Category: ASA: African Studies Association
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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…
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#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…
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#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…
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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…
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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…