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Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Professor Mark Christian Thompson
Booksplease Price: $30.79This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines... -
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Professor Mark Christian Thompson 9780226816418
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $103.35This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines... -
Pink Waves by Sawako Nakayasu
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03A poem in conversation with literature and written during a durational performance. Written in loose sonata form, Pink Waves is a poem of radiant elegy and quiet protest. Moving through the... -
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and... -
Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance by Alex Zamalin
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet... -
The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence by Azeezat Johnson
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $107.90Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims... -
Maroon Choreography by Fahima Ife
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black... -
The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence by Azeezat Johnson 9781786993809
Booksplease Price: $28.79Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims... -
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674055438
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $39.04In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy," one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song's title refers to a literary device-the repetition of a word or phrase... -
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye 9780822335771 [USED COPY]
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $33.72Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors,... -
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert O'Meally
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book AwardFinalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted,... -
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of... -
Memory Assemblages: Spectral Realism and the Logic of Addition Hilan Bensusan 9781350460300
Booksplease Price: $116.84Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida and Malabou to suggest a picture of the world as an assemblage of spectral resonances... -
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors,... -
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar 9780822368922
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $85.73In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of... -
Memory Assemblages: Spectral Realism and the Logic of Addition Hilan Bensusan 9781350461239
Booksplease Price: $39.40Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida and Malabou to suggest a picture of the world as an assemblage of spectral resonances... -
Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9781479813780
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $74.64A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work-an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as... -
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.66Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, 2019 A New Yorker Book of the Year, 2018 A Huffington Post Book of the Year, 2018 A Buzzfeed Book of the Year,... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living... -
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music by Alexandra T. Vazquez
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a... -
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music by Alexandra T. Vazquez 9780822354550
Booksplease Price: $138.31Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a... -
Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds Yves Citton 9781839766985
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.64Our stories shape our worlds. The power of narratives in the attention economy can be realigned for politically progressive agendas. This book analyses the narrative mechanisms that script the way we... -
vanishing point. by Kimberly Reyes
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $17.12A collection by award-winning poet Kimberly Reyes that explores erased histories. Through her latest collection, Kimberly Reyes navigates the physical, hereditary, and liminal worlds between land,... -
Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker by Cisco Bradley 9781478011194
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums... -
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable,... -
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A Brooks 9780674292208
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $20.85Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of FameWinner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationWinner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles AwardWinner of the MAAH... -
Little Hill Alli Warren 9780872868052
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15FINALIST - CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment.The third full-length collection... -
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems by JJJJJerome Ellis 9781639550128
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.20A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-JJJJJerome Ellis's Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The...