Category: ASA: African Studies Association

• Press Release & Promo Trailer for Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future

  See the press release for Cambria Press for Transatlantic Memories of Slavery. Watch the trailer for this book from Cambria Press. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to stay posted on the release of this book. See the Cambria Press website for more books. See another related publication from Cambria Press: Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations Both…

  Cambria Press

  July 20, 2015

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

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• Ida B. Wells Birthday Tribute: Black Women as Custodians of History

  Cambria Press Book Highlight in honor of Ida B. Wells’s Birthday “Like W. E. B. Du Bois, black activist and journalist Ida B. Wells also chose to become an interpreter of facts in her writings about lynching at the turn of the twentieth century [… and] called African Americans to write and distribute accurate histories that would…

  Cambria Press

  July 16, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Studies in Slavery, Women’s Studies

  African American, African disapora, Ana Lucia Araujo, black women, Black Women as Custodians of History, Cambria Press, emancipation, History, Ida B. Wells, lynching, memory of slavery, Paula Sanmartín, slavery, social activist, W. E. B. Du Bois

• #BlackHistoryMonth: In Celebration

  Many notable African Americans hailed from Memphis, including Veronica Coleman, Tennessee’s first black U.S. Attorney General. In her book Notable Black Memphians, Miriam DeCosta-Willis (a notable African American herself as the first faculty member of Memphis State University) provides a biographical and historical study which traces the evolution of a major Southern city through the…

  Cambria Press

  February 5, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Culture, History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Public Health, Theatre

  #BlackHistoryMonth, African American, Afro-Americans in New York, Afro-Cuban, Ana Lucia Araujo, Angola, Black Studies, Brazil, Harlem, Medea, Miriam Decosta-Willis, slave narrative, slavery, testimonial narrative, testimonio

• Toyin Falola (UT Austin) launches the Cambria African Studies Series with Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt University)

  Cambria Press is proud to announce that Toyin Falola, the the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Moses Ochonu, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, have launched the Cambria African Studies Series, which will serve as a much-needed…

  Cambria Press

  November 18, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History

  Africa, African, Cambria African Studies Series, Moses Ochonu, Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University

• #ASA2014 Highlight! Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing

  This week, we will be featuring books that year’s exemplify the African Studies Association annual meeting theme “Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation.” One such book is Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing by Paula Sanmartín. “African American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has stated that…

  Cambria Press

  November 17, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature

  #ASA2014, abolitionism, Africa, African American, African diaspora, Afro-Cuban, atlantic slave trade, black female, black mother, black slavery, black women, black women writers, black women’s resistance, Cuban poet, Cuban Revolution, Custodians of History, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, Dessa Rose, Fugitive Slave Act, Georgina Herrera, Harriet Jacobs, Henry Louis Gates, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself, Lydia Maria Child, miscegenation, Nancy Morejón, national identity, neo-slave narrative, racist stereotype, Reyita sencillamente Testimonio de una negra cubana nonagenaria, sexist stereotype, Sherley Ann Williams, slave narrative, slave writings, testimonio

• Outstanding Book Review: The Nigeria-Biafra War by Chima Korieh is “worthy and invaluable.”

    The Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory by Chima J. Korieh (who also coedited Minorities and the State in Africa) has been praised by the Journal of Asian and African Studies for being “worthy and invaluable.” The book review stated that “Korieh’s research disclosed hard documentary evidence showing the names of notable Hausa-Fulani…

  Cambria Press

  November 3, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science

  academic publisher, Africa, Biafra, Cambria Press, Chima Korieh, genocide, History, Igbo, international politics, Nigeria, war

• Why is Africa important to the rest of the world?

  President Barack Obama recently declared that the future stability of the world depends on African nations’ prosperity and self-reliance. Reinforcing this is Toyin Falola, leading authority in African studies, who stated that “scholars and policy makers have the obligation to show Africa and the world how to succeed.” This is why African studies continues to…

  Cambria Press

  October 27, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science, Sociology

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• Cambria Press New African Studies Series by Toyin Falola (UT Austin) and Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt University)

  Cambria Press is proud to announce a new series which will be led by Toyin Falola, the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin , and Moses Ochonu, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. The Cambria African Studies Series will…

  Cambria Press

  September 23, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, History, International Studies, Political Science

  Africa, African, African diaspora, African Studies Association, Africanist, Africans, Moses Ochonu, Toyin Falola

• Brazil’s African Soul (BBC) – The impact of the slave trade continues

  A recent BBC report “Brazil’s African Soul” on June 4 states that “African culture brought over during the slave trade still influences modern Salvador in myriad ways, from unique art forms to ongoing social struggles.” This is not surprising at all; as Ana Lucia Araujo pointed out in her book Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and…

  Cambria Press

  June 10, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Culture, History, Latin American Studies

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• President Obama visits slave site studied by Ana Lucia Araujo in Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic

  President Barack Obama’s recent visit to  Goree Island, Senegal, was understandably a very emotional one, as it was for Nelson Mandela years ago. Many news reports indicate that the homage paid to the House of Slaves has caused a furor because of disputes on whether is an authentic historical site for slavery. In Public Memory of…

  Cambria Press

  July 2, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American Politics, ASA: African Studies Association, Book Review, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science

  academic publisher, Africa, Ana Lucia Araujo, Barack Obama, Cambria Press, Goree island, House of Slaves, Howard University, Journal of African History, Nelson Mandela, Senegal, slave, slave ship, slavery