Best Book Award for Political Writing
New Mexico and Southwest Book Awards
Fernando Garavito
Praxis and Ambiguity of the Enemy: Essays on Life and Politics of the U.S. & Latin America
In these critical essays on culture and politics in North and South America, Garavito turns a mirror on both lands to see the blind spots of each. Misinterpreting the ambiguities of the Other can create an enemy.
Theodore H. Lehman
This is an autobiographical novel about the experiences of Lehman as teen-ager as he lived through internment by the Nazis in Auschwitz and later as a slave laborer in the Krupp Berthawerk armament factory. This is a powerful description of concentration camp life under the SS, the brutal treatment of Jews in the camps and their exploitation as slave laborers.
This is a description filled with human detail about Jewish life as Nazi prisoners.
Nina S. de Friedemann
Cultural Heritage and Resistance in the Diaspora
This is a complete introduction to the African origins of the African peoples of Colombia, the northwestern region of South America. This is required reading for anyone interesed in the African Diaspora and the Slave Route in the Americas.
A book committed to the future of Africanness in the Americas, due to the political and ethical framework which also guided the life of its author, Nina S. de Friedemann.
-- Jaime Arocha, Professor of Anthropology National University of Colombia Author of Utopia para los excluidos (Utopia for the Excluded) and others
Ron Duncan Hart
Islam and Muslims describes the Muslim world and how religion and history shape events today, the struggle between Islamists and moderates, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the confrontation with the West. As the new global order has taken shape over the last half century, the Muslim world has re-claimed its historic place of power and influence.
Congratulations! A fine book. the work exhibits a truly encyclopedic familiarity with the histories, resulting cultural patterns, and ensuing contemporary problems of its primary protagonists...you also make the narration fully readable by the average citizen.
-- Prof. Dan Tschirgi, American University of Cairo
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