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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass 9780440222286
RRP: $13.63$9.77Apologies 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 -
Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire by Nicole A. Waligora-Davis 9780195369915
RRP: $179.40$158.01This 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... -
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier by Lea Vandervelde 9780195366563
RRP: $107.25$88.47Among 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... -
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century by Henry Louis Gates 9780195325898
$77.30W. 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... -
The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami by David Good 9780062382122
RRP: $37.03$31.43Rooted 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... -
In the Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico by Arturo Madrid 9781595341310
RRP: $35.08$35.02Arturo's Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781925321852
RRP: $38.90$25.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hearst Big Book Awards (Esquire Biography) 2018 and Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781925321852Author Jeff... -
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman 9781501147289
RRP: $48.75$28.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501147289Author John Edgar WidemanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Harlem Renaissance Lives by Henry Louis Gates 9780195387957
$78.47The 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... -
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-rights Days by Sheyann Webb 9780817308988
RRP: $33.05$23.58Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965, to organize peaceful demonstrations to protest discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand... -
Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit by Deborah G. Plant 9781442206120
RRP: $29.23$22.48While most biographies of Hurston take a standard approach to revealing the facts and details of her life, this is the first to look at the role spirituality played in her life and letters. Throughout her fiction, nonfiction, political and social... -
Michelle: A Biography by Mundy 9781416599449
RRP: $29.25$17.61Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416599449Author MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster -
I Will Not Leave You Comfortless: A Memoir by Jeremy Jackson 9781571313430
RRP: $19.48$18.12Spanning one year of the author's life, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless is the intimate memoir of a boy's coming to consciousness in small-town Missouri, from a writer who "is known for beautifully expressive and strikingly lucid prose" (Thisbe Nissen)... -
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Ward Connerly 9781594032189
RRP: $35.08$33.36From his impoverished childhood in segregated pre-war Louisiana to his audience with Bill Clinton at the White House, Ward Connerly's panoramic book spans a civil rights story that's making headlines from coast to coast. Since 1995, when Connerly first... -
A Hundred Thousand White Stones: A Memoir by Dolma Kunsang 9781614290711
RRP: $29.23$22.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290711Author Dolma KunsangFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 8 by Henry Louis Gates 9780195325836
$76.52W. 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... -
Darkwater (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): Voices from Within the Veil by Henry Louis Gates 9780195325775
$76.52W. 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... -
Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity by Sil Lai Abrams 9781451688467
RRP: $48.73$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451688467Author Sil Lai AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Gallery Books/Karen Hunter PublishingPublisher Gallery Books/Karen Hunter... -
Letters to Memory by Karen Tei Yamashita 9781566894876
RRP: $29.23$22.48Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an... -
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by Leigh Fought 9780190053833
RRP: $50.68$46.37In 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... -
Walking in the Woods: A Metis Memoir by Herb Belcourt 9781927366714
RRP: $44.83$27.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927366714Author Herb BelcourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing,... -
Poetic & Real Worlds of Cesar Vallejo (18921938): A Struggle Between Art & Politics by R. K. Britton 9781845197421
$198.92The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s, stemming from the fact that half of his writing was... -
Lucean Arthur Headen: The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur by Jill D. Snider
RRP: $64.25$58.40Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, and great-uncle, a toolmaker, he dreamed as a child of becoming an inventor. His ambitions suffered the... -
Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother inSmall-Town America by Donaldson
RRP: $54.58$32.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439153789Author DonaldsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
RRP: $27.28$17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382518Author Richard RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215g -
Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. by Dennis C. Dickerson
$86.05Scholars, 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... -
Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History by Kenneth a McClane
RRP: $120.90$104.44Apologies 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)... -
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case Against the U.S. Government by Gregorio Greg Francis
RRP: $54.60$32.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948677806Author Gregorio Greg FrancisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian: A Memoir by Jacob J Nammar
RRP: $29.23$16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566568869Author Jacob J. NammarFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Alice Walker
RRP: $63.38$41.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476773155Author Alice WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 168mm... -
Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling by Joshua Whitehead
RRP: $33.13$29.39Evolving 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... -
Being Chinese in Canada: The Struggle for Identity, Redress and Belonging by William Ging Wee Dere
RRP: $38.98$34.79Apologies 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 & McIntyreDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *... -
John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by Henry Louis Gates
$40.19W. 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... -
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves by Madhur Anand
RRP: $37.05$21.53Apologies 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 *... -
This Is Us: New Zealanders in Our Own Words by Pete Carter
RRP: $48.73$39.45Apologies 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 *... -
The Master Showmen of King Ranch: The Story of Beto and Librado Maldonado by Betty Bailey Colley
RRP: $38.98$38.57Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011 Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of which is the development of the first official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among... -
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter by John A. Lomax
RRP: $29.23$26.15Growing 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... -
Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life by Diane C. Fujino
RRP: $38.98$34.98An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938-2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and '70s. His life story exposes the personal... -
Poetic & Real Worlds of Cesar Vallejo (18921938): A Struggle Between Art & Politics by R. K. Britton
RRP: $63.38$57.66The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (18921938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s, stemming from the fact that half of his writing was... -
Don't Marry an American by Ben Kyriagis 9781737124603
RRP: $33.05$19.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737124603Author Ben KyriagisFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Epidexion BooksPublisher Epidexion BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...