... -
Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free by Sabia Wade
RRP: $54.50$39.31Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years. The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis,... -
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation by Nicholas Sammond
RRP: $56.68$50.19In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons... -
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King 9781517904463
RRP: $27.28$25.07In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the... -
Journey of Crazy Horse, the by Joseph M Marshall
RRP: $37.80$23.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036210Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle by Cedric G. Johnson 9781804293003
RRP: $31.48$20.37Why did a movement as powerful as the one inspired by the murder of George Floyd fall short of securing its most militant demands? After Black Lives Matter argues that the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that... -
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernandez
RRP: $33.58$22.95It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen,... -
Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
RRP: $31.48$20.58'A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black... -
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson
RRP: $27.30$18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353168Author William C. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace by Stephanie Y. Evans 9781438483641
RRP: $42.84$32.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483641Author Stephanie Y. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon
RRP: $29.38$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588490Author Akiba SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 136mm... -
Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele
RRP: $50.38$42.86Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication Association Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist... -
Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X 9780873485463
RRP: $29.40$24.07Apologies 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 -
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being by Kevin Quashie
RRP: $48.28$41.16In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face... -
Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles didgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine by John H.M. Laslett
RRP: $58.70$52.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816500864Author John H.M. LaslettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 330g -
The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation by Keith Hatschek 9781496837844
RRP: $52.40$42.55Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks... -
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Renee Arvin
RRP: $52.48$44.58From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean... -
Social Sciences: The Big Issues by Kath Woodward 9780415824095
$84.19The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape - and are shaped by - social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality... -
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey
RRP: $31.48$27.53Where racism and sexism meet-an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual... -
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $27.28$19.09A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader.The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His... -
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick by Aimee Ng 9780847873593
RRP: $84.00$59.62American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks s portraits at different stages of the country s history... -
Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology by Brian Hochman 9780816681389
RRP: $50.38$42.86During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world's primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings-modern media in their... -
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer 9781571313560
RRP: $31.48$27.03Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal,... -
The Black Bourgeoisie by Edward Franklin Frazier 9780684832418
RRP: $41.98$26.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832418Author Edward Franklin FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education... -
An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries by Steven Salaita 9781531506353
RRP: $46.18$34.69An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780593230367
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230367Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely by C. Vann Woodward
RRP: $25.18$18.14Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme... -
The Paradox of Myanmar's Regime Change by Roger Huang
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book analyzes Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention that the military to remain the key permanent... -
Our African Unconscious: The Black Origins of Mysticism and Psychology by Edward Bruce Bynum
RRP: $37.78$25.35Reveals how spirituality and the collective unconscious of all of humanity originated in Africa * Examines the Oldawan, the Ancient Soul of Africa, and its correlation with what modern psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious * Draws on... -
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children by Michael J. Caduto 9781555913854
RRP: $50.30$36.44Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth.Book InformationISBN 9781555913854Author Joseph BruchacFormat... -
A Black Choice by Dennis Kimbro
RRP: $14.68$13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449219980Author Dennis KimbroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 105mm *... -
Ebony: Covering the First 75 Years by Lavaille Lavette
RRP: $92.40$70.39Ebony magazine has been a cultural arbiter and a staple in black households in America since its first issue in November 1945. Founded by John H. Johnson, Ebony reported on, and continues to chronicle, every aspect of life from fashion to civil rights,... -
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N Blain
RRP: $48.30$33.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061503Author Keisha N. BlainFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy by Forrest Stuart
RRP: $29.38$23.42How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are... -
Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generation by Jeff Chang 9780312425791
RRP: $48.30$30.70A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.Book InformationISBN... -
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones
RRP: $35.68$24.51Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of... -
American Indian Trickster Tales by Richard Erdoes
RRP: $29.38$24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140277715Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly 9780226830155
RRP: $44.10$42.65A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of...