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Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora by Shana L. Redmond 9780814770412
RRP: $36.11$31.66For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound... -
After #Ferguson, After #Baltimore: The Challenge of Black Death and Black Life for Black Political Thought by Barnor Hesse 9780822370970
RRP: $18.05$16.24Drawing primarily on the US #blacklivesmatter movement, contributors to this issue come to terms with the crisis in the meaning of black politics during the post-civil rights era as evidenced in the unknown trajectories of black protests. The authors'... -
Truth of a Hopi: Stories Relating to the Origin, Myths and Clan Histories of the Hopi by Edmund Nequatewa 9781604590333
RRP: $19.34$13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604590333Author Edmund NequatewaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North by Kenneth Pratt
RRP: $76.11$65.80The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous... -
Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdes 9781438465142
$23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438465142Author Vanessa K. ValdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives by Wesley Lowery 9780316312493
RRP: $23.21$15.22Apologies 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 -
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial by Karla F. C. Holloway
RRP: $29.66$26.73Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway... -
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants by Ted Conover 9780394755182
$17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394755182Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238g -
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend by Cassi Pittman Pittman Claytor
RRP: $30.95$26.88In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a critical tool for enjoying material comforts as well as challenging racism. New York City has the largest... -
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho 9781250800473
RRP: $24.50$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800473Author Emmanuel AchoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Flatiron Books: An Oprah BookPublisher Flatiron Books: An Oprah BookWeight(grams)... -
The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages by Mimi Thi Nguyen
RRP: $30.95$26.88In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial... -
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in... -
Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Jeanne Theoharis 9780814783146
RRP: $36.11$31.66Uncovers the often overlooked stories of the women who shaped the black freedom struggle The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton... -
Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories by George Brandon
RRP: $20.63$18.37"On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." -American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues,... -
The Story of Lynx by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780226474724
RRP: $30.96$29.71"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the... -
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A Darity 9781469671208
RRP: $28.32$17.40Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor... -
The Other One Percent: Indians in America by Sanjoy Chakravorty
RRP: $56.10$51.45One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the... -
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka 9780822369103
RRP: $32.24$27.95In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United... -
American Indians by Devon A. Mihesuah 9780932863225
$16.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863225Author Devon A. MihesuahFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya by Gabrielle Lynch
RRP: $38.70$37.73In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal... -
The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society by Royal B. Hassrick 9780806121406
RRP: $29.61$21.67For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of the Great Plains, and they were the villains, too.Royal... -
Deradicalisation and Terrorist Rehabilitation: A Framework for Policy-making and Implementation by Rohan Gunaratna
RRP: $49.01$43.06The threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially. As terrorist groups' influence and networks spread globally, a concerted effort in counterterrorism strategy is critical to mitigating the threat they present... -
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Renee Romano 9780820328140
$41.55The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being... -
The Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
RRP: $18.05$11.92New to Penguin Classics, one of the most influential works of Black social criticism ever written The Mis-education of the Negro is today considered one of the most influential works by 'the father of Black history', Carter G. Woodson, setting the table... -
River-Horse: Across America by Boat by William Least Heat-Moon 9780140298604
RRP: $30.96$22.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140298604Author William Least Heat-MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm)... -
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 by Mark V. Tushnet 9780807855959
RRP: $48.96$45.99The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet... -
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed Us Pop Culture by Aria S Halliday
RRP: $28.37$24.76Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and... -
Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet by Rosalyn R. LaPier 9781496214775
RRP: $33.53$30.01[LaPier's] book refreshingly is tied to her extended family, especially its women, instead of the generalized 'Blackfoot' of most outside ethnographers. Readable in style, [Invisible Reality] conveys the self-respect and confidence that paternalist... -
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on... -
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K. Hill 9780806168562
RRP: $43.80$34.88On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence,... -
What's Faith Got to do with it: Black Bodies, Christian Souls by Kelly Brown Douglas
$22.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570756092Author Kelly Brown DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition by Adam Gussow
RRP: $41.28$40.13Taking its title from a lyric by Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton, "Seems Liks Murder Here" offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and "hard times", blues songs and literature emerge in this... -
The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee by The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery
RRP: $24.45$19.83Harvard's searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. The... -
Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy by Leslie Bow
RRP: $30.95$26.88In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as "racist love," she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how... -
Lakota Society by James R. Walker 9780803297371
RRP: $24.50$21.57As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his... -
Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
RRP: $36.11$31.14The reign of Emperor Yongle, or "Perpetual Happiness," was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and a bloody coup, saw the construction of the Forbidden City, the completion of the Grand Canal,... -
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination by Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780813565156
RRP: $25.79$23.83What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do... -
The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians by Paul Radin
RRP: $61.92$48.50In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the... -
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramon A. Gutierrez
RRP: $36.11$31.66This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in... -
Indian from the Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal by Dennis H. McPherson
RRP: $28.37$23.18Native American philosophy has enabled Native American cultures to survive more than five hundred years of attempted cultural assimilation. The first edition of this historical and philosophical work was written as a text for the first course in Native...