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Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson, III 9781631496141
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.34A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than... -
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Berry
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.55Apologies 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 -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50Within 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: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34Mohawk 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,... -
American Chinatown by Bonnie Tsui 9781416557241
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416557241Author Bonnie TsuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom by Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter 9781613748152
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.21Eye 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... -
Hero With An African Face by Clyde W. Ford
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378689Author Clyde W. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Satisfying The Black Man Sexually Made Simple by Dr Rosie Milligan 9781881524045
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881524045Author Dr Rosie MilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Milligan BooksPublisher Milligan BooksWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Swingin' at the Savoy by Norma Miller
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.84Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/Film actress and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that "spread the power... -
American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery 9780241517123
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." - Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn... -
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic by Michael Dyson 9780465002115
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.91At the age of nineteen, Nasir Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album,and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop... -
Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing by Lewis Mehl-Madrona 9780684839974
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684839974Author Lewis Mehl-MadronaFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education... -
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs 9781476731902
Booksplease Price: £19.79When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his... -
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi Marc A Hertzman 9781478030522
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.66In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history's largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast... -
One Hundred Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg 9780933121188
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121188Author Ralph GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S. -
Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene by Adolph L Reed 9781565846753
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.29Apologies 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 -
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa 9780803299177
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.03American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) recalled legends and tales from... -
Hebrews to Negroes 2: WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA! Volume 1 by Ronald Dalton Jr 9780986237980
Booksplease Price: £31.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986237980Author Ronald Dalton, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 702Imprint G PublishingPublisher G PublishingWeight(grams) 1365gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm... -
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox 9781469662671
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.14When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own... -
Should Current Generations Make Reparation for Slavery? Janna Thompson (La Trobe University) 9781509516421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.61During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history's most monstrous crimes: slavery. Millions of Africans were subjected to forced abduction, misery and death as part of the brutal Atlantic slave trade. However, since... -
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.30Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the... -
King and the Other America: The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality by Sylvie Laurent 9780520288577
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74"An elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race."-The Nation "A meticulously researched look into the development of King's thought. . . . Laurent's important new book... -
The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media: 20th Century Performances on Radio, Records, Film and Television Tim Brooks 9781476676760
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.24The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries... -
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: With a New Preface by Glenn C. Loury
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.35"Lifts and transforms the discourse on 'race' and racial justice to an entirely new level."-Orlando Patterson"Intellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful...An incisive, erudite book by a major thinker."-Gerald Early, New York Times Book ReviewWhy are... -
Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 by Roger Daniels 9781566631655
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.63In the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States-a greater number than in any comparable period, before or since. They were often greeted in hostile fashion, a reflection of American nativism that by the... -
Africa for Africans by Marcus Garvey
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.05Originally published in two volumes between 1923 and 1925, Africa for Africans: Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is a compilation of letters, speeches and essays by one of the Fathers of Pan-Africanism.Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr... -
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £17.72Apologies 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 -
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B Johnson 9781934645383
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.80Apologies 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 *... -
Black Love Letters by Cole Brown 9781638931201
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.98As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . . When you find yourself alone and downtrodden, when the... -
The Souls of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois 9781612931074
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612931074Author W E B Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 by Jeffrey B. Dr. Perry 9780231139113
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.78Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political... -
Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50Life, 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: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.00Winner 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... -
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.64Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction... -
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader by Greg Tate 9780822361961
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.16Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of... -
Black Power 50 by Sylvaine A. Diouf 9781620971482
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.98A sweeping 50th anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America and around the world that accompanies a major exhibit on black power at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Black Power 50 includes original interviews with key... -
The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders by Thomas E. Mails 9780140195453
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140195453Author Thomas E. MailsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution by Lance Scott Walker
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09DJ 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... -
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question by Benedicte Boisseron 9780231186650
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.97The 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... -
Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott by Horace Tapscott 9780822362715
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.38Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his...