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Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times'It always was, and will... -
Conjugating Hindi by Ishmael Reed
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.90California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom. One of those hiding... -
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.23'A great writer' James Baldwin'Part vision, part satire, part farce ... a wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft' The New York TimesA plague is spreading across... -
Bigotry on Broadway by Ishmael Reed 9781771862561
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $33.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Without Words But Not Speechless by Ishmael Reed 9781967022199
Booksplease Price: $10.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967022199Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
Booksplease Price: $30.30"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling... -
New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 by Ishmael Reed 9781568583419
Booksplease Price: $42.17First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service of his... -
Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed 9781568583396
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown by Ishmael Reed
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $29.13Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence-including Mark Twain's Huckleberry... -
In the Trickster Tradition: The Novels of Andrew Salkey, Francis Ebejar and Ishmael Reed by Peter Nazareth 9780904521979
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $25.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904521979Author Peter NazarethFormat PaperbackImprint -
Brassbones & Rainbows – The Collected Works of Shirley Bradley LeFlore by Shirley Bradley Leflore 9780988476349
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $21.19BRASSBONES & RAINBOWS is the debut poetry collection of Shirley Bradley LeFlore, an oral poet and?performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri who has been on the scene for over five decades. While... -
Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany by Robert E. Fox 9780313250330
Booksplease Price: $107.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Understanding John Edgar Wideman by D. Quentin Miller 9781611178241
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $43.87Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the most challenging and innovative. His analytical mind can turn almost any topic into... -
Mumbo Jumbo by REED
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $23.37A preeminent African-American novelist, essayist, and activist takes an unorthodox look at black and white relations throughout history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.Book InformationISBN... -
Soul City: Oakland, U.S.A. by Ken Light 9781597147316
Booksplease Price: $77.57Uncovered after 50 years, an absorbing and illuminating photographic archive of Black West Oakland in the 1970s."An invaluable window into urban Black America." -Kirkus (starred review)In 1974 Ken... -
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.43In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,... -
Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Deborah E. McDowell
Booksplease Price: $57.56Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews--... -
Fourteen Days: A unique collaborative novel from a star-studded cast of writers by Margaret Atwood 9781784745455
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.63A BBC, Financial Times and Cosmopolitan What to Read in 2024 pickSet in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this... -
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction by Barbara C. Foley 9781501722882
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development... -
Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade by Charles Freger
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $46.41All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own... -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9780451532145
Booksplease Price: $13.84Two of Mark Twain's great American novels-together in one volume.THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERTake a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named... -
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Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America by William Wong 9781566398305 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $5.25What does it mean to be Asian American?What does it mean to be Asian American?About the AuthorWriter and journalist William Wong has been regional commentator for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and a... -
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr 9780393352733
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.29This extraordinary volume collects the poems of forty-four of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize- winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction: Resisting Master Narratives by Professor T.V. Reed 9781350010802
Booksplease Price: $56.74Postmodern realist fiction uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time. It seeks to capture the complex, fragmented nature of... -
Self Made: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker A'Lelia Bundles 9781529345506
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23The book behind the Netflix series, starring Octavia Spencer'One of the most fabulous African-American figures of the twentieth century' Ishmael ReedMadam Walker was the first free-born child in her... -
The Healing Gayl Jones 9780349012186
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its... -
The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69 by A B Spellman
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.66A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue for... -
The World Doesn't Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.74Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt, history casts a long shadow over its residents. Among them are David Sherman, a... -
The World Doesn't Require You Rion Amilcar Scott 9781800244337
Booksplease Price: $27.72Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of the country's only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, its residents thump out a beat that echoes its violent... -
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement versus Donald J. Trump Patrick A Howell 9781912248667
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Scheduled for release at the top of the 2020 US Presidential election, Dispatches from the Vanguard channels the global soul's hunger for freedom from authoritarian control. Partnering with... -
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Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories by Russell Charles Leong 9780295979458 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $4.20Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated... -
The Minister Primarily: A Novel John Oliver Killens 9780063079595
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $15.35A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the... -
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry 9781439914861
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize... -
and then we became by devorah major 9780872867260
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27Top Poetry Books of Fall 2016 - Library JournalWho are we humans, with our differences and our personal histories, mythologies and urgencies, as well as our collective struggles and dreams? Why are... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of...