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AAI’s team top picks
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By Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey - Speaker at this year's SOE Conference
Recent recipient of the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize. This Prize is for a "work of history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past."
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By Simone Browne
In Dark Matters, Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.
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Co-authored by Dr. Evelyn Jones Rich
Dr. Rich, recipient of our 2023 Gala's Legacy of Teaching Africa & Excellence Award, was recently honored with PNHP NY Metro's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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The Africa Report
The Corporate Council on Africa's first African-born chairman looks to bridge the gap between the United States and his continent.
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By Prof. Landry Signé
With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. By defining and investigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Signé develops a valuable framework for further study and suggests strategies that Africans and their global partners can use to capitalize upon this rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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By Melani McAlister
Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context.
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By Penny Von Eschen
From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism.
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By Jeffrey C. Stewart
Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally.
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By Solange Ashby
Ashby explores how the expansion of the cult of Isis throughout the Mediterranean world demonstrates the widespread appeal of Egyptian religion in the Greco-Roman period.