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Comprehensive 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 *...

Over 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570759796Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies 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

There 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...

It 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...

The 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...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865475236Author Jaime De AnguloFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies 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...

In 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...

Celebrating 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...

Apologies 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 *...

The 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...

Few 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...

This 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...

For 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...

When 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...

Apologies 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

In 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...

Utilizing 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...

'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,...

A 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...

If 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...

n 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,...

Recently 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...

Novelist 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...

African 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...

Apologies 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 *...

In 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,...

Apologies 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 *...

We 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...

During 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...

Apologies 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

This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with the segregated Japanese American unit, the letters describe a...

European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America's indigenous peoples continued...

Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur has inspired generations of radical protest, including the contemporary movement for Black lives. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by...