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Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs 9781788735391
RRP: $19.34$13.03Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this quarrel- some sisterhood, you'll find ACT... -
Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt
RRP: $28.37$24.24In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound,... -
Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams 9780241999530
RRP: $12.89$9.17'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, GuardianA powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte... -
White Privilege Unmasked: How to be Part of the Solution by Judy Ryde
RRP: $19.34$18.52All white people understand cultural differences from a platform of relative privilege, affecting their personal and professional interactions. How should they respond when confronted with this knowledge? This introductory book looks at the concept of... -
Music of the Common Tongue by Christopher Small 9780819563576
RRP: $31.61$26.21In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and... -
Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became Southerners by Pino Aprile 9781599540313
RRP: $18.38$14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540313Author Pino AprileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Black British Feminism: A Reader by Heidi Safia Mirza 9780415152891
RRP: $49.01$43.06Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an... -
Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phong by Peter Zinoman 9780472068043
$28.90Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck-by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung-is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the... -
Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History by Rozina Visram
RRP: $32.24$23.21This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes,... -
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson 9780807848296
RRP: $60.57$49.92In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose... -
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom by Preeti Dhillon 9780349702827
RRP: $25.80$17.74The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people, The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better... -
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
RRP: $25.74$20.86Biological races do not exist-and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful... -
Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food by Geert Jan van Gelder
RRP: $69.65$60.46Considers how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are keenly aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the... -
Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future by Rangina Hamidi
RRP: $41.27$27.54'This magnificent book allows us to peer behind the veil to behold the world of beauty, pride, and meaning of ancient Afghan embroidery. Through stories of hope and challenge, we are able to walk with these remarkable Afghan women as they rebuild their... -
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: $28.37$21.83In 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... -
Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria by Adam Mayer
RRP: $29.66$23.14Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of 'Naija Marxism' is also that of the country's labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the... -
Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time by Mark Sealy 9781912064755
RRP: $20.64$19.66This book examines how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist ideologies that have tainted photography since its inception... -
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764258Author Tim WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
A History of Brazil by E. Bradford Burns 9780231079556
$60.04Here is a new edition of the book generally acclaimed as the best single-volume history of Brazil. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to include expanded treatment of intellectual, social, and popular history, and to provide increased coverage of... -
Crip Genealogies by Mel Y. Chen
RRP: $33.53$28.95The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based... -
Bella Heesom: Two Plays by Bella Heesom
RRP: $12.89$12.07Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A Little Bit and Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself - grapple with feminism, grief and female desire.Presenting Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Revised and Updated by Loic Wacquant
$23.80When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters,... -
What is Islamophobia?: Racism, Social Movements and the State by Narzanin Massoumi 9780745399577
RRP: $21.92$14.89As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater. Critiquing the arguments found in notionally left accounts and... -
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney 9781788731157
RRP: $12.89$10.85In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale,... -
Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak
RRP: $67.08$59.97In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity... -
The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival by Nicola Rollock
RRP: $25.80$18.43'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted voice on the subject. We can all benefit from reading it' Diana EvansIn this transformative book, Nicola Rollock, one of our pre-eminent experts... -
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice by Nasar Meer
RRP: $19.34$15.65What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial justice in Britain has long been linked to a 'cruel optimism' which normalises social and political... -
Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland by Francesca Sobande
RRP: $24.50$20.34What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it important to archive and understand Black Scottish history? Reflecting on the past to make sense of the present,... -
Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul by Victor Sanchez 9781879181601
RRP: $16.76$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879181601Author Victor SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe by Tomasz Zarycki
RRP: $56.75$49.59This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in... -
Mary Seacole by Ron Ramdin
RRP: $12.89$8.84Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a 'free person,' the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin - who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the UK - tells the remarkable... -
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by Bell Hooks 9780415968188
RRP: $46.43$40.88Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: $16.76$11.29Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' by Antony Lerman 9780745338774
RRP: $23.21$16.18'This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications' - Lynne Segal Antisemitism is one of the most controversial topics of our time. The public, academics, journalists, activists and Jewish people... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: $11.60$8.32The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
RRP: $20.63$10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465271Author Amanda GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)... -
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi 9780231150750
RRP: $28.38$21.92This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the... -
Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cardenas
RRP: $29.66$26.47In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cardenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media... -
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay
RRP: $21.92$14.94A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have... -
Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography by John Van Maanen
RRP: $20.64$20.34For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail...