African American & Black Studies

Tarana Burke and Dr. Brene Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame...

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain. In the 1980s, Professor Kimberle Crenshaw first coined the term 'intersectionality'. Since then, the concept has spread across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688210847Author L. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036005Author Douglas G. BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 176mm *...

'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680920680Author Carter Godwin WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832418Author Edward Franklin FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523091300Author Mary-Frances WintersFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Heartland Award 2011 and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2011 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2011...

In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal-an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea-as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767909136Author Kareem Abdul-JabbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists...

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She demonstrates how contemporary Black feminist writers and...

Soon to be a major film starring Will Smith, this is the inspiring rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner, a once homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and then went on to become a crown...

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"-the path...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234006Author Jeanine HaysFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In a segregated society in which black scholars, writers, and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism was a means of dispersing information to communities throughout the United States. The black press has offered incisive critiques...

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks...

Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question: what's it like to live in...

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595413Author George G M JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593467169Author Donald YacovoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaProtests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. The stakes for transformative conversations about race...

A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't...

'My book showcases positive role models for black people and those within our wider dyslexic community and society, to inspire current and future generations.'This is a raw, honest and enlightening collection of experiences, across the black and dyslexic...

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived...

An unapologetic, brutal memoir from notorious 60s career criminal James Carr. BAD covers Carr's life from his first arrest for burning down his school at age 9, through merciless stints in San Quentin, where he shared a cell with famed Soledad Brother...

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical...

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book,...

Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring...

Major Health Crisis Among Black Women Generated from Systemic Racism "Marita Golden's The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims 'Black don't crack.'" Karen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254370Author Josiah HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802158635Author Frantz FanonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526068Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art PressWeight(grams) 2232g

Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of...

The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations...

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African...