Tag: ethnic studies

• 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…

  Cambria Press

  May 8, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, Book Review, CHOICE Recommendation, Culture, Current Events, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies

  academic publisher, Africa, African diaspora, Ana Lucia Araujo, atlantic slave trade, Brazil, Brazilian and Latin American studies, Cambria Press, collective memory, cultural anthropology, democracy in Latin America, ethnic studies, LASA, LASA 2014 Democracy and Memory, Latin America, Latin American Studies Association, memory studies, public memory, slavery, slavery studies, testimonio

• 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…

  Cambria Press

  June 12, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, anthropology, Book Review, History, International Studies, Literature

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• AAS 2013 Highlight: Cambria Sinophone World Series (Editor: Victor H. Mair)

  Cambria Press  will be showcasing five new books for the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Professor Victor H. Mair at the 2013 Asian Studies Association (AAS) annual conference in San Diego next week! These new books, which were published by Cambria Press between August 2012  and January 2013, are: Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities…

  Cambria Press

  March 13, 2013

  AAS, Asian Studies, Book Review, Literature, MLA, New Scholarly Books, Philosophy

  AAS 2013 San Diego, Asian, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Cambria Sinophone World Series, Chang Kuei-hsing, China, Chinese, Chinese overseas studies, Classic of Changes, Confucius, David K. Schneider, diaspora studies, Du Fu, E. K. Tan, ethnic studies, Gao Xingjian, I-ching, Jin Shengtan, Kuo Pao Kun, Li Zhi, literary studies, Liu Zaifu, Mabel Lee, Nanyang, Nobel Prize, Scott Davis, Sinophone, Sinophone studies, Southeast Asian studies, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, transnational studies, Victor Mair, Vyvyane Loh, Yijing

• Read the author interview with Professor William Dalessio on his recently published book, Are We What We Eat?

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Are We What We Eat? Food and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature by William Dalessio is now available. Below is a transcript of the Q&A session with Professor Dalessio.  ************************ 1. Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write Are We What We…

  Cambria Press

  June 6, 2012

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Culture, Literature, Women’s Studies

  American culture, Andrew X. Pham, Black Dog of Fate, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, Chicago, culinary signification, ethnic American literature, ethnic studies, ethnicity, food culture, Fran Ross, gender studies, Gish Jen, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Italian-American, Julia Alvarez, Mona in the Promised Land, Oreo, Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World, Paper Fish, Peter Balakian, race studies, Tina DeRosa, Typical American