Weekly Book List, May 31, 2010

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

African American History Reconsidered by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie (University of Illinois Press; 255 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Topics include the "hip hop generation's" relationship to black history and its interpretation.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti by Erica Caple James (University of California Press; 357 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95