Minority Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576871065Author Jamel ShabazzFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 750g

Why is gender equality essential? June Sarpong proves why eradicating sexism is key to our personal development, and social and economic progress. With new chapters on reclaiming power over women's bodies and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027308378Author Madison GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

The Memo is the much-needed career advice guide for women of colour specifically, finally ending the one-size-fits-all approach of business books that lump together women across races and overlook the unique barriers to success for women of colour. In a...

In the last decade Black Americans have gone from exhilaration and hope with the election of Barack Obama to the malaise and fear of the Trump presidency. Both Administrations serve as tacit examples of the gains and regressions of minorities. From...

An exploration of what it means to be fabulous-and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever Prince once told us not to hate him 'cause he's fabulous. But what does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496458803Author Derwin L. GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the process,...

Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme...

This anthology reconsiders the social, political and intellectual meanings of multiculturalism in the West, particularly Britain. In introducing a new conceptual language for thinking about it, the volume stresses the importance of distinguishing between...

Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly...

Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. The book draws on sixty in-depth interviews to show how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality tend to reinforce the...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951806248Author Activity WizoFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Spotlight MediaPublisher Spotlight MediaWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476725277Author Eve FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African...

Did you know that barrio is a term for a Chicano neighborhood, and that some of the oldest barrios can be found in major U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, and San Antonio? Or that menudo is actually a soup-type dish made with tripe, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967463Author Jan T. GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House Trade

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines. But when they raise questions about the government, military and...

As 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...

In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns,...

Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and...

How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign...

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956231321Author Liz EggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Wyeland PublishingPublisher Wyeland PublishingWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060578633Author Shelby SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the worldSages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982236421Author David BenatarFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Politicsweb PublishingPublisher Politicsweb PublishingWeight(grams) 725gDimensions(mm)...

Aboveground, Manhattan's Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154197Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This is the first ethnographic exploration of gender, race and class amongst British born or raised Arabs in London. It takes a critical look at the idea of 'Arab-ness' and the ways in which their ethnicities are created and expressed in the city. ...

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries"Thrush has certainly offered a powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293514Author Larry YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

A contribution to black studies, this book examines the issue of racism in modern society today.Book InformationISBN 9780853157410Author Terri SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lawrence & Wishart LtdPublisher Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452278738Author Barbara Diggs-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767084Author Sister SouljahFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race,...

A minority and the state looks at the relationship between Travellers, or 'Gypsies', and the wider settled society in Britain throughout the twentieth century. This detailed study considers the ways in which the state has tried to create and enforce...

In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understanding the nation shaped by white nationalism that acts as a powerful tool of racial bordering, separating...

A POWERFUL MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO CHALLENGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BLACK MAN IN BRITAIN "A blisteringly honest take on contemporary Britishness that manages to be both nuanced and shocking. Highly recommended." Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) You're a...