Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt's popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder...

George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races,...

Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955041747Author Yvonne L RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Biggyboo BooksPublisher Biggyboo BooksWeight(grams) 304g

The first volume of Louis R. Harlan's biography of Booker T. Washington was published to wide acclaim and won the 1973 Bancroft Prize. This, the second volume, completes one of the most significant biographies of this generation. Booker T. Washington was...

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...

Janet Abu-Lughod for the first time weaves together detailed narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space, political regimes, and economic conditions--not simply an abstract "race conflict"--all...

For many Americans, the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black president signaled that we had become a post-racial nation - some even suggested that race was no longer worth discussing. Of course, the evidence tells a very different story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983258308Author Harry T BryerFormat PaperbackImprint Grey Forest Press, LLCPublisher Grey Forest Press, LLCWeight(grams) 172g

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...

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 9781039005594Author Whit FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258729Author Thomas C GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

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 9780814258972Author Grace Loh PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells' refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a 'dangerous radical' in her day but made her a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218897Author Derek Crowther BeardsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Newbold Academic PressPublisher Newbold Academic PressWeight(grams) 680g

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...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479764310Author Marcia D DialFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974064444Author Mark BrownFormat PaperbackImprint Live Oak Book CompanyPublisher Live Oak Book CompanyWeight(grams) 268g

Author Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon's family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South...

2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner - Biography & Autobiography Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - 2021 BRONZE Winner for Biography The fascinating biography of Eunice Hunton Carter, a social justice and civil rights trailblazer and the only woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743253291Author Valerie BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 527Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some...

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...

For many years, J. Richard Andrews's Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has been the standard reference work for scholars and students of Nahuatl, the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. Andrews's work was the...

A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951197025Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Blackberry Publishing GroupPublisher Blackberry Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households.Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177927Author Cassandra LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571686565Author Robert L UzzelFormat PaperbackImprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 227g

The unforgettable story of a family swept into history by the Cuban Revolution In The House on G Street, award-winning author Lisandro Perez tells Cuba's story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who...

In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from...

It is easy to find England on a map - it is part of that conspicuous thing in the North Sea, just off the French coast. It gets trickier once you arrive: Not even the English are keen to explain what England actually is. Why do the English eat what they...

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...

Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagoryJlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some...

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile...

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...