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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... -
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is by Maegan Parker Brooks
RRP: $45.09$40.88Most 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$25.81From 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... -
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$11.29Apologies 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$26.88Dominant 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... -
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)... -
Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives by Susan Sleeper-Smith 9780803219489
RRP: $38.69$27.31This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and... -
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
$24.66On 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$105.63From 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$26.88During 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$23.52The 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... -
Home: Social Essays by LeRoi Jones 9781933354675
RRP: $19.34$17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354675Author LeRoi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 260g -
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell
RRP: $38.69$34.19Koritha 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$14.64Apologies 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)... -
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic by Matthew Mason 9780807859230
RRP: $48.96$46.74This title discusses about the partisan and political uses of slavery. Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the... -
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
$39.13Mysteries 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... -
All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community by Carol Stack
$19.89All 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... -
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
RRP: $38.69$37.86The 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... -
To Make Our World Anew: Volume I by Robin D. G. Kelley
RRP: $20.63$17.20this book is the only comprehensive illustrated history of African Americans. Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, the book describes how African Americans have shaped and changed the history of this country. It traces the... -
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation by Gerald Horne
RRP: $33.53$29.01While 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... -
Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific by Rina Garcia Chua
$33.89Empire 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... -
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision by Marie Battiste 9780774807463
RRP: $43.86$38.56This 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... -
Susu & Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation by Paul Alfred Barton 9780595182466
RRP: $27.08$21.26Apologies 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 -
The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living by Nancy J. Turner
RRP: $33.53$29.01This 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... -
Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties by Lisa M. Corrigan 9781496827951
RRP: $45.09$42.44In 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$31.14For 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$14.34The 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
$31.04Apologies 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)... -
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,... -
How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing by Celeste Winston 9781478025313
RRP: $28.37$24.76In 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... -
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander 9780822363231
RRP: $30.95$26.88In 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... -
The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne
RRP: $33.53$29.01What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis-arguably the "brains" behind U.S. fascism-was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring... -
Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity by Nestor Garcia Canclini
RRP: $30.95$26.88When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of... -
Black Images In The Comics by Fredrik Stromberg 9781606995624
RRP: $25.79$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995624Author Fredrik StrombergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 423g -
Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians by Morris Edward Opler 9780803286023
RRP: $12.89$10.02"We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is another classic study by the author of Myths... -
Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina by Regina A. Root
RRP: $30.95$26.88Following Argentina's revolution in 1810, the dress of young patriots inspired a nation and distanced its politics from the relics of Spanish colonialism. Fashion writing often escaped the notice of authorities, allowing authors to masquerade political... -
The Black Hebrew Awakening: The Final 400 Years As Slaves In America by Dante Fortson 9781729752432
RRP: $38.69$28.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781729752432Author Dante FortsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...