African American & Black Studies

The United States is dogged by racism and racial disparities in income, wealth, health, education, and criminal justice. Philosophers disagree on what kind of politics is needed to address this problem. Do we pursue race-specific remedies to undo racism...

Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American...

In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions-like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election-gloss over...

Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret acts, and the like-between 1890 and 1945. Through a consideration of the gestures, costuming, vocal...

Is modern philosophy racist? Do such canonical philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Spinoza, the British Empiricists, and the German Idealists lend support, if only indirectly, to racist doctrines? Or do their ideas contain the resources to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999007204Author Shawn D RochesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Shawn D RochesterPublisher Shawn D RochesterWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145985Author Ric MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 152mm * 13mm

2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up with When we think of African American...

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...

From the time she was a girl growing up in the shadow of Lexington Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Toni Stone knew she wanted to play professional baseball. There was only one problem--every card was stacked against her. Curveball tells the inspiring...

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the...

During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams-traveled and...

Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker's African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863034Author Y. N. KlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247960Author Paul ToughFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570759796Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684836577Author Earl Ofari HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181g

There are over 200 negative words associated with the word 'black' and over 100 positive meanings or synonyms attributed to the word 'white'. This analysis of semantics and semiotics illustrates how words are not racially neutral and can convey negative...

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in...

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the...

A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1980 and National Book Awards 1981 and Pulitzer Prize 1980.Book InformationISBN 9780394743981Author Leon F. LitwackFormat PaperbackPage...

Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today.I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476709512Author Diane McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the...

This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events-from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities-have demonstrated all too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984861405Author Adraint BerealFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South...

Utilizing written sources as well as nationally representative survey data, Daniel H. Krymkowski analyzes the extent and causes of African American underrepresentation in the cultural realms of golf, hiking, hunting and fishing, water sports, winter...

'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce Davies The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies,...

n So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality,...

Recently Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. Mary Helen Washington described Cooper's work as 'the most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist...

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to...

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature-and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999671009Author Elexus JiondeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Intelexual MediaPublisher Intelexual MediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In many ways, race has come to the forefront of contemporary American life. From the Black Lives Matter movement sparked by unarmed police shootings of black people to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353755Author Marquis BeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur has inspired generations of radical protest, including the contemporary movement for Black lives. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by...

From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906387846Author Symphony Way Pavement DwellersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka Press