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Cambria Press author and series editor Ana Lucia Araujo interviewed for Latino Americans spotlight!
ByCambria Press November 5, 2013November 5, 2013

Cambria Press author and series editor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) was interviewed for a spotlight segment on Latino Americans. In the interview, Dr. Araujo commented on the similarities between her native Brazil and the United States, in particular the histories of slavery in both countries which has resulted in…

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RMMLA 2013 Annual Convention — A Great Success!
ByCambria Press October 15, 2013October 15, 2013

With much gratitude to the RMMLA committee, in particular Joy Landeira and Christopher Lupke, Cambria Press had a very productive and enjoyable time at the RMMLA 2013 annual convention. Cambria Press director Toni Tan was heartened to meet many scholars daring enough to push the envelope when it comes to scholarship, given…

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President Obama visits slave site studied by Ana Lucia Araujo in Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic
ByCambria Press July 2, 2013

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…

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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”
ByCambria Press June 12, 2013

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…

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Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2013) Congress in Washington DC Exceeded Expectations!
ByCambria Press June 10, 2013June 11, 2013

Cambria Press is pleased to report that the LASA 2013 annual conference in Washington D.C. last week was our busiest yet and exceeded our expectations! There was great interest in our Latin American titles which have earned great reviews, as well as the two series which were highlighted for the…

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Cambria Press LASA 2013: ¡Grandes cosas están sucediendo!
ByCambria Press May 23, 2013

Cambria Press is with the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in the exciting countdown to the 31st LASA International Congress! ¡Grandes cosas están sucediendo! Please come meet us at the Cambria Press booth (#807) and browse our titles; pick up a beautiful, complimentary tote bag (while supplies last); and take…

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Cambria Press Book Highlight: Rave Review by the Journal of Latin American Studies for Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade!
ByCambria Press May 23, 2013May 24, 2013

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…

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Trauma Scholars: Cambria Press author Eugene Arva will be presenting at the Trauma: Theory and Practice Conference in Lisbon!
ByCambria Press March 19, 2013

Cambria Press author Dr. Eugene Arva will be presenting at the Trauma: Theory and Practice Conference in Lisbon, which begins tomorrow! Dr. Arva’s book The Traumatic Imagination: Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction, which was published in 2011, has been praised by Professor Wendy B. Faris (University of Texas at…

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Outstanding Cambria Press Book Review! Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade highly praised by the Journal of Latin American Studies!
ByCambria Press January 16, 2013January 18, 2013

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on the laudatory review of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images by the Journal of Latin American Studies. The review states that: “The scholarly quality of the dozen essays included here is uniformly high … The quality and variety of the…

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Cambria Press New Series! Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present
ByCambria Press September 23, 2012September 24, 2012

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:…

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