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The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled... -
Life as Activism: June Jordan's Writings from the Progressive by Professor June Jordan 9781936117901
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936117901Author Professor June JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264 -
Passion by June Jordan 9780241752425
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.1190 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break open the... -
Civil Wars by June Jordan 9780684814049
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
We're on: A June Jordan Reader by Christoph Keller 9781938584350
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $24.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
June Jordan: Her Life and Letters by Valerie Kinloch 9780275982416
Booksplease Price: $59.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood by Ruth Nicole Brown 9780252079498
Booksplease Price: $29.94This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this... -
Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War by Joseph Darda
Booksplease Price: $31.99Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of... -
Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War by Joseph Darda 9780226632896
Booksplease Price: $109.12Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of... -
When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World Leigh Raiford 9781478029861
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $86.34In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus... -
Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature Chad Benito Infante 9781517919870
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.33Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialismFrom Octavia Butler's Kindred to The Round House by Louise Erdrich, themes of retribution resound throughout the... -
When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World Leigh Raiford 9781478033318
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus... -
Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature Chad Benito Infante 9781517919887
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialismFrom Octavia Butler's Kindred to The Round House by Louise Erdrich, themes of retribution resound throughout the... -
Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State by Jordan T. Camp 9780520281813
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urban poverty, and mass homelessness have also become... -
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith 9781978839007
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $57.95Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in... -
Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change by AnaLouise Keating
Booksplease Price: $30.95In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think... -
Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change by AnaLouise Keating 9780252037849
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77In this lively, thought-provoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. women-of-color feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how we think... -
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith 9781978838994
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.23Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in... -
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu 9780691239026
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these... -
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Forgotten Women: The Writers by Zing Tsjeng 9781788400183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $7.31'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and... -
A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa and the United States by Mary K. DeShazer 9780472065639
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $40.17The recent critical works that look at literature as a weapon of resistance have frequently neglected the genre of poetry, particularly the poetry of Third World women writers. A Poetics of... -
Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing by Jr. Baker 9780226035222
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own... -
Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing Houston A. Baker 9780226035239
Booksplease Price: $30.79Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own... -
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry by Emanuel Brasil 9780819560230
Booksplease Price: $21.97A 25th anniversary edition of a book cited by Modern Language Journal as "notable for the original and interesting choice of poems and for the accuracy and poetic quality of the translations." Work... -
Who Look at Me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body by Durell M. Callier 9789004392229
Booksplease Price: $37.13Who Look at Me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body explores how we, as a society, see Blackness and in particular Black youth. Drawing on a range of sources,... -
Of Black Study by Joshua Myers
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.88'This magnificent book is the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition' - Cornel West Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals generated different... -
Working Classics: POEMS ON INDUSTRIAL LIFE by Peter Oresick 9780252061332
Booksplease Price: $25.95From the cannery rows of California to the sweatshops of New York, this anthology of poems captures the drama of work and working-class life in industrial America. It speaks of... -
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto 9781937658786
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community,... -
Show Me the Bells: Poetry by Xochiquetzal Candelaria 9781882688647
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.14Xochiquetzal Candelaria's second book, Show Me the Bells, celebrates ecological, political, and social change amidst the crush of late-stage capitalism. Foregrounding the Nahuatl concept of Nepantla,... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
Truthtellers of the Times: Interviews with Contemporary Women Poets by Janet Palmer Mullaney 9780472096800
Booksplease Price: $103.50Truthtellers of the Times brings together the voices of fifteen of our most compelling contemporary poets and surveys a broad continuum of American literary culture. The voices are diverse in age,... -
Defining Women: Social Institutions and Gender Divisions Rosemary Pringle (Macquarie University) 9780745609805
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Defining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways in which social institutions, practices and... -
Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin 9781839761058
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.72Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been... -
The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation by Julie Buckner Armstrong
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $49.48This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best... -
Writing Themselves into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts Movement Amy Fish 9781625348265
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty anthologies of poetry and prose by African American,... -
Foremother Love: Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism by Dana Murphy 9781478031956
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism. Murphy establishes Phillis (as she refers to... -
Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews by Elizabeth Alexander 9780472069378
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $24.78A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics... -
The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation Shane Safir 9781119186342
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $25.61LISTENING . . . THE KEY TO BECOMING A TRANSFORMATIVE SCHOOL LEADER The Listening Leader is a practical guide that will inspire school, district, and teacher leaders to make substantive change and... -
Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $27.84While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including... -
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans by Aldon Lynn Nielsen 9780817352790
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1960s, a far-reaching revolution in aesthetics and prosody by black poets ensued, some working independently and others...