Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560986188Author Doris L. RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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 9781684422302Author Paul RobesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481856133Author Hilory G BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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 9781697102154Author Brigid GraumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently Published

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)...

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 9781843914716Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm) 194mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416584179Author Luis J RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 144mm *...

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...

An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a...

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 9781492366218Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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 9780870208638Author Jerry AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176563Author Lewis-GiggettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

"[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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781794862500Author Dante D KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

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 9780061240409Author Tamara ChalabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...