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Tenderheaded: A Comb-bending Collection of Hair Stories by Juliette Harris 9780671047566
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.67When does a few ounces of hair come to feel like the weight of the world? When an employer fires a black woman for wearing a cultural hairstyle that is "unprofessional", and she has to go to court to... -
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time by James Kilgore 9781620970676
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals and impact of our criminal justice system?... -
Race To Incarcerate: The Sentencing Project Marc Mauer 9781595580221
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.14In this revised version of his seminal book on race, class and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers... -
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society by Sandra Dinter
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation... -
I'm Going to Be a Princess by Stephanie Taylor 9781839944710
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A warm and witty celebration of the lives of amazing Black women.What will Maya be when she grows up? A rocket scientist like Annie Easley? An Olympic athlete like Alice Coachman? A brain surgeon... -
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other by Kate Hodges
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are revealed in inspirational stories which... -
I'm Going to Be a Princess by Stephanie Taylor 9781839944727
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33A warm and witty celebration of the lives of amazing Black women.What will Maya be when she grows up? A rocket scientist like Annie Easley? An Olympic athlete like Alice Coachman? A brain surgeon... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi 9781529114676
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X... -
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by 9781839764110
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.95Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and on... -
Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World by Quinn Slobodian 9781782387053
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €101.70In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to... -
Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World by Quinn Slobodian 9781785337376
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.99In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to... -
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard
RRP: €46.35Booksplease Price: €33.81An NPR Best Book of 2018A 2021 Alabama Library Association Author Award WinnerFrye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in... -
The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties by Martin Klimke 9780691152462
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and... -
Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy by Virginia M. Axline
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The classic account of a lost boy's emotional breakthrough, from a renowed child psychotherapist'I welcome this book with all my heart' D. W. WinnicottWhen renowned psychotherapist Virginia Axline... -
The Greensboro Review: Number 115, Spring 2024 by Terry L. Kennedy 9781469683751
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.73The spring 2024 Greensboro Review features our annual Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Mark Spero's "Pig Therapist" for poetry and Daniel S.C. Sutter's "Mantis" for fiction. This 115th issue is... -
This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy by Lauren Muller 9798888904572
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.96A collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist. This Unruly Witness was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a... -
Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties by Margo V. Perkins 9781578062645
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to... -
Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. by E. James West 9781625346469
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €69.78Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of... -
Race, Crime, and Justice: A Reader Shaun Gabbidon (Pennsylvania State Capital College, USA) 9780415947077
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €55.19A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important Reader spans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced... -
Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. by E. James West
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of... -
Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation by N. Tadiar 9781403965332
Booksplease Price: €55.07Beyond the Frame explores the importance of visual images in the identities and material conditions of women of color as they relate to social power, oppression, and resistance. The goal of the... -
Black Women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions by Dannielle Joy Davis 9781433116827
RRP: €37.66Booksplease Price: €34.83Black Women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions explores the leadership experiences of Black women within macro level (such as education, industry, and social services) and... -
American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives by Heather Ostman 9781032050966
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This book examines the feminist rhetorics that emerge in six very different activists’ autobiographies, as they simultaneously tell the stories of unconventional women’s lives and manifest the... -
Black Women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions by Dannielle Joy Davis 9781433116520
RRP: €129.47Booksplease Price: €113.87Black Women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions explores the leadership experiences of Black women within macro level (such as education, industry, and social services) and... -
An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The words fire off the page with humour, anger and eloquence' GuardianA powerful and commanding account of the life of... -
Black and Green: The Fight For Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America by Brian Dooley 9780745312958
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €23.61'An excellent book.' Irish Voice (New York) Ties between political activists in Black America and Ireland span several centuries, from the days of the slave trade to the close links between... -
White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour by Ruby Hamad
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €5.95'Powerful and provocative' - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Sunday Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist'A MUST read for any white women who consider themselves "feminist"' - Scarlett Curtis,... -
Gloria Steinem: Volume 76 Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara 9780711270732
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Gloria Steinem, the world's most famous feminist. Gloria... -
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James 9780312294496
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €37.51Shadowboxing presents an explosive analysis of the history and practice of black feminisms, drawing upon political theory, history, and cultural studies in a sweepingly interdisciplinary work. Joy... -
Young, Gifted and Black Too: Meet 52 More Black Icons from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.61In this timely follow-up to the best-selling, genre-defining Young, Gifted and Black, you can meet 52 more Black icons from around the world - this time spanning even more countries and including... -
A Hug Like Michelle's, a Voice Like Beyoncé’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771507
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.55From Misty Copeland to Rosa Parks to Nina Simone, this picture book companion to Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's is a celebration of Black history and excellence from powerhouse author Carole... -
Bold Words from Black Women: Inspiration and Truths from 50 Extraordinary Leaders Who Helped Shape Our World by Tamara Pizzoli
Booksplease Price: €15.99Celebrate the power of Black womanhood in this first-of-its-kind collection of inspirational quotes from fifty activists, artists, and leaders, featuring bold, attention-grabbing... -
Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State by Stephen Dillon
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €94.89During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global... -
From Mass to Universal Education: The Experience of the State of California and its Relevance to European Education in the Year 2000 by Guy Benveniste 9789024706716
Booksplease Price: €107.77precise, appeared until the recent crisis - to many Americans from the East of America's America, as the whole of America seemed to Europeans of a century ago: extreme and strange, full of violent... -
'Other Kinds of Dreams': Black Women's Organisations and the Politics of Transformation by Julia Sudbury
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66'Other Kinds of Dreams' provides an invaluable insight into the political activity of black and Asian women in the UK both inside and outside the black and Asian communities. The book breaks new... -
New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair by Jasmine Nichole Cobb 9781478016434
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €77.22From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring... -
Nation Women Negotiating Islam: Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century by C. S'thembile West 9781793642370
Booksplease Price: €96.07Nation Women Negotiating Islam: Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century highlights that Black women modeled diverse ways of agency and executing their roles in the nation-building project... -
ABC Black History and Me: An inspirational journey through Black history, from A to Z: Volume 14 Queenbe Monyei 9780760380239
Booksplease Price: €15.37ABC Black History and Me presents 26 historical concepts, events, and people-from A to Z-that are important in Black American history. From A is for Advocate to Z is for Zest, each letter of the... -
Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners by Melissa Dearey
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist... -
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power Lola Olufemi 9780745340067
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.97'I was blown away' - Angela Davis Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't...