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BOOKS RECEIVED

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Amin, Galal. Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution. Cairo: The American University of Cairo Press, 2013. $29.95. Cloth.

Aulino, Felicity, Miriam Goheen, and Stanley J. Tambiah, eds. Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. $75.00. Cloth. $27.00. Paper.

Beckles, Hilary McD. Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2013. $70.00 Cloth.

Black, Bonnie Lee. How to Make an African Quilt: The Story of the Patchwork Project of Mali. Taos, N.M.: Nighthawk Press, 2013. $12.99. Paper.

Bolaane, Maitseo M. M. Chiefs, Hunters and San in the Creation of the Moremi Game Reserve Delta, Okavango District: Multiracial Interactions and Initiatives 1956–1979. Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology, 2013. $99.00. Paper.

Brooks, George E. Western Africa and Cabo Verde, 1790s–1830s: Symbiosis of Slave and Legitimate Trades. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2010. $39.95. Cloth. $19.95. Paper.

Carlsson, Ulla, and Sherri Hope Culver, eds. Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. Goteborg, Sweden: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2013. No Price Reported.

Cartwright, Keith. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-Creole Authority. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. $79.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Chakkalakal, Tess, and Kenneth W. Warren, eds. Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. $79.95. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

Cunin, Elisabeth, and Odile Hoffman, eds. Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2014. $24.95. Paper.

Danticat, Edwidge, ed. Haiti Noir 2: The Classics. New York: Akashic Books, 2014. $15.95. Paper.

Demeska, Bulcha. My Life: My Vision for the Oromo and the Other Peoples of Ethiopia. Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2013. $34.95. Paper.

Doho, Gilbert. La Cicatrice. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2014. $19.95. Paper.

Eichstaedt, Peter. Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2011. $24.95. Paper.

Feeser, Andrea. Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. $69.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Fisher, Julie. Importing Democracy: The Role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan, and Argentina. Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation Press. 2013. $24.95. Paper.

Glacier, Osire. Political Women in Morocco Then and Now. Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2013. $21.95. Paper.

Greusser, John Cullen. The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African-American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. $22.95. Paper.

Hailu, Gebreyesus. The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2013. $14.95. Paper.

Haregot, Seyoum. The Bureaucratic Empire: Serving Emperor Haile Selassie. Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2013. $34.95. Paper.

Helff, Sissy. Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of the Diaspora. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2013. €50.00. Paper.

Horne, Gerald. Mau Mau in Harlem? The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. $34.00. Paper.

Huffman, Alan. Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and their Legacy in Liberia Today. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2010. $25.00. Paper.

Jampoler, Andrew C. A. Congo: The Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2013. $44.95. Cloth.

Korkka, Jane. Ethical Encounters: Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe. Amsterdam: Rodopi. €70.00. Cloth.

Lindfors, Bernth, and Geoffrey Davis, eds. African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. €92.00. Cloth.

Lionnet, Francoise, and Shu Mei-Shih, eds. The Creolization of Theory. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011.

May, Eric Charles. Bedrock Faith. New York: Akashic Books, 2014. $16.95. Paper.

Mendy, Peter Karibe, and Richard A. Lobban Jr. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. 4th edition. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2013. $150.00. Cloth.

Mimiko, N. Oluwafemi. Globalization: The Politics of Global Economic Relations and International Business. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. $28.00. Paper.

Monson, Jamie. Africa’s Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. $24.95. Paper.

Mouser, Bruce L. American Colony on the Rio Pongo: The War of 1812, the Slave Trade, and the Proposed Settlement of African Americans, 1810–1830. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2013. $24.95. Paper.

Munkelt, Marga, et al., eds. Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking. Amsterdam: Rodopi. €108.00. Cloth.

Munos, Delphine. After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri. New York: Rodopi, 2013. €60.00. Cloth.

Nordin, Irene, Julie Hansen, and Carmen Llena, eds. Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. €65.00. Cloth.

Pendergast, John. The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2010. $14.99. Paper.

Powell, Eve M. Troutt. Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Empire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. $40.00. Cloth.

Quirk, Joel. The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. $65.00. Cloth.

Rupley, Lawrence, Lamissa Bangali, and Boureima Diamitani. Historical Dictionary of Burkino Faso. 3rd Edition. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2013. $110.00. Cloth.

Schmidt-Nowara. Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Free World. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. $28.95. Cloth.

Sharkey, Heather J., ed. Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2013. $39.95. Cloth.

Silva, Dorsia Smith, and Simone A. James Alexander, eds. Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2013. $29.95. Paper.

Sonneveld, Nadia. Khul’ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2012. $39.50. Cloth.

Spaulding, Jay, and Stephanie Beswick, eds. African Systems of Slavery. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2010. $29.95. Paper.

Tadros, Mariz. Copts at the Crossroads. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2013. $29.95. Paper.

Van Weyenberg, Astrid. Cross Culture 165: The Politics of Adaptation, Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. €56.00. Cloth.

Westin, Charles, and Sadia Hassanen, eds. People on the Move: Experiences of Forced Migration. Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2014. $34.95. Paper.

Yanow, Dvora, and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds. Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2006. $72.95. Paper.