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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602067363Author William Wells BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Winner A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena...

Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he argues that if we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including...

In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society...

This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688122911Author Eric V. CopageFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In 1998, more African Americans were reported with AIDS than any other racial or ethnic group. And while African Americans make up only 13 per cent of the US population, they account for more than 55 per cent of all newly diagnosed HIV infections. These...

Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645037262Author Keith BoykinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 154mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748906Author Kristin HenningFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807062654Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Indigenous scholars strive to produce research to improve Native communities in meaningful ways. They also recognize that long-lasting change depends on effective leadership.Living Indigenous Leadership showcases innovative research and leadership...

In The Florida Room Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to offer a lush story of place and people, movement and memory, dispossession and survival. She transforms the "Florida room"-an actual architectural phenomenon-into a...

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to...

The Pacific Muse offers a fresh perspective on a seductively familiar topic: the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman. By tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood images, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679763789Author Henry Louis GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Wellness) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780345435132Author Kenneth S. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House...

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an...

Information on peer pressure and how the peer group can be used to reinforce academic achievement.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the author of over 65 books, including Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Good Brothers Looking for Good...

African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological implications of rooting identity in race, especially because American history is...

More than fifty prominent thinkers on the development and lasting legacy of black nationalism in America Since its dramatic growth under Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association during the 1920s, black nationalism has played a...

"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the...

Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois's intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over human rights, how should we reassess the changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816541140Author Margaret Cantu-SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Ninstints, located on Anthony Island, one of the smallest and most southerly of the Queen Charlotte chain, contains the vestiges of the great wooden structures and houses of the Kunghit Haida people who abandoned the village in the late 1800s. George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439177563Author ToureFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717806058Author Herbert ApthekerFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053493Author Jabari AsimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

These Native American stories spark curiosit y and encourage children to discover plants and explore thei r environments. Activities teach children that all living th ings are intertwined and fuelled by the plant-growing energy of the sun. 'About the...

During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlan, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection...

In "Beyond This Narrow Now" Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388421Author Randall KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In 2001 Renee Cox's "Yo Mama's Last Supper" was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. Cox's photographic recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting features an almost all black cast and the artist, nude, standing in for Jesus. The intense controversy that...

In Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the "Black mother" has become a powerful political category. "Mothering while Black" has become synonymous with crisis as well as a site of cultural interest,...

Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914345081Author Gerry KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506487618Author Monique RainfordFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351669Author Cristina TzintzunFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 378g