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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ransby 9780520292710
RRP: $20.63$16.46This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women... -
The Great Book of Asian American Heroes: 18 Asian American Men and Women Who Changed American History by Bill O'Neill 9781648450822
$13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450822Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change by Molefi Kete Asante 9780913543795
RRP: $25.74$20.03The central topic of this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of "Afrocentricity," which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects; and looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and world view gives Africans a better understanding of... -
The Wolves of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, and Prehistoric Origins by Prof Karl H Schlesier 9781492334217
RRP: $19.35$16.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492334217Author Prof Karl H SchlesierFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen 9780803236097
RRP: $38.69$36.61On a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians. This assault claimed more than 250 lives, including those... -
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is by Maegan Parker Brooks
RRP: $45.09$37.13Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the... -
Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture by Racquel J. Gates
RRP: $29.66$25.28From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J... -
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Dyson
RRP: $19.34$15.65With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested, and celebrated than he was in life. His posthumously released albums, poetry, and motion pictures have catapulted him into the upper echelon of... -
Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery/The Souls of Black Folk/Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington 9780486457574
RRP: $12.89$11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486457574Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations by Mishuana Goeman
RRP: $30.95$26.33Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its... -
Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
RRP: $45.09$29.27The small island of Igloolik lies between the Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island at the northern end of Hudson Bay north of the Arctic Circle. It has fascinated many in the Western world since 1824, when a London publisher printed the narratives by... -
Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others by James Daley 9780486447612
$6.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447612Author James DaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)... -
The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity by Shalva Weil
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries... -
The Reynolds Campaign on Powder River by J W Vaughn 9780806110073
RRP: $24.45$20.15On March 17, 1876, against the backdrop of the frenzied gold rush to the Black Hills, Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds led a now obscure attack on a Cheyenne Indian village. Although it was considered a military failure and lacked the renown of the Rosebud and... -
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement by Emilie Raymond
RRP: $121.26$103.85From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn't always the case. As Emilie Raymond... -
History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies by Ma Vang
RRP: $30.95$26.33During its secret war in Laos (1961-1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the... -
Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties by Karen Ishizuka 9781781689981
RRP: $25.79$21.80The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that... -
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell
RRP: $38.69$33.53Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure... -
Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
RRP: $16.76$11.13Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today."Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and... -
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman 9780374537449
RRP: $21.93$15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537449Author James FormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Lavender Fields: Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19 by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
RRP: $32.19$26.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816547364Author Julia S. Jordan-ZacheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona... -
Take Back The Land: Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja Village Shantytown by Max Rameau 9780983059752
RRP: $14.19$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983059752Author Max RameauFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 207g -
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon by Robin M. Wright
RRP: $33.53$28.95Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the Northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked... -
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century by P. Gabrielle Foreman 9781469654263
RRP: $38.64$31.13This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement,... -
All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community by Carol Stack
$20.15All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the... -
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation by Gerald Horne
RRP: $33.53$28.43While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans... -
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
$40.97The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought-showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early... -
From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians' Own Stories by Joseph Medicine Crow 9780803282636
RRP: $16.76$11.73The world of the Crow Indians comes to life in this extraordinary collection of stories from respected elder and famed storyteller Joseph Medicine Crow. Raised by traditional grandparents, who remembered life before the reservation days, Medicine Crow as... -
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision by Marie Battiste 9780774807463
RRP: $43.86$37.84This book seeks to clarify postcolonial Indigenous thought beginning at the new millennium. It represents the voices of the first generation of global Indigenous scholars and converges those voices, their analyses, and their dreams of a decolonized world... -
Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific by Rina Garcia Chua
$32.02Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of... -
The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living by Nancy J. Turner
RRP: $33.53$28.43This is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.A thought-provoking look at indigenous stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and... -
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption by Nikki Jones 9780520288355
RRP: $32.25$28.93In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco's historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by... -
Susu & Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation by Paul Alfred Barton 9780595182466
RRP: $27.08$21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595182466Author Paul Alfred BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 20mm -
Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties by Lisa M. Corrigan 9781496827951
RRP: $45.09$37.13In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the... -
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor by Elizabeth Young
RRP: $36.11$30.52For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein,... -
The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life by Kevin Powell 9781416592242
RRP: $21.92$13.22The Black Male Handbookis a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community, particularly as it relates to Black males. This is a must-have... -
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya; The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text by Allen J Christenson
$34.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806138398Author Allen J. ChristensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)... -
How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing by Celeste Winston 9781478025313
RRP: $28.37$24.24In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage-the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery-as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that... -
the deja vu: black dreams & black time by Gabrielle Civil
RRP: $16.76$11.13Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions.Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech,... -
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander 9780822363231
RRP: $30.95$26.33In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade...