Category: International Studies
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#ASA2014 Featured Author: Ana Lucia Araujo
Ana Lucia Araujo, professor of history and director of graduate studies at Howard University, has published highly acclaimed books on slavery. Two of these books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade are the perfect studies for this year’s African Studies Association annual meeting theme. Her interdisciplinary books, which have earned…
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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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International Relations and the Arctic coeditor Robert Murray’s interview on Alberta Primetime
Robert Murray, Vice President of Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, was on Alberta Primetime and interviewed about International Relations and the Arctic, a book he coedited with Anita Dey Nuttall, the associate director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute at the University of Alberta. As the interviewer noted, “Eight countries have claims…
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Sanchita Saxena’s interviews by Voice of America and the Wilson Center on her new book
The launch of Sanchita Saxena’s new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, at the Wilson Center was an extremely successful one. The Wilson Center highlighted the book again in an interview of Dr. Saxena, who is the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) and the Director of the Chowdhury Center…
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Cambria Press APSA 2014 Book Highlights
Check out the #APSA2014 book highlights! Pick up a catalog at the Cambria Press booth 524 at APSA. Stay posted! LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook, followCambria Press on Twitter, and share this news from Cambria Press on Google+! Visit the Cambria Press website
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Obamacare: Lessons from the North
A recent Huffington Post article reports that “one big hurdle to future sign-ups is the public’s chronically poor understanding of how key parts of Obamacare can help low- and middle-income people afford coverage. … And public opinion about the law itself is negative.” Given how there are still an estimated 54 million Americans are still uninsured, improving public understanding of the…