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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422417Author Kenn HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606053Author Charles MoseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 707gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739456757Author GilbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Andrew GilbrookPublisher Andrew GilbrookWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956027600Author Anton Mary Sue (Shy)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Acclaim Press, Inc.Publisher Acclaim Press, Inc.

New York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee ""Outstanding"" Title This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599542102Author Vincenzo MarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541983Author Frank GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540160Author Cosmo F FerraraFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884419263Author Carmine Biagio IannaceFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541297Author Kathy CurtoFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 277g

Karpal Singh is widely regarded as the best criminal and constitutional lawyer practising in Malaysia today. Since graduating from the University of Singapore in 1969 he has been a fearless, intelligent advocate for justice and a defender of human rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962645072Author Elizabeth MehrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Oregon State University PressPublisher Oregon State University PressWeight(grams)...

Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland."A fascinating and evocative memoir in essays."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTribal chairman and celebrated storyteller Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780808501480Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 114mm *...

Daniel A. Rudd, born a slave in Bardstown, Kentucky, grew up to achieve much in the years following the Civil War. His Catholic faith, passion for activism, and talent for writing led him to increasingly influential positions in many places. One of his...

This book presents a comprehensive study of Arkansas's racial legacy. From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, ""Ruled by Race"" describes the ways that race...

Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen 'the most famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.' Drawing on primary sources, such as maps, census records, court documents, personal letters and periodicals, and the scholarship of others who...

In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries,...

Each One Teach One chronicles Ron Casanova's struggle out of poverty, homelessness, and drug addiction to find dignity and purpose in life. Through his own awakening, this Black, Puerto Rican activist ultimately finds his answer in helping other people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440222286Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint DellPublisher DellWeight(grams) 86g

This book explores the relationship between U.S. imperial aspirations and the circumscription of domestic civil liberties, especially the rights of the African American population. Central to this framework is the figure of the refugee, the homeless...

Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford. Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

Rooted in two vastly different cultures, a young man struggles to understand himself, find his place in the world, and reconnect with his mother-and her remote tribe in the deepest jungles of the Amazon rainforest-in this powerful memoir that combines...

The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical...

Businessman, politician, broadcasting personality, and newspaper publisher, Cas Walker (1902-1998) was, by his own estimation, a "living legend" in Knoxville for much of the twentieth century. Renowned for his gravelly voice and country-boy...

The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university...

The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives...

When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an...

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a businessman, and a production manager. Through personal interviews over the course of several years, Atiya...

When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing...

Each day, as Oded Loewenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically,...

This is a compelling biography of a great American in his formative years. The son of a former slave, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) rose to become an All-American athlete, Phi Beta Kappa student, internationally celebrated singer and actor, and champion of...

Scholars, journalists, writers, and pundits have long regarded the South as the nation's most politically distinctive region. Its culture, history, and social and economic institutions have fostered unique political ideas that intrigue observers and have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205904Author Kenneth a McClaneFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)...

Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn't just lived through the progression of...