Student conduct: 200. 010. B standard of conduct. We will discuss the meaning of plagiarism

Part #2. CRITICAL THEME: STATE THE THEME (MEANING: CENTRAL IDEA)--admirable/non-admirable-in book for creative analysis in own words (3 PAGES ONLY FOR COURSES 1061, 1062; grade will primarily be based on this #2 section of Report).

PART #3 Photocopied Review of Book (from Scholarly Journal Only!) at end of report with your opinion response (1 page or so). For example, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Journal of Roman Studies, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (E.G. Pulleyblank, “The Origins and Nature of Chattel Slavery in China,”1, Pt.2, 1958), Classical Philology, Historia, Culture and Tradition, Journal of African-American Religion, Religion and American culture, The Hymn, Eighteenth Century Studies, Journal of The History of Sexuality, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, African Political Science Review, The Economic History Review, Journal of Caribbean History, The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Journal of Development History, Slavery And Abolition, Social and Economic Studies, Transport, Hispanic Americas, History, Canadian Journal Of Latin America and Caribbean Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Signs: A Journal of Women's Studies ,Gender and History, Journal of Women's History, Liberian Studies Journal, Journal of African History(www.journal.cup.org), Journal of African Civilization, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, America Historical Review, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa ,Cahier d'etudes Africaines, Africa, Man, American Anthropology, New Left, The Nation, The Journal of Southern History ,William & Mary Quarterly, The Black Scholar, and the Canadian Journal of African Studies are major scholarly journals that contain reviews of books on Africa, the diaspora, and other related books.

Do not to select an edited Book with essays with several scholars and/nor one in which You CANNOT FIND A REVIEW; see Retrospective Bk. Review Index to Scholarly Journals 1883-1974, Book Review Index l974-Present. This exercise makes plain the value of being critical of what one reads and the need to not just take someone else's notion about what is "truth." Remain vigilant to the "invention of tradition." Lots of so called "Truths," that one believes, have indeed been "invented." The Book Report will be assigned a grade and factored into your GPA with a NUMBER/LETTER GRADE. "I" Do Read Them!

Book Report Reading List (HISTORY, SOCIETY AND CULTURE)

History Plus History of Science

(***President-Elect Barack Obama Reads:

Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, on Afghanistan (no one has governed this country and region throughout history; just asked Alexander The Great in BCE times.)

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, on global warning, environmental destruction, extreme poverty

***)

(****General Reading: Nepotism, Evolutionary Biology, "Tribalism," Genetics and Generation Regression (the family telephone number becomes inverted though the same number):

(1) Frank J.Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives

(2) Adam Bellow, In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise From King David to George W. Bush

(3) Robin Fox, "Civilization and the Savage Mind" (forthcoming) and see his other books on anthropology, e.g. Kinship and Marriage )

“The Historian and the Twentieth Century,” DÆDALUS. (Spring 1971); undated essays on history.

General Reading:

Wallbank, T. Walter and Alastair M. Taylor and Nels M. Bailkey, Civilization Past and Present (Chicago: Scott, Foresman And Company,[1942],1962). I was taught from this “Civilization” text in 1955/56 as an undergraduate student at Kentucky State College (University in 1972). Note Historiography or the changing perspectives on history and how our mindsets can be effected by history: In this text, Egypt appears in chapter 1 as not part of Africa but as belonging to “The Ancient Near East” and to Western Civilization. Africa appears on pages 353-359 in the middle of this vast book as “Africa: The Neglected Continent, Obstacles to progress, ‘Primitive’ cultures of Black Africa,’ and the ignominious ‘Africa’s contact with the ancient world,’” etc. Adjust your seat belts, we do not teach this way any more about Africa anywhere in the world. The teaching of African history has dismantled these stereotypes in global history. See:

(1) "Black Pharoahs," National Geographic, February 2008, Vol. 213 No.2:P.34-

In order to see how African history dismantled university narratives and altered our vision in Western Civilization (e.g. William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West, 1963), see next

(1) Steven Feierman, Chapter 2, Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives, In Gyan Prakash, ed., After Colonialism: Imperial History And PostColonial Displacements (Princeton University Press, 1995), pp.40-65.

ATTENTION: Research and Advanced Graduate Students Only, Seminar Course 6115, and 6121, 5304, and Topics in Transnationalism History #5143 (TOPICS IN TRANSNATIONALISM), #5304, etc.: The New Historiography on Africa and the diaspora:

Slave Ships

Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Brunzl, eds., Buying Freedom: The Ethics And Economics Of Slave Redemption (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Eltis, David, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-Rom. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Rediker, Marcus, The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking Press, 2007; an excellent review (by Adam Hochschild) in The New York Times Book Review, October 21, 2007, p.15:”The story of ships that transported slaves across the Atlantic,” some 12 million.

Dow, George F. Slavers and Slave Ships (1926).

*Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969).

*Transnationalism

*Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, eds., Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State. Syracuse University Press, 1997.

*Seigel, Micol, "Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn, " Radical History Review, Issue 91 (Winter 2005):62-90; Department of History, University of Missouri-St. Louis requirement for faculty and students.
Matory, J. Morand. Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in Afro-Brazialian Candomblé (Princeton, 2005). This book Won African Studies Association Herskovits Prize Nov. 2006.

*Sewell, William H. Jr., "Marc Bloch And The Logic Of Comparative Of Comparative History," History And Theory, Vol.VI:1 (1967):208-18; article explains the need for hypothesis testing against generalizations.

Hobsbawn, E.J., Nations and Nationalism Since 1870: programme, myth, reality (Cambridge, 1990); necessary factors needed in a nation in order for Democracy to be successful in the State-Nation (e.g. The Thirteen American Colonies!)--"The 'threshold principle" factors, see pp.36-39. Can Democracy work outside of the West beyond market capitalism? Or suitable for Africa, Pakistan, the Middle East, etc.? Consultation Only But Not for Book Report.

African Environmental History:

McCann, James C., Greenland, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990 (1999).

Battarbee, Richard W., Françoise Gasse, and Caterine E. stickley, Past Climate Variability Through Europe and Africa (2004).

Low, Pak Sum, Climate Change And Africa (2005).

Adams, William M., Andrew S. Goldie, and Anthony R. Orme, eds., The Physical Geography of Africa (1996).

Buckle, Colin, Weather and climate in Africa (1996).

Cotton, William R. and Roger A. Piekle Sr., Second Edition, Human Impact On weather And Climate (2007).

Africa Diaspora:

Mintz, Sidney W., Richard Price, An Anthropological Approach To The Afro-American Past: A Caribbean Perspective (Philadelphia: A publication of the Institute for the study of Human Issues, 1976); the beginning of the Creolization Model in the African Diaspora.

Falola, Toyin and Matt D. Childs, eds., The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (Indiana University Press, 2004); see the Atlantic World Model vs. Creolization Model Theory with factual examples.

Sweet, James. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portugese World, 1441-1770 (2003); the diaspora and Atlantic World Model vs. Creolization Model.

Matory, J. Morand. Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in Afro-Brazialian Candomblé (Princeton, 2005). This book Won African Studies Association Herskovits Prize Nov. 2006.
Gaines, Kevin L., American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006); see transnationalism.

Jacob, Margaret C., "Thinking Unfashionable Thoughts, Asking Unfashionable Questions," The American Historical Review, Vol. 105:2 (April 2000):494-500

Robinson, Randall. The Debt: What America Owes Blacks (2000); The Associated Press, Erin Texeira, “Movement to repay blacks for slavery gains momentum [a presidential commission, NOT MONEY, is requested to study the issue of reparations; and no money for distribution to blacks is being asked for.],” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Monday, July 10, 2006:A3.
See The Economist, April 13^th-19^th 2002 on “Slavery, guilt and the law:”15, 31 And 72; make special note of what Robert F. Folgel-—University of Chicago Nobel Prize Winner in Economics—-has to say slave free labor and the dollars from 1870-1860 and about reparations cost in today’s dollars.

Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E. and Anthony P. Lombardo, “Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations,“ African Studies Review, Vol. 50:1 (April 2007):27-58.

_____________________________, Reparations to Africa (2008, University of Pennsylvania Press).

Skidmore, Thomas E., “Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States, The American Historical Review, Vol. 108:5 (December 2003):1391-1396. Excellent for US history, Diaspora, and issues on race, gender, and class vs. "Racial Endogamy" in USA; google: US Supreme Court Case Loving Vs. Virginia 1967

Max I.Diamont, Jews,God, And History (1992); the Classical “Return” in diaspora History.

*Turki, Fawa. The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile (1972); the Classical “Return” in diaspora History.

Philips, John Edward, Writing African History (University of Rochester, 2005).

Falola, Toyin and Christian Jennings, Source and Methods in African History (University of Rochester, 2003).

Hampton, Carolyn, ed., The Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in southern African History (Witwatersrand University Press, 1995).

Davenport, Rodney, And Christopher Saunders, South Africa: A Modern History, 5th Edition, Forward by Desmond Tutu (St. Martin Press, Inc., 2000), pp. 807.

Heywood, Linda M., and John K. Thornton, Central Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2007; not for Book Report. African Studies Association, Chicago, 2008, Herksovits Award for Best Book.

Heywood, Linda, ed., Central Africans and Cultural Transformation in the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2002; edited works are not for Book Reports.

Hourani, Albert, A History of The Arab Peoples (1991;551 pages; excellent and NYT best seller; NOT FOR BOOK REPORT.

Nehemia Levtzion & Randall L. Pouwels, eds., The History Of Islam In Africa (2000); NOT FOR BOOK REPORT.

The Slave Trade into Arabia, 1820-1973 (Archives Editions, 7 Ashley House, The Broadway, Farm Common, SL2 3PQ, UK; 9 volumes from 1820-1973. “Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.”
John Hunwick and Eve Troutt Powell, The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (2002); NOT FOR BOOK REPORT.
Ronald Segal, Islamic Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (2001).HB

Allman, Jean, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, eds., Women In Colonial Histories, Indiana University Press, 2002; NOT FOR BOOK REPORT.

Matusevich, Maxim, ed., Africa In Russia-Russia In Africa: Three Centuries of Encounters, Africa World Press, 2007; with photos of ancient blacks in Russia; NOT FOR BOOK REPORT.

Blakely, Allison, Blacks in The Dutch World (1993).

, Russia And The Negro: Blacks in Russian History And Thought (1986).

Gillette, William, Retreat from Reconstruction (Baton rouge, La., 1979).

Tim Jeal, Stanley, I Presume? Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (2007), 570 pp.; reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, September 30, 2007.