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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin
RRP: £18.99£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250266316Author Epplin LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan 9780195017434
£13.32An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European... -
Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class by Allison Davis
RRP: £16.00£14.52A classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson. First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthropology, documenting in startling and nuanced detail... -
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
RRP: £15.00£13.05Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one... -
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America Ivan Van Sertima 9780812968170
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968170Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair by Jay Morrison 9781943686575
RRP: £14.99£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943686575Author Jay MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture Sherronda J. Brown 9781623177102
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177102Author Sherronda J. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Congo by David van Reybrouck
RRP: £14.99£9.70FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY 'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world's most critical failed... -
Hi-de-ho: The Life of Cab Calloway by Alyn Shipton 9780199931743
RRP: £30.49£19.99Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton... -
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s by John Potash
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064558Author John PotashFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Everybody's Protest Novel by James Baldwin 9780807016947
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016947Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
RRP: £10.99£7.11The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of... -
Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl 9780807001271
RRP: £22.00£17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001271Author Jonathan MetzlFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *... -
Hidden In Plain View by Raymond G. Dobard
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497671Author Jacqueline L. TobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney 9781570272677
RRP: £18.00£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272677Author Stefano HarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 239g -
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
RRP: £13.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465060689Author Beverly Daniel TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
The Other Side of Empathy by Jade E. Davis 9781478025016
RRP: £18.99£16.72In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £4.99£4.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
RRP: £2.99£2.48One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The... -
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the... -
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
RRP: £10.99£7.77Sudhir 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... -
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: £18.99£15.47In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh... -
Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker
£18.45Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Born into poverty in St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the... -
Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9780767909136
RRP: £20.00£14.17Apologies 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)... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 9780374531157
RRP: £19.00£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531157Author Saidiya HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays by James Baldwin 9780807018651
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018651Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne 9780822359388
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial... -
A Tree Without Roots: The Guide to Tracing British, African and Asian Caribbean Ancestry Paul Crooks 9781905147816
RRP: £10.99£7.40An expert's guide to tracing ancestry in the Caribbean islandsBy a genealogist who has dedicated more than 11 years of his life to uncovering the saga of his African slave ancestors comes a guide for others to capitalise on his informed techniques and... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £16.99£15.68Apologies 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... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King Jonathan Eig 9781471181030
RRP: £14.99£9.36A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
RRP: £10.99£7.77**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel... -
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: £14.95£11.40In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of... -
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Antiblackness by Ella Myers
RRP: £23.49£19.97The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries functioned as a "public and psychological wage,"... -
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
RRP: £23.99£20.84"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... -
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: £19.99£15.98In 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... -
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
RRP: £14.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807039823Author Charlene CarruthersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Stolen Legacy by George G M James 9781604595413
£15.23Apologies 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 *... -
The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz by Kathy J. Ogren 9780195074796
RRP: £19.99£13.29The 1920s were not called the Jazz Age for nothing. Celebrated by writers from Langston Hughes to Gertrude Stein, jazz was the dominant influence on American popular music, despite resistance from whites who distrusted its vibrant expression of black... -
The Pursuit Of Happyness by Chris Gardner 9780060744878
RRP: £9.99£6.64Soon 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... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
RRP: £25.00£16.24A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the...