Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571313874Author Darrel J McLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Preservation of buildings with historical worth. All are so central to modern society that our age tends to claim these notions as its own. In fact they were first visualised by Sir Patrick Geddes, 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 9781845409906Author K.J. FindlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Amphora PressPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535595759Author Kaba Hiawatha KameneFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345456281Author Kate Clifford LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)...

Reconciliation belongs to all of us. In this book, drawing from the lessons that he has learned along his pathway from residential school to the leader of Reconciliation Canada, Chief Robert Joseph provides a map for collective change and transformation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735240032Author Fred SasakamooseFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682060315Author Ori Z SoltesFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 584g

Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders of our time. In Ojibwa Warrior, written with acclaimed writer and photographer Richard Erdoes, Banks tells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116805Author Victor H GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

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

Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed! The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know "what's life really like on the Mexican border." "Solis grew up just a mile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015504Author HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color-a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275929Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722120Author Oscar Zeta AcostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486441900Author Octavia V Rogers AlbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Sarah and Angelina Grimke-the Grimke sisters-are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award (Nonfiction) 2011. Short-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Young Adult) 2013 and Eliot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177972Author Shiori ItoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in...

Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060555979Author Jackie RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905275Author Rosa LowingerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139085Author Jimmy Santiago BacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593490921Author Connie WangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm * 23mm

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385493772Author Cornelia Walker BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

Originally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792194313Author Alain PiotonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable bout the culture of a bygone era,...

In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was that the young man eventually came back. During his...

In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt, shares his experiences as a Black man in America with truth, humour, and poignancy.Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the...

Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong...

This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. Equiano's greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809077380Author Professor of History Camilla TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams)...

This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of science...