Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513283401Author Sarah WinnemuccaFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616201296Author Jamal JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 340g

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593445884Author Geena RoceroFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingly frank memoir by fashion and beauty insider Danielle Prescod.Danielle Prescod grew up Black in an elite and overwhelmingly white community, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478258Author Patty KrawecFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's notorious Mira Road. Leela has a 'husband' (who is already married), a few lovers whose names she can't...

The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing...

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 &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385337816Author Anne MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Bishop E.W. Jackson's life story unites Americans around a shared legacy of freedom. As a great grandson of slaves, he believes that the promise of liberty has always belonged to all Americans. For some, only their heirs would be the full beneficiaries...

The story of the Dalai Lama's life, as well as a history of the subjugation of the Tibetan people by the Chinese government. Born into a modest farming family, he was only two years old when monks pronounced him the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.Book...

NATIONAL 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...

John Barrington was a shepherd to over 750 Blackface ewes who graze 2,000 acres of some of Britain's most beautiful hills overlooking the deep dark water of Loch Katrine. The yearly round of lambing, dipping, shearing and the sales is marvelously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964695290Author Mark Andrew RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Island Lake PressPublisher Island Lake PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)...

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection. Paul Robeson was, at points in his life, an actor, singer,...

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531209Author Adel Abdulla FakhroFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943601Author Martin PrechtelFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938517Author Brandon TatumFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593448663Author Hafizah Augustus GeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and...

Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world - rodeo clown, painter, prisoner. But, above all, he was a holy man of...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429096171Author Zora HurstonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint American RootsPublisher American RootsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 107mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982160593Author Carmelo AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907953705Author Michael GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint TwigBooksPublisher TwigBooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062987662Author Kenya HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487009632Author Chidiogo Akunyili-ParrFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint House of Anansi PressPublisher House of Anansi PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981386904Author Kamal K DhillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Lotus Speaking and WritingPublisher Lotus Speaking and Writing

TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641801515Author Daniel ButtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Read the Spirit BooksPublisher Read the Spirit BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904445Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

The author, a world-renowned transplant surgeon, scientist, bioethicist and global health expert, is a Tanzanian born into Swahili culture, with ancestral roots in Arabia, the Caucasus Mountains, and Ethiopia. This memoir chronicles the exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684422739Author Paul RobesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740540Author Rodnell P. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Born in Wisconsin, Philip Bergin Gordon-whose Ojibwe name Tibishkogijik is said to mean Looking into the Sky-became one of the first Native Americans to be ordained as a Catholic priest in the United States. Gordon's devotion to Catholicism was matched...