Selected New Materials: February 2009
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The Black Condition. Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer. Africana Library: E184.7 .B523 2009
The fourth volume in a unique research, study, and teaching resource series: Michigan State University Press, ProQuest, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library are pleased to present a unique research, study, and teaching resource for professors and students of black studies. In the more than thirty-five years since the field of black studies established its presence in American higher education, the volume of research, writing, and publications on the global black experience has increased exponentially. With the extraordinary volume of research resources on the black experience currently available, the challenge of selecting appropriate materials for research, study, and teaching has become extremely difficult. Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience is a resource designed to assist users in making such choices. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions. Makau Mutua, Africana Library: JQ2945 .A91 H88 2009
The book brings together the most celebrated human rights thinkers in East Africa, enriched by contributions from their colleagues in South Africa and the United States. To date, very little has been written about the struggles and accomplishments of civil society in the nations of East Africa. This book will fill that gap and prove to be an invaluable tool for understanding and teaching about human rights in this complex and vital part of the world. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
A New Paradigm of The African State: Fundi wa Afrika. Mueni WA Muiu and Guy Martin. Africana LibraryJQ1875 .M82 2009:
This book takes a multidisciplinary and long-term historical perspective to study the evolution of African political systems and institutions. It ranges from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush, and Axum) to the present, with a particular focus on the destruction of these political systems and institutions through successive exogenous processes, including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism or globalization. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
President Obama Election 2008: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages Selected by the Poynter Institute. G.B.Trudeau. Africana Library: JF285 .P74 2008
For sheer fun, the best of the commemoratives is President Obama: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages from the Poynter Institute. -The Philadelphia Inquirer New York Times Best-seller The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States was a worldwide historic event resulting in perhaps some of the most important front pages in US history. President Obama Election 2008 is a collection of over seventy November 5th, 2008 newspaper front pages from around the world. There is no better statement of the emotion, excitement, and significance of this moment in history. During his campaign for the White House, Barack Obama garnered an almost frenzied following. President Obama Election 2008 will be a cherished keepsake or gift for any of the millions of Americans who cast their vote for the 44th President of the United States. Here is the must-have commemorative book on this historic event (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Obama: The Historic Campaign In Photographs. Deborah Wills and Kevin Merida. Africana Library: E901.1 .O23 W55 2008
Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Announcing his campaign in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007, Obama stood on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous House Divided speech against slavery in 1858. During an eighteen-month campaign, from the snows of Iowa to the hunt for Democratic super delegates, this junior senator from Chicago confounded the party establishment and rewrote the playbook on modern presidential campaigning. This amazing collection of photographs captures the public and private moments of his journey, and offers a unique window into one of the great triumphs in American politics. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
President Obama: The Path to the White House, Photographys for Time. Callie Shell.Africana Library: E901.1. O23 P752
President Obama: The Path to the White House is the story of Barack Obama's inspiring and incredible journey from his modest boyhood in Hawaii to his election-night celebration in Chicago after defeating John McCain in one of the most closely watched political races in U.S. history. Obama's national breakthrough came at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Democrats had seen him fire up a crowd and selected him to give the convention's keynote address. He delivered the speech of his life. There are not a liberal America and a conservative America, he said. There's the United States of America. With his resounding message of hope, Obama won countless new supporters. In addition to exclusive behind-the-scenes reporting, President Obama showcases the remarkable, intimate photographs of Callie Shell, who began covering Obama for TIME in early 2006, when his traveling party numbered just three people in a van: the driver, Obama and Shell. During the campaign, she became, as an Obama staffer put it, part of the family. Her photos reveal Barack Obama's private, unguarded side and capture the awe and excitement his campaign inspired. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Henry John Drewal. Africana Library: N7763 .M33 S23 2008
Sacred Waters focuses on the arts, rituals, and religions associated with Mami Wata and other deities in Africa and its Diasporas. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for Mother Water, is a beautiful, seductive water spirit who brings wealth and good fortune to those she favors. Practices associated with winning her favor, widespread in West Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora, are explored in 46 rich and perceptive essays by an international group of scholars and practitioners. This book addresses the diversity of belief and practice, audiences, gender, reception, hybridity, commodification, globalization, dispersal, and religious mutation of Mami Wata rituals. It includes more than 129 images and a supplemental DVD featuring nearly 500 images, several photographic essays, and film clips of performance/rituals, and music. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
William Wells Brown A Reader. Ezra Greenspan. Africana Library: E184.65 .B76 2008
Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African Americans in the U.S. military. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Catch a Fire. Universal City, CA: Universal Studio Home Entertainment, 2007. 1 videodisc (97 min.). Africana Library: Videodisc 402
The true story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country’s oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos’ lives. Participants: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho K. Masha, Sithembiso Khumalo, Terry Pheto, Michele Burgers, Mpho Lovinga.
Days of Glory. New York, NY: Weinstein Co., 2007. 1 videodisc (125 min.). Africana Library: Videodisc 401
Tells the story of four Algerian men who enlist in the French army during World War II to fight Nazi oppression only to encounter prejudice from the native French-born soldiers. Participants: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, Antoine Chappey, Mathieu Simonet, Melanie Laurent.
YAABA. New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Video, 1999. 1 videocassette (90 min.).Africana Library: Video 681
A young girl and her cousin Bila happen upon an old witch outcast by their village many years before. Although forbidden by his parents to have any contact with the old lady, Bila is drawn to her mystique and the fear she brings to the village. Participants: Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo, Amadé Touré, Sibidou Ouédraogo, Adamé Sidibé, Rasmane Ouédraogo, Kinda Moumouni.
