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The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954 by William H. Watkins 9780807740422
RRP: $41.22$34.06A 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... -
Practical Audio Electronics by Kevin Robinson 9780367359850
RRP: $43.85$39.22Practical Audio Electronics is a comprehensive introduction to basic audio electronics and the fundamentals of sound circuit building, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake projects from scratch.Imparting a thorough... -
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford
RRP: $38.70$29.95This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.About the AuthorJames Clifford... -
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov
RRP: $42.57$37.28Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires... -
Megacity Seoul: Urbanization and the Development of Modern South Korea by Yu-Min Joo
RRP: $59.33$51.77In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-paced urban and development challenges, many Asian governments have been searching for replicable and... -
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar 9781787383418
RRP: $25.79$22.72Ilhan Omar's career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress. Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to... -
Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500 by Robert Eric Frykenberg
RRP: $76.10$66.41The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and write about India are often not aware that Christianity is a non-western religion, that in India this... -
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $11.60$8.55Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social... -
The Slave Master of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Selwyn R. Cudjoe 9781625343703
RRP: $37.35$30.13William Hardin Burnley (1780-1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent... -
Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll
RRP: $28.37$24.24In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a... -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: $24.50$21.44Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz... -
Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution by Dan Connell
RRP: $38.64$25.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027622Author Dan ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S. -
Modesty: a Fashion Paradox by Hafsa Lodi
RRP: $16.76$11.53A fashion journalist unzips the revolution, influence, and controversy of the modest fashion movement - as seen in Vogue Arabia, Harper's Bazaar, Stylist, Glamour, Publishers Weekly, Foreword Reviews, Booklist, and more. Muslim-American fashion... -
Asian Girls are Going Places: How to Navigate the World as an Asian Woman Today by Michelle Law
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741177121Author Michelle LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant Explore -
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
RRP: $33.53$28.43Winner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award,... -
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell
RRP: $38.64$31.13Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous... -
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend by Andrew Shryock
RRP: $28.37$24.24"Islamophobia" is a term that has been widely applied to anti-Muslim ideas and actions, especially since 9/11. The contributors to this provocative volume explore and critique the usefulness of the concept for understanding contexts ranging from the... -
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
RRP: $12.89$12.06Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at... -
The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution: The Political Impact of Market by Lance Gore 9780415855266
RRP: $61.91$53.93The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: $32.24$27.39In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of... -
Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 by Rob Waters 9780520293854
RRP: $38.70$29.44It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start "thinking black." As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, "thinking black," they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a... -
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey
RRP: $38.64$29.92This 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 White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy by France Winddance Twine
RRP: $32.24$27.90A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and... -
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor 9780198789970
$41.64In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender,... -
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: $15.47$10.32What 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... -
Ismaili Hymns from South Asia: An Introduction to the Ginans by Zawahir Moir 9781138862340
RRP: $56.75$49.59The Aga Khans have long played a prominent part on the international stage, but much less tends to be understood about the most important group of their followers, the Khoja Ismailis of South Asia, who are now also settled in many other parts of the... -
In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self by Mariana Ortega
$33.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438459769Author Mariana OrtegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by Bell Hooks
RRP: $46.43$40.88"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse."In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the... -
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $46.44$40.49In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo... -
The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J. by S. J. Luis Frois
RRP: $56.75$49.59In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the... -
Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State by Yeshayahu Leibowitz 9780674487765
$54.15A biochemist by profession, a polymath by inclination and erudition, Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been, since the early 1940s, one of the most incisive and controversial critics of Israeli culture and politics. His direct involvement, compelling polemics, and... -
Indigenous Experience Today by Orin Starn 9781845205195
RRP: $46.43$41.40A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and... -
Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
RRP: $19.34$12.64'A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black... -
Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace by Stephanie Y. Evans 9781438483641
RRP: $26.32$19.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483641Author Stephanie Y. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Indonesia's Foreign Policy by Michael Leifer 9780415710671
RRP: $69.65$60.46Indonesia's foreign policy reflects the turbulence and change which have been, and remain, a central feature of its political life. First published in 1983, this was the first book to provide a systematic and comprehensive account of the nature and... -
The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese by Nathan W. Hill
$34.09The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes,... -
Decoded by Jay-Z
RRP: $38.70$27.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981155Author Jay-ZFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 188mm *... -
Tales from the Masnavi by A. J. Arberry
RRP: $51.59$45.74The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks among the world's greatest masterpieces of religious literature. The material which makes up the Masnavi is divisible into two different... -
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview by Audrey Smedley
RRP: $70.94$61.56This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the... -
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE!
RRP: $28.37$22.20A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt...