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Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa by Anthony O'Brien 9780822325710
Booksplease Price: $81.19At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions... -
Innovations in Teaching Philosophy: A Toolkit for the 21st-Century Classroom Brynn F. Welch 9781350544833
Booksplease Price: $159.83What am I doing here, and what do I want this class to be? What kind of class am I designing, and why? What does a meaningfully inclusive classroom look like? Innovations in Teaching Philosophy... -
Culture, Power and Education: Representation, Interpretation, Contestation Peter Mayo 9781032898476
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture, and power.Based upon in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio... -
Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy by Paul Bryant-Jackson 9780816620166
Booksplease Price: $55.94This collage of essays and interviews illuminates the complexity and richness of Adrienne Kennedy's innovative dramas.Although Adrienne Kennedy's plays are highly regarded in the world of American... -
At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex, and Equality by Drucilla Cornell
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $82.01How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the... -
Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text by Kimberly Nichele Brown
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $23.73Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that... -
Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice by Becky Thompson
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum--and a way of being--that promises to bring about a... -
Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs by Lyle Ashton Harris 9781597114127
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los... -
How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change by Allan deSouza 9781478000365
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $145.43What terms do we use to describe and evaluate art, and how do we judge if art is good, and if it is for the social good? In How Art Can Be Thought Allan deSouza investigates such questions and the... -
Advocate: A voice from the margins Lennina Ofori 9780349702209
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Vital and illuminating . . . Advocate is a book that is equally generous and insightful, putting much of modern British narratives into sharp perspective . . . It's a gift' Jeffrey Boakye, author of... -
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between by Catherine Homan 9781498594462
Booksplease Price: $79.40A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between explores the ways in which both play and poetry orient us toward what surpasses us. Catherine Homan develops an original account of... -
How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change by Allan deSouza 9781478000471
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44What terms do we use to describe and evaluate art, and how do we judge if art is good, and if it is for the social good? In How Art Can Be Thought Allan deSouza investigates such questions and the... -
The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love by Katie da Cunha Lewin 9780691283838
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $37.02A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature's greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One's Own that "it is necessary to have five... -
Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today by Cynthia G. Franklin 9780820333434
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $69.32Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Although the memoir form has been discussed within the flourishing field of life writing, academic... -
Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd: Counterfeit Heroes and Unhappy Truths by Ronald Suresh Roberts 9780814774540
Booksplease Price: $190.20In recent years, black neoconservatism has captured the national imagination. Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court. Stephen Carter's opinions on topics ranging from religion to the confirmation... -
My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. by Kevin Powell 9781982105259
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.30Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this "profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting" (Dominique Morisseau, Obie Award-winning playwright)... -
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies by Colin Kaepernick 9798888900710
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $84.82"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin Kaepernick Since its... -
Gut by Amanda Larson 9781632430977
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $19.22These poems follow the aftermath of and recovery from trauma. Amanda Larson's Gut begins with an epigraph from Frank O'Hara: "Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you." From there,... -
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies by Colin Kaepernick 9798888900574
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.93"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin Kaepernick Since its... -
Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning by Douglas Bourn 9781350192836
Booksplease Price: $160.67This 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... -
Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places Edward W. Soja (University of California at Los Angeles) 9781557866752
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $69.64Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late... -
Where We Stand Djamila Ribeiro 9780300269642
Booksplease Price: $29.95The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil "Part theory, part manifesto, part history. . . . [Where We Stand] has the makings of a truly... -
Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places Edward W. Soja (University of California at Los Angeles) 9781557866745
RRP: $207.80Booksplease Price: $191.02Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late... -
After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye by Jan Gaye 9780062135520
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.04A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all-and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of... -
I Am Your Sister Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde by Rudolph P. Byrd 9780199846450
Booksplease Price: $66.05Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics,... -
Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research: A Half Century of Living and Doing Collaborative Inquiry by John A. Bilorusky
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research delves into both general principles and specific methods for basic steps in the action research process-asking questions, gathering and... -
Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it... -
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition by Douglas Hochstetler 9781498547833
Booksplease Price: $79.40Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition, edited by Douglas R. Hochstetler, analyzes the relationship between endurance sports-such as running, cycling, and swimming-and themes from... -
The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood by Kevin Powell 9781501118579
Booksplease Price: $26.29In the spirit of Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writer and activist Kevin Powell's memoir vividly recounts the poverty of his youth and his... -
Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics by Shannon Winnubst 9780231172943
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $139.31Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it... -
Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation by Geraldine Moane 9780312220082
Booksplease Price: $190.18Drawing on the writings of diverse authors, including Jean Baker Miller, Bell Hooks, Mary Daly, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire and Ignacio Martin-Baro, as well as on women's experiences, this book aims... -
New Black Man: Tenth Anniversary Edition Mark Anthony Neal 9781138792586
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal's New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century-one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat... -
Black Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders by Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor 9781577153771
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.94Find wisdom, inspiration, and new insight in this definitive volume of empowering quotes from the Pan African world. With over 60 quotations-carefully researched by National Black Cultural... -
Designing Transformative Multicultural Initiatives: Theoretical Foundations, Practical Applications, and Facilitator Considerations Sherry K. Watt 9781620360606
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07Higher education is facing a perfect storm as it contends with changing demographics, shrinking budgets and concerns about access and cost, while underrepresented groups - both in faculty ranks and... -
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda 9780593529492
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and... -
On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis by George Yancy
Booksplease Price: $79.70With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by... -
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem 9781780749204
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICA Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the... -
Love in Exile by Shon Faye 9781802061208
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The acclaimed Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller on our search for love'Uncommonly wise and honest. Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope. A masterpiece, from start to finish' -... -
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy by George Yancy 9780739138816
Booksplease Price: $236.10The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming... -
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (Expanded and Revised Edition) Rebecca Carroll 9798888902547
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.93Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers...