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Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic by Minoru Masuda
RRP: $54.58$46.28This 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... -
Indian Slavery in Colonial America by Alan Gallay
RRP: $75.60$69.28European 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... -
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives by Donna Murch 9781642595161
RRP: $35.68$24.51Black 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... -
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin 9780195084511
RRP: $41.98$36.81From 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... -
Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream by Christina M. Greer 9780199989317
RRP: $79.78$54.47In an age where racial and ethnic identity intersect, intertwine, and interact in increasingly complex ways, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream offers a superb and rigorous analysis of black politics and coalitions in... -
No Land! No House! No Vote!: Voices from Symphony Way by Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers 9781906387846
RRP: $35.60$33.83Apologies 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 -
Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 by Catherine Yeh
RRP: $121.80$105.59In 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... -
Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions by Stephen C. Jett 9780816535750
RRP: $79.70$65.44Apologies 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 and Reason: The Vine Deloria Jr. Reader by Vine Deloria, Jr. 9781555914301
RRP: $56.60$42.65Spirit & 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... -
Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion by Hunbatz Men 9780939680634
RRP: $23.08$21.59Apologies 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)... -
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith 9781568585284
RRP: $39.88$26.78A 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... -
Native Healer: Initiation into an Ancient Art by Robert Lake
$16.28 - $21.69Apologies 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. -
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson 9780822362425
RRP: $58.78$50.53The 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... -
Remembering Emmett Till by Dave Tell 9780226559537
RRP: $39.90$34.86Take 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... -
Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America by Robin D. G Kelley 9780807009413
RRP: $44.10$31.54Apologies 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 *... -
Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
$57.62Although 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... -
No 123 Tram and Trolleybus Recollections 1958 by Henry Conn 9781857945843
RRP: $16.80$13.97Apologies 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 -
Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America by Yong Chen 9780231168939
RRP: $42.00$32.63American 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... -
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days by Marzia Balzani
RRP: $83.98$68.82This 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... -
Making Love with the Land: Essays by Joshua Whitehead 9781517914479
RRP: $46.18$34.63A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda... -
Waiting 'til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph
RRP: $44.08$29.55Apologies 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 Mis-Education of the Negro (an African American Heritage Book) by Carter G Woodson 9781604592276
RRP: $37.78$35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604592276Author Carter G WoodsonFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)... -
The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic: Volume 58 by Louis-Jacques Dorais 9780773544451
$88.43The 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,... -
The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society by Nancy D. Munn
RRP: $52.48$44.58This 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... -
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century by Elizabeth Martinez
RRP: $31.48$25.98Elizabeth 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,... -
Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival Amongst the Alaskan Kutchin by Richard K. Nelson
RRP: $75.60$73.14Boreal 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... -
The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community by Elizabeth Hoover
$55.76Winner 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... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780195066708
RRP: $36.73$28.01One of hundreds of slave narratives published just before the Civil War, this account is unique in that it is written by a woman. This offers a different, perhaps more realistic, perspective on slave experience than that presented in the more typical... -
The Valley of the Dry Bones: The Conditions That Face Black People in America Today by Rudolph R Windsor 9780962088100
RRP: $29.30$19.11Apologies 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)... -
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond A. Bucko 9780803261655
RRP: $39.88$30.22For 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... -
Native American Folklore & Traditions by Elsie Clews Parson 9781788887847
RRP: $41.98$35.41Apologies 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)... -
Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life by Sarah Jane Cervenak
RRP: $48.28$41.16In 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... -
Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America by Teresa A. Goddu
RRP: $121.80$104.33Beginning 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 by Thomas F. DeFrantz
RRP: $50.38$42.86Black 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... -
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still
RRP: $27.28$21.25Apologies 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 -
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins
RRP: $79.78$70.10In 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: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery by Annette Kolodny
RRP: $58.78$50.53In 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... -
We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress by D. Watkins 9781501187834
RRP: $35.68$21.59From 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... -
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America by Alexander Laban Hinton
RRP: $54.58$46.28This 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... -
Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District by Al Rose
RRP: $46.10$33.62Apologies 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