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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist
£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529908664 | ISBN 10: 1529908663
A 2023 POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES) 'GROUND-BREAKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'UNIVERSAL AND TIMELY' Elif Shafak | 'IMPORTANT' Sathnam Sanghera | 'QUIETLY RADICAL' Evening Standard | 'INTIMATE' Guardian What can ancestral ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141990491 | ISBN 10: 014199049x
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world. To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781578596881 | ISBN 10: 1578596882
Achievement, pride, and accomplishments. Change, progress, and pioneers. Â Hard-won victories. Barrier-breaking triumphs. Society-changing feats. Inspirational people. Remarkable people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Fi ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786992772 | ISBN 10: 1786992779
Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activ ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349700564 | ISBN 10: 0349700567
AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK. These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788731157 | ISBN 10: 1788731158
A remarkable book on the international operations of racism and the global meaning of Black Power. In this classic work published in the heady days of anti-colonial revolution, Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of em ... more
View book details£35.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781138046610 | ISBN 10: 1138046612
The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974’s pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways.  This new collection of essays revisi ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786992789 | ISBN 10: 1786992787
One of Britain’s most highly acclaimed Black educators presents the history of Black radicalism, reclaiming it for the twenty-first century. Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistanc ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971482 | ISBN 10: 1620971488
With a foreword by Khalil Gibran Muhammad. The fully illustrated companion to a major exhibit at New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a sweeping fiftieth-anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America and around ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358374 | ISBN 10: 0822358379
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic foru ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781380147 | ISBN 10: 1781380147
During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and ‘top men’, working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merch ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781606995624 | ISBN 10: 1606995626
This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature black characters from all over the world over the last century, and the result is a fascinating journey to, if not enlightenment, then at least away from the horre ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846272875 | ISBN 10: 1846272874
1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions ... more
View book details£20.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780230337558 | ISBN 10: 0230337554
"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846945366 | ISBN 10: 1846945364
A search for the truth about a distant unsolved murder. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. One of them plunged a knife into his heart. When the po ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844674756 | ISBN 10: 1844674754
"One of the finest studies of slavery and abolition."(Eric Foner) In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of exotic products and popular pleasures. Some two and half million black slaves, imprisoned ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752456102 | ISBN 10: 0752456105
Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London an ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906190170 | ISBN 10: 1906190178
Beacons of Liberation was first published in 1995. It was themed on a mural at the Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre in Paddington, London, depicting twelve historical Black leaders; six men and six women who had advanced the cause of African liberty by the ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389195 | ISBN 10: 1934389196
What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez's crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito - that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him - that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexi ... more
View book details£62.00 hardback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780299172503 | ISBN 10: 0299172503
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the high price of this book it is not a title we would have in stock, but we can order it on request. Please also note that it is probably quite a heavy book, and so postage costs would be higher than average. It is not available ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780099887805 | ISBN 10: 0099887800
What is classical about Classical Civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasi ... more
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