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  • African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World

    This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.

  • The “Coming White Minority”: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.?

    The “Coming White Minority”: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.? Racism Review: scholarship and activism towards racial justice 2015-08-31 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden and Distinguished Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University To understand the so-called “browning of America” and “coming white minority,” we should accent the larger societal context, the big-picture context including systemic racism.…

  • Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election

    Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies Volume 35, Issue 3, 2014 pages 23-38 DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2014.955867 Kioko Ireri, Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Though Barack Obama was the first African American presidential nominee for a…

  • An Intellectual History of Black Women

    An Intellectual History of Black Women Katharine Cornell Theater 54 Spring Street Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts 02568 Sunday, 2015-08-02, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Harvard University Discussants: Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and…

  • Layers of Meaning in Mr. Obama’s Kenya Trip

    Layers of Meaning in Mr. Obama’s Kenya Trip The New York Times 2015-07-23 The Editorial Board Nairobi, Kenya (Credit: Ben Curtis/Associated Press) There often comes a time in the lives of Americans when they feel drawn to explore their roots, a quest that might take them on a pilgrimage to the “old country,” whether County…

  • The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest

    The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest HarperCollins 2002 416 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0002570653 Paperback ISBN: 0006531261 Aminatta Forna An evening in 1974 when she was ten years old, Aminatta Forna opened the door to two men, members of the state secret police, come to take her father. A year later he…

  • Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature by Diana Adesola Mafe (review)

    Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature by Diana Adesola Mafe (review) Research in African Literatures Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2015 pages 166-168 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida Mafe, Diana Adesola, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and…

  • Lopsided Afro

    Lopsided Afro Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-05-04 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Self Determination. I never realised how practical those words would become for my life until I started to explore the world beyond the safety of my University. Work spaces where the politics…

  • Trevor Noah’s World

    Trevor Noah’s World The Atlantic 2015-04-05 Douglas Foster, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What makes The Daily Show’s new host unique—according to South African comics CAPE TOWN, South Africa—When word circulated on Monday that standup comic Trevor Noah had been chosen to succeed Jon Stewart as host of…

  • Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon

    Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Ohio University Press 2014 336 pages 6 × 9 in., 7 b&w photos, 4 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2120-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2119-2 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4503-7 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of California, Davis Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of…