Black & Asian studies

USA: United States of Asia (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

USA
People often say that the 21st century is the Asian century, which suggests that the condition to create an Asian Union is becoming mature. In this book, the author analyses the possibility of creation of an Asian Union, which should be an economic body rather than political or religious or military establishment. The focus of the book is laid on how to solve the endless conflicts as well as cool down hotspots in...

By (author) Guang Wu

ISBN-13: 9781608761807 ; ISBN-10: 1608761800

Price: £35.99 £25.87 Not Available

Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity (Paperback / softback - 23 Feb 2010)

Post Black
Highlighting certain socio-economic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities -- such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members of both the working and upper classes -- this powerful examination gives voice to what the author has deemed...

By (author) Ytasha L Womack; Derek T Dingle

ISBN-13: 9781556528057 ; ISBN-10: 1556528051

Price: £14.50 £13.05 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind (Paperback / softback - 1 Feb 2010)

The War Before
From the Black Panthers to political prisoners, one woman's politics paves the way for today's breakthroughs. In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization's newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene in defense of the Panther's First Amendment right; she ended up handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police...

By (author) Safiya Bukhari; Edited by Laura Whitehorn; Preface by Wonda Jones; Foreword by Angela Y. Davis

ISBN-13: 9781558616103 ; ISBN-10: 1558616101

Price: £16.70 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Conversate is Not a Word: Getting Away from Ghetto (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Conversate is Not a Word
Funny, sad, and refreshingly honest, this provocative commentary based on the author's award-winning blog explores what is wrong with black culture and what needs to be done to fix neighbourhoods and improve lives. The fresh, female voice presents a new perspective -- differing from so many other treatises on the subject written primarily by older men -- and takes into account hip-hop and the internet without...

By (author) Jam Donaldson

ISBN-13: 9781556527807 ; ISBN-10: 1556527802

Price: £12.50 £10.00 Not Available

My Times in Black & White: Race & Power at the New York Times (Hardback - 23 Feb 2010)

My Times in Black & White
A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider's view of struggle and change at the nation's premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period in the paper's history and records how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the past two decades. A candid discussion on race, this memoir is the inspirational story of a man who covered presidents,...

By (author) Gerald M Boyd; Robin D Stone

ISBN-13: 9781556529528 ; ISBN-10: 155652952X

Price: £22.50 £19.62 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till (Hardback - 23 Feb 2010)

Simeon's Story
A modern tragedy, this story has had a great impact on race relations in America. Emmett Till's kidnapping and murder, a grotesque crime in a Southern backwater that became the catalyst for the civil rights movement, is explained in this dramatic narrative by the cousin who was present every step of the way. Simeon Wright saw and heard his cousin Emmett whistle at Caroline Bryant at a grocery store and slept in the...

By (author) Simeon Wright; Herb Boyd

ISBN-13: 9781556527838 ; ISBN-10: 1556527837

Price: £16.99 £15.29 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid (Hardback - 3 Feb 2010)

New Social Movements in the African Diaspora
In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. This account of these social movements include action in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and the United States.

Edited by Leith Mullings

ISBN-13: 9780230621398 ; ISBN-10: 0230621392

Price: £62.00 £47.04 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI & the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Hardback - 22 Dec 2009)

Assassination of Fred Hampton
Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Documenting the entire 14-year process of bringing the killers to justice, this chronicle also depicts the 18-month court trial in detail. Revealing Hampton himself in a new light, this examination presents him as a dynamic community leader whose...

By (author) Jeffrey Haas

ISBN-13: 9781556527654 ; ISBN-10: 1556527659

Price: £22.50 £17.55 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America's New Leadership (Paperback / softback - 30 Dec 2009)

Barack Obama and African American Empowerment
This book examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the United States, as part of the continuum of African American political leaders. Barack Obama and the African-American Empowerment examines the evolution of black...

Edited by Manning Marable; Kristen Clarke

ISBN-13: 9780230620520 ; ISBN-10: 0230620523

Price: £18.99 £17.09 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies (Paperback / softback - 1 Nov 2009)

Still Brave
A definitive guide to race and gender from the pioneers of black women's studies. Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walkerηfrom the pioneers of black women’s studies comes Still Brave, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today. Including Alice Walker’s groundbreaking elucidation of the term “womanist,” discussions of...

Edited by Frances Smith Foster; Stanlie M. James; Beverly Guy-Sheftall

ISBN-13: 9781558616110 ; ISBN-10: 155861611X

Price: £19.35 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Paperback / softback - 3 Dec 2009)

Africa's Children
Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, "Africa's Children" is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists and landed in Shelburne in...

By (author) Sharon Robart-Johnson

ISBN-13: 9781550028621 ; ISBN-10: 1550028626

Price: £16.99 £13.59 Not Available

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics (Paperback / softback - 1 Dec 2008)

Waiting for Lightning to Strike
A strong voice emerging from the Black Left. The year that saw an African American run for the presidencyηas a viable contenderηfor the first time in US history also witnessed a truly remarkable silenceηone that was scarcely coincidental. In all the millions of words written about the political ascent of one black man, there was virtually nothing about the descent of black leadership into well-nigh...

By (author) Kevin Alexander Gray

ISBN-13: 9781904859918 ; ISBN-10: 1904859917

Price: £12.00 £9.60 Not Available

Razor (Paperback / softback - 1 Nov 2009)

Razor

By (author) Amiri Baraka

ISBN-13: 9780883783009 ; ISBN-10: 0883783002

Price: £17.47 Not Available

Greenwood: A Novel (Paperback / softback - 31 Oct 2009)

Greenwood

By (author) Herbert G. McCann

ISBN-13: 9780883782972 ; ISBN-10: 0883782979

Price: £17.47 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (Paperback / softback - 1 Nov 2009)

You Don't Play With Revolution
A rich collection of unpublished lectures by one of the Left's most important anti-colonial thinkers. You DonΣt Play With Revolution collects seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered during his stay in Montréal in 1967-1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures...

By (author) C.L.R. James; Edited by David Austin

ISBN-13: 9781904859932 ; ISBN-10: 1904859933

Price: £14.00 £11.20 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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HOME SPACES, STREET STYLES: CONTESTING POWER AND IDENTITY IN A SOUTH AFRICAN CITY (Paperback - 1 Oct 2009)

HOME SPACES, STREET STYLES
Assess how social and political changes have transformed the areas of East London, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960s and 1970s and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980s and 1990s. This title is based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s.

By (author) LESLIE J. BANK

ISBN-13: 9780745323275 ; ISBN-10: 0745323278

Price: £18.99 £17.09 Not Available

Grace Under Fire: Barbara Jordan's Rhetoric of Watergate, Patriotism, and Equality (Paperback / softback - 26 Sep 2009)

Grace Under Fire

By (author) Brenda Eatman Aghahowa

ISBN-13: 9780883782804 ; ISBN-10: 0883782804

Price: £12.99 £10.39 Not Available

Black Police Associations: An Analysis of Race and Ethnicity within Constabularies (Hardback - 24 Sep 2009)

Black Police Associations
Professor Holdaway takes a sociological and theoretical approach to analyse the new phenomenon of Black Police Associations established in the majority of constabularies in England and Wales, describing and analysing how race and ethnicity are constructed and sustained within constabularies and how they have changed during the last two decades. Black Police Associations analyses the new phenomenon of Black Police...

By (author) Simon Holdaway

ISBN-13: 9780199573448 ; ISBN-10: 0199573441

Price: £50.00 £42.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies & Rituals for the Body & Spirit (Paperback / softback - 8 Sep 2009)

Healing Grove
Exploring the practical uses, spiritual traditions, and historical aspects of trees in the heritage of African Americans, this therapeutic guide offers ways to rediscover and implement natural practices in 21st-century daily life. As diverse as a sacred wood, topics covered include everything from hunting, gathering, and processing to natural divination, animal omens, oracles, signs, and forest medicine for...

By (author) Stephanie Rose Bird

ISBN-13: 9781556527647 ; ISBN-10: 1556527640

Price: £15.99 £12.79 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Black Routes to Islam (Paperback / softback - 4 Sep 2009)

Black Routes to Islam
Starting with the 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, gender dynamics, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American Islam with the ongoing war in Iraq The Critical Black Studies Series celebrates its fourth volume, Black Routes to...

Edited by Manning Marable; Hishaam D. Aidi

ISBN-13: 9781403977816 ; ISBN-10: 140397781X

Price: £19.99 £17.99 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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