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Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy by Leslie Bow
RRP: $50.38$43.76In 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: $39.88$35.11As 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: $58.78$50.69The 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: $41.98$38.79What 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: $100.80$78.96In 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: $58.78$51.53This 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: $46.18$37.74Native 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... -
Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains by Gilbert Livingston Wilson 9780803246744
$144.92In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a... -
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith 9780822360384
RRP: $46.18$36.88In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence-perpetrated by the state and by society at large-and documents their impact on Native women... -
A Colored Woman In A White World by Mary Church Terrell 9781538145975
RRP: $63.00$59.68Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women's suffrage, Terrell was a leading spokesperson for the National... -
Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing by Severt Young Bear 9780803299122
RRP: $31.48$25.87For most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also... -
Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan: Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives by Swee-Lin Ho
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book, based on extensive original research, presents a detailed analysis of the varying opportunities and challenges experienced by Japanese women with professional careers, an important category of the population in Japan, whose lives remain little... -
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney's Flexible Latina Girl by Diana Leon-Boys
RRP: $54.58$47.23In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of... -
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian by Charles A. Eastman 9780803258730
RRP: $29.38$21.65In an earlier book, Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounted the story of his traditional Sioux Childhood and youth. From the Deep Woods to Civilization, first published in 1916, continues the narrative, beginning with his abrupt... -
The Negro by W.E.B. Du Bois
RRP: $14.68$10.25A thorough account of Africa's history and its lasting influence on Western culture told from the perspective of the disparate descendants who inherited its legacy. W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the hidden stories that connect these varied communities. ... -
Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman 9780881924534
RRP: $147.00$113.15An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated... -
The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary by Kimberly Juanita Brown
RRP: $50.38$43.76Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual... -
Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency by Frances Widdowson
RRP: $48.30$48.01Separate but Unequal provides an in-depth critique of the ideology of parallelism-the prevailing view that Indigenous cultures and the wider Canadian society should exist separately from one another in a "nation-to-nation" relationship.Using the Final... -
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire by Tony Ballantyne
RRP: $54.58$47.23As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness... -
Beyond Racial Capitalism: Co-operatives in the African Diaspora by Caroline Shenaz Hossein
RRP: $68.23$62.60Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen... -
Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution by Natasha Marin 9781952119255
RRP: $33.60$24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119255Author Natasha MarinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing -
Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop by W. T. Lhamon 9780674001930
RRP: $65.00$51.28Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow... -
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory by Lynnell L. Thomas
RRP: $50.38$43.76Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture-jazz, cuisine, dance-while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster... -
Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal by James R. McGovern 9780807154250
$38.64A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study that should enhance our general understanding of mob violence and vigilantism."" -- Florida Historical... -
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph 9780465033133
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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity by Stanley Crouch 9780465015160
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And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice by Derrick Bell 9780465003297
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Trouble In Mind by Leon F. Litwack 9780375702631
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Land and Spirit in Native America by Joy Porter 9780313356063
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Cheyenne Memories: Second Edition by Margot Liberty 9780300073003
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Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa by Mary F. Smith 9780300027419
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Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality by Philip Jenkins 9780195189100
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Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by Brenda E. Stevenson 9780195118032
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Six Women's Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews 9780195060836
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Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis 9780195037333
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Reparations: Pro and Con by Alfred L. Brophy 9780195304077
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Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa by Assistant Professor Joanna Davidson 9780199358687
$91.98Sacred Rice explores the cultural intricacies through which Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and economic conditions given the centrality of a crop--rice--that is the lynchpin for their economic, social, religious, and... -
Wellington's Campaigns in India by 94 Russell's Infantry Maj R G Burton 9781845743307 [USED COPY]
$141.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845743307Author 94 Russell's Infantry Maj R G BurtonFormat PaperbackImprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams)... -
Novels by David A. McIntee (Study Guide): The Face of the Enemy, Bullet Time, Mission: Impractical, the Dark Path, the Wages of Sin, Sanctuary by Books, LLC 9781157118022 [USED COPY]
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Oh Don!: Trying to Reason With Donald Trump by John W Sammon 9781981232529
RRP: $12.58$11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981232529Author John W SammonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...