Archive for March, 2010
Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, 98, remained in “very serious, but stable condition” Saturday, her friend and spokeswoman said. “A flurry of rumors about Height’s death appeared Saturday on the Internet, particularly on the social networking site Twitter, where her name was a trending topic. Wikipedia also briefly reported Height’s death. Height remains hospitalized, according [...]
Pargas, Damian Alan. “Boundaries and Opportunities: Comparing Slave Family Formation in the Antebellum South.” Journal of Family History 33 (2008): 316-345. Abstract: Our understanding of the marriage strategies and family formation of enslaved people remains clouded by disagreement among contemporary scholars. A perusal of the historical literature suggests that two issues lay at the root [...]
“At the center of this multi-faceted initiative is a four-hour, High Definition, two-part documentary television series Executive Produced by Louis Gossett Jr., introduced by Colin Powell and hosted on-camera by Halle Berry. Ten years in the making, the film uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the [...]
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 [...]
Notes & Records: Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies (NRJAADS) Call for Papers Date: 2010-06-04 On behalf of Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on African Studies SIRAS), Kentucky State University, and the Editors, I am writing to inform you about the launching of a new peer-reviewed journal titled Notes and Records: An International Journal of African [...]
New Perspectives on the Amistad Dr. Michael Zeuske of the University of Cologne will speak on his new findings in Cuban and Spanish archives on the Amistad and its captain, Ramón Ferrer, and what they tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century. Please join [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS Imagining Slavery: National Representations of the History of Slavery and Abolition A one-day interdisciplinary workshop Danish National Archives, Copenhagen 8th September 2010 __________________________________ This workshop, which forms part of the EURESCL research project, will provide scholars with opportunity to examine how the history of slavery and abolition has featured in national histories, [...]
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 [...]
In-depth perspectives on black culture, issues and events, along with profiles of famous figures and leaders. Includes primary source images from the slavery movement. Available and updated for 2010 Black History Month (US). via NewsBank Black History.
Suzanne Dracius, and R. H. Mitsch. “In Search of Suzanne Césaire’s Garden.” Research in African Literatures 41, no. 1 (2010): 155-165. “Always feminine, sometimes feminist, and there was no clash, adhering to a double marronnage-as a Martinican who writes and as a woman who writes-I set out to practice the Césairean exhortation “Marronner, il faut [...]
