I WOULD LIKE TO DO KINGS BOOK ON BLACK WOMEN BUT RECOGNISE YOU WILL
PROBABLY HAVE A REAL BLACK CANDIDATE TO REVIEW THAT BOOK.
FRANCOISE
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From: Marika Sherwood <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:02
Subject: books for review
I have been looking through the Routledge and Hansib catalogues. The
following books look interesting, but I shall only request them if
someone is willing to review. As always, no payment, but you keep the
book. Please let me know if you are interested.
Marika
Routledge
S. Sen, Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean, 240pp; ‘focusing
on the colonial discourse of race, criminality, civilisation and
savagery, it illuminates and historicizes the process by which the
discourse of savagery in the Andamans, British India, and the wider
empire was manifested.’
David James, Early Islamic Spain: the history of Ibn al-Qutiyyah, 192pp
‘first Engl. translation of the important history of Islamic Spain by
Ibn al-Qutiyyah, one of the earliest and significant histories of
Muslim Spain’.
M. Storry & P Childs, British Cultural Identities, 320pp; ‘assesses the
degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many
people who live in Britain.’
M. Nash et al (eds), African-American Communists and the Origins of the 0D
Modern Civil Rights Movement, 272pp; ‘The American Left played a
significant part in the origins of the movement’.
Hansib
David Mayberry, Black Deaths in Police Custody and Human Rights, 84pp
‘provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported
issues to affect ethnic minorities’.
Mark Christian (ed), Black Identity in the 20th Century, 288pp.
‘collection of essays that focus on the various forces of Black
identity…examines Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic in
relation to the African Diaspora.’
D. King, Pride of Black British Women, ‘collection of profiles of some
of Britian;s successful Black women’.
G. Goffe & J Goffe, Between Two Worlds: the Story of Black British
Scientist Alan Goffe, 96pp ‘Born in Britain in 1920,,, one of the group
of microbiologists who helped develop and improve vaccines designed to
fight ..polio and measles…Drowned 1966.’
D. Dabydeen & Nana Wilson-Tagore, A Reader’s guide to West Indian and
Black British Literature, 192pp ‘outlines the history and development,
highlights the major themes and suggest texts which best illustrate
these themes for further reading.’
Jacques Compton, A Troubled Dream, 140pp Novel which ‘tells the story
of a young married couple whose lives reflect the continuing
dilemmas
faced by West Indians in English society,while at the same time having
to address the conflicts between the older and younger generations.’
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