Books and Articles referenced here at African Diaspora, Ph.D.:

(update in progress)

Alberto, Paulina. “Para Africano Ver: African-Bahian Exchanges in the Reinvention of Brazil’s Racial Democracy, 1961–63.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45: 78-117.

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. Fragments of bone : neo-African religions in a new world. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. 

Stephanie M. H. Camp. Closer to Freedom:  Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Press, 2004.

Candelario, Ginetta E. B. Black Behind the Ears:  Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

Curto, José C., and Renée Soulodre-La France, eds. Africa and the Americas : Interconnections During the Slave Trade. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005. 

Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello:  An American Family. New  York, NY: W. W. Norton Press, 2008.

Gosse, Van. “As a Nation, the English Are Our Friends: The Emergence of African American Politics in the British Atlantic World, 1772-1861.” American Historical Review 113 (: 1003-1028.

Gould, Isabel Ferreira . “Decanting the Past: Africa, Colonialism, and the New Portuguese Novel.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45 (: 182-197.

Hawthorne, Walter. ““Being Now, as It Were, One Family”: Shipmate Bonding on the Slave Vessel Emilia, in Rio de Janeiro and throughout the Atlantic World.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45: 53-77.

Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Litwack, Leon. How Free is Free? : the Long Death of Jim Crow. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Machado-Borges, Thaïs. “O Antes E O Depois: Feminilidade, Classe E Raça Na Revista Plástica E Beleza.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45 (: 146-163.

Martinez-Vergne, Teresita. Shaping the Discourse on Space:  Charity and its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Mattos, Hebe. ““Black Troops” and Hierarchies of Color in the Portuguese Atlantic World: The Case of Henrique Dias and His Black Regiment.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45: 6-29.

Mckittrick, Katherine, and Clyde Woods, eds. Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007.

McMillin, James. The final victims : foreign slave trade to North America, 1783-1810. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 

Newton, Melanie. The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

Nightingale, Carl H. “Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York.” American Historical Review 113: 48-71.

Penglase, Ben. “The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship: The Comando Vermelho and the Birth of “Narco-culture” in Rio de Janeiro.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45 (: 118-145.

Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. This Child Will Be Great:  Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President. New  York, NY: Harper Books, 2009.


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