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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
RRP: $24.51$15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758693Author Dorothy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s by Emily J. Lordi
RRP: $29.66$23.83In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices-inventive cover... -
Jay-Z: Made in America by Michael Eric Dyson 9781250230966
RRP: $25.80$21.23"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." --Questlove JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric... -
Colonial Racial Capitalism by Susan Koshy
RRP: $32.24$27.39The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the... -
Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene by Adolph L Reed 9781565846753
RRP: $16.76$11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565846753Author Adolph L. Reed, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 269g -
The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'odham Country by Gary Paul Nabhan
RRP: $28.32$16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816546893Author Gary Paul NabhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 117g -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781400052189
RRP: $24.50$10.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult... -
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace
RRP: $16.76$14.59Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by... -
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell 9781401925925
RRP: $25.79$18.78"Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly... -
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb
RRP: $28.37$23.48Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors... -
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele
RRP: $21.92$12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060578633Author Shelby SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery by Christine Riding
RRP: $32.25$26.99Presenting new work by American artist Kehinde Wiley, as he explores the European landscape tradition through film and painting The American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is best known for his spectacular portraits of African Americans with knowing... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
RRP: $20.64$11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: $28.38$21.92Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson
RRP: $30.95$26.33Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec,... -
Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It by Jessie Daniels
RRP: $28.38$18.78In Nice White Ladies, race and gender professor Jessie Daniels looks beyond the "Karens" and the pussy hats, to offer an illuminating look at how white women participate in, benefit from, and--crucially--can combat racism.Chapter by chapter, Daniels... -
Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues by James Gill
RRP: $32.19$20.79In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their... -
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker 9780820363967
$38.82In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,... -
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B Johnson 9781934645383
RRP: $27.08$21.96Apologies 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 *... -
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Vol. II by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543030
RRP: $11.55$8.50Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the... -
The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells
RRP: $12.89$9.17In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic... -
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles 9780830845255
$16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845255Author Mark CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
Welsh Wonders: Cranogwen - Pioneering Life of Sarah Jane Rees, The by Anni Llyn 9781914303098
$7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914303098Author Anni LlynFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Llyfrau Broga BooksPublisher Llyfrau Broga Books -
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross
RRP: $36.11$31.04In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality,... -
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
RRP: $29.66$25.28The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions... -
Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview by E. Richard Atleo
RRP: $39.99$34.62Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily distanced from the metaphysical aspects of existence, such as spirit, faith, and intuition.In Tsawalk,... -
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (Updated Edition) by Gary Younge 9781642599602
RRP: $19.34$12.75Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.This... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780300204711
RRP: $11.60$10.07A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in... -
Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto by Eric Tang
RRP: $28.37$24.24After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and '90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx... -
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
RRP: $18.06$12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452260092Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House... -
Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories by Anton Treuer 9780873514040
RRP: $25.79$20.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Anthology) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780873514040Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society... -
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs 9780674659926
RRP: $23.16$18.42Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap... -
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M Hamilton 9780316415897
RRP: $38.70$26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415897Author Lisa M HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy in America, 1860-1880 by W E B Du Bois
RRP: $55.46$36.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537031Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat HardbackPage Count 1100Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 by Stephen Kantrowitz 9780143123446
RRP: $30.47$23.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123446Author Stephen KantrowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Race, Work, & Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience by Laura Morgan Roberts 9781633698017
RRP: $42.57$30.46Rethinking How to Build Inclusive OrganizationsRace, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America... -
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall 9780679740704
RRP: $15.47$14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740704Author Nathan McCallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
RRP: $19.34$14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679781424Author Piri ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
$22.95Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be... -
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing by Joe R. Feagin
RRP: $49.01$43.06In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now more than four centuries old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the...