Paru récemment Slavery, Memory, Citizenship sous la direction de Paul E. Lovejoy et Vanessa S. Oliveira aux Africa World Press

Paru récemment Slavery, Memory, Citizenship sous la direction de Paul E. Lovejoy et Vanessa S. Oliveira aux Africa World Press, "Harriet Tubman series", 2016, XXVIII-442 p. ISBN : 9781569024720 Prix : 39,95 $.

"This volume considers the interface in which slavery, memory, citizenship have been intertwined. The full rights and responsibilities associated with citizenship confront the legacy of slavery, the persistence of racism and the ways people want to remember past wrongs that affect the lives of people in the present. Indeed achieving full citizenship also has to overcome what people don’t want to remember about the past because of the inconvenience of knowing the truth and the difficulty of adjusting attitudes and social relationships. It is easier to carry forward stereotypes and perpetuate misunderstandings than to promote levels of social justice that can only be achieved through reconciliation and reparation."

Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History, York University and was the founding director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas. His recent publications include Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, 1780-1850.
Vanessa S. Oliveira received her Ph.D. at York University and holds a Post Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her thesis, “The Donas of Luanda, c. 1773-1870 : From Atlantic Slave Trading to ’Legitimate Commerce,’” focuses on the Portuguese colony of Angola.