Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843914716Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm) 194mm...

From an early age, Kyomi's life was filled with emotional difficulties-an adulterous father, an overreliant mother, and a dismissive extended family. In an effort to escape the darkness of her existence in Japan, Kyomi moved to the States in February...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134411Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593496268Author R. Eric ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? First surprise? Betty responds, "Hello, Cousin."Betty had fought for an education and won. She broke through the concrete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927970409Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Two Pence BooksPublisher Two Pence BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he served overseas as a scout and sniper and became Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873487498Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112112Author June CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin Books

The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870208638Author Jerry AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best...

In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would...

A brilliant exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded ""Jumping at...

This is an ideal resource on racism and segregation in American life. The term ""Jim Crow"" has had multiple meanings and a dark and complex past. It was first used in the early nineteenth century. After the Civil War it referred to the legal, customary,...

A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the powerful story of an enslaved youth coming into social and moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Multicultural Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780999781227Author Carlyn Montes de OcaFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455620944Author Jules FarberFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 596g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061240409Author Tamara ChalabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History). Short-listed for National Book Award Finalist 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780143120322Author Manning MarableFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971397941Author Douglas E FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250274199Author Charles PersonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination "A masterful biography. . . . Ward's struggles to find freedom, equality, peace, and belonging are still shared by...

Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in...

Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486438580Author Sarah BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781984817181Author Jordan Ritter ConnFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine...

Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable. Born in...

The name "Geronimo" came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the home of the legendary Apache leader's great-grandson, Harlyn...

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 *...

In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the...

Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and '60s, a place and time known for the brutal murders of Emmett Till, Reverend George Lee, Lamar Smith,...

In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define "home" and "belonging" - from her birth in Yaounde, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt's white French husband, to experiencing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993443206Author Stephen J MusgraveFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Orchard Maritime PublishingPublisher Orchard Maritime Publishing

2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner-Best Memoir in the Personal Struggles/Health Issues CategoryTwo-time 2023 NYC Big Book Award Winner-Memoir and Non-Fiction2023 International Latino Book Award Winner-Most Inspiring Non-Fiction, Honorable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328460141Author Alex TizonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

An honest and courageous examination of what it means to navigate the in-between Cole has heard it all before-token, bougie, oreo, Blackish-the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493056480Author Omar NdizeyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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