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Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009)
Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles, M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00.
(Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.)
Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-artist and arts [...]
Angaza Afrika: African Art Now (Laurence King, 2009)
Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. Chris Spring, Laurence King, 350 colour illustrations,256 x 226mm, 336 pages, paperback, ISBN – 978 1 85669 548 0, £25.
Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, by Chris Spring and published by Laurence King brings together more than 60 of Africa’s most creative contemporary artists, drawn from across the African continent as [...]
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot” (Temple, 2010)
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot”. Edited by Deborah Willis. Temple University Press, 288p, ISBN 978-1-4399-0205-9, $34.95.
Publishers Weekly Jan 4 2010 review:
Her name was Sarah Baartman. Born in South Africa in 1789, she died in Paris in 1815—after five years of being displayed (sometimes in a cage) for entertainment and “scientific study”; her pickled [...]
New title: African Americans and the Haitian Revolution
African Americans and the Haitian Revolution. Selected Essays and Historical Documents. Edited by Maurice Jackson, Jacqueline Bacon, Routledge, October 2009, 272 pages, Paperback (also available in Hardback), ISBN: 978-0-415-80376-2, $39.95.
About the Book
Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the [...]
