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Nicholas R. Jones, “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain” (Penn State UP, 2019)

Nicholas R. Jones
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Penn State University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society March 20, 2020 Elizabeth Spragins

Nicholas R. Jones’s book, Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Penn State University Press, 2019), analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, when performing habla de negros—how Africanized Castilian was commonly referred to—was... Read More

Christopher J. Lee, “Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa” (Duke UP, 2014)

Christopher J. Lee
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Duke University Press, 2014

New Books in African Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 19, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

In Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Christopher J. Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia. By carefully reading fragmented correspondence, colonial reports, periodicals and oral testimonies, the author... Read More

David Morton, “Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique” (Ohio UP, 2019)

David Morton
Age of Concrete
Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
Ohio University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 3, 2020 Jacob Doherty

Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio University Press, 2019) describes the incremental process through which Maputo’s suburbios – popular neighborhoods outside the formally planned city –... Read More

Peter Cole, “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

Peter Cole
Dockworker Power
Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
University of Illinois Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in African Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 19, 2020 Amanda Joyce Hall

Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018) is a fascinating, densely researched account of dockworkers and their organized responses to seismic economic and technological changes in the shipping industry between the 1940s and 1970s. Peter Cole examines the International... Read More

Eddie Michel, “The White House and White Africa” (Routledge, 2018)

Eddie Michel
The White House and White Africa
Presidential Policy Toward Rhodesia During the UDI Era, 1965-1979
Routledge, 2018

New Books in African Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network February 19, 2020 Zeb Larson

The Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence was one of the last crises of formal imperialism. British settlers in present-day Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia, refused to accept demands from London that they accept requirements for majority rule before they could receive independence. In 1965, they declared independence and attempted to... Read More

Julie MacArthur, “Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion” (Ohio UP, 2017)

Julie MacArthur
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Ohio University Press, 2017

New Books in African Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in History New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society February 11, 2020 Paul Bjerk

In 2015, University of Toronto professor Julie MacArthur decided to follow a couple more leads in the search for the long-missing, feared-lost transcript of the trial of legendary Mau Mau leader Dedan KImathi. She found herself amidst the papers of an anti-colonial London lawyer Ralph Millner who assisted the august... Read More

Sean Jacobs, “Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization” (Indiana UP, 2019)

Sean Jacobs
Media in Postapartheid South Africa
Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization
Indiana University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Sociology New Books Network February 4, 2020 Susan Thomson

Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City. Jacobs is also the founder and editor of the acclaimed Africa is A Country website, a leader His new book Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization, published by Indiana... Read More