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They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
RRP: $39.88$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968170Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry 9781439914861
RRP: $62.98$54.58The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The... -
Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission by Jackson W. 9780830852239
RRP: $31.48$23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852239Author Jackson W.Format PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 18mm -
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay
RRP: $25.18$22.16A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after... -
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher 9780472064922
$43.26The first known mystery written by an African-American, set in 1930s Harlem.Book InformationISBN 9780472064922Author Rudolph FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
No Disrespect by Sister Souljah 9780679767084
RRP: $27.30$24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767084Author Sister SouljahFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 9780674027466
RRP: $46.10$36.23Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this... -
Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity by Professor Rei Terada
RRP: $44.10$42.65A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy. Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages... -
The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: And Other Stories of the Brazilian Rainforest by Fabio Zuker
RRP: $27.28$18.12As the Amazon burns, Fabio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land. In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajos River, hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For... -
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters by Tricia Rose
RRP: $31.48$25.47Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining... -
Congo by David van Reybrouck
RRP: $31.48$20.37FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY 'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world's most critical failed... -
Sixteenth Round by Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter 9781569765678
RRP: $31.40$23.52Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of... -
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
RRP: $31.50$27.41Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one... -
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177102Author Sherronda J. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s by John Potash
RRP: $37.78$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064558Author John PotashFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Without Sanctuary by Leon F. Litwak 9780944092699
RRP: $140.70$101.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780944092699Author Leon F. LitwakFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Twin Palms... -
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
RRP: $18.88$12.22This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement-the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till-"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The... -
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby
RRP: $31.48$23.00"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls."(Manchester Guardian, 1870... -
The Black Boom by Jason L Riley
RRP: $29.38$21.06Economic inequality continues to be one of America's most hotly debated topics. Still, there has been relatively little discussion of the fact that black-white gaps in joblessness, income, poverty and other measures were shrinking before the pandemic... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
RRP: $37.80$24.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: $54.50$43.30American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native... -
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World by Tahseen Shams
RRP: $50.38$42.86Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and... -
A History of the Osage People by Louis Burns
$91.41Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,... -
Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter 9781800751446
RRP: $25.18$16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800751446Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett 9780807010396
RRP: $41.98$28.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010396Author Leonard BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
The Other Side of Empathy by Jade E. Davis 9781478025016
RRP: $44.08$37.76In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and... -
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: $58.80$50.97Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * National Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 * An Esquire Best Book of 2023 * An NPR "Book We... -
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: $18.88$13.55'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of... -
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement by Bettye Collier-Thomas 9780814716021
$189.59The 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... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $10.48$10.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: $39.88$35.20In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
RRP: $41.90$34.44Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate... -
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000AD by Chancellor Williams 9780883780305
$28.35This is a widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent, the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora. This is well researched scholarly work detailing the development of civilisation in Africa and... -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
RRP: $23.08$16.32The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of... -
Race in American Musical Theater by Josephine Lee 9781350248212
RRP: $23.08$20.14While most discussions of race in American theater emphasize the representation of race mainly in terms of character, plot, and action, Race in American Musical Theater highlights elements of theatrical production and reception that are particular to... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: $94.48$71.15The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807057834Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin
RRP: $52.50$41.12From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world-one small change at a time"A true gift to our movements for justice."-Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowLong before the pandemic, Ruha... -
12 Years a Slave: Memoir of a Free Man Kidnapped into Slavery in 1851 by Malcom Washington Jr 9781492933588
RRP: $16.74$15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492933588Author Malcom Washington JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 9780374531157
RRP: $39.90$26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531157Author Saidiya HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...