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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black...

This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of...

Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions? Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes that a dynamic new line of inquiry - Indigenous feminism - is...

The rarely heard stories of the brave women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the...

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language...

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business." Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into...

This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012741Author Tanya Kateri HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of non-violence, and effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440469398Author Elisha IsraelFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723073Author Kenneth M. StamppFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970545503Author Radine AmericaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Quantum Leapslc PublicationsPublisher Quantum Leapslc PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Ask any Canadian what "Metis" means, and they will likely say "mixed race." Canadians consider Metis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Metis status on this race-based...

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Perez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of...

"A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914970Author Greg TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983083Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684057146Author Christian StaeblerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing...

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda...

Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating...

Far Off Metal River examines how explorer Samuel Hearne's account of the alleged 1771 "Bloody Falls massacre" in the Central Arctic has shaped ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.As Emilie Cameron demonstrates, the Arctic has for...

A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.Before the end of the Civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445588Author Carter G WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588340320Author Catherine J. AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm)...

Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the ""keeper of the sacred pipe,"" he said, ""It is my prayer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527259Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863508Author Y. N. KlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219612Author Daniel LisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 433g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809003Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913408209Author Howard ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Friends United Press,U.S.Publisher Friends United Press,U.S.

In 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits...

"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples."-Vancouver SunRarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345394057Author Anne Wilson SchaefFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing...

Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues for a conception of...

In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic...