Category: ASA: African Studies Association

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Majimbo in Kenya’s Past

  Congratulations to Professor Robert Maxon (West Virginia University) on the outstanding review of his book, Majimbo in Kenya’s Past: Federalism in the 1940s and 1950s, in International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS), which states that: In Robert Maxon’s welcome book, Majimbo in Kenya’s Past: Federalism in the 1940s and 1950s, losers come front and center.…

  Cambria Press

  November 1, 2018

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Cambria Press

  African history, constitutional history Africa, decolonization Africa, IJAHS, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Kenya, Majimbo, Robert Maxon

• #lutopelomuseunacional: The Museo Nacional de Brasil and how it preserved African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil

  The loss of the Museo Nacional de Brasil (National Museum of Brazil) is simply devastating. As The New York Times noted “some items in the collection are irreplaceable to science, as well as the country’s national memory.” Long before the tragic fire, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, a Brazilian historian and researcher at the CNPq/MCT (Brazilian…

  Cambria Press

  September 6, 2018

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, ASA: African Studies Association, Cambria Press, History, Latin American Studies, Studies in Slavery

  #lutopelomuseunacional, African artifacts, Africana museum collection, Afro Brazilian, Alfred Mocquery, Ana Lucia Araujo, Brotherhood of Rosário, colonialism, Dahomey, Heloísa Torres, João Baptista de Lacerda, Jorge Villares, King Adandozan, Ladislau Netto, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Museo Nacional de Brasil, national memory, National Museum Africana, National Museum of Brazil, postslave society, Prince Dom João, Roquette Pinto

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Transatlantic Memories of Slavery

  Congratulations to Professors  Elisa Bordin and Anna Scacchi on the glowing review of their book, Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future, by the European Journal of American Studies. The following are excerpts from the book review. “With great courage, sharp intuition and professional dedication they have tackled some of the most controversial issues…

  Cambria Press

  May 25, 2016

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Book Review, Cambria Press, Film Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, Performing Arts, Studies in Slavery, university books

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• Cambria Press Book Excerpt from “Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition”

  From Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition edited by Walter P. Collins, III: Another major event in Sheri’s life that shows the indelible marks of Lagos on her psyche is the episode in which Sheri fights back and beats up the brigadier when he abuses her physically. Atta’s deliberate use…

  Cambria Press

  December 9, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, MLA

  African Studies, Everything Good Will Come, Lagos, Sefi Atta, women writers

• Cambria Author & Series Editor to Watch: Toyin Falola (University of Texas at Austin) is President of the African Studies Association

  At this year’s African Studies Association (ASA) annual conference, Cambria Press author and general editor of the Cambria African Studies Series, Toyin Falola (the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin) will deliver his lecture “Emerging Themes in Contemporary African Diaspora…

  Cambria Press

  November 16, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Cambria Press

  #ASA2015, academic publisher, Africa, African diaspora, African Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, slavery, Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin

• Black Hero Nat Turner, His Legacy, and the Memory of Slave History

  More than two centuries ago, black hero Nat Turner was born on this day.  Yet, as Elisa Bordin and Anna Scacchi note in their groundbreaking new book, Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future that “Unlike other black enslaved heroes and fighters against slavery, whose monuments can be found all over the other Americas, there is…

  Cambria Press

  October 2, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American history, ASA: African Studies Association

  Abraham Lincoln, African American, black hero, black heroes, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Django Unchained, Great Emancipator, Kenya Cagle, Latin America, Nat Turner, popular culture, public memory, Quentin Tarantino, slave history, slavery memory

• #ASALH100: Cambria Author & Slavery Series Editor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) at 2 Sessions

  Cambria Press Author & Slavery Series Editor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) will be at two sessions at the centennial meeting and conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Cambria Publications by Dr. Araujo (more reviews at http://www.cambriapress.com): Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South…

  Cambria Press

  September 24, 2015

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• President Abraham Lincoln and Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on Slavery

  One hundred and fifty-three years ago on this day, President Abraham Lincoln had issued a preliminary proclamation warning that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state that did not end its rebellion against the Union by January 1, 1863. Today the history and memory of slavery is an important area of…

  Cambria Press

  September 22, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American history, Ana Lucia Araujo, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Book Review, Cambria Press, History

  Abraham Lincoln, African diaspora, African Studies, Africana, atlantic slave trade, Brazil, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria review, emancipation, history of slavery, president, presidential proclamation, public memory, slave, Slave studies, slavery, South Atlantic, translatlantic

• Cambria Press Publication AFRICANS IN CHINA is one of five shortlisted for Africa-Asia Book Prize

  Cambria Press congratulates Adams Bodomo on his book, Africans in China, being one of five shortlisted for Africa-Asia Book Prize. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See the Cambria Press website for more books. #AfricanDiaspora

  Cambria Press

  August 6, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, ASA: African Studies Association

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• Cambria Press New Publication: #Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations

  Cambria Press announces a new publication in the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present Series by Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University). “One cannot extricate the diasporic experiences of Haitians in Miami or Nigerians in Houston from the larger political and social climate of today’s world, which transcends national, regional, and international borders and connects…

  Cambria Press

  August 5, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, American Politics, anthropology, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Cambria Press

  African diaspora, African migration, Africana, Africans, Africans in Europe, An Elegy for Easterly, Ana Lucia Araujo, Angers, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria Studies in Slavery, Cameroon, Charles V, Christiane Taubira, Conseil des Communautés Africaines en Belgique et en Europe, Danielle Porter Sanchez, former slave, globalization, Harare North, Juan Latino, Latin professor, memory of slavery, Paul Biya, people of color, racism, slavery, social justice, Steve McQueen, Toyin Falola, Twelve Years a Slave, Zimbabwe