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![The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031395/5030611/9780804733991__53632.1722858587.jpg?c=1 "The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]")
The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £1.25At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This... -
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers 9780299164447
Booksplease Price: £17.04More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of... -
The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach 9780231145374
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first... -
Crossroads Modernism: Descent And Emergence In African-American Literary Culture by Edward M. Pavlic 9780816638925
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24An essential reconsideration of black literature and culture and its response to modernityIn the African American encounter with modernism, all was not confrontation. Rather, as Edward M. Pavlic... -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's... -
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.49When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630925
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.89While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows... -
This Here Is Love Princess Joy L Perry 9781324105978
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.201690s, Tidewater, Virginia. Bless, born into slavery and taken by her masters to toil in the house, faces her mother's fury, learning that cruelty can come from any side. David, an enslaved child of... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503636941
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership... -
![American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender by Robyn Wiegman 9780822315766 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9918832/10935363/9780822315766__24517.1786484490.jpg?c=1 "American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender by Robyn Wiegman 9780822315766 [USED COPY]")
American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender by Robyn Wiegman 9780822315766 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £36.75In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary cliches about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliche in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her... -
The Big No by Kennan Ferguson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no What does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say "no"? Against the... -
Our God Is Marching On by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063350991
Booksplease Price: £16.13A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At the end of the march from Selma to... -
Running the Rapids: From Uttar Pradesh to Ontario by Kildare Dobbs 9781843510703
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life's journey, marked by... -
Karma Of Brown Folk by 9780816634392
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000 The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!"How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his... -
A God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-century Black Literature by Qiana J. Whitted 9780813927961
Booksplease Price: £68.67Focusing on the representations of spiritual crisis in twentieth-century African American fiction and autobiography, Qiana J. Whitted asks how some of the most distinguished writers of this tradition... -
The Avenue, Clayton City by C. Eric Lincoln 9780822317456
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £11.79The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln's fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved... -
Power: Vintage Minis by William Shakespeare
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must'What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill? Does it... -
Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction by Chantal Jaquet
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its... -
Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion by Trica Danielle Keaton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12"[Keaton] provides the most in-depth analysis of the predicament of French Arabs and Africans living in the suburbs of Paris. . . . [O]ne can read the book through the lens of such great African... -
Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson 9780816641291
Booksplease Price: £24.06A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of... -
Cane: A Norton Critical Edition Jean Toomer 9781324088059
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).A revised and expanded introduction,... -
On Witness and Respair: Essays by Jesmyn Ward 9781037213083
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.Respair (noun,... -
Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho by Steven D. Carter
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.55While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9781839766121
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black... -
The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.27This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene... -
Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination by Alexa Weik von Mossner 9781477307656
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds... -
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming 9781628724387
Booksplease Price: £15.50"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human... -
Felling Volume 31 by Kelan Nee 9781574419313
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65This collection is a record of one man's navigation of loss, addiction, and labor. At once a meditation on the allure of a legacy in self-destruction and a giving over to hope, Felling is an... -
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth by Clyde W. Ford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.64"Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood... -
Our Lady of Benoni: A play by Zakes Mda 9781868145676
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Through five colourful characters, three of them living out their very individual lives in an unnamed public park in Johannesburg, Zakes Mda explores the plight of women and children in a patriarchal... -
Teach the Free Man: Stories by Peter Nathaniel Malae 9780804010993
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison's... -
Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment by Juliana Spahr
Booksplease Price: £27.33In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Presence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-American who travels... -
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 9780099581888
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013** ... -
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by George Makari 9780300270389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30WINNER OF THE 2022 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD (NONFICTION) A BLOOMBERG BEST NONFICTION BOOK "Does not pull its punches."-The Independent "Enthralling."-New York Times "A compelling story of racial and... -
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family Dorothy Roberts 9781668068380
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who "has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades" (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting... -
The Times They Were a-Changin': 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn by Robert S McElvaine
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80An award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics-for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.If 1968 marked a turning point in a... -
and then we became by devorah major 9780872867260
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Top Poetry Books of Fall 2016 - Library JournalWho are we humans, with our differences and our personal histories, mythologies and urgencies, as well as our collective struggles and dreams? Why are... -
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition by Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872867970
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith, written by radical Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution."Uncompromising, disturbing . . ...