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Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange 9781478005766
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over 3 percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve... -
Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times by Martin Munro 9780813938202
Booksplease Price: £35.22In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general... -
Teaching the African Novel by Gaurav Desai 9781603290388
Booksplease Price: £32.55What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the... -
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks Jonathan Alfred Noble 9781032922294
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.13Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of... -
The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics by Idelber Avelar 9781403967428
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz... -
Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.65In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the... -
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation William Paris 9780197698877
Booksplease Price: £26.49Racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time. Utopia has been one response to this domination. The racially dominated are not free to define what counts as "progress," they are not free... -
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation by William Paris 9780197698860
Booksplease Price: £70.76Racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time. Utopia has been one response to this domination. The racially dominated are not free to define what counts as "progress," they are not free... -
Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Postcolonail State by Aaron Kamugisha 9789766376192
Booksplease Price: £27.40Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State reckons with the vast body of radical work and thought on the post-colonial Caribbean state. It focuses on the period after the Second... -
Proletarians and African Capitalism: The Kenya Case, 1960-1972 by Richard Sandbrook 9780521100786
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35A study of the role of unionised workers in Kenya, this places the workers and their unions within the broad context of an evolving political economy. Similar studies, often restricted to a single... -
Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives Elmarie Costandius 9781032368542
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after... -
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration Patrick D. Anderson 9781041106647
Booksplease Price: £62.89Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film in a subtextual conversation.Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas' semiotic square... -
Lacan in Contexts by David Macey
Booksplease Price: £28.82In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan's work. He shows that key elements of... -
Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology by Leswin Laubscher
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon's most important insights. Featuring... -
Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race by Emily S. Lee
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.91Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.Broadening the philosophical conversation about race and racism, Living Alterities considers how people's racial... -
Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race by Emily S. Lee 9781438450162
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £23.41Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.Broadening the philosophical conversation about race and racism, Living Alterities considers how people's racial... -
Landscaping Africa: The Politics of Place and Belonging in Senegal Michael C. Lambert 9780520416512
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29How has European imperialism (re)made the world? How can we understand this long process and its consequences in ways that capture both the materiality and the subjectivity of political domination?... -
The Blackness of Black: Key Concepts in Critical Discourse by William David Hart 9781793615886
Booksplease Price: £37.81This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the discourse of the blackness of black. This critical discourse developed during the last two decades as... -
Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine by Charles L. Briggs 9781478025788
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89In Incommunicable Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical... -
Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich 9781781680247
Booksplease Price: £28.52This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human... -
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch by Daniel José Gaztambide 9783031484759
Booksplease Price: £49.60Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in... -
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life by Grant Farred
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.12In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves... -
Alif 39: Transnational Drama: Theater and Performance by Ferial Ghazoul 9789774169397
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27This issue of Alif explores drama in its many manifestations--textual plays, performances, folk drama, choreographed story-telling, staged poetry recitals, and protest songs-as well as presenting... -
Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine by Charles L. Briggs 9781478026006
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Incommunicable Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing linguistic and medical... -
Brown Skin, White Masks Hamid Dabashi 9780745328737
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84This book is a a critical examination of the role that immigrant intellectuals play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism. In his pioneering book about the relationship... -
Democracy and Political Theory Claude Lefort 9780745604374
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.16This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the key texts of 19th and 20th century thought - from Marx, Michelet and de... -
American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South by Martin Munro 9781846317538
Booksplease Price: £47.29An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation,... -
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition: The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual by St. Maurice Pierre 9780813936741
Booksplease Price: £68.30A leader in the social movement that achieved Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962, Eric Williams (1911-1981) served as its first prime minister. Although much has been written... -
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas by Jinah Kim 9781478001355
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £79.74In Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politics since World War II. Kim argues that Asian diasporic... -
The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 9781804293119
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.76Algeria's Arab Jews were renowned for their metal-working and jewellery-making skills, and these jewellers of the ummah-the Arabic community-are, for Azoulay, the symbol of a world that can still be... -
Texturing Difference: "Black Consciousness Philosophy" and the "Script of Man" by Maurits van Bever Donker 9781509562305
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonisation. It argues that the... -
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory Lorna Burns 9781032626635
Booksplease Price: £45.30Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts, and themes that have shaped the evolution of postcolonial literary studies... -
Postcolonial Resistance: Culture, Liberation, and Transformation by David Jefferess 9780802091901
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.28Despite being central to the project of postcolonialism, the concept of resistance has received only limited theoretical examination. Writers such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi K. Bhabha... -
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition: The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual by Maurice St. Pierre 9780813936734
Booksplease Price: £33.68A leader in the social movement that achieved Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962, Eric Williams (1911-1981) served as its first prime minister. Although much has been written... -
Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony by Gillian Hart 9780820347165
RRP: £132.95Booksplease Price: £77.29Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "wageless life,"... -
Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission by Perri Giovannucci
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The... -
Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition - Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807 by Brycchan Carey 9781843841203
Booksplease Price: £79.80Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection. On 25 March 1807, the bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade within the British colonies was passed by... -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.47Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of... -
The New French Poetry by David Kelley 9781852242602
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an in?uential strand in recent French... -
Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays by Robert Bernasconi 9780197587973
Booksplease Price: £23.40The fifteen essays by distinguished philosopher of race Robert Bernasconi that are collected here demonstrate why the critical philosophy of race needs to take a historical turn. Genealogies of the...