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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)...

When Milkman Mike's bottles start running away his big daft dog Spike charges to the rescue - or does he? Milkman Mike books are a delightful children's series for those aged from 2 to 7 years, ideal for those bedtime reads with parents and then when...

How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that...

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the...

Path Breakers is the third volume—following After the Storm—in a biennial series that brings the work of Native American fine artists to greater public attention. As Lucy Lippard writes in her introduction, the artists honored are “a wildly diverse and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394755182Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238g

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061046Author Stacey PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 18mm

In King's Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King's vocal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806138398Author Allen J. ChristensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

The beginning of the twentieth century was a critical time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal African American figures began to debate on ways to combat racial problems. Booker T. Washington and W.E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808650Author Cheryl A. GilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question...

The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. In this detailed examination of the takeover, Troy R...

In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice of mapping abundance is a radical act in the face of settler capital's fear of an abundance that feeds. Cartographies of capital enable the seizure of abundant lands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556522307Author JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella Books

Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311151Author Benjamin Albert BotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927356Author Basil H. JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperNewYorkPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 202g

Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124740Author Juan WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 188mm...

The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic groups, angering many who view the book as an...

The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world. Book InformationISBN...

In the mythic tradition of the Lakota, the bow and arrow were more than just tools-they were symbols of flexibility and strength. In this treasury of teaching stories, history, and piercing cultural insights, storyteller and craftsman Joseph Marshall III...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578887050Author Nicol OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Negative Space PublishingPublisher Negative Space PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Perez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of...

The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. From the fourth century on, the Akan created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995075Author Pat ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1172g

Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from around the world. Uncommonly determined,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593335772Author Jessica P. PrydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385422437Author Deirdre MullaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 862g

Ask any Canadian what "Metis" means, and they will likely say "mixed race." Canadians consider Metis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Metis status on this race-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436614Author Angela J. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438453620Author Julia V. EmberleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or...