Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825422Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879181120Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

When Nana-Ama Danquah, a twenty-two-year-old single mother, began to suffer from a variety of depressive symptoms after giving birth to her daughter, she thought she was going crazy. Determined to portray strength in a world that often undervalues Black...

Despite gold medals, WNBA championships, and a list of accolades, A'ja Wilson knows how it feels to be swept under the rug - to not be heard, to not feel seen, to not be taken seriously. As a fourth grader going to a primarily white school in South...

From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love...

Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada - of the...

Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914019725Author Shirley RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Discover Your NorthwestPublisher Discover Your NorthwestWeight(grams)...

"Toft adeptly shows this to be the legacy Ron Lyle left behind, one that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with a boxing legacy that is nothing short of remarkable."-Rafael Garcia, The Fight City "[Ron Lyle's] life was a remarkable one and the story of it...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statues, forgetting that what begins with the destruction of statues, often leads to the killing of people...

New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize * Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist * Books for a Better Life Award Finalist * Lambda Literary Award Finalist * Time Magazine "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" * American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250022028Author Mikey WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452279490Author Peter GuralnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 132mm * 7mm

Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657743Author Michelle ZaunerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

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...

In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973). Born in Jamaica, Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241080Author Esau McCaulleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 148mm...

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable literary debut . . . Part memoir, part travelogue, Motherlands is ultimately an investigation of how we come to understand the past at all' Guardian Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion...

Porsha Williams is a remarkable voice in the television and podcast communities. In The Pursuit of Porsha, she takes readers on a deeply personal journey as she searches for happiness and self-acceptance, giving fans a first-hand look into the defining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121232Author George JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528207Author Wes MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the...

WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of...

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Pro wrestler and political commentator Tyrus goes deep into his wild but triumphant life story, from his painfully dysfunctional upbringing to bodyguarding for Snoop Dogg, to becoming a wrestling icon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593496282Author R. Eric ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786887460Author Jennifer McJunkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 431Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being...

Written ten years after his legal emancipation, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM catapulted Frederick Douglass into the international spotlight as a leading spokesperson for American blacks, both freed and in slavery. This, Douglass's second autobiography, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The book behind the Netflix series, starring Octavia Spencer'One of the most fabulous African-American figures of the twentieth century' Ishmael ReedMadam Walker was the first free-born child in her family, growing up in abject poverty in post-Civil War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588445Author Alia MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *...

A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William...

At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her 'Amal'- meaning 'Hope'- in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous...

In the early 1960s, travel-writer Simon Gandolfi drove a VW from England to Goa where he rented a bungalow on the beach at Calangute. And it was on Calangute beach that Gandolfi met and loved Vanessa and explored with her much of the subcontinent. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988017Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

William Carlos Williams's medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780743431729Author BUNDLESPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...