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By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism by Anthony B. Pinn 9780814766729
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $30.11The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black culture and politics. More recently Islam has been recognized as an important force in African American liberation. Anthony Pinn's new anthology By These Hands demonstrates the crucial,... -
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.60The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their... -
Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality Matthew L. Harris 9780197695715
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $35.42An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)... -
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $30.10This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by... -
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison by James E Seaver 9781644399606
Booksplease Price: $27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644399606Author James E SeaverFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)... -
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s by Daphne Harrison 9780813512808
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $34.73A contribution to the history of the blues in particular and of Afro-American culture in general, new information about a remarkable set of assertive, creative women as well as new insights into the musical heritage they have left behind. Sippie Wallace,... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 9781640320024
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320024Author Benjamin FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Value Classic ReprintsPublisher Value Classic ReprintsWeight(grams) 408g -
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David J. Wishart 9780803297951
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.73Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples' lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to... -
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $42.26The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
The Black Press: New Literary and Historical Essays by Todd Vogel 9780813530055
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $30.90In 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... -
The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins 9780813530222
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $37.49"This important study is the first to confront head-on the avoidance of the visual that has plagued black studies in the United States. The Art of History opens the often hermetic world of black visual culture to a much broader realm in which questions... -
Salvation: Black People and Love by Bell Hooks
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.80Acclaimed 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... -
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $7.96This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement-the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till-"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The... -
Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito by Brian D. Behnken 9781440829765
Booksplease Price: $63.51This book examines how the media-including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction-has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in... -
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley 9780375760099
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $20.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760099Author Gail Lumet BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488g -
Exhale: A Self Care Coloring Book - Celebrating Black Women, Brown Women and Good Vibes by Latoya Nicole 9781734879742
RRP: $10.86Booksplease Price: $9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734879742Author Latoya NicoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Precise Publishing Inc.Publisher Precise Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick by Aimee Ng 9780847873593
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $35.90American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks s portraits at different stages of the country s history... -
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan by Nancy MacLean 9780195098365
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.77On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to... -
Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9780767909136
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.37Apologies 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)... -
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.34In 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... -
Celtic Tree Alphabets: Mystic Signs and Symbols of Ogham and Coelbren Nigel Pennick 9781644117484
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.65A guide to the ancient wisdom of the Ogham and Coelbren symbols as well as Celtic tree lore Emerging from the sacred forests of ancient Britain and Ireland, the Celtic tree alphabets known as Ogham and Coelbren are symbolic systems that encapsulate the... -
An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries by Steven Salaita 9781531506353
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.63An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other... -
Racism by Albert Memmi 9780816631650
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.73By turns historical, sociological and autobiographical, this book investigates racism as social pathology - a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another'Book InformationISBN... -
They Sang for Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore by LaVerne Harrell Clark 9780870814969
Booksplease Price: $33.59No Native American groups placed more emphasis on the horse in their lives than did the Navajo and Apache of the Southwest. They Sang for Horses, first published in 1966 and now considered a classic, remains the only comprehensive treatment of the... -
The Negro in the American Revolution by Gary Nash 9780807846032
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $41.58Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military... -
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 by Robin Blackburn 9781804293416
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $30.02The Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a 'Second Slavery' surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the... -
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition by Manning Marable 9781578061549
Booksplease Price: $37.47Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics... -
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang 9781324095132
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her... -
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest and the Pursuit of Freedom by 9781839766671
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.12In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter the call for the abolition of the police became a central demand for the movement. In this extraordinary, revelatory memoir, Derecka Purnell recounts her own path... -
Arthur Jafa: Magnumb by Arthur Jafa 9788793659353
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.13An essential overview of Jafa's sweeping, dynamic and disquieting video portraits of Black American life Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video... -
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz 9780803217874
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.73Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly... -
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.90What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve... -
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom by Gabor S. Boritt 9780195384604
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.68This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and responded to freedom. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we... -
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital by Zach Sell 9781469661346
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $39.20In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global... -
The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America Philip A. Klinkner 9780226443416
Booksplease Price: $35.04American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd like to imagine it has? This sweeping history of race in... -
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition: After Hurricane Katrina by Richard Brent Turner
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.73An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the... -
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition) by Thomas B. Marquis 9780803282889
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.92Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world... -
Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation by Juan Flores 9780199764907
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $30.22In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium...