Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195032055Author Linda O. McMurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 506g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873481267Author W. E. B. DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 400g

This is a new edition of a classic slave narrative, now fully annotated.It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to...

Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history.Taking up the haunting...

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)...

Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959030126Author Athena DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997493580Author Verda ByrdFormat PaperbackImprint HhpublishingPublisher HhpublishingWeight(grams) 254g

Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu-a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615855363Author Badru DeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caritrade, Inc.Publisher Caritrade, Inc.Weight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the...

Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book AwardBest of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy MagazineA memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda...

"[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 9781684117277Author Ph D Arthur Talmage AbernethyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611532807Author Beryl Crosher-SegersFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Light Messages PublishingPublisher Light Messages PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228890676Author Lynell NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 372g

The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing from past schemes of interpretation, this book addresses issues of literary theory and identity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501131707Author Mitchell JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

"This is a story of a tough young man who lost his way, and of a loving God who never forgot him, no matter where he was." - Nicky Cruz, bestselling author of Run Baby Run The son of El Salvadorian immigrants, Casey Diaz was brought to Los...

"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 9780143105398Author Black HawkFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980780741Author Rosemary Esmonde PeterswaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Ballynastragh BooksPublisher Ballynastragh Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880510568Author Charles M. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint State House PressPublisher State House Press

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention...

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...

On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of...

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...

A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530471Author John Hope FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 401Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431703Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873511964Author Gary Clayton AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553375206Author Carl UpchurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434359919Author W. Ambrose BebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 347gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

"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...

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

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 9781335449375Author Goldie TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471409731Author Paul RobesonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm)...

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...