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Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: £25.00£19.18Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't... -
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post 9781479811212
RRP: £25.99£22.04Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black... -
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out by Ruth King
RRP: £14.99£12.06"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby
RRP: £33.95£27.29Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public... -
Along the Color Line: EXPLORATIONS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE by August Meier
RRP: £21.99£19.19Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black... -
And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker 9780807003480
RRP: £24.00£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003480Author Ricky TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question by Benedicte Boisseron 9780231186650
RRP: £28.00£21.36The animal-rights organization PETA asked "Are Animals the New Slaves?" in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some... -
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas 9781641603218
RRP: £15.95£11.70Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancEe. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as... -
The Missionaries by Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: £12.99£8.60In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book... -
Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf by Lane Demas 9781469669281
RRP: £34.95£32.51This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf... -
American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays by Anne S. Waters 9780631223047
RRP: £31.95£28.69This book brings together a diverse group of American Indian thinkers to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues. Covers American Indian thinking on issues concerning time, place, history, science, law, religion,... -
The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy by Christopher J. Smith 9780252080524
RRP: £23.99£20.81The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface... -
But Some Of Us Are Brave (2nd Ed.): Black Women's Studies by Gloria T. Hull
RRP: £17.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618985Author Gloria T HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective by Kelly Brown Douglas 9781570752421
RRP: £13.99£13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570752421Author Kelly Brown DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)Weight(grams) 281g -
Decolonize Hipsters by Gregory Pierrot
RRP: £12.99£8.63Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of... -
DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution by Lance Scott Walker
RRP: £25.99£22.44DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in... -
Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People by Gerald Robert Vizenor 9780873514002
£12.05Apologies 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... -
Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide to Black Pregnancy & Motherhood by Shanicia Boswell 9781642504989
RRP: £22.95£15.74What to Expect When Black, Pregnant, and Expecting"This book stands as the modern-day guide to birthing while Black." Angelina Ruffin-Alexander, certified nurse midwife2021 International Book Awards finalist in Health: Women's Health#1 New Release in... -
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay
RRP: £14.99£9.53'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout..... -
We Will Tell Our Own Story!: The Lions of Africa Speak! by Adebayo C Akomolafe 9780982532768
RRP: £45.19£22.79Apologies 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... -
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis 9780525436614
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436614Author Angela J. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W Twitty 9780062379276
RRP: £18.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780062379276Author Michael W TwittyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
RRP: £17.95£13.84Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year"A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us."-Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of BooksHow did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A... -
Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana 9781982184896
RRP: £32.50£20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982184896Author Marie AranaFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 155mm... -
Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory by Robert Nichols
RRP: £22.99£19.60Drawing 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... -
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon T. Crawley
RRP: £23.99£20.41WINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance... -
Futures of Black Radicalism by Gaye Theresa Johnson
RRP: £19.99£16.90Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key scholarly voices from a wide array of disciplines recalls the... -
Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism by A. Sivanandan 9781788732567
£17.13Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers. As Director of the Institute of Race Relations for forty years, his work changed the way that we think about race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Communities of... -
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
RRP: £32.95£27.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530489Author Qwo-Li DriskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 325g -
Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner by Eve Hayes de Kalaf 9781839988295
RRP: £19.95£18.79This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in... -
Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism by A. Sivanandan
RRP: £18.99£18.65'There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.' Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance... -
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria by Andrew Apter 9780226023557
RRP: £30.00£29.25When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Art and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenshipanimated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation... -
Black Power: the Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679743132Author Charles V. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)... -
The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky by Kent Nerburn 9781608680153
RRP: £14.99£13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Memoir) 2014 and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Nonfiction) 2014 and Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Memoir) 2013.Book... -
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu 9780385547772
RRP: £26.00£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023.Book... -
W.E.B. Du Bois – The Lost and the Found by E Basevich
RRP: £16.99£11.54W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United... -
Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business by Pamela Newkirk
RRP: £22.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588223Author Pamela NewkirkFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 146mm... -
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail
RRP: £20.99£14.59About the AuthorDahr Jamail is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq as well as The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption and (with Stan Rushworth) We... -
To Write the Africa World by A Mbembe
RRP: £18.99£16.87In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the... -
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth 9781469632872
£31.27In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, ""There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever."" Lining's comments presaged ideas about...