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The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.65A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger:... -
Dick Gregory's Political Primer by Dick Gregory
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062981356Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory 9780062879219
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.60A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger:... -
Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593086148Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature by Dick Gregory
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062981417Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062981288Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint < -
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory 9780062448712
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062448712Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
Seven Million Steps: The True Story of Dick Gregory's Run for the Hungry by Derrick Barnes 9780063357525
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063357525Author Derrick BarnesFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement by Malcolm Frierson 9781438479064
Booksplease Price: £30.95Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin' circuit to the mainstream.In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm... -
A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard by Devery S. Anderson 9781496844040
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.99In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde... -
Black Trailblazers: 30 Courageous Visionaries Who Broke Boundaries, Made a Difference, and Paved the Way by Bijan Bayne 9781524874773
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49A gorgeously illustrated compendium of 30 black luminaries who changed the world.Thirty bite-sized biographies of black thinkers, activists, and innovators with beautiful full-color illustrations... -
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas 9780807872437
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807872437Author Nadine CohodasFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Ahad-Legardy 9780252085666
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.19As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated... -
Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Ahad-Legardy 9780252043666
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated... -
Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness Travis A. Weisse 9781469683003
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets... -
Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News by Edwin Amenta
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United StatesA new view of twentieth-century US social movements, Rough Draft of History examines how national newspapers... -
Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News by Edwin Amenta 9780691232782
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United StatesA new view of twentieth-century US social movements, Rough Draft of History examines how national newspapers... -
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a... -
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical by Shaul Magid 9780691254692
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a... -
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers 9780062917454
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04New York Times BestsellerWhat J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the... -
Lakewood: A Novel by Megan Giddings
Booksplease Price: £12.45NPR Book of the Year 2020Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 | Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 | Ms. Magazine:... -
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk 9780062201027
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.782016 NAACP Image Award WinnerWinner of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in NonfictionAn award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African... -
Say It Loud!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy by Tiffany Cross 9780062976765
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062976765Author Tiffany CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer Jensen Wallach 9781469669465
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine... -
Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston 9780061695148
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061695148Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprin -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £27.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint -
The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics by Phil Berger
Booksplease Price: £17.91The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy... -
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement by Emilie Raymond 9780295742670
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.51From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes... -
The Last Holiday: A Memoir Gil Scott-Heron 9781786890252
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one... -
Black Hunger: Soul Food And America by Doris Witt 9780816645510
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Explores the complex relationship between food and African American history In 1889, the owners of a pancake mix witnessed the vaudeville performance of a white man in blackface and drag playing a... -
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms by Geoff Bennett 9780063418172
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.30The award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the... -
The Spook Who Sat By The Door Sam Greenlee 9781914344404
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.60Continuously available in print since 1969, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook... -
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents by Rebecca Krefting 9781421414294
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £32.53In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears... -
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement by Emilie Raymond
Booksplease Price: £105.25From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes... -
She Persisted: Opal Lee by Shelia P. Moses 9780593623510
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.12Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds-including Opal Lee!Opal... -
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen 9781597970488
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.36Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation... -
We Were the Fire: Birmingham, 1963 by Shelia P. Moses
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.69Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King... -
We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 by Shelia P. Moses 9780593407509
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16The powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who's pulled into the action of the 1963 civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.Rufus Jackson... -
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Melanie Newport
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This...