Year: 2024
Type: editorial
Abstract: Her current research interests lie in comparative slavery; nineteenth-century US history; slavery/abolition in the Indian Ocean; sectional conflict; and African American and women's history.Her first book, For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas (1996), dealt with sectional conflict and consensus.In From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918 (2009), she explored welfare debates as sites for negotiating identities of race, gender, and nation.Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves is her third (coauthored) book.Awam Ampka is Professor of Drama and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and currently Dean of Arts and Humanities at New York University, Abu Dhabi.He is the author of Theater and Postcolonial Desires (2003) and has directed film documentaries as well as curated photographic exhibitions and film festivals.Amkpa has written several articles on representations in Africa and its diasporas, representations, and modernisms in theater, postcolonial theater, and Black Atlantic films.The Lovejoy Prize jury members were eager to interview Gunja and Awam to learn more about their work and future research plans. How did you come to research this particular topic in the first place, and what were your intentions for doing so? What do you hope that students and scholars will learn or take away from this book?
Source: Journal of Global Slavery
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4404630159