Tag: testimonio

• #BlackHistoryMonth: In Celebration

  Many notable African Americans hailed from Memphis, including Veronica Coleman, Tennessee’s first black U.S. Attorney General. In her book Notable Black Memphians, Miriam DeCosta-Willis (a notable African American herself as the first faculty member of Memphis State University) provides a biographical and historical study which traces the evolution of a major Southern city through the…

  Cambria Press

  February 5, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Culture, History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Public Health, Theatre

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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…

  Cambria Press

  November 17, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature

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• 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

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