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The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria by Andrew Apter 9780226023557
RRP: $63.00$61.43When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Art and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenshipanimated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation... -
Black Power: the Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: $33.58$24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679743132Author Charles V. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)... -
W.E.B. Du Bois – The Lost and the Found by E Basevich
RRP: $35.68$24.23W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United... -
Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business by Pamela Newkirk
RRP: $46.20$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588223Author Pamela NewkirkFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 146mm... -
To Write the Africa World by A Mbembe
RRP: $39.88$35.43In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the... -
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth 9781469632872
$65.67In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, ""There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever."" Lining's comments presaged ideas about... -
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry
RRP: $52.48$44.58In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critical focus from the published texts of acclaimed writers to unfamiliar practitioners whose works... -
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital by Zach Sell 9781469661346
RRP: $79.70$65.44In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global... -
Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race by J a Rogers
RRP: $31.37$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115723Author J a RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Crisis Of The Negro Intellectua by Harold Cruse
RRP: $54.60$39.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171356Author Harold CruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary by Alex Lubin 9781469612881
RRP: $79.70$75.92In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major... -
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader by Greg Tate 9780822361961
RRP: $52.48$44.16Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of... -
Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic by Elaine Bauer 9789766372460
RRP: $33.50$27.93For decades Jamaicans - and West Indians more broadly - have migrated, at first to Britain and then to North America. Jamaican Hands Across The Atlantic outlines the pain and pleasure of migration showing how members of the same families migrated to... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston 9780062748201
RRP: $42.00$30.41A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the... -
In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Richard Iton 9780199733606
$97.19*Winner of the 2009 Ralph J. Bunche Award* *Named one of CHOICE 's "Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009"* Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of... -
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll by Maureen Mahon
RRP: $56.68$46.18African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been... -
In-dependence From Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley - Defying the Idoeological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations by Lloyd D. McCarthy 9781592214655
RRP: $46.18$30.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214655Author Lloyd D. McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 294g -
The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women by Michael Porter 9780913543726
RRP: $35.60$26.08It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life. This book presents a fresh... -
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew 9780399181139
RRP: $69.30$51.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399181139Author Kimberly DrewFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson
RRP: $50.40$43.09A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings-and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that attracted national media... -
Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543016
RRP: $29.30$22.07The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the author of over 65 books, including Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Good Brothers Looking for Good Sisters, and... -
Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago by Laurence Ralph
$50.19Every morning Chicagoans wake up to stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city," and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our focus on... -
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing up Poor and Black in the Rural South by Anne Moody
RRP: $20.98$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440314882Author Anne MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
RRP: $29.38$19.32How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means... -
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller 9780822346036
RRP: $56.68$50.06Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as... -
Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9781479843626
RRP: $58.78$49.69Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement... -
Black Again: Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity by LaTonya Summers 9781839973185
RRP: $29.38$28.29"I was driven by the belief that if I wanted to go somewhere I'd need to be something other than Black."LaTonya Summers was only six years old the first time she unconsciously tried to be "more white". Recollecting experiences from her childhood in... -
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley
RRP: $25.18$16.80Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black... -
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement by Bettye Collier-Thomas
RRP: $58.78$49.69The rarely heard stories of the brave women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the... -
Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania by Liisa H. Malkki
RRP: $58.80$57.52This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how... -
Into Egypt Again With Ships: A Message To The Forgotten Israelites by Elisha Israel 9781440469398
RRP: $42.00$34.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440469398Author Elisha IsraelFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Slavery in the Ante-Bellum Society by Morrison Professor of History Emeritus Kenneth M Stampp 9780679723073
RRP: $35.68$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723073Author Kenneth M. StamppFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The [black] America's Handbook for the Survival through the 21st Century: The Forgotten Truth about Racism, Vol.1 Final Edition by Radine America 9780970545503
RRP: $84.00$72.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970545503Author Radine AmericaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Quantum Leapslc PublicationsPublisher Quantum Leapslc PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872867383
RRP: $25.18$16.80"A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th... -
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture by Greg Tate 9780767914970
RRP: $37.78$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914970Author Greg TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Black Theology and Black Power: 50th Anniversary Edition by James H Cone
RRP: $41.98$32.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983083Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue by Adrian Miller 9781469662800
RRP: $62.90$44.27Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating... -
The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates 9780451532138
$12.83A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.Before the end of the Civil... -
The MIS-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson 9780486445588
RRP: $17.83$14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445588Author Carter G WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the Wac by Charity Adams Earley 9780890966945
RRP: $54.50$38.75When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war...