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Cheyenne Memories: Second Edition by Margot Liberty 9780300073003
£31.81This classic work is an oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years, a collaborative effort by the Cheyenne tribal historian, John Stands in Timber, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Published in 1967, the... -
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture by Cheryl Suzack
RRP: £29.99£26.50Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions? Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes that a dynamic new line of inquiry - Indigenous feminism - is... -
Malcolm X: The Man And His Times by John Henrik Clarke
RRP: £24.95£16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432017Author John Henrik ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 489g -
Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
RRP: £20.99£18.37Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of... -
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson 9780807856864
RRP: £37.95£29.78Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women... -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives by Wesley Lowery 9780316312493
RRP: £17.99£11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316312493Author Wesley LoweryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 227g -
The Un-Civil War: BLACKS vs NIGGERS: Confronting the Subculture Within the African-American Community by Taleeb Starkes 9780615748474
RRP: £14.90£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615748474Author Taleeb StarkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Taleeb StarkesPublisher Taleeb StarkesWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 by Roger Daniels
RRP: £23.99£21.24In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth... -
Why I Love Black Women by Michael Dyson 9780465017645
£19.16In this open love letter to black women everywhere, Michael Eric Dyson celebrates the strength and beauty of African-American women. From Miss James, his grammar school teacher, to Linda Johnson Rice, who heads the communications empire that publishes... -
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America by Bakari Kitwana 9780465037476
£21.30Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out of date. Hip hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart... -
Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino 9781934639252
RRP: £13.00£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934639252Author Wendy TrevinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Commune EditionsPublisher Commune Editions -
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic by Emilie Cameron
RRP: £27.99£24.14Far Off Metal River examines how explorer Samuel Hearne's account of the alleged 1771 "Bloody Falls massacre" in the Central Arctic has shaped ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.As Emilie Cameron demonstrates, the Arctic has for... -
The Mohawk Warrior Society: Auto-History of the Rotisken'rhakehte by Kahentinetha Rotihskareh:wakeh
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639413Author Kahentinetha RotiskarewakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Black Pearls by Eric V. Copage 9780688122911
RRP: £7.99£6.40Apologies 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 -
Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha Ackmann
RRP: £17.99£11.67From the time she was a girl growing up in the shadow of Lexington Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Toni Stone knew she wanted to play professional baseball. There was only one problem--every card was stacked against her. Curveball tells the inspiring... -
In the Company of My Sisters by Julia A. Boyd 9780452272460
£14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452272460Author Julia A. BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142g -
The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos by Mark Hollabaugh 9781496208231
RRP: £19.99£15.93The interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the Sun, the Moon, and the stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand their world. The Spirit and the Sky presents a survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakotas... -
The Assassination of the Black Male Image by Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780684836577
RRP: £16.00£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684836577Author Earl Ofari HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181g -
The Case For Black Reparations by Boris Bittker 9780807009819
RRP: £22.50£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807009819Author Boris BittkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Dyson 9780465017720
RRP: £18.99£15.41When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black nearly all were poor. The Federal... -
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 by Beth Tompkins Bates 9780807849293
RRP: £42.95£39.28Linking the labor movement to African Americans' campaign for racial equality Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of... -
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society Andrew Apter 9780226023434
RRP: £30.00£29.25How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in Yoruba... -
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women by Noliwe M. Rooks 9780813523125
RRP: £31.00£22.81We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair? In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. She... -
Soo Fariista / Come Sit Down: A Somali American Cookbook by Wariyaa 9781681340852
RRP: £24.95£14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340852Author WariyaaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society PressWeight(grams)... -
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla M. Fett 9780807853788
RRP: £42.95£41.57Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South. Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew... -
The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Taj Frazier
RRP: £22.99£20.01During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams-traveled and... -
Race Code War: The Power of Words, Images, and Symbols on the Black Psyche by Khari Eneharo 9780913543849
RRP: £20.99£13.65There are over 200 negative words associated with the word 'black' and over 100 positive meanings or synonyms attributed to the word 'white'. This analysis of semantics and semiotics illustrates how words are not racially neutral and can convey negative... -
Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 by Betty Wood 9780807846810
RRP: £46.95£44.20The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the... -
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life by Stephen Best
RRP: £19.99£17.54It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in... -
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John G Jackson 9780592438849
RRP: £19.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780592438849Author John G JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 by David John Arnold
RRP: £27.99£24.14Offers 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... -
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
RRP: £22.99£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476709512Author Diane McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History by Colleen E. Boyd
RRP: £32.00£28.21The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in... -
Post-soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, And Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans by Nelson George 9780143034476
£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034476Author Nelson GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 184g -
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners by Debra J. Dickerson 9780375713194
RRP: £23.00£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713194Author Debra J. DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man’s Road by John Joseph Mathews 9780806116990
RRP: £21.95£21.26In Wah'Kon-Tah, John Joseph Mathews relied heavily on the papers of Osage agent Major Labian J. Miles to recreate the world of the Osage during the last quarter of the Nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century. Using his own... -
Dignity or Death – Ethics and Politics of Race by N Ajari
RRP: £18.99£16.87This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events-from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities-have demonstrated all too... -
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days Marzia Balzani (New York University, Abu Dhabi) 9781032400730
RRP: £39.99£32.77This 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... -
The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men by Vine Deloria, Jr. 9781555915643
RRP: £26.95£19.02In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection... -
Living Dolls: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Natasha Walter 9780349017440
RRP: £10.99£7.40Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today.I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of...