Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935295112Author Mustafa OEzcelikFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982173760Author Laura CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm...

Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450790Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 1126Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes. In her 96 years of living, Betty Reid-Soskin has witnessed a...

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary...

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525482871Author Jordan Ritter ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060730604Author Paula Gunn AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781093562798Author Ray MansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881613851Author Nicole ChabotFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 760g

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's...

Hilaire Belloc was a man of many parts. Half English, half French, with an American wife, Belloc was a man who thought and traveled widely. He was the best essayist in the English language. His historical studies covered much of European history. He...

Genocide-the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.TIME's 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019Book Riot's 50 of the Best Books to Read This FallAs seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in...

At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her ""the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time."" Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, ""The Long Shadow of Little Rock"",...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America - was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. Now,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541773929Author Jared A BrockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm *...

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"-the ordinary men and women who make up black America-and asked them to define their culture. Their responses,...

"Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." -Morgan JerkinsWhen Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and...

"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen...

African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society-the children of the...

The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was active in radical left-wing political groups and helped...

The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Indigenous rights movement "A powerful contribution to our understanding of Native American sovereignty, community,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Tesco Biography of the Year 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400082773Author Barack ObamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Crown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982327449Author Joseph RaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Millichap Books LLCPublisher Millichap Books LLCWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378009Author Lori AlvordFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932993Author Meena AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786868636Author Jennifer NivenFormat HardbackPage Count 431Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm *...

Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an...

"A remarkable life story. . . Angela Sterritt is a formidable storyteller and a passionate advocate."-Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves"Sterritt's story is living proof of how courageous Indigenous women are."-Tanya Talaga, author of Seven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781697102154Author Brigid GraumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently Published

Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is best known as one of the African American writers who helped ignite the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. This book examines Baraka's cultural approach to Black Power politics and explores his role in the phenomenal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898951Author Michelle ZaunerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345511010Author Carlotta Walls LaNierFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint One World BooksPublisher One World BooksWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719036Author Nawal BaidounFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lifetime Achievement Award, The Society for Humanist Anthropology 2012. Runner-up for Montana Book Awards (New Zealand) 1995. Commended for Senior Book Prize,...

Growing up in middle-class India, Rajika Bhandari has seen generations of her family look westward, where an American education means status and success. But she resists the lure of America because those who left never return-they all become flies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924737Author Stephen B. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374191979Author Aaron Bobrow-StrainFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...