In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today’s efforts to cultivate a “Green Revolution in Africa” to a history of American projects …
Read More >On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, …
Read More >Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and the author of several books, including …
Read More >For the 2021 American Anthropological Association meeting, Ippolytos Kalofonos, author of All I Eat is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy, joined us to discuss some of the key findings from …
Read More >“This brilliant narrative will haunt you. Dale Peterson has brought to life the Gombe of the late 1960’s, describing the entwined lives of the chimpanzees and the people studying them. It’s a …
Read More >by Jon Holtzman, author of Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond How do we make sense of the horrific things people do to one another? And how …
Read More >This post is published in advance of the National Women’s Studies Association conference in Montreal, Quebec from November 10 – 13 and in advance of American Society of Criminology conference in New Orleans from …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Sanyu Mojola’s book, Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS, is the winner of the 2015 American Sociological Association Sex …
Read More >Last week, Ruben Andersson, author of Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe spoke on NPR Morning Edition with Renee Montagne and David Greene. Andersson, following conclusions from his …
Read More >Thanks to Marilyn Tausend for this guest post on the fascinating, little-known history of Africa’s influence on Mexican cuisine. Tausend is the author of the new UC Press book La Cocina Mexicana: Many …
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