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Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America by Michele Currie Navakas 9780691240091
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A literary and cultural history of coral-as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphorToday, coral and the human-caused... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions... -
A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France by Ellen R. Welch
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52The seventeenth-century French diplomat Francois de Callieres once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles... -
Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America by Leslie Butler 9780197685839
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21What did it mean that in the world's first mass democracy only a minority ruled? Women--free and enslaved, white and Black, single and married--constituted the bulk of those barred from full... -
Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature by Reginald A. Wilburn 9780271087290
Booksplease Price: £42.12In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors' rebellious appropriations of Milton and his canon. Wilburn engages... -
African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader by Gene Andrew Jarrett
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.61It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse... -
Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America by Michele Currie Navakas
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.48A literary and cultural history of coral-as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphorToday, coral and the human-caused... -
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies Kinshasha Holman Conwill 9780063160644
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.83The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric... -
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence by Kate Clarke Lemay 9780691191171
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.95A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the United States that highlights underrecognized activistsMarking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for... -
The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice by Derrick Darby
Booksplease Price: £24.80American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do... -
The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice by Derrick Darby 9780226525211
Booksplease Price: £91.67American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do... -
Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.98Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil War, and after Emancipation. Iola Leroy... -
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their ownTackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book... -
The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery by Matthew F. Sandler 9781788735445
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to... -
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive,... -
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires 9780812250800
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive,...