African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306830549Author Charles AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780374604486Author Christina SharpeFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Farrar, Straus and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347459Author Neal V. LovingFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

The book is a biographical study establishing Ernie McClintock as a leading figure of the Black Theatre MovementIn this contemporary moment in education and political consciousness, McClintock’s biography and the impact on the Black Arts Movement will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951426Author Gabriela Maya BernadettFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250135971Author Michael Eric DysonFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 760gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646030187Author Melva GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Regal House PublishingPublisher Regal House PublishingWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593194157Author Faitth BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781459749832Author Mary Anne ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646030781Author Dr. Mary Hill-WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Pact PressPublisher Pact PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011193Author Waukesha JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258538Author Keenan NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mad Creek BooksPublisher Mad Creek BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Alfred Thomas Wood was nothing and everything. One hundred years before the Hollywood film "The Great Impostor," Wood, the Great Absquatulator, roved through the momentous mid-19th century events from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to New England,...

For years Southern minister Francis X. Walter was silent about the injustices of Jim Crow, blinded by the status quo, until the violent killing of a fellow priest during the civil rights movement. From Preaching to Meddling is the story of how Walter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613739112Author Justin GiffordFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345497741Author Tarsha JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint One World BooksPublisher One World BooksWeight(grams) 215g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593238035Author Shaka SenghorFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640095342Author Antong LuckyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Counterpoint LLCPublisher Counterpoint LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360805Author E A MaccannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762480326Author Alonzo VereenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Running Press AdultPublisher Running Press AdultWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400231607Author Lucas L. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 139g

This is the first historical biography in English to be published on Egyptian scholar-diplomat, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the most intellectually accomplished of the nine UN secretaries-general. The first African and first Arab to occupy the post,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648430046Author Robert "Bob" E. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250756138Author Anna Malaika TubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 137g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438489650Author H. Carl McCallFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 152g

The rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities   Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055557Author G'ra AsimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2022. Commended for Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593449349Author Ibram X...

The first full-length biography of an extraordinary woman born into slavery who, through grit and determination, became a historic social and educational leader. The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798-1865) is a remarkable...

As a neurodivergent child in a hundred-year-old house, Zaji Cox collects grammar books, second-hand toys, and sightings of feral cats. She dances and cartwheels through self-discovery and doubt, guided by her big sister and their devoted single mother...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590519059Author Clifford ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953103024Author Vanessa Baden KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Three Rooms PressPublisher Three Rooms PressWeight(grams) 140g

Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of Dream of the Water Children, finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. Indeed,...

The St. Croix–born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. Harrison’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982173777Author Laura CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642252163Author Brandolon BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Advantage Media GroupPublisher Advantage Media GroupWeight(grams) 152g

One of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost. W.E.B. Du Bois examines John Brown as a man as well as a motive force behind the abolitionist...

Henry Odera Oruka was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century African philosophy. During the early years of the decolonization of African countries, as universities worked to redefine themselves, Odera drove changes to curricula and research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728248073Author Tim SpoffordFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 160mm...