Category: Black Studies

• Book Review: Black Women Slaves Who Nourished A Nation

  

  The following is from a book review of Black Women Slaves Who Nourished A Nation: Artistic Renderings of Wet Nurses in Brazil by Kimberly Cleveland in the journal Hispanic American Historical Review: A timely contribution…certainly be of great interest to historians and other scholars studying slavery, abolition, postabolition, and African diaspora…a well-written, carefully edited book…

  Cambria Press

  May 19, 2022

  Africana Studies, Black Studies, Cambria Press, History

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• 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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• Essential Books on Slavery on Amazon Kindle

  Here are a few outstanding Cambria Press books you can get (or give) on Amazon Kindle: African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World by Ana Lucia Araujo (ed) $29.99 “The memory of slavery and the slave trade has strongly influenced how history is understood. What is remembered and why…

  Cambria Press

  December 22, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American history, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Culture, Latin American Studies, Studies in Slavery

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• #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

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

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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

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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

• 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