African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645030133Author Dionne FordFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 146mm *...

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to be valued, seen, heard and perhaps some advice on how to navigate life amongst white supremacy...

*Well-Read Black Girl - Book Club Pick*As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and...

Microsoft's associate general counsel shares this story that is "as nuanced as it is hopeful" (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology...

The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color-a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly...

The amazing and dramatic story of Bill Lester, one of the most well-known NASCAR drivers in history-and a pioneer whose determination and spirit has paved the way for a new generation of racers.Winning in Reverse tells the story of Bill Lester whose love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638324Author Peter ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717807581Author Hugh MulzacFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496743251Author Joseph H. HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250296733Author Julie Lythcott-HaimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)...

Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949996104Author Victor H GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint About ComicsPublisher About ComicsWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478333Author Therese Taylor-StinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

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...

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...

"[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)...

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...

Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Let America Be America Again") were collaborators, literary gadflies and close companions. They travelled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through...

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 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 9781541773929Author Jared A BrockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm *...

The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982182465Author Debra ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782890832947Author Marcus GarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 45g

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...

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

Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having--supposedly--flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a...

"[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...

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...

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 *...

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...

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

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...

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 9780593448496Author Rich PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 215g