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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...

A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South DakotaBook InformationISBN 9781592136155Author May-lee ChaiFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

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...

In Little X, Sonsyrea Tate reveals, through the acute vision and engaging voice of a curious child, the practices and policies of the mysterious organization most know only through media portrayals of its controversial leaders Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X,...

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...

This work examines the collection of 27 letters written by a white woman to her African American lover in 1907 and 1908. The letters, which were hidden for over 80 years, provide a different perspective of American social history and are accompanied by...

This is the fourth volume in a unique research, study, and teaching resource series.Michigan State University Press, ProQuest, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library are pleased to present a unique research,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871541574Author Obie ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage FoundationWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624910463Author Bobby NorfolkFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624910470Author Bobby NorfolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209574Author Peggy Prilaman MarxenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209598Author Pao LorFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society PressWeight(grams)...

An account of the community development programs of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, covering the emergence of the movement's ideas and practices in the context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, then analysing how activists refined...

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870204623Author Irene O SandvoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

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...

This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20th century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Descended...

Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622189Author William Ging Wee DereFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771007774Author Madhur AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Strange LightPublisher Strange LightWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm *...

In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in searchof her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iranintensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee Iranon the last El-Al flight to Tel Aviv. Farideh's father...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775594338Author Pete CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 760gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Growing up beside the Chisholm Trail, captivated by the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an African American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the foremost authorities on...

Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives)Nominated for 3 Gourmand AwardsAn Atlantic BestsellerA Hill Times Top 100 SelectionFebruary 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Tareq Hadhad was worried about his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018101Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 19mm

In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a three-foot-by-two-foot wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Twenty-seven hours and 350 miles later, Brown stepped out of his box to begin a new life. This...

'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of observation, produced some of the sharpest and most...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the...