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The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative by Christopher Metress 9780813921228
£26.39At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the... -
Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity by Crispin Sartwell
RRP: £26.00£24.85Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X - their words speak firmly, eloquently and personally of the impact of white America on the lives of African-Americans. Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest... -
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£15.37Harvard'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... -
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing by Joe R. Feagin 9780415635226
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and... -
The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life by Kevin Powell 9781416592242
RRP: £16.99£9.96The Black Male Handbookis a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community, particularly as it relates to Black males. This is a must-have... -
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend by Cassi Pittman Pittman Claytor
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 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... -
The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954 by William H. Watkins 9780807740422
£32.82A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the "miseducation of the Negro" in America, this timely and provocative volume explores the men and ideas that helped shape educational and societal apartheid from the Civil War... -
Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories by George Brandon
RRP: £13.99£12.59"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,... -
Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Victoria W. Wolcott
RRP: £24.00£20.12Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical-in short, wholly divorced from... -
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A Darity 9781469671208
RRP: £21.95£13.35Racism 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: £22.99£20.01In 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... -
The Negro In The Civil War by Benjamin Quarles 9780306803505
RRP: £18.99£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBenjamin Quarles (1904-1996) was a noted author, editor, and historian and the first African American to be published in what later became the Journal of American... -
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans by Thomas C. Holt 9780809034178
£15.63Ordinary people do not experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the... -
Six Women's Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews 9780195060836
RRP: £23.49£17.15The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War... -
Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja Village Shantytown Max Rameau 9780983059752
RRP: £11.00£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983059752Author Max RameauFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 207g -
The Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
RRP: £13.99£9.04New to Penguin Classics, one of the most influential works of Black social criticism ever written The Mis-education of the Negro is today considered one of the most influential works by 'the father of Black history', Carter G. Woodson, setting the table... -
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton 9780520396326
RRP: £25.00£19.59A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With... -
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 by Mark V. Tushnet 9780807855959
RRP: £37.95£34.85The 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... -
Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman's Guide to Self-Care and Inner Renewal by Debrena Jackson Gandy 9780688163471
RRP: £17.99£11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688163471Author Debrena Jackson GandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century by Algernon Austin 9780814707074
£89.88Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and... -
Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century by Janet Dewart Bell 9781620976289
RRP: £19.99£13.56An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the... -
After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke 9780813534060
RRP: £32.00£23.76The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets. In ""After... -
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780195139457
£55.30"To Make Our World Anew" reconstructs U.S. history through the experiences and struggles of black Americans.Written by a stellar team of historians, this volume offers a panoramic view of black life, rich with first-person accounts that invite readers to... -
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis
RRP: £20.99£18.37In 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... -
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell
RRP: £27.99£24.14Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure... -
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor by Elizabeth Young
RRP: £24.99£21.67For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein,... -
Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles 9780306804250
£19.16While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America's leading black historians, sets the record straight. As Benjamin... -
All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community by Carol Stack
£15.02All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the... -
What's Faith Got to do with it: Black Bodies, Christian Souls by Kelly Brown Douglas
£16.58Apologies 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) -
Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom by Sarah Jane Cervenak
RRP: £20.99£18.37Combining black feminist theory, philosophy, and performance studies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom. She is particularly interested in the power of wandering or daydreaming for those... -
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander 9780822363231
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade... -
The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne
RRP: £23.99£20.84What 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... -
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination by Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780813565156
RRP: £17.99£16.75What 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... -
Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition by Joseph E. Holloway
RRP: £19.99£17.54An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies. Since its original... -
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa by Assistant Professor Joanna Davidson 9780199358687
£43.80Sacred Rice explores the cultural intricacies through which Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and economic conditions given the centrality of a crop--rice--that is the lynchpin for their economic, social, religious, and... -
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement by Emilie Raymond
RRP: £91.00£79.32From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn't always the case. As Emilie Raymond... -
The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture by Soyica Diggs Colbert 9780813583952
RRP: £31.00£22.81What would it mean to ""get over slavery""? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the... -
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950 Kwando M. Kinshasa 9780786472048
RRP: £21.99£17.97This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all were teenagers when incarcerated, over the course of... -
A Colored Woman In A White World by Mary Church Terrell 9781538145975
RRP: £30.00£28.42Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women's suffrage, Terrell was a leading spokesperson for the National... -
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora by Shana L. Redmond 9780814770412
RRP: £24.99£22.07For 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...