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Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia’s former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were...

"People have told me that their lives have changed because of me. I take away from this the sense that I'm on the right track." "I believe you're here to live your life with passion. Otherwise, you're just traveling through the world blindly-and there's...

What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society. "The law has always been used as toilet...

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...

Spanning most of the twentieth century, "Another Way Home" celebrates the special circumstance of being born and reared in a household where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. Ronne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948011457Author Sally-Jo Keala-O-Ānuenue BowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Legacy Isle PublishingPublisher Legacy Isle PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948011433Author Frances H KakugawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Legacy Isle PublishingPublisher Legacy Isle PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213764Author Mohammad ChiachianFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218455Author Lewis T. TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 424g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860399Author Robert Hillary KingFormat HardbackPage Count 217Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 489g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592212477Author Robert JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 492g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213108Author Clenora Hudson-WeemsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 747g

A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands. This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When the living waters that crisscrossed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865430372Author Bernard M MagubaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World Press

From the forewords: "At a time when Cuba is undergoing immense economic and social changes, race becomes a kind of cultural litmus test for the national identity. . . . This anthology illustrates fully that it is possible to be both revolutionary...

The inspirational story of an American woman who moved mountains to secure medical treatments-and eventually a home-for a severely burned Iraqi girl thousands of miles away. Now available in trade paper. It was a typical Sunday morning in 2006 when...

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial...

Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120753488Author Baldeo SahaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927366110Author Jessica KlutheFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897142387Author Lily Hoy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing,...

Sweeping across African American history and culture in the shadow of slavery and ongoing racism, The Souls of Black Folk laid bare challenging issues sadly still relevant more than 100 years after its first publication. This collection of 14 essays is...

The South has long been surrounded in mystique. In this powerful volume, drawing on Zinn's own experiences teaching in the South and working within the Southern civil rights movement, Zinn challenges the stereotypes surrounding the South, race relations,...

This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of writing, this book recounts tales of the young Samuel Clemens learning of other worlds from slaves and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792772Author David NunanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 366g

The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history In 1910,...

From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life. Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she...

When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the...

In 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns’s conscience and six months later he was leading the...

The journalism and personal writings of the great American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass Launching the fourth series of The Frederick Douglass Papers, designed to introduce readers to the broadest range of Frederick Douglass's writing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592216475Author Chege GithoriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864150Author Henry Louis GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement provided the dominant ideological framework through which many young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250022028Author Mikey WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451674736Author James MeredithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 152mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439218921Author Eliezer Ben-YehudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams)...

This memoir is gentle, insightful, and spirited by turns. It offers glimpses of a lost fragment of Africa that has since been overcome by circumstance and conflict. Kivu still lives, but it lives now in memory.Amidst the chaos that followed independence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570757365Author Vincent HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

The complete autobiography of a literary legend.Reviews"The story of Baraka's metamorphosis is itself part of the story of contemporary literature's development." -- Publishers Weekly"Always a nuance ahead of everybody else, he is our more original...

"Hanif Kureishi is a proper Englishman. Almost." So observes biographer Kenneth Kaleta. Well known for his films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, the Anglo-Asian screenwriter, essayist, and novelist has become one of the leading...