This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movementthe 1955 lynching of Emmett Till';and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it' (The Atlantic).
Two classic Westmoreland novels from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authorBrenda JacksonTHE PROPOSALThe moment Jason Westmoreland meets Bella Bostwick, he wants her-and the land she's inherited.
When Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins was growing up, his mother routinely told him, "e;Long, you walk on a path cleared by others, so it is your responsibility to clear the path for others.
'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.
'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | 'ESSENTIAL' Jaspreet Kaur | 'INSPIRATIONAL' Sophie Williams | 'REVEALING' Tineka Smith | 'NECESSARY' Natalie Alexis LeeWhat does it mean to be mixed race in today's society?
A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.
*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.
'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.
A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian__________Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonc 's Lemonade and Black Is King.
'Unbearably moving' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe story of a young man's coming of age, a tender tribute to a life lost, and a devastating analysis of a broken system.
The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers.
The essential anti-racist book from one of the world's leading voices for change'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.
From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of HampshireIn the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire, close to where he was born.
Attribute wie heilig, sakral und vor allem tabu bezeichnen ein ambivalentes Phänomen, das sich die Moderne mit dem Bedeutungsspektrum des lateinischen 'sacer' erklärt hat: ehrwürdig und unantastbar, aber auch verworfen und unberührbar, strikt von der Sphäre des 'profanum' getrennt und irreduzibel anders.
How to Relocate is an essential and positive guide for anyone who spends time on Rightmove looking for that perfect new location and dreaming about escaping the safety of their humdrum life.
As Pep Guardiola shatters records and confounds the norms of English football and players such as David De Gea and David Silva light up the national game, Spanish stars are transforming the way English football is conceived.
Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population.
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917.
This book is geared toward all ages and gives step-by-step instructions on scores of crafts and outdoor skills cultivated by various Native American tribes over the centuries.
Examines his contribution as a philosopher and theologian to issues of racial and social justice and his drive to eradicate oppression through the doctrine of nonviolence.
By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "e;underdeveloped"e; status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America.
The story of how East Asians became "e;yellow"e; in the Western imagination-and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white.
Este libro es el resultado de una minuciosa investigación realizada por la autora, donde se retoman las voces de las mujeres nasas lideresas del resguardo de Huellas (Caloto, Cauca, Colombia) para describir sus relaciones con el territorio, así como sus vivencias producto de las violencias internas y externas que han sufrido en medio del conflicto armado colombiano.
Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Longman History Today Trustees' AwardLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeUnflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries - from Roman Britain to the Black Lives Matter protests.
As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates.
