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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: £9.99£7.11'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey
RRP: £14.99£12.55A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What... -
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
RRP: £30.00£20.40The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of black people in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The... -
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson 9780226826417
RRP: £15.00£12.30From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a... -
Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859297Author Renata CherliseFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
RRP: £16.99£11.48'A must read...!!!' will.i.am'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David OlusogaWITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTOConversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race,... -
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America by Karen Cook Bell 9781108926720
RRP: £14.99£10.95Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original... -
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography of Booker T. Washington by Booker T Washington 9781480098350
RRP: £9.95£8.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480098350Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods by Curt Sampson
RRP: £19.99£13.56The incredible true story of Tiger Woods's dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following his humbling and very public personal, physical, and professional setbacks. One publicly imploded marriage. Two car accidents. Eight surgeries. And... -
Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic by Shatema Threadcraft 9780190251635
RRP: £45.99£41.74In 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie Lee Relf and her fourteen-year-old sister Mary Alice, the daughters of black Alabama farm hands, had been sterilized... -
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh
RRP: £25.00£17.38In February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs--and explored the history behind them--and chronicled them in the popular blog series Unpublished Black History. The month-long series was... -
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E Ricks
RRP: £30.00£24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374605162Author Thomas E RicksFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Berry
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001998Author Daina BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition by Ida B Wells 9780226691428
RRP: £19.00£15.53"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of... -
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
RRP: £27.00£18.59Leah Penniman - recipient of the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019'An extraordinary book...part agricultural guide, part revolutionary manifesto.' VOGUE 'Farming While Black offers a guide to reclaiming food systems from white supremacy.'... -
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: £12.99£12.16"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of... -
MAGIC: The Life of Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson by Roland Lazenby 9781474613316
RRP: £18.99£12.75The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, from the author of Michael Jordan: the Life. Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and also controversial, athletes in history. He lifted the dowdy sport of American pro... -
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880390Author Matthew DelmontFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Africa for Africans by Marcus Garvey
RRP: £16.99£13.49Originally published in two volumes between 1923 and 1925, Africa for Africans: Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is a compilation of letters, speeches and essays by one of the Fathers of Pan-Africanism.Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr... -
Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World by T. J. Desch-Obi
RRP: £25.95£21.04The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in... -
Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race by J a Rogers 9781684115730
RRP: £23.99£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115730Author J a RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich 9780593317815
RRP: £35.00£22.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317815Author Fergus M. BordewichFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Bette Davis Black and White by Professor Julia A Stern
RRP: £21.00£20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226813868Author Professor Julia A SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
RRP: £25.00£20.18"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in... -
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche by Serge Bile
RRP: £14.95£9.86#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History - Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the TitanicAn Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a... -
Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807067147Author Daina Ramey BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (loa #358) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £37.99£24.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537222Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 969Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance by Alexis Clark 9781620971864
RRP: £20.99£18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620971864Author Alexis ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press -
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America by Matthew Fox-Amato
RRP: £33.49£29.24Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: £9.99£6.70Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to... -
Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.40Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards - the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly reveals the heart of America's darkness in the specters left from... -
Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II by Robert Child
RRP: £14.99£10.95The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of... -
Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora by Sarah Ladipo Manyika 9781804440810
RRP: £10.99£7.26'A must read...!!!' will.i.am'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David OlusogaWITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTOConversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race,... -
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor by Leslie Umberger 9780691182674
RRP: £75.00£59.47A major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born... -
Hoodoo Justice Magic: Spells for Power, Protection and Righteous Vindication by Miss Aida
RRP: £15.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637560Author Miss AidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
The Story of Motown by Peter Benjaminson
RRP: £13.99£11.41Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, with a new foreword by legendary music journalist Greil Marcus!In January 1959 Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based... -
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview by Shirely Chisholm
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198972Author Shirely ChisholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 9780679444329
RRP: £38.00£25.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2011 and NAACP Image Award 2010 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010 and Sidney Hillman Prize... -
Killing Time: Morant Bay Rebellion Jamaica by Gad J. Heuman 9780870498527
RRP: £27.95£22.58The Killing Time is the first full-length study of the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica- an event that transformed the political system of the island and marked a watershed in Caribbean history.Book InformationISBN 9780870498527Author Gad HeumanFormat... -
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel Joseph
RRP: £14.99£9.80To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights, the sword versus the shield. The struggle for Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While...