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Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by John Campbell 9780190657987
RRP: $14.18$10.02As the "Giant of Africa," Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African... -
The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams
$36.22Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection... -
False Black Power? by Jason L Riley
RRP: $18.05$12.98Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why... -
Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace L Griffin 9781608995950
RRP: $34.83$26.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608995950Author Horace L GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
China and the New International Order by Gungwu Wang
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book explores China's place in the 'new international order', from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China. It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of... -
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189
RRP: $28.38$19.32NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You... -
Feeling Photography by Elspeth H. Brown
RRP: $34.82$29.99This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that... -
Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain by Jacqueline Jenkinson 9781786942265
RRP: $35.41$31.61The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North America during and in the wake of the First World War... -
Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour by Noma Dumezweni
RRP: $20.63$19.65A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty... -
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
RRP: $21.93$13.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812987140Author Michelle KuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual: The Story of James Arthur Harley by Pamela Roberts 9781838463069
RRP: $25.80$22.52Scholar, reverend, politician, and perhaps aristocrat... James Arthur Stanley Harley was certainly a polymath. Born in a poor village in the Caribbean island of Antigua, he went on to attend Howard, Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities, was ordained a... -
The Hemshin: History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey by Hovann Simonian 9781138874619
RRP: $58.04$51.19The Hemshin are without doubt one of the most enigmatic peoples of Turkey and the Caucasus. As former Christians who converted to Islam centuries ago yet did not assimilate into the culture of the surrounding Muslim populations, as Turks who speak... -
The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex Identities in the Atlantic World by Professor Harald E. Braun
RRP: $174.15$151.81Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined... -
A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop
RRP: $32.24$25.01Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new model of child protection in Aotearoa New Zealand and other parts of the Anglophone world. He puts forward... -
The Making Of A Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career by David L Shambaugh
RRP: $51.59$45.23How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's... -
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
RRP: $36.12$22.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579987Author Douglas MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury ContinuumPublisher Bloomsbury ContinuumWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)... -
The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century: Adaptation and the Reinvention of Legitimacy by Andre Laliberte 9780415692182
$13.66As the Chinese Communist Party continues to move away from socialism, it faces a growing number of challenges to the claim that it represents the sole legitimate governing body in China. In order to reaffirm itself as the most effective force for keeping... -
West Africans in Britain, 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism by Hakim Adi 9780853158486
RRP: $20.64$19.67This work captures the dynamism of the West-African student movement in Britain, and the struggle to articulate a coherent, anti-colonial politics. The emergence of the West African Students Union (WASU) and its alliances with influential Labour MPs, the... -
In Between by Maud Blair 9781800182936
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Vivid . . . the history Maud Blair brings alive is significant in its detail' Beverley Naidoo, acclaimed author of Journey to Jo'burgWhat does it mean to grow up with an African mother and European father in racially segregated 1950s Rhodesia?For Maud... -
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: $39.98$31.98In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined... -
The Transplants by Giuseppe Prezzolini 9781599541372
RRP: $23.22$17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541372Author Giuseppe PrezzoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
'Sleepwalking to segregation'?: Challenging myths about race and migration by Nissa Finney 9781847420077
RRP: $24.50$19.39In the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting evidence in support of and in opposition to them in an... -
Exodus and Its Aftermath: Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior by Albert Kaganovitch 9780299334543
RRP: $42.51$35.08During World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. Citizens in the Central Asian territories were at best indifferent-and at worst openly hostile-toward these migrants. Unpopular... -
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border by Andrew Ong 9781501770715
RRP: $36.11$30.52Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with China. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland group, often dismissed as rebels or... -
Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier
RRP: $14.18$10.86Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom BillionMass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a... -
Neutrality in International Law: From the Sixteenth Century to 1945 by Kentaro Wani
RRP: $56.75$49.59Neutrality is a legal relationship between a belligerent State and a State not participating in a war, namely a neutral State. The law of neutrality is a body of rules and principles that regulates the legal relations of neutrality. The law of neutrality... -
Sex in the Land of Genghis Khan: From the Times of the Great Conqueror to Today by Baasanjav Terbish 9781666937497
RRP: $94.17$83.37This book examines the history of sexuality in Mongolia over the last 800 years. As a culture-specific and time-specific system of values, practices and identities, sexuality in Mongolia, as elsewhere, has been subject to change as Mongolian society... -
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake
RRP: $45.15$45.03Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America... -
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 9781350262782
RRP: $15.47$14.22Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups... -
The Racial State by David Theo Goldberg
RRP: $55.41$48.47The Racial State argues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of modern nation state formation, and to its ongoing management.About the AuthorDavid Theo Goldberg is the Director of the system wide University of... -
The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain's Caribbean Empire by Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
RRP: $19.34$10.54'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from... -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Jericho Brown 9781942683339
RRP: $15.47$10.32In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all... -
Of Black Study by Joshua Myers
RRP: $25.79$20.73'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals generated different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude
RRP: $21.92$14.89On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK by Timothy J. Meagher 9780300126273
RRP: $32.25$26.99The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century "Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through several iterations and shows the impact of religion on... -
Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away by Keith Boykin 9781541703315
RRP: $32.25$21.13The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely. They're all designed to... -
Simply Institutional Ethnography: Creating a Sociology for People by Dorothy E. Smith
RRP: $25.79$23.45Institutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus. Simply Institutional... -
The International Politics of the Red Sea by Anoushiravan Ehteshami 9780415726214
RRP: $69.65$60.46This pioneering book is the first comprehensive study of the Red Sea as a sub-region of the international system in its own right. Examining the international politics of the Red Sea region from the Cold War to the present day, it argues that the Red Sea... -
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller
RRP: $51.60$39.91Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: $39.98$33.62How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How...