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Let This Radicalize You: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba 9781642598728
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £37.44What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building... -
The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements by Kristen Hoerl 9781496817235
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture,... -
A Little, Aloud: An anthology of prose and poetry for reading aloud to someone you care for Angela Macmillan 9780701185633
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable... -
The Death of the American Trial by Robert P. Burns
Booksplease Price: £24.80In "The Death of the American Trial", distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's... -
100 Black Women Who Shaped America: Their Legacy Glenn L. Starks 9781440881084
Booksplease Price: £88.38This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements... -
The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion by Jessie Kindig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People-of any and no gender-have... -
Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change by Michael E. Tigar 9781583679203
Booksplease Price: £26.91By the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the highest profile cases of his generation. In his first U.S. Supreme Court case - at the age... -
Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change by Michael E. Tigar 9781583679210
Booksplease Price: £81.03By the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the highestprofile cases of his generation. In his first U.S. Supreme Court case - at the age... -
Let This Radicalize You: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building... -
A Livable Future is Possible Noam Chomsky 9781405974233
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time'... -
The Death of the American Trial by Robert P. Burns 9780226081267
Booksplease Price: £93.69In "The Death of the American Trial", distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's... -
A Little, Aloud: An anthology of prose and poetry for reading aloud to someone you care for by Angela Macmillan 9780701185633 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £5.06We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable... -
Conversations with Paule Marshall by James C. Hall 9781496823380
Booksplease Price: £24.63Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean American literature. In 1959, she published her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and was quickly... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi 9781568584638
Booksplease Price: £31.88WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, colour-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well it has simply become more... -
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Alice Walker 9781780228273
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself... -
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by Geo Maher
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis by Frederick Douglass 9780872865273
Booksplease Price: £12.47A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the powerful story of an... -
Freedom as Marronage by Neil Roberts
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.55What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery. From there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it... -
Freedom as Marronage by Neil Roberts 9780226201047
Booksplease Price: £25.74What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery. From there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it... -
Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in... -
The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy 9781405966818
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back'I try to create... -
Will You Die With Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party by Flores A. Forbes 9780743482684
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.50The youngest member of the Black Panther Party's inner circle during the black liberation movement, Flores Alexander Forbes shares the hard lessons he learned. His memoir tells the story of a... -
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Aretha Franklin begain life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who have birth to two sons in her teens and... -
Against Borders: The Case for Abolition by Luke de Noronha
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of... -
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women - Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors - came together to form an active response to... -
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the... -
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World Noam Chomsky 9780241700884
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati RoyFrom one of the... -
On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination by Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780813565156
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the... -
Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi 9780863561375
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Rise celebrates the inspirational stories of 100 remarkable women of colour. From the entrepreneur with a homemade marmalade business who went on to found Women's World Banking, to the educator who... -
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America: A Historical Perspective by Brian D. Behnken 9781496825513
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. Wiggins. Black intellectualism has been misunderstood by the American... -
When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength... -
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis 9781839761225
Booksplease Price: £47.56Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X... -
Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?: A tangled history of resistance and complicity by Leah Cowan 9781804293034
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced... -
Atlantic Theory: On the Vicissitudes of Relation John E. Drabinski 9781399549271
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68This largely new collection of essays explores how the history of empire has impacted the intellectual life of the Atlantic world through treatments of key figures in Atlantic theory, including... -
Make Believe: A True Story by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Following a turbulent upbringing, a history of addiction and a committal to an asylum, the teachings of Malcolm X changed Hakim Jamal's life. He became an eloquent, rousing spokesperson for the... -
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World by Noam Chomsky 9781405967143
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Truly eye-opening . . . The most accessible and coherent introduction to Chomsky's ideas' Irish TimesThe land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of... -
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female... -
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.'Why did I want to mix mahself up... -
Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'Francis... -
The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi 'Adept, admirable, important' Guardian Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow...