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Ideology: Structuring Identities in Contemporary Life by Gordon Bailey 9781442600850
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25This brief and affordable introductory book places ideology at the center of contemporary life, unmasking its role in shaping important social relationships. Offering both an historical overview of... -
Power: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity C. Elder 9781510770027
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38"Black women are dope because they rise and are yet rising. This dopeness is not hyperbolic or symbolic-rather, it is borne of persecution that has failed to frustrate a perseverant persistence to... -
Women and Romance: A Reader by Susan Ostrov Weisser 9780814793541
Booksplease Price: $117.87Romantic love has challenged and vexed feminist thought from its origins. Judging from the shelves of books advising women on love problems, there seems to be an ongoing difficulty in maintaining... -
Advocate: A voice from the margins by Lennina Ofori 9780349702216
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a working woman, a survivor, above all, she is an Advocate. She has spent her life... -
Advocate: A voice from the margins Lennina Ofori 9780349702209
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Vital and illuminating . . . Advocate is a book that is equally generous and insightful, putting much of modern British narratives into sharp perspective . . . It's a gift' Jeffrey Boakye, author of... -
Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text by Kimberly Nichele Brown
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.58Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that... -
Gut by Amanda Larson 9781632430977
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $11.80These poems follow the aftermath of and recovery from trauma. Amanda Larson's Gut begins with an epigraph from Frank O'Hara: "Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you." From there,... -
After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye by Jan Gaye 9780062135520
Booksplease Price: $17.32A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all-and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of... -
Learning through Making in Architectural Design: Realizing Embodied Pedagogy by Stephen Temple 9781032850337
RRP: $87.71Booksplease Price: $77.50Design education begins with the student's embodied experience of the world, yet this foundational aspect often goes unexamined in the development and implementation of design pedagogy. Instructors... -
Black Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders by Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor 9781577153771
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.71Find wisdom, inspiration, and new insight in this definitive volume of empowering quotes from the Pan African world. With over 60 quotations-carefully researched by National Black Cultural... -
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda 9780593529492
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and... -
Thick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $20.01In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick... -
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31'A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life... -
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.29A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award... -
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist...