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Cole has heard it all before - token, bougie, oreo, Blackish - the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy...

Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites-the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628728293Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

MYTHS, TALES, POETRY AND ORATORY BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE IROQUOIS, CHEROKEE, WINNEBAGO, SIOUX, BLACKFEET, HOPI, AND MANY OTHER TRIBES. ACCOUNTS OF INDIAN LIFE BY WHITE OBSERVERS FROM BERNAL DIAZ TO FRANCIS PARKMAN. CONTEMPORARY REASSESSMENTS BY...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061503Author Keisha N. BlainFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140263343Author David Levering LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692800485Author Yoshiyahu DauidFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Awakening Remnant KoalitionPublisher Awakening Remnant KoalitionWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617590689Author Llaila O AfrikaFormat PaperbackPage Count 431Imprint EworldPublisher EworldWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826310118Author Harold CourlanderFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the...

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others...

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...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347718Author Kevin M. StraitFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

This book describes acculturation and resistance in the Cherokee Nation.Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and...

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...

2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature 2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England...

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into...

In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on...

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define black girlhood and womanhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385474108Author Marita GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other...

In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537031Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat HardbackPage Count 1100Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowIncludes a new afterword by bestselling...

A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the...

Life Skills for the Modern GentlemanSurprisingly original and wildly entertaining! Amazon Review#1 New Release in EtiquetteBeing a true modern gentleman is a genuine class act and increasingly rare. Manliness in our modern era is worth learning about...

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)...

Spirituality may be the most contentious and poorly understood dimension of Native American communities today. For generations the religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans have been the subject of public fascination and scholarly inquiry...

The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S...

The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American...

The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American...

In this Native American allegory, a young Lakota boy named David is despondent over the death of his sister and fears that he will never know happiness again. His father gives him a gift, a scroll with seven pictures, which properly understood, holds the...

Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily distanced from the metaphysical aspects of existence, such as spirit, faith, and intuition.In Tsawalk,...

Freedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel, Just Above My Head, then on to the radical writings of...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415897Author Lisa M HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...