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The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne
RRP: £25.99£22.04What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis-arguably the "brains" behind U.S. fascism-was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring... -
Black Images In The Comics by Fredrik Stromberg 9781606995624
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995624Author Fredrik StrombergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 423g -
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora by Shana L. Redmond 9780814770412
RRP: £27.99£24.06For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound... -
Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights by Dian Million
RRP: £28.95£23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816531417Author Dian MillionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 320g -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives by Wesley Lowery 9780316312493
RRP: £17.99£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316312493Author Wesley LoweryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 227g -
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial by Karla F. C. Holloway
RRP: £22.99£20.72Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway... -
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend by Cassi Pittman Pittman Claytor
RRP: £23.99£20.41In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a critical tool for enjoying material comforts as well as challenging racism. New York City has the largest... -
Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories by George Brandon
RRP: £15.99£13.92"On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." -American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues,... -
Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Jeanne Theoharis 9780814783146
RRP: £27.99£24.06Uncovers the often overlooked stories of the women who shaped the black freedom struggle The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton... -
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A Darity 9781469671208
RRP: £19.95£16.40Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor... -
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka 9780822369103
RRP: £24.99£21.23In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United... -
I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya by Gabrielle Lynch
RRP: £30.00£29.25In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal... -
Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures by Kevin M. Strait 9781588347718
RRP: £29.00£18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347718Author Kevin M. StraitFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Renee Romano 9780820328140
RRP: £29.95£24.53The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being... -
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens by Celia E. Naylor 9780807858837
RRP: £37.95£35.50This book describes acculturation and resistance in the Cherokee Nation.Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and... -
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 by Mark V. Tushnet 9780807855959
RRP: £37.95£31.16The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet... -
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 by Minkah Makalani 9781469617527
RRP: £32.95£29.94In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on... -
Black Hair in a White World by Tameka N. Ellington 9781606354568
RRP: £37.95£31.16A critical and nuanced look at societal perceptions of Black hair, past and present Black Hair in a White World is an in-depth study of the cultural history, perceptions, and increasing acceptance of Black hair in the broader American society. The essays... -
To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White 9781469665078
RRP: £29.95£24.13Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and... -
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed Us Pop Culture by Aria S Halliday
RRP: £21.99£18.79Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and... -
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis
RRP: £22.99£19.60In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on... -
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K. Hill 9780806168562
RRP: £33.95£29.59On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence,... -
What's Faith Got to do with it: Black Bodies, Christian Souls by Kelly Brown Douglas
£17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570756092Author Kelly Brown DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee by The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery
RRP: £18.95£15.03Harvard's searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. The... -
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition by Adam Gussow
RRP: £32.00£31.11Taking its title from a lyric by Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton, "Seems Liks Murder Here" offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and "hard times", blues songs and literature emerge in this... -
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination by Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780813565156
RRP: £19.99£15.77What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do... -
The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary by Kimberly Juanita Brown
RRP: £23.99£20.41Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual... -
The Negro by W.E.B. Du Bois
RRP: £6.99£4.88A thorough account of Africa's history and its lasting influence on Western culture told from the perspective of the disparate descendants who inherited its legacy. W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the hidden stories that connect these varied communities. ... -
Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop by W. T. Lhamon 9780674001930
RRP: £30.95£23.93Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow... -
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory by Lynnell L. Thomas
RRP: £23.99£20.41Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture-jazz, cuisine, dance-while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster... -
Beyond Racial Capitalism: Co-operatives in the African Diaspora by Caroline Shenaz Hossein
RRP: £30.00£27.60Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen... -
Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey 9781469672113
RRP: £32.95£27.19Twentieth-century African American history cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of U.S. policy from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the... -
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women by Mia E. Bay 9781469620916
£33.22Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work... -
The Colour of Our Future: Does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa? by Xolela Mangcu 9781868145690
RRP: £29.99£27.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America by Leon Dash 9780465055883
£24.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness by Kamari Maxine Clarke 9780822337720
£31.18Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this... -
Korea after the Crash: The Politics of Economic Recovery by Brian Bridges 9780415223263
RRP: £125.00£107.86Brian Bridges examines the impact on South Korea of the financial crisis of 1997. Covering events up to and including the recent parliamentary elections in South Korea, the book considers the socio-economic and political implications of the financial... -
Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Soroities by Walter M. Kimbrough 9781611472813
RRP: £42.00£38.05Black Greek 101 analyzes the customs, culture, and challenges facing historically Black fraternal organizations. The text provides a history of Black Greek organizations beyond the nine major organizations, examining the pledging practice, the growth of... -
Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness by Reynaldo Anderson 9781498510523
RRP: £41.00£37.78The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum,... -
How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America by Yelena Bailey 9781469660585
RRP: £98.00£94.80In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of ""the streets"" not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades...