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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

In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodriguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodriguez spotlights a host of...

Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experiences of Native actors on the sets of midcentury Hollywood Westerns. This behind-the-scenes look at costuming,...

The Navajo tribe, the Dine, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Dine people to a military-controlled...

In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813944524Author Peter EisenstadtFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 920g

Claude Levi-Strauss's fascination with Northwest Coast Indian art dates back to the late 1930s. "Sometime before the outbreak of the Second World War," he writes, "I had already bought in Paris a Haida slate panel pipe." In New York in the early forties,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593080900Author Kristin HenningFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or "ghetto" perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aesthetic has informed a large segment of the popular marketplace from the incendiary nature of...

Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this vivid narrative account, Glenn Eskew traces the evolution of nonviolent protest in the city, focusing particularly on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645720355Author Jesse Lee PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Republic Book PublishersPublisher Republic Book PublishersWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590561454Author A. Breeze HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work - describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life.Turnbill conveys the lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805079333Author Kevin BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 406g

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"-the path...

As "The Indian Tipi" makes obvious, Plains Indians are both practical people and natural artists. Their inventions are commonly both serviceable and beautiful.Book InformationISBN 9780806122366Author Reginald LaubinFormat PaperbackPage Count...

When first published in 1980, "The Declining Significance of Race" immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the...

In this sociological work, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of...

In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. Against...

The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its...

This book analyses European foreign policy as the activity of the European Union (EU) as a global actor and explores its efforts to raise its visibility in Southeast Asia through its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807000762Author Martin Luther KingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A gift from the Creator - that is where it all began. The game of lacrosse has been a central element of many Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation - then reclamation - of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512190Author Gilbert L. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Honorable Mention, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for...

Freemasonry has played a significant role in the history of Native Americans since the colonial era-a role whose extent and meaning are fully explored for the first time in this book. The overarching concern of Native American Freemasonry is with how...

De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants." I...

In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and...

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access PipelineIt is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is...

Betty Issenman examines all aspects of winter and summer Inuit clothing, going back 4000 years, with particular emphasis on northern Canadian Inuit. She also describes the kinds of material and tools used to make the clothing. The focus is on on Inuit...