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Jennifer Jensen Wallach, “What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)

Jennifer Jensen Wallach
What We Need Ourselves
How Food Has Shaped African American Life
Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in African Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network September 18, 2019 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Jennifer Jensen Wallach about the her book Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). The book covers a wide chronology and geography from the continent of Africa pre-Transatlantic slave trade to lunch... Read More

Shayne Legassie, “The Medieval Invention of Travel” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Shayne Legassie
The Medieval Invention of Travel

University of Chicago Press, 2017

New Books in African Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network September 6, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Shayne Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion. He also talks about the role the Middle Ages played in creating modern conceptions of travel and travel writing. Legassie is an associate professor of English and Comparative... Read More

Kevin Dawson, “Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

Kevin Dawson
Undercurrents of Power
Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
University of Pennsylvania 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 August 26, 2019 Adam McNeil

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways, they became proficient in diverse maritime skills, while incorporating water and aquatics into spiritual understandings of the world.... Read More

Lindsey Green-Simms, “Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

Lindsey Green-Simms
Postcolonial Automobility
Car Culture in West Africa
University of Minnesota Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Film New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network August 15, 2019 Jacob Doherty

Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, breathing polluted air, exposed of deadly crashes, and dependent on vast the vast infrastructures of road networks, and oil production. Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) examines the paradoxes... Read More

Tsega Etefa
The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 7, 2019 Susan Thomson

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so,... Read More

David Stenner, “Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State” (Stanford UP, 2019)

David Stenner
Globalizing Morocco
Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society July 29, 2019 Zeb Larson

The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one. Because it occurred around the same time of the long-running war for independence in Algeria, it has received greater scholarly attention. Moreover, Morocco’s continuing alignment with both the United States and France after 1956 has deemphasized... Read More

Elizabeth R. Baer, “The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich” (Wayne State UP, 2017)

Elizabeth R. Baer
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Wayne State University Press, 2017

New Books in African Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network July 26, 2019 Craig Sorvillo

In her new book, The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich (Wayne State University Press, 2017), Elizabeth R. Baer, professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust. Using concepts such as, racial... Read More