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The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening by T. Storm Heter 9781538162613
Booksplease Price: £75.81A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press,... -
Ideology: Structuring Identities in Contemporary Life by Gordon Bailey 9781442600850
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This 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... -
Erotic Testimonies: Black Women Daring to Be Wild and Free by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 9781438491165
Booksplease Price: £25.65Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.Erotic Testimonies draws inspiration from Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" to explore how Black women access their... -
Stories on Skin: A Librarian's Guide to Tattoos as Personal Archives Terry Baxter 9798216185482
Booksplease Price: £95.49Helping expand archival studies into impermanent media like body art, this book suggests that archiving must be considered a form of storytelling. Tattoos are not merely decorative; they contain... -
Touring Shakespeare: Theatre and Post-War Cultural Diplomacy Jim Taylor 9781009381314
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.29Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Touring Shakespeare reveals how English Shakespeare companies were deployed overseas in service to British diplomatic interests at the end of Empire and the... -
Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex by Kathryn Sophia Belle 9780197660195
Booksplease Price: £78.60Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She... -
The Art of Activism Reader: A Decentered Canon Stephen Duncombe 9781682194232
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00This reader brings together scholars from different eras, cultures and geographic locations. With this diversity of voices, the book opens a dialogue about the social power of art and how change is... -
Stories on Skin: A Librarian's Guide to Tattoos as Personal Archives Terry Baxter 9781440877643
Booksplease Price: £30.54Helping expand archival studies into impermanent media like body art, this book suggests that archiving must be considered a form of storytelling.Tattoos are not merely decorative; they contain deep... -
Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema by Sheila J. Petty 9780814330999
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This title explores the contributions of black diasporic filmmakers and thinkers to contemporary artistic and theoretical discourses.Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and... -
Postcolonial Criticism by Bart Moore-Gilbert 9780582237988
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £78.52Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the... -
Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education by Otto Santa Ana 9780742523838
Booksplease Price: £43.33Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman... -
Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah by Steed Vernyl Davidson 9780567655264
Booksplease Price: £40.79Empire and Exile explores the impact of Babylonian aggression upon the book of Jeremiah by calling attention to the presence of the empire and showing how the book of Jeremiah can be read as... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.94This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Power: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity C. Elder 9781510770027
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25"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... -
The Rule of Love: The Power of Presence for Reforming Health Institutions and Global Health Leadership Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky 9780197762370
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.75Where justice, with its emphasis on individual claim-rights, falls short of justifying our ethical responsibility to care for those suffering from illnesses that do not neatly qualify as unjust, love... -
Feminisms by Sandra Kemp 9780192892706
Booksplease Price: £56.97`A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.' Michele Le Doeuff Spanning nearly two decades (1980-1996), the six sections of this reader investigate the debates which... -
Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education by Otto Santa Ana 9780742523821
Booksplease Price: £112.13Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman... -
The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport by David K. Wiggins 9780252072727
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54The Unlevel Playing Field offers a rich compendium of more than 100 primary sources that chart the intertwining history of African Americans and sport. Introductions and head-notes provided by David... -
Monster Energy/ Ultra Blue: Poems by Graeme Bezanson 9781487014063
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Graeme Bezanson's debut collection, Ultra Blue, is a book-length sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary constructions of masculinity... -
Film Phenomenologies: Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation Kelli Fuery 9781399528139
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60With an interdisciplinary agenda, Film Phenomenologies investigates the emerging field of film phenomenology, linking the fundamental significance of early thinkers and related methods of... -
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics by Georgina Born
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social... -
Women and Romance: A Reader by Susan Ostrov Weisser 9780814793541
Booksplease Price: £91.37Romantic 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... -
Women and Romance: A Reader by Susan Ostrov Weisser 9780814793558
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Romantic 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... -
Awakened Kelechi Okafor 9781398712942
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A hidden power. A sinister force. A mystery she can't ignore.In a near-future London where technology affects everything from our bodies to our politics, journalist Pels Badmus wants to make a real... -
Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism by Ruth Frankenberg 9780822320210
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of... -
Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler by Shannon M. Mussett 9781438444543
Booksplease Price: £26.07Essays on Beauvoir's influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.Despite a deep familiarity with the philosophical tradition and despite the groundbreaking... -
Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance by Irmgard Emmelhainz 9780826502445
Booksplease Price: £33.01Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the... -
Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria 9780300264845
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Philip J. Deloria's classic exploration of white America's drive to "play Indian," from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age "[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question... -
Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare Alexa Alice Joubin 9781350410817
Booksplease Price: £80.73A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, this volume combines methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studies, critical race and gender studies and anthropological thick... -
Eating Culture by Ron Scapp 9780791438602
Booksplease Price: £27.36Eating has never been simple, and contemporary eating practices seem more complicated than ever, demanding a multidimensional analysis that strives not for a reductive overview but for a complex... -
Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Douglas Bourn (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK) 9781350192843
Booksplease Price: £27.02This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change. Douglas Bourn begins by providing historical context of how education has been linked to social change around the world and... -
Welcome to Social Theory by Tom Brock
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.98Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining... -
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett 9780813599311
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive... -
Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management by Robert McMurray 9780367233990
Booksplease Price: £73.69There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, women's studies and philosophy. While power has received considerable... -
Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.53This anthology brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970. The book maps the impact of major theoretical developments... -
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.70Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive... -
Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management by Robert McMurray
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, women's studies and philosophy. While power has received considerable... -
Welcome to Social Theory by Tom Brock 9781529732627
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £64.00Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining... -
Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Lynn Domina 9780313303494
Booksplease Price: £51.71A Raisin in the Sun is the first play by a black woman to be produced in a Broadway theater. First performed in 1959, before the civil rights and women's movements came to the fore, it raises issues... -
Advocate: A voice from the margins by Lennina Ofori 9780349702216
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82Lennina 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...