African American & Black Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527259Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863508Author Y. N. KlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219612Author Daniel LisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 433g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809003Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913408209Author Howard ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Friends United Press,U.S.Publisher Friends United Press,U.S.

With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing...

Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues for a conception of...

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...

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061046Author Stacey PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 18mm

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra...

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday...

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X - their words speak firmly, eloquently and personally of the impact of white America on the lives of African-Americans. Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest...

In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688146504Author Paula GiddingsPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins Childrens Book GroupPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. Inspired by the reinvigorated black cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995075Author Pat ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055373Author Feminista JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539536Author Julia S. Jordan-ZacheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226806914Author Autumn WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 140g

San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over 3 percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city,...

From the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day. "Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588254Author Pamela NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 240g

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

Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307353146Author William C. RhodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the wake of the murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615748474Author Taleeb StarkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Taleeb StarkesPublisher Taleeb StarkesWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597521857Author Leonard W. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 267g

In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men believed they could set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519491534Author Dwayne Wong (Omowale)Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This monumental reference work is a comprehensive guide to the Ku Klux Klan. It begins with a brief history of the KKK, from antebellum predecessors to the present day. Subsequent chapters cover beliefs, including white supremacy, nativism, religion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557094704Author Abraham LincolnFormat HardbackPage Count 28Imprint Applewood Books, U.S.Publisher Applewood Books, U.S.Weight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)...

The numerous essays by many of the state's leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from the earliest years of the state's colonization around 1630 and continuing well into the 20th century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807178027Author Ruth LaneyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593448793Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists...

In the wake of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential victory, most Americans believed that race relations would improve. While many leaders rallied behind the first black president and the black community felt optimistic on the whole, statistics reveal a...

The sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Reconstruction invites reflection on the broad meaning of American democracy, including the ideals of freedom, equality, racial justice, and self-determination. In We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice, John David...