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Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226633077Author Alfonso OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Ella Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of language and the understanding necessary to bridge races...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061046Author Stacey PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395061Author Robert E. Stanley Sr.Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra...

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday...

In Ojibwe (or Chippewa in the United States) culture a dream catcher is a hand-crafted willow hoop with woven netting that is decorated with sacred and personal items such as feathers and beads. The Native American tradition of making dream catchers -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780961673802Author Mary Kawena PukuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hui HanaiPublisher Hui HanaiWeight(grams) 400g

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X - their words speak firmly, eloquently and personally of the impact of white America on the lives of African-Americans. Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest...

In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688146504Author Paula GiddingsPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins Childrens Book GroupPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills...

From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. Inspired by the reinvigorated black cultural...

"When we began our search for consultants for Into the West, we were looking for individuals with a deep knowledge of the culture and history of the Lakota people. In Joe Marshall, we found that person, but the happy surprise was that we also found a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345400314Author Brooke Medicine EagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995075Author Pat ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055373Author Feminista JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539536Author Julia S. Jordan-ZacheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226806914Author Autumn WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339147Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over 3 percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city,...

From the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day. "Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588254Author Pamela NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432710Author John Henrik ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 650g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553796800Author Chelsea VowelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Highwater PressPublisher Highwater PressWeight(grams) 544g

Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539369Author Arturo J. AldamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 487g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307353146Author William C. RhodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615748474Author Taleeb StarkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Taleeb StarkesPublisher Taleeb StarkesWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being...

Considered the definitive book on dream catchers, this book is for all readers that want to learn about these important symbols in Native American tradition. It features close-up photographs of dream catchers; covers their history, legends, lore and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681342146Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings...

A new collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the best-selling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese's One Native Life. "In quiet tones and luminous language," wrote...

Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Davis Hanson, known for his military histories and his social commentary, is a fifth-generation Californian who...

In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about...

Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more...

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to...