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BRASA 2014 – Catch Ana Lucia Araujo’s Session this Saturday at King’s College!

Catch Ana Lucia Araujo’s session at BRASA! Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) will be chairing a panel on slavery this Saturday at the BRASA Congress. Dr. Araujo is the author and editor of Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade–both books have earned rave reviews in the top journals. Dr. Araujo is also the general editor...

Cambria Press New Book for African studies, Latin American studies, slavery studies, and women’s studies

At the 2014 LASA congress last month, there was much excitement not only for Howard University history professor Ana Lucia Araujo’s two highly praised books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but also her series, Slavery: Past and Present, because the inaugural title Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. ” – Abraham Lincoln

  Although declared 156  years ago, Abraham Lincoln‘s words still resonate today–some would say, more than ever. This famous House Divided speech was made by Abraham Lincoln, who was unafraid to oppose slavery in spite of its wide acceptance and immense pressure to change his position. This resolute stance eventually led to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which laid the...

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 Perpetrators in the South Atlantic...

LASA 2014: Democracy and Memory

The theme for this year’s LASA congress–democracy and memory–is a highly important one which presses scholars to consider critical questions regarding the impact of collective memory and institutional development. From the LASA website, these questions are: Does this past, shaped by collective memories that are themselves constructed of narratives, shared experiences, and interpretations of everyday life, as well as of...

Cambria Press will be at the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. – Visit booth 206!

Cambria Press will be at the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. Visit the Cambria Press booth (206) in the exhibit hall to browse books such as: Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic Public by Ana Lucia Araujo (“An important and provocative work. No other study so thoroughly chronicles the fraught and ambiguous history of...

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 Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in...

Cambria Press Book Review: The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora is “a necessary text for all institutional libraries” and “”a valuable addition to the personal library of any scholar”

Cambria Press congratulates Antonio Olliz Boyd on another great review of his book The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context by the journal New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, which praises the book because the author “offers a new way to approach critical race theory.And he takes a great leap forward when he includes the results...

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