African American & Black Studies

In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of...

Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic...

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face...

It 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...

In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examined the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evident racial divisions-all...

*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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436614Author Angela J. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Far too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women's eloquent rage is...

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617022Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Proven PublishingPublisher Proven Publishing

Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from...

It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen,...

Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the...

They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most...

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial...

From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432710Author John Henrik ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 650g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060555979Author Jackie RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

This is a definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material. John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984861719Author Jarrett HillFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506488363Author Nadra NittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Presenting new work by American artist Kehinde Wiley, as he explores the European landscape tradition through film and painting The American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is best known for his spectacular portraits of African Americans with knowing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230059Author Jamel ShabazzFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451631579Author Claude BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

In this sociological work, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of...

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as...

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight...

Former slaves themselves-an important but long-neglected source of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378689Author Clyde W. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy. Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages...

Enlists 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...

African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Rhythms of Resistance traces the development of this rich cultural heritage. Acclaimed author Peter Fryer describes...

Social policy is not blind. It has been at the forefront of perpetuating structural inequality in many of the systems charged with serving and protecting. The impact of race on social policy is linked to historical (intended and unintended) patterns of...

Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617008Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Supreme Design PublishingPublisher Supreme Design PublishingWeight(grams)...

In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478238Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church emerged in the nineteenth century as the preeminent black institution in the United States. In 1896, the church...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lillian Smith Book Awards (Lifetime Achievement) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780807031278Author Robert MosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon...

Offers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men.About the AuthorJawanza Kunjufu is the author of over...