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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...

Arturo'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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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)...

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...

Sheyann 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...

While 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...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416599449Author MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

Spanning 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)...

From 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...

Apologies 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.

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...

Apologies 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...

Praise 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...

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...

Apologies 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,...

The 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...

Born 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

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)...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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...

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 & McIntyreDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

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...

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 *...

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 *...

Winner, 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...

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...

An 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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...