Books Received

Aborampah, Osei-Mensah, and Niara Sudarkasa, eds. 2011. Extended Families in Africa and the African Diaspora. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. Tables. List of Contributors. Index. $39.95. Paper.

Adams, Anne V., ed. Essays in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies. 2012. Oxfordshire, U.K.: Ayebia Clarke. U.S. distributor: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colo. xii + 530. Photos. Tables. Maps. Introduction. Forward. Reference Documents. Bibliography. Chronology. Notes on Contributors. Notes. Index. $27.50. Paper.

Ahmed Jimale, Ali. 2012. When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves: Totems, Wars, Horizons, Diasporas. Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press. xvii. +87 pp. Acknowledgments. Foreword. $16.95. Paper.

Aidoo, Ama Ata. 2012. Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories. Oxfordshire, U.K.: Ayebia Clarke. U.S. distributor: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colo. vi + 170. $18.95. Paper.

Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press. xvii + 312 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. Notes. Index. $19.95. Paper.

Amegago, Modesto. 2011. An African Music and Dance Curriculum Model: Performing Arts in Education. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. xxix + 329 pp. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Paper.

Ashcroft, Bill, et al., eds. 2012. Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Amsterdam: Rodopi. xxxv + 665 pp. Preface and Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. Index. €140.00. Cloth.

Augustine, Agwuel, ed. 2012. Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa. New York: Routledge. xii + 327 pp. Figures. Tables. Contributors. Index. $125.00. Cloth.

Barnett, Michael. Rastafari in the New Millennium. 2012. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. xxii + 360 pp. List of Tables. Forward. Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Conclusion. References. Index. $39.95. Cloth.

Behnken, Brian D., ed. 2011. The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. x + 298 pp. Illustrations. List of Contributors. Index. $35.00. Paper.

Bell, Bernard W. 2012. Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity and Agency. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. x + 341 pp. Preface. Introduction. Works Cited. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Binckes, Robin. 2012. Canvas under the Sky. South Africa: 30° South Publishers. 336 pp. $24.95. Paper.

Boonin, David. 2011. Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions. New York: Cambridge University Press. x + 411 pp. Preface. Notes. Sources. Index. $99.00. Cloth. $34.99. Paper.

Chambers, Eddie. 2012. Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain. Amsterdam: Rodopi. xlix + 299 pp. Photographs. Figures. Works Cited. Index. €70. 00. Cloth.

Chait, Sandra M. 2011. Speaking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press. xviii + 298 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Cloth.

Chitiga, Miriam, ed. 2012. A Hurricane Katrina Poetic Commemorative. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. xxv + 131 pp. $58.99. Cloth.

Christian, Mark, ed. 2011. Integrated But Unequal: Black Faculty in Predominately White Space. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. xix + 250 pp. Acknowledgments. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Chukwuma, Helen, ed. 2012. Achebe’s Women: Imagism and Power. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. xxii. + 352 pp. Acknowledgments. Preface. Tribute. Epilogue. Notes on Contributors. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Collier, Gordon, et al., eds. 2012. Cross/Cultures 148 & 149; Engaging with Literature of Commitment. 2 Volumes. New York: Rodopi. Vol. 1: xxx + 380 pp. Vol 2: xxx + 415 pp. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Notes on Contributors. No price recorded. Cloth.

Cousins, Helen, and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, eds. 2012. Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. xxx. + 396 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Contributor Biographies. Index. $39.95. Paper.

Crocker, Chester A., Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds. 2011. Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press. xxiii + 590 pp. Figures. Tables. Index. $35.00. Paper.

Daymond, M. J., and Corinne Sandwith, eds. 2011. Africa South: Viewpoints: 1956–1961. Scottsville, S. A.: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. xi + 419 pp. Index. $55.00. Paper.

D’Cruz, Doreen, and John C. Ross. 2011. The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi. xx + 407...