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Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha Ackmann
RRP: $19.29$14.45From the time she was a girl growing up in the shadow of Lexington Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Toni Stone knew she wanted to play professional baseball. There was only one problem--every card was stacked against her. Curveball tells the inspiring... -
TAX PROCESSES FOR BUSINESSES (FA21) - EXAM KIT by Kaplan 9781839960628
RRP: $25.80$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839960628Author KaplanFormat PaperbackImprint Kaplan PublishingPublisher Kaplan Publishing -
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau 9780195174120
RRP: $22.56$17.25Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the... -
The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Taj Frazier
RRP: $32.24$27.39During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams-traveled and... -
The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought by Layli Phillips
RRP: $56.75$50.10Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker's African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo... -
Totem Poles: An Illustrated Guide by Marjorie M. Halpin 9780774801416
RRP: $24.50$17.78The massive wood carvings unique to the Indian peoples of the Northwest Coast arouse a sense of wonder in all who see them. This guide helps the reader to understand and enjoy the form and meaning of totem poles and other sculptures.The author describes... -
The Black Book: True Political Philosophy of Malcolm X by Y. N. Kly 9780932863034
RRP: $12.89$11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863034Author Y. N. KlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough 9780547247960
RRP: $21.92$14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247960Author Paul ToughFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation by Greg Grandin
RRP: $33.53$28.95Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous)... -
Race Code War: The Power of Words, Images, and Symbols on the Black Psyche by Khari Eneharo 9780913543849
RRP: $23.16$17.08There are over 200 negative words associated with the word 'black' and over 100 positive meanings or synonyms attributed to the word 'white'. This analysis of semantics and semiotics illustrates how words are not racially neutral and can convey negative... -
The Assassination of the Black Male Image by Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780684836577
RRP: $20.64$15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684836577Author Earl Ofari HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181g -
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life by Stephen Best
RRP: $28.37$24.24It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in... -
Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 by Betty Wood 9780807846810
RRP: $60.57$49.41The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the... -
Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins
RRP: $22.56$17.21A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is... -
Been In The Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
RRP: $25.79$18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1980 and National Book Awards 1981 and Pulitzer Prize 1980.Book InformationISBN 9780394743981Author Leon F. LitwackFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene by Celine Parrenas Shimizu
RRP: $33.53$28.43In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations... -
Living Dolls: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Natasha Walter 9780349017440
RRP: $14.18$9.55Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today.I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of... -
Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History by Colleen E. Boyd
RRP: $46.44$39.98The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in... -
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
RRP: $24.45$19.39Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the... -
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
RRP: $29.66$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476709512Author Diane McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Dignity or Death – Ethics and Politics of Race by N Ajari
RRP: $24.50$21.76This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events-from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities-have demonstrated all too... -
Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond: Volume 96 by Nancy J. Turner
$65.36For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and... -
The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays by Frank Chin
RRP: $28.37$24.24When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the... -
The Black Yearbook by Adraint Bereal 9781984861405
RRP: $32.25$21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984861405Author Adraint BerealFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom by Thulani Davis
RRP: $33.53$25.49In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South... -
The Color of Culture: African American Underrepresentation in the Fine Arts and Outdoor Recreation by Daniel H. Krymkowski 9781498597883
$39.93Utilizing written sources as well as nationally representative survey data, Daniel H. Krymkowski analyzes the extent and causes of African American underrepresentation in the cultural realms of golf, hiking, hunting and fishing, water sports, winter... -
Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago by Laurence Ralph
$30.21Every morning Chicagoans wake up to stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city," and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our focus on... -
The Future of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat
RRP: $25.79$20.73'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce Davies The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies,... -
Lakota Belief and Ritual by James R. Walker 9780803297319
RRP: $29.66$25.28A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas. Journal of American Folklore Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysisProvides raw narratives without any pretension... -
The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians by Naomi Schaefer Riley 9781641772266
$18.71If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and... -
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
RRP: $19.34$14.67n So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality,... -
The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice From the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters by Prof Charles Lemert 9780847684083
RRP: $45.15$33.18Recently Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. Mary Helen Washington described Cooper's work as 'the most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist... -
Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 9780465009466
$35.36Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to... -
Angry Black Girl by Elexus Jionde 9780999671009
RRP: $18.06$15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999671009Author Elexus JiondeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Intelexual MediaPublisher Intelexual MediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren 9780674066298
$34.91African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature-and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and... -
Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters by Omekongo Dibinga, PhD 9781633888784
RRP: $25.79$18.95In many ways, race has come to the forefront of contemporary American life. From the Black Lives Matter movement sparked by unarmed police shootings of black people to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic,... -
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang
RRP: $25.80$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004173Author Iris ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott Lauria Morgensen
RRP: $30.95$26.33We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of... -
Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas by Josephine Waggoner
RRP: $109.65$96.69During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871-1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders... -
Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey 9781849353755
RRP: $11.61$10.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353755Author Marquis BeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press