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£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
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114867 | ISBN 10: 1529114861
'A beautiful book about nature... I recommend it' Afua Hirsch
A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.
Unearthed is the story of how, after years of a troubled rel ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781409189282 | ISBN 10: 1409189287
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives – but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book. ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529071061 | ISBN 10: 1529071062
Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards
Baroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children’s television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914420283 | ISBN 10: 1914420284
Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown’s two years’ worth of travel searching for “home”.
“Lesley-Ann Brown has a brave voice and a keen eye, offering an unflinching vie ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398504455 | ISBN 10: 1398504459
'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times
'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail
In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing bio ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241994573 | ISBN 10: 0241994578
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis.
Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully toda ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781642598407 | ISBN 10: 1642598402
“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” — Claudia Tate, from the introduction
Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Bl ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781837820375 | ISBN 10: 1837820376
Reclaim ownership of your health, rewrite the narrative surrounding body image and restore your right to healing, safety and self-love.
For too long Black women have been left out of discussions about body image, food, health and wellness. B ... more
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£22.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472286000 | ISBN 10: 1472286006
Join the wellness revolution by Black women, for Black women.
Take Care prioritises Black women and their experiences and encourages them to take care of themselves in order to bring their best self into the world. A space for Black women ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571373192 | ISBN 10: 0571373194
A short, staggering collection of essays from ‘one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated’ (New Statesman).
‘A woman’s defiant fight to write.‘ Observer
Being categorised as black and female ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914344015 | ISBN 10: 1914344014
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay is a timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world and provides a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count.& ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241997000 | ISBN 10: 0241997003
Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major international collection celebrates their contributions to literature and international culture.
Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784884963 | ISBN 10: 1784884960
Maya Angelou's Guide to Hope is an illustrated guide to how we can all spread a little more hope.
Including 50 simple acts, from giving words of encouragement to extending a helping hand or spending time with someone, and accompanying illust ... more
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£22.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781496738370 | ISBN 10: 1496738373
You’ve read White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist, but what comes next? The answer lies in this clear, actionable guide providing a vital 4-week program for becoming an ally who makes a real difference in the racial justice fight. Get the too ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913090593 | ISBN 10: 1913090590
A powerful celebration of the versatility and diversity of Black women's natural hair, A Quick Ting On The Black Girl Afro explores the rich cultural history of Black Women's Afros, their influence on popular culture, and the many ways in which Black ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529415315 | ISBN 10: 1529415314
Candice Brathwaite’s much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she’d been told when she was young and needed guidance.
I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993767 | ISBN 10: 0241993768
"A gorgeously exuberant account... writing that is natural and vivacious... a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read."(Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction)
Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She find ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781611808247 | ISBN 10: 1611808243
Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores the work and contributions of women of color across the fiber arts and crafts community. These conversations explore materials, belonging, identity, cult ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529148251 | ISBN 10: 1529148251
From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in.
Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class a ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241523551 | ISBN 10: 0241523559
"Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery"(Angela Y. Davis)
Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the pas ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014852 | ISBN 10: 034901485x
This book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body. It's about surviving in a world not made for me.
Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her A ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008486976 | ISBN 10: 0008486972
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.
According to fami ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008342654 | ISBN 10: 0008342652
An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane.
Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of tw ... more
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£10.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008470302 | ISBN 10: 0008470308
A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911590590 | ISBN 10: 1911590596
On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. Escorted by federal marshals past angry segregationist protesters, young Ruby attended William Frantz Elementary and e ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781620975763 | ISBN 10: 1620975769
A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press’s perennial seller Words of Fire.
"Briona Simone Jones’s anthology Mouths of Rain is an audacious, unapologetic ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781523092291 | ISBN 10: 1523092297
"Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women's voices… is a must-read, not only for Black girls, but fo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913348229 | ISBN 10: 1913348229
"This remarkable meditation on beautiful, human bodies formed by the violence of slavery and by colonial shame resists categorisation, even as it shows up the ways in which categories of race and identity are no more than empty methods of social cont ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529406283 | ISBN 10: 1529406285
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse...
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527851 | ISBN 10: 0857527851
"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. Race is the story of my life, ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008371975 | ISBN 10: 0008371970
Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and Freddie Harrel. In the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, but wholly its own, Girl is a provocative, heartbreaking and frequently hilarious collection o ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788738842 | ISBN 10: 1788738845
Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any Car ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783351855 | ISBN 10: 1783351853
***LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019***
How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years?
Amelia Gentleman's expose of the Windrush scandal shocked th ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241453506 | ISBN 10: 024145350x
"A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer"(Jackie Kay, New Statesman)
The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529039856 | ISBN 10: 1529039851
In The Lamplighter award-winning poet and Scottish Makar Jackie Kay takes us on a journey into the dark heart of Britain's legacy in the slave trade.
First produced as a play, on the page it reads as a profound and tragic multi-layered poem ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471194917 | ISBN 10: 1471194914
The Lead singer of multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie, solo artist, LGBTQ+ activist and all around trail blazer - Skin is a global icon, and she has been smashing stereotypes for over twenty-five years. Her journey from Brixton to one of t ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784883447 | ISBN 10: 1784883441
Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life. From being bullied at school to being objectified and humiliated in her dating life, Stephanie's response to discrimination has always been to change the narrative around bod ... more
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£22.50 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780807033555 | ISBN 10: 0807033553
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are — and have always been — instrumental in shaping our country.
In centering Black women’s stories, two award-wi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529118544 | ISBN 10: 1529118549
As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.
FOR BLACK GIRLS ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781770463486 | ISBN 10: 1770463488
AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST.
Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163231 | ISBN 10: 1788163230
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. Their defeats were bitter, but their triumphs beca ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781250112880 | ISBN 10: 1250112885
So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008306304 | ISBN 10: 0008306303
"Arguably the book for 2018"(Observer)
The long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.
Elle’s 12 addictive books you ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912565146 | ISBN 10: 1912565145
A FLY Girl’s Guide to University is a collection of memoirs, essays, poetry and prose from four women of colour who studied at the University of Cambridge. It is a multifaceted calling out of the wrongness underpinning their shared experience at Ca ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780807055373 | ISBN 10: 0807055379
A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagement.
In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural com ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115595 | ISBN 10: 1911115596
“We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.”
This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives t ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780525619772 | ISBN 10: 0525619771
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book. In this time ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781925418804 | ISBN 10: 1925418804
Singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, actress and iconoclast, Grace Jones is truly one of a kind, equal parts intriguing, intimidating and indefatigable.
From her early days as a model working with Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, her ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784708443 | ISBN 10: 1784708445
The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.
This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe’s life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781501157929 | ISBN 10: 1501157922
From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.
Fueled b ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780062666154 | ISBN 10: 0062666150
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vogue, Nylon, The Millions, Refinery29, the Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bitch Media, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Paperback Paris.
From one of the fie ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781590565551 | ISBN 10: 159056555x
In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism.
Using popular culture as a point of reference for their critiques, the Ko sister ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781503943391 | ISBN 10: 1503943399
Runners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for “Did Not Quit.”
Valerio has tied on her ru ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807088982 | ISBN 10: 0807088986
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.
What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008201326 | ISBN 10: 0008201323
The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller
Now a major motion picture.
Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathemati ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780822362951 | ISBN 10: 0822362953
The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically reposi ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471135217 | ISBN 10: 1471135217
Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such pu ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780957136762 | ISBN 10: 0957136765
In this new book of letters, 17 women share their experiences of growing up in the UK as a black female. Heartfelt and honest, they offer words of wisdom and encouragement to the next generation. Contributions from: Sinitta, Bianca Miller, Ms Dynamit ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473616257 | ISBN 10: 1473616255
An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.
When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happ ... more
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£24.50 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781469620916 | ISBN 10: 146962091x
Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the ... more
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£36.00 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781498205870 | ISBN 10: 1498205879
Black women are strong. At least that's what everyone says and how they are constantly depicted. But what, exactly, does this strength entail? And what price do Black women pay for it?
In this book, the author, a psychologist and pastoral theol ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781439911464 | ISBN 10: 1439911460
Unbought and Unbossed examines black womens literary and cultural production of the 1970s and early 1980s. Considering texts in the socio-cultural and historical moments of their production, Trimiko Melancon analyzes representations of black women t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780143106821 | ISBN 10: 0143106821
In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic pr ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784530426 | ISBN 10: 1784530425
Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party.
In t ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909807624 | ISBN 10: 1909807621
Standing on the corner of Michigan Avenue, in the middle of the biggest blizzard of the decade and at the height of the rush hour, I yelled into the driving snow and howling Arctic wind: OK! After playing the role of good daughter, great sister, best ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205855 | ISBN 10: 0300205856
Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the Biography/Autobiography category, sponored by JM Northern Media LLC.
Won an Honorable Mention for the 2013 New England Book Festival given by the JM Northern Media ... more
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£16.50 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781613745045 | ISBN 10: 1613745044
The Strong Black Woman has been a part of mainstream culture for centuries, as a myth, a goddess, a positive role model, a stereotype, and as a burden. In Fierce Angels, Sheri Parks explores the concept of the Strong Black Woman, its influence on p ... more
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£19.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187939 | ISBN 10: 0300187939
Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an in ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956240163 | ISBN 10: 095624016x
Claudia Jones was a smart, politically-wise, brilliant, transnational feminist, Pan Africanist theorist and cultural activist who brought together in her speeches and writings the politics that is now seen as a
necessary way of intersecting a variet ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086573 | ISBN 10: 1844086577
Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead u ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592217113 | ISBN 10: 1592217117
Constructing Incest Stories: Black Womens Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis.
The analysis of the process of the constructi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340963579 | ISBN 10: 0340963573
Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified ... more
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£25.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780822341161 | ISBN 10: 0822341166
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (19151964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in Londons Highgate Cemetery, to ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389201 | ISBN 10: 193438920x
There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she's already been there. Her presence is everywhere. Black Women for Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from an ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819609 | ISBN 10: 0753819600
The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.
This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spiritu ... more
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£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
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£20.99 paperback (1982) - ISBN 13: 9780912670959 | ISBN 10: 0912670959
Bibliographies and a collection of syllabi provide readers with essential classroom materials and a map for further research. Winner of the Outstanding Women of Color Award and the Women Educator's Curriculum Material Award.
"This is 'necessary brea ... more
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