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From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906387846Author Symphony Way Pavement DwellersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka Press

In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816535750Author Stephen C. JettFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 560g

Spirit & Reason is a collection of the works of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century-Vine Deloria, Jr. Author of such classics as Red Earth, White Lies, and God is Red, Deloria takes readers on a momentous journey through Indian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939680634Author Hunbatz MenFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

A New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835606677Author robert lakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on...

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807009413Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 136mm *...

Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945843Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first...

This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083354Author Peniel E JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 394g

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar,...

This new edition of the critically acclaimed The Fame of Gawa-originally published in 1986-makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. The Fame of Gawa is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small...

Elizabeth Martinez's unique Chicana voice arises from over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martinez presents a radical Latina perspective on race,...

Boreal forest Indians like the Kutchin of east-central Alaska are among the few native Americans who still actively pursue a hunter's way of life. Yet even among these people hunting and gathering is vanishing so rapidly that it will soon disappear. This...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962088100Author Rudolph R WindsorFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Windsor Golden SeriesPublisher Windsor Golden SeriesWeight(grams)...

For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788887847Author Elsie Clews ParsonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 1111gDimensions(mm)...

In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and...

Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse and increasingly segmented audience. To do so, it produced a wide array of print, material, and visual...

Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984855053Author William StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.About the...

In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the...

From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest...

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817344030Author Al RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams) 680g

Former slaves themselves-an important but long-neglected source of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in...

Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best...

A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect-and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the "X" as theorized...

In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a...

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions...

This reader for advanced students of Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Raise the Red Lantern and To Live served as the basis for internationally acclaimed films. With its...

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi...