Reviews

Author:

Nicholas R. Jones

Reviewer:

Chloe Ireton

Ireton on Jones, 'Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain'

Nicholas R. Jones. Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. xxiii + 221 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-08346-9.

Reviewed by Chloe Ireton (UCL History) Published on H-Black-Europe (December, 2020) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)

Author:

Tiffany N. Florvil, Vanessa D. Plumly, eds.

Reviewer:

Kristin Kopp

Kopp on Florvil and Plumly, 'Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories'

Tiffany N. Florvil, Vanessa D. Plumly, eds. Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories. Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature Series. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 330 pp. $97.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-0343-2225-6.

Reviewed by Kristin Kopp (University of Missouri) Published on H-Black-Europe (September, 2020) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)

Author:

Wulf D. Hund

Reviewer:

Maureen Gallagher

Gallagher on Hund, 'Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden: Kleine (Heimat) Geschichte des Rassismus'

Wulf D. Hund. Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden: Kleine (Heimat) Geschichte des Rassismus. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2017. 212 pp. Ill. EUR 19,99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-476-04499-0.

Reviewed by Maureen Gallagher (Australian National University) Published on H-Black-Europe (June, 2020) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (Lawrence University)

Author:

Susann Lewerenz

Reviewer:

Jeff Bowersox

Bowersox on Lewerenz, 'Geteilte Welten: Exotisierte Unterhaltung und Artist*innen of Color in Deutschland 1920-1960'

Susann Lewerenz. Geteilte Welten: Exotisierte Unterhaltung und Artist*innen of Color in Deutschland 1920-1960. Vienna: Bohlau Verlag, 2017. 528 pp. $111.19 (paper), ISBN 978-3-412-50569-1.

Reviewed by Jeff Bowersox (UCL) Published on H-Black-Europe (February, 2020) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)

Author:

Sudabeh Mortezai, dir.

Reviewer:

Nancy P. Nenno

Nenno on Mortezai, 'Joy'

Sudabeh Mortezai, dir. Joy. Vienna: FreibeuterFilm GmbH, 2018. Film. 99 mins. Available on Netflix.

Reviewed by Nancy P. Nenno (College of Charleston) Published on H-Black-Europe (February, 2020) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (Lawrence University)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54930

Author:

Rosine Mbakam

Reviewer:

Alexandra M. Thomas

Thomas on Rosine Mbakam, 'Chez Jolie Coiffure'

Rosine Mbakam. Chez Jolie Coiffure. New York: Icarus Films, 2018. Film.

Reviewed by Alexandra M. Thomas (Yale University) Published on H-Black-Europe (October, 2019) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54637

Author:

Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Sophie Utikal, eds.

Reviewer:

Ervin Malakaj

Malakaj on Caceres and Mesquita and Utikal, 'Anti*Colonial Fantasies/Decolonial Strategies'

Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Sophie Utikal, eds. Anti*Colonial Fantasies/Decolonial Strategies. Vienna: Zaglossus, 2017. 142 pp. EUR 10.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-902902-50-4.

Reviewed by Ervin Malakaj (The University of British Columbia) Published on H-Black-Europe (April, 2019) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (State University of New York at New Paltz)

Author:

Antonio Feros

Reviewer:

Nicholas Jones

Jones on Feros, 'Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World'

Antonio Feros. Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 384 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04551-4.

Reviewed by Nicholas Jones (Bucknell University) Published on H-Black-Europe (March, 2019) Commissioned by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center)

Author:

Crystal Marie Fleming

Reviewer:

Sue Peabody

Peabody on Fleming, 'Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France'

Crystal Marie Fleming. Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. xi + 276 pp. $99.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4399-1408-3; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4399-1409-0.

Reviewed by Sue Peabody (Washington State University) Published on H-Black-Europe (January, 2019) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (State University of New York at New Paltz)

Author:

Kehinde Andrews, Lisa Amanda Palmer, eds.

Reviewer:

Eddie Chambers

Chambers on Andrews and Palmer, 'Blackness in Britain'

Kehinde Andrews, Lisa Amanda Palmer, eds. Blackness in Britain. New York: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity Series. Routledge, 2016. 234 pp. $155.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-84063-8.

Reviewed by Eddie Chambers (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Black-Europe (October, 2018) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (State University of New York at New Paltz)

Author:

Sharmilla Beezmohun, ed.

Reviewer:

Priscilla Layne

Layne on Beezmohun, 'Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception'

Sharmilla Beezmohun, ed. Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ix + 180 pp. $71.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4438-8824-0.

Reviewed by Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina) Published on H-Black-Europe (August, 2018) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly (State University of New York at New Paltz)

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