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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010396Author Leonard BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *...

Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through...

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it...

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936367856Author Waldorf Multicultural CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Waldorf PublicationsPublisher Waldorf PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760099Author Gail Lumet BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935721048Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Proven PublishingPublisher Proven PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller2023 Southwest Book of the Year Selection"The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578630035Author Marie HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934520Author U S Department of LaborFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Cosimo ReportsPublisher Cosimo ReportsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623178475Author Christopher MarmolejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."-Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present...

Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career...

One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140424300Author Phillis WheatleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of a small black presence in sixteenth-century...

One 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011529Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 869Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717153Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177140Author Cara PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901 and subsequently...

Boreal forest Indians like the Kutchin of east-central Alaska are among the few native Americans who still actively pursue a hunter's way of life. Yet even among these people hunting and gathering is vanishing so rapidly that it will soon disappear. This...

The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author. In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies...

“...a marvelous book and a great contribution to Chinatown, the Chinese-American community, and to the world community. I am amazed at your photography, your appreciation of color, your mastery of framing, your adventurousness in perspectives...it all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430898Author Charles Alexander EastmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

TEXTURES synthesises research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the "hair story" of peoples of African descent. A fraught topic for African-Americans and others in the Diaspora, artists, barbers, and activists address the topic of...

Meet Bobby: an ordinary kid with an extraordinary voice!Sent off to school for the first time in his life, nine-year-old Bobby Dean is busy making new friends, learning lines for the Nativity Play, and trying to not laugh at the head teacher's terrible...

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353424886Author Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs)Format PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985217273Author Joy a DegruyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Joy Degruy Publications IncPublisher Joy Degruy Publications IncWeight(grams)...

** LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE LONGLIST 2022 ** 'Really packs a punch' Aja Barber, author of Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier...

American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks s portraits at different stages of the country s history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with...

An expert's guide to tracing ancestry in the Caribbean islandsBy a genealogist who has dedicated more than 11 years of his life to uncovering the saga of his African slave ancestors comes a guide for others to capitalise on his informed techniques and...

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 'Breathtaking... a triumph' NOREEN MASUD ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060795283Author Edward P JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800751446Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press

A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today's food and hospitality landscape-from farm to table and beyond-chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more. Chef and...