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Hudson on The Racist Dawn of Capitalism | Boston Review
Peter James Hudson reviews three recent history of slavery and capitalism texts to place them in conversation with radical black scholarship and political thought, past and present: "Jaurès’s vision of economic questions as the primary engine of social and political change, his linking of capitalism with modernity, his casting of elites as historical actors—all these … Continue reading Hudson on The Racist Dawn of Capitalism | Boston Review
Eltis and Richardson Edited Volume on Slave Trade Database
Eltis, David, and David Richardson. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. A series of scholars of slavery and the slave trade join Eltis and Richardson for a study on the function and utility of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (available for use and … Continue reading Eltis and Richardson Edited Volume on Slave Trade Database
Bristol on Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom
Bristol, Douglas Walter. Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press Press, 2009. Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been "the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech." The reason, of … Continue reading Bristol on Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom
McIntosh on Yoruba Women and Work
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 2009 The Yoruba, one of the largest and most historically important ethnic groups in Nigeria, are noted for the economic activity, confidence, and authority of their women. Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change traces the history of women in Yorubaland from around … Continue reading McIntosh on Yoruba Women and Work
Fields-Black on Deep Roots of Rice Cultivation in West Africa and the Diaspora
Fields-Black, Edda L. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 2008. Gilbert, Erik. "Coastal Rice Farming Systems in Guinea and Sierra Leone, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. By Edda L. Fields-Black." The Journal of African History 50, no. 03 (2009): 437-438. From … Continue reading Fields-Black on Deep Roots of Rice Cultivation in West Africa and the Diaspora
Review: Divanna on Identity in Brazil
Divanna, Isabel. “Multi-Faceted Approaches to Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil.” The Historical Journal 53, no. 01 (2010): 225-235. First paragraph steal: "The past four decades have seen the rapid expansion of the field of Brazilian studies in the Anglophone world. Brazilian scholars as well as their European and North American counterparts have re-evaluated the … Continue reading Review: Divanna on Identity in Brazil
Jacqueline Jones on Berlin’s The Making of African America
"Ira Berlin begins this book by recounting a conversation he had several years ago with a small group of black radio technicians, most of them recent immigrants born in Africa or the Caribbean. He had just been interviewed on a local public radio station on the topic "Who freed the slaves?" Berlin had argued that … Continue reading Jacqueline Jones on Berlin’s The Making of African America
WEB: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique – Nigeria
Re-launched website: "IFRA-Nigeria is a non profit Institute set up to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa. First established in 1990 and financed by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Institute has now been operating from the Universities … Continue reading WEB: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique – Nigeria
Charles F. Irons reviews Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock’s Slavery, Resistance, Freedom (2007)
"Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock, editors of Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, have combined under one cover six fine essays that illustrate ways in which African Americans shaped the course of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The slim volume is a fine capstone to a generation of scholarship in which historians have come to understand black Americans … Continue reading Charles F. Irons reviews Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock’s Slavery, Resistance, Freedom (2007)
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