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Selected Writings on Marxism by Stuart Hall
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of the moment. This collection of Hall's key writings... -
Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History by Stuart Hall
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall... -
Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall by Paul Gilroy 9781859842874
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left by Stuart Hall
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Stuart Hall was one of the most insightful and incisive critics of the Thatcher era. In this essential selection of his essays during the period, he elaborates both how Thatcher's rise to power... -
Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora by Stuart Hall
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been... -
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall 9780674248342
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $18.31"Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today."-Angela Y. DavisIn... -
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order by Stuart Hall 9781350534643
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Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall 9780141984759
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the... -
Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture: Detour to the Imaginary by Stuart Hall 9781478026105
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $96.20Stuart Hall's work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring... -
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays by Stuart Hall
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as... -
Beyond Britain: Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies by Lars Jensen 9781783481460
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Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being by David Marriott 9781503637252
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory,... -
Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism Michael Wayne 9781350447097
Booksplease Price: $110.49With its authoritarian distortions, the Marxism of the 20th century sundered the connections between the practice of Communism, and its essentially democratic ethos.This book reconstructs those vital... -
After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope by Brian Meeks
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.88'A book of rare beauty' - Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Mary University of London Across the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. From Black Power and... -
What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and... -
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue by Bell Hooks
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the... -
City of Segregation: One Hundred Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles by Andrea Gibbons
Booksplease Price: $28.55City of Segregation traces the central role racism has played in shaping modern Los Angeles-as it has shaped all US cities. Andrea Gibbons documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced... -
Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis by Alberto Toscano 9781839760204
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.76The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. From the 'Great... -
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews 9781788701341
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $7.06'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from... -
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews 9781788701761
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',... -
Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists by J.P. Miller 9781526313782
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $7.82A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black people through history who made a differenceBrave Leaders & Activists hails courageous black people through time who have stood up... -
Captain Cook by Vanessa Collingridge 9780091888985 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.10A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers'... -
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a... -
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture,... -
Britons Through Negro Spectacles by ABC Merriman-Labor
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk about the first City in... -
Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s by Barbara Blake Hannah
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.18'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a... -
The March Up by Ray L. Smith 9781844134250 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $3.68Taking us straight to the front lines, The March Up follows the famed 1st Marine Division on their decisive 1,184 kilometre trek to Baghdad, from first assault to the taking of the city. The 1st... -
Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.38The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'An... -
The State Viviene E. Cree (University of Edinburgh) 9781447321972
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $14.01Many of the individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics are, in reality, illustrations of a breakdown in the legitimacy of the state. This Byte picks up a number of... -
Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics by Benjamin P. Davis 9781399522441
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back... -
OCEANS APART:: ART FROM BRITAIN & THE CARIBBEAN by Alex, David Farcquharson, Bailey 9781849767651
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $37.28Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 50s - Now explores the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain in art from the 1950s to the present day; a social and cultural history more often... -
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood Bell Hooks 9780349704968
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.31One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir... -
Literary Theory: An Anthology Julie Rivkin (Connecticut College, USA) 9781118707852
Booksplease Price: $42.20The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and... -
Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity by Anthony D. King 9780816629534
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52A foundational work in the study of the globalization of culture.First published in 1991, Culture, Globalization and the World-System is one of the inaugural books discussing the increasing tendency... -
Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years & More of the Black British Experience Onyekachi Wambu 9781399601917
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young men and women from the Caribbean.Their arrival was to have far-reaching effects on... -
Transitions by Sita Balani 9781915743992
Booksplease Price: $19.92Part dialogue, part diagnosis, Transitions turns to the humanities to understand how we arrived at our present moment and what might carry us forward.The legacies of Britain's colonial past continue... -
Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen 9780415610162
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.97'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New SocietyMods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was... -
Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: $46.88When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western...