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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race by J a Rogers
RRP: $19.27$13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115723Author J a RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
RRP: $38.70$30.16The 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... -
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: $16.76$11.13"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... -
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler
RRP: $32.19$21.88The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do... -
A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
RRP: $14.18$9.18The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America'In 1974 Elaine Brown became the first woman leader of the Black Panther... -
Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic by Shatema Threadcraft 9780190251635
RRP: $63.84$52.35In 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... -
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: $11.60$10.07Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of... -
A Boxing Legacy: The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll by Ian Phimister 9781538164792
RRP: $38.70$34.42This book is a celebration of legendary African American sports writer and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll, whose career spanned one of the most exciting periods of boxing's past, from Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali. His experiences and commentary are of great... -
Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee 9780692857878
RRP: $37.41$26.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692857878Author Michele Elizabeth LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint WadastickPublisher WadastickWeight(grams) 912gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *... -
The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023 by Daniel Bedrosian 9781538183427
RRP: $49.02$41.54George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) stands as one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history, with an impressively large discography, enormous number of members, and long history. For the first time, this... -
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors 9781250306906
RRP: $16.76$16.40From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love... -
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land Leah Penniman 9781603587617
RRP: $34.83$23.98Leah 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.'... -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: $48.96$46.92A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and... -
Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods by Curt Sampson
RRP: $25.79$17.49The 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... -
MAGIC: The Life of Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson by Roland Lazenby 9781474613316
RRP: $24.50$17.74The 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: $34.82$22.69Apologies 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 -
The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair 9781469663456
RRP: $28.32$25.76After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Washington, D.C., sought to downplay the growing evidence of atrocities, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau... -
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy
RRP: $30.95$24.69In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: $12.89$8.64Film 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... -
Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World by T. J. Desch-Obi
$42.39The 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... -
The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $21.92$14.94** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But... -
The [black] America's Handbook for the Survival through the 21st Century: The Forgotten Truth about Racism, Vol.1 Final Edition by Radine America 9780970545503
RRP: $51.60$42.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970545503Author Radine AmericaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Quantum Leapslc PublicationsPublisher Quantum Leapslc PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race by J a Rogers 9781684115730
RRP: $30.95$23.23Apologies 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 *... -
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Berry
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies 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 -
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots by John Swanson Jacobs 9780226684307
RRP: $20.64$17.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226684307Author John Swanson JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago... -
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche by Serge Bile
RRP: $19.29$12.72#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 Daina Ramey Berry 9780807067147
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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: $49.01$31.79Apologies 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 -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780198709879
RRP: $11.60$8.32'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published... -
Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance by Alexis Clark 9781620971864
RRP: $27.08$22.51Apologies 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 -
BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781641772235
RRP: $27.08$20.56The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but... -
Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! by Lochlainn Seabrook 9780982770078
RRP: $21.92$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982770078Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul Leila Taylor 9781912248544
RRP: $14.18$9.55Haunted 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: $19.34$14.13The 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... -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb 9780008498740
RRP: $19.34$12.51A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a... -
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman 9781574232370
RRP: $33.48$20.03A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,... -
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh
RRP: $32.25$19.69In 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... -
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America by Karen Cook Bell 9781108926720
RRP: $19.34$14.13Running 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... -
When the World Was Black, Part One: The Untold History of the World's First Civilizations Prehistoric Culture by Supreme Understanding 9781935721376
RRP: $45.09$39.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935721376Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Proven PublishingPublisher Proven PublishingWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm)... -
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Laura F. Edwards
RRP: $41.91$36.65An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status...