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Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection by Menglong Feng
RRP: $94.50$82.89Stories 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... -
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender by Marquis Bey
RRP: $18.90$16.30A 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... -
Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic by Mark Anthony Neal
$49.92 - $66.55In 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... -
Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 by Mary G. Rolinson 9780807857953
RRP: $79.70$75.50The 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... -
Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity by Ying Wang
RRP: $75.60$59.64This 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... -
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People by Jean Comaroff 9780226114231
RRP: $58.80$57.52In 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... -
Alaska Native Cultures and Issues: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions by Libby Roderick 9781602230910
$36.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602230910Author Libby RoderickFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams)... -
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown 9781602067363
$18.56Apologies 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 *... -
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World by Quito Swan
RRP: $92.40$79.88ASALH 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... -
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
RRP: $35.68$21.61Fifty 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... -
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan
RRP: $71.40$61.59In 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... -
Theorizing Native Studies by Audra Simpson
RRP: $54.58$46.28This 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... -
Black Pearls by Eric V. Copage 9780688122911
RRP: $16.78$13.76Apologies 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 -
The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics by Cathy Cohen
RRP: $58.80$57.52In 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... -
It's Not About a Salary: Rap, Race, and Resistance in Los Angeles by Brian Cross 9780860916208
RRP: $46.18$39.67This photo-essay, coupled with oral histories, provides a map of the contemporary hip-hop nation in Los Angeles. Bracketed by introductory essays on the history and production of the music and a glossary, the book aims to engage with the city's rap scene... -
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
RRP: $54.58$47.94Black 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... -
Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America by Keith Boykin
RRP: $46.20$30.58Apologies 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 *... -
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning
RRP: $52.50$37.84Apologies 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 -
Living Indigenous Leadership: Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities by Carolyn Kenny
RRP: $71.40$61.59Indigenous 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... -
The Florida Room by Alexandra T. Vazquez
RRP: $48.28$41.16In 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... -
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 by David John Arnold
RRP: $58.78$49.69Offers 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... -
All The Real Indians Died Off by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: $31.48$20.79Apologies 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 *... -
The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific by Patty O'Brien 9780295987651
RRP: $58.78$50.53The 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... -
The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates 9780679763789
RRP: $38.26$29.34Apologies 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... -
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M. H. Camp 9780807855348
$69.76Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday... -
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capo Crucet
RRP: $37.80$21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250299437Author Jennine Capo CrucetFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm)... -
Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing by Kenneth S. Cohen
RRP: $35.68$25.60Apologies 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... -
Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition by Bruce Burgett
RRP: $50.38$43.70Introduces 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... -
To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543108
RRP: $29.30$22.07Information 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... -
Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity by Sheldon George 9781602587359
RRP: $81.80$67.10African 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... -
Modern Black Nationalism: From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan by William L. Van Deburg
RRP: $54.58$47.12More 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... -
We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies by Cutcha Risling Baldy
RRP: $54.58$46.28"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... -
Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture by Paul Gilroy 9780674060234
$56.99Paul 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... -
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities by Margaret Cantú-Sánchez 9780816541140
RRP: $69.20$57.10Apologies 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: Haida World Heritage Site by George F. MacDonald 9780774801638
RRP: $46.18$39.46Ninstints, 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... -
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now by Toure 9781439177563
RRP: $41.98$27.01Apologies 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 -
American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker 9780717806058
RRP: $37.78$33.16Apologies 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. -
N Word by Jabari Asim 9780547053493
RRP: $37.70$27.95Apologies 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 -
Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children by Joseph Bruchac
RRP: $50.30$37.28These 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... -
Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland by Rudolfo A. Anaya
RRP: $54.50$45.02During 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...