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Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X by Michael Eric Dyson 9780195102857
Booksplease Price: $43.66Twenty years after his assassination, what is it about Malcolm X's life and words that speaks so powerfully to so many? In Making Malcolm, Michael Eric Dyson probes the myths and meanings of... -
Harlem Hellfighters: The extraordinary story of the legendary black regiment of World War I by Max Brooks
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.56A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment - the Harlem Hellfighters as the Germans called them - marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in... -
Jonsonians: Living Traditions Brian Woolland 9781138710658
Booksplease Price: $54.79This title was first published in 2003. "Jonsonians" explores the theatrical traditions within which Ben Jonson was working, investigates the ways in which his work has influenced and informed the... -
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism by Michael Eric Dyson 9780816621439
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, "Reflecting Black" explores the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture... -
Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema by Krin Gabbard 9780226277899
Booksplease Price: $64.53American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity,... -
Willi Smith: Street Couture by Alexander Cameron Cunningham
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $64.13African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.Before Off-White, before Hood By... -
Cracking The Wire During Black Lives Matter by Ronda Racha Penrice
Booksplease Price: $45.91Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, Wendell Pierce, Michael K. Williams -- first known as Stringer Bell, Wallace, Bunk, and Omar -- are just a few of the fruits of The Wire we enjoy today. Since its June... -
Making Rent In Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City by Brandon Harris 9780062415646
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.15A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and... -
Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee by Richard Aloysius Blake
Booksplease Price: $85.45New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and as a result of overfamiliarity, the City poses a problem for critics and casual moviegoers alike. Audiences mistake the New York image of... -
Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo Carol A. Hess 9780197622834
Booksplease Price: $29.25El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos who traditionally form Spain's... -
Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society by Rose Subotnik 9780816621989
RRP: $96.60Booksplease Price: $80.49Deconstructive Variations was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the... -
Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process by Allen H. Redmon 9781496832610
Booksplease Price: $66.97Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkulah Do?fan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and... -
Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers: The Eye Behind the Lens by Jacqueline B Frost 9780367362638
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $81.00Packed with gems of wisdom from the current 'masters of light', this collection of conversations with twenty leading contemporary cinematographers provides invaluable insight into the art and craft... -
Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh by Candice M. Jenkins 9781517905798
RRP: $182.70Booksplease Price: $147.78Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to... -
Subtitling African American English into French: Can We Do the Right Thing? by Pierre-Alexis Mevel 9783034318976
RRP: $113.93Booksplease Price: $102.33In Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, African American character Mookie throws a rubbish bin through the window of the pizzeria he works for, which is owned by an Italian American family. Translators... -
Neo-segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-civil Rights American Literature by Brian Norman 9780820335964
RRP: $279.20Booksplease Price: $151.98This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement. From Toni... -
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation by W. J. T. Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $64.53In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures,... -
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present Robin R. Means Coleman (Northwestern University, USA) 9780367767198
RRP: $294.00Booksplease Price: $272.83- The first sustained scholarly study of black horror films, now updated to include the last decade.- Tells a unique social history of African Americans through changing representation in horror... -
Crazy Funny: Popular Black Satire and The Method of Madness by Lisa A. Guerrero 9781032073439
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from... -
Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo Carol A. Hess 9780197622827
Booksplease Price: $116.93El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos who traditionally form Spain's... -
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.72- The first sustained scholarly study of black horror films, now updated to include the last decade.- Tells a unique social history of African Americans through changing representation in horror... -
Passing Strange: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical by Stew 9781557837523
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.21The innovative new musical that won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Book and is soon to be a Spike Lee film.TH Smashes Broadway clich (c)s with an electric guitar and the funniest libretto I can... -
Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies by Kimberly Fain 9781440831904
Booksplease Price: $114.62This thought-provoking work examines the dehumanizing depictions of black males in the movies since 1910, analyzing images that were once imposed on black men and are now appropriated and manipulated... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray 9781906733179
Booksplease Price: $79.44Rona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independent cinema. Beginning with the work of John Cassavetes, she blends detailed textual analysis with an... -
The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires by Dennis Kimbro
Booksplease Price: $29.02Approximately 35 percent of African Americans had no measurable assets in 2009, and 24 percent of these same households had only a motor vehicle. Dennis Kimbro, observing how the weight of the... -
Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop by Frankie Manning
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20The autobiography of a legendary swing dancerThe autobiography of a legendary swing dancerAbout the AuthorLindy hopper Frankie Manning won a 1989 Tony Award for his choreography in Black and Blue,... -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell 9780500203620
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $49.88This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner... -
Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime Sidney Homan 9781839993008
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89The collection Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot's observation in his Dante (1929): "The experience of a poem is the experience... -
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations From the NAACP by Janet Cheatham Bell 9780743428255
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.33Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the official song of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Till Victory Is Won chronicles significant... -
Contemporary Quotations in Black by Anita King 9780313291227
Booksplease Price: $119.64Containing over 1,000 quotations by noted African Americans and black African men and women, from Spike Lee to Terry McMillan, from Colin Powell to Shaquille O'Neal, from Nelson Mandela to U.S. poet... -
High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films by Sharon Willis
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are... -
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by Bell Hooks
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $39.35According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as... -
Redefining Black Film by Mark A. Reid 9780520079021
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered 'black films'? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between... -
The Political Sublime by Michael J. Shapiro
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime... -
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island by Liza Jessie Peterson 9781455570911
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.99Eighteen years ago, performance artist Liza Jessie Peterson never thought that her day of substitute teaching at Rikers Island C-74 would change the course of her life, but it did. It ignited a... -
Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation by Aristophanes
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.63Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; eleven survive. The most famous of these is the... -
Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin by Damani J. Partridge
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46In this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use... -
Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess by Christopher Sieving 9780253059215
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $117.22The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s. Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among... -
The Political Sublime by Michael J. Shapiro 9780822370338
RRP: $214.20Booksplease Price: $172.37In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime... -
Jane Bown: A Lifetime of Looking by Jane Bown 9781783350858
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $63.50Featuring 200 black-and-white and colour images, this book includes her iconic portraits and extensive photojournalism from the Greenham Common evictions to the Iranian embassy siege. Bown's...