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The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk 9781526630155
RRP: $16.76$11.73* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * 'Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book' ANNE APPLEBAUM ---------- One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our... -
Blackways of Kent by Hylan Lewis 9781570037252
RRP: $21.87$18.16This is a participant-observer's account of African American life in a small Southern town just prior to the Civil Rights era.Consisting of ""Blackways of Kent"" (1955), ""Millways of Kent"" (1958), and ""Townways of Kent"", the ""Kent Trilogy"" forms a... -
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: $19.29$14.45In 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... -
Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements by Anandi Ramamurthy 9780745333489
$32.83Black Star documents the vibrant Asian Youth Movements in 1970s and 80s Britain who struggled against the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from Black Power movements as well as anti-imperialist and... -
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Antiblackness by Ella Myers
RRP: $28.37$24.19The 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,"... -
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall 9780674248342
RRP: $20.58$16.51"Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today."-Angela Y. DavisIn this defining statement one of the founding figures of... -
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi 9780520258884
RRP: $32.25$25.26"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: $25.79$20.73This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as... -
The Soul of the Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman 9780486430898
RRP: $7.73$5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430898Author Charles Alexander EastmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire by Ray Laurence 9780415241496
RRP: $49.01$43.06This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse... -
[BLANK] by Alice Birch
RRP: $23.21$20.70She can't stay awake. She sold drugs. She's good at interrogations. She drinks in the mornings. She ate a rabbit. She smashed up a shop. She stabbed a man. She used a hammer. She had a baby. She can't find her mother. She's covered in blood and... -
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe 9781478025580
RRP: $28.37$24.24In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates... -
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility by Duane Elmer 9780830833788
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830833788Author Duane ElmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 209mm... -
The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival by Nicola Rollock 9780141997544
RRP: $14.18$10.02'This is a book for the future: it gives us exactly the tools we need to dismantle racial injustice in our society' Baroness Doreen Lawrence 'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted... -
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India by Anjali Roy
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life... -
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey by Isabel Fonseca
RRP: $16.76$11.73Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over a thousand years, they have also... -
A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption by Norbert M. Samuelson
RRP: $69.65$60.46This user-friendly guide will help students of the 'Star' to be able to discuss at a basic level what, at least conceptually, Rosenzweig intended to say and how all that he says is interrelated.Reviews'A valuable addition to the continued interest in... -
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe
RRP: $25.79$21.80Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native... -
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
RRP: $14.18$10.02Winner of the Jhalak PrizeWinner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 'A revelation' Owen Jones'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident... -
How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts by Ian Brennan
RRP: $19.34$17.69All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every... -
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum 9780141997445
RRP: $16.76$11.73The international bestseller that changed how we talk about racism'A critically acclaimed book that gave readers a starting point to demystify conversations about race' The Atlantic'A classic' Jodi PicoultWalk into any racially mixed secondary school and... -
Salvation: Black People and Love by Bell Hooks
RRP: $14.18$9.35Acclaimed 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... -
Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007037Author Robin D.G. KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye
RRP: $16.76$11.73AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, insights and... -
Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia by Edward Aspinall
RRP: $96.75$87.90Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. Mobilizing for... -
India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism by Waltraud Ernst
RRP: $56.75$49.59This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices,... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: $25.80$19.96"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin by Sonia Ryang 9780415379397
RRP: $51.59$45.23Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The... -
This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood by Catherine Joy White
RRP: $25.80$15.03Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors. Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in... -
Key Concepts in Anti-Discriminatory Social Work by Toyin Okitikpi 9781412930826
RRP: $47.72$39.20"This is a key text that provides a well-rounded introduction to anti-discriminatory social work, placing this underpinning concept within the context of theory, methods, policy, legislation and skills. It will be of immense value to students,... -
Tree of Dreams: A Spirit Woman's Vision of Transition and Change by Lynn V. Andrews
$18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585425785Author Lynn V. AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 0g -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: $34.83$27.13Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter 9781250009067
RRP: $23.21$17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250009067Author Cameron McWhirterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World by Helen D. Hazen 9780367697969
RRP: $46.43$40.88Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments. It encourages students to... -
Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
RRP: $12.89$8.77'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it - in our education, how we travel, our healthcare,... -
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
RRP: $19.34$11.53'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time. Loved it!' Goodreads ReviewerA powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be... -
Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines by Greg Bankoff
RRP: $61.91$53.93Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect other countries in the futureThis study will be of interest... -
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind by Dr. Lynne Kelly
RRP: $25.80$18.95In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us... -
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
RRP: $32.25$24.74This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins-and the echoes-of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two... -
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: $33.53$28.95Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many...