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Cambria Press Book Highlight: Rave Review by the Journal of Latin American Studies for Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade!

Cambria Press is pleased to highlight another rave review for one of Ana Lucia Araujo’s books, Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images. The Journal of Latin American Studies lauds the book because “the scholarly quality of the dozen essays included here is uniformly high” and because “the quality and variety of the contributions make this book...

Fascinating TV Interview with Dr. Adams Bodomo on Africans in China + Talks at Shanghai Normal University and Tsinghua University

Cambria Press is very proud to note that Dr. Adams Bodomo–as the author of Africans in China, the first book to study this growing phenomenon (as opposed to what is usually covered: Chinese in Africa)–is now the expert to consult on this fascinating topic. His expertise comes not only from his extensive study but also his own experience from living there for...

AAS 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Reviews for Cambria Press Titles!

In addition to the titles in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, the following titles in Asian Studies are being highlighted for the 2013 Asian Studies Association (AAS) annual conference in San Diego (click on links for more details): Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair (Winner of the the Sarasvati...

Outstanding Cambria Press Book Review! The China Quarterly hails Africans in China as “essential reading for scholars”!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Adams Bodomo on the outstanding book review of Africans in China by The China Quarterly. The review states that: “Scholars from a variety of countries and disciplines have produced recent essays on the African presence in China … They have adopted a more nuanced approach than the media and none more so than Adams Bodomo in this pioneering, full-length...

New Book Launched at the 2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting!

Cambria Press author Professor Amadou Fofana’s book, The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, was published JUST IN TIME for the  2012  African Studies Association annual meeting!  ASA attendees kept asking for the book and were pleased to be able to browse it. Nobody, of course, was more pleased than Professor Fofana himself who saw his book for...

The Memory of Slavery and Human Trafficking Today – Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present (General Editor: Ana Lucia Araujo)

This new series by Cambria Press will feature high-quality, innovative, and peer-reviewed monographs and edited books that examine the history of slavery and how its memories and legacies remain alive in various regions of the globe. With this aim, the series will include studies on contemporary slavery and human trafficking as well. The geographical scope of the series is broad. It...

Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery by Afro-Asia – See this book at the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia!

Public Memory of Slavery:  Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic by Ana Lucia Araujo has earned yet another rave review! Afro-Asia commends the book for having “the virtue of pioneer works” and states that “one of the most important contributions of the text is the constant confrontation between the knowledge consolidated by the historiography and the processes of memory disputes”. Be...

Cambria Press New Series! Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present

Cambria Press is proud to announce a new, exciting series–the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present, which will have Professor  Ana Lucia Araujo (author of the highly praised book Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic and editor of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images. The series will feature high-quality, innovative,...

Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery — Path-breaking Work of Original Research!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on yet another excellent review of her book, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic, by The Public Historian. The journal review describes Professor Araujo’s book as “a path-breaking work of original research in which Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates the processes, politics, and economics of forgetting and remembering slavery...

Book Highlights for Latin American Studies (LASA 2012)

Cambria Press would like to highlight a few books, which have garnered excellent book reviews, for scholars in Latin American studies. These books would be valuable additions to academic libraries not only for their Latin American studies collections but also for their history and literature collections as well. In addition to the two recent posted reviews on Cuban–Latin American Relations...

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