African American & Black Studies

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...

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 *...

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...

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 *...

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...

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...

In an age where racial and ethnic identity intersect, intertwine, and interact in increasingly complex ways, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream offers a superb and rigorous analysis of black politics and coalitions in...

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

A New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow 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...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on...

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807009413Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 136mm *...

Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083354Author Peniel E JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 394g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604592276Author Carter G WoodsonFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

One of hundreds of slave narratives published just before the Civil War, this account is unique in that it is written by a woman. This offers a different, perhaps more realistic, perspective on slave experience than that presented in the more typical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962088100Author Rudolph R WindsorFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Windsor Golden SeriesPublisher Windsor Golden SeriesWeight(grams)...

In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and...

Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse and increasingly segmented audience. To do so, it produced a wide array of print, material, and visual...

Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers-many of whom are performers-demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984855053Author William StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.About the...

From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817344030Author Al RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams) 680g

A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect-and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the "X" as theorized...

In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a...

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602067363Author William Wells BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Winner A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena...

Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he argues that if we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including...