DR. ROBIN PHYLISIA CHAPDELAINE
NEW PUBLICATION!
"E-motional Landscapes: Marriage and Custody Litigation in Nigeria, 1940s-1960s," Journal of Migration History, Vol. 10, Iss. 3 (2024).
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The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) 
REVIEWS "The Persistence of Slavery is an excellent addition to the expanding literature on the history of children and childhood, particularly for its focus on economic history." --American Historical Review "The Persistence of Slavery offers a wealth of information on child labor and trafficking in a key period of international concern about slavery . . . [T]he book provides a much-needed focus on African children’s history and opens up new avenues of research." --Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth "Chapdelaine argues in this well-researched book that child trafficking, child slavery, and other forms of coerced labor persisted in Nigeria beyond the nineteenth-century antislavery movement . . . [U]sing the same colonial records that earlier studies on the Women’s War relied on, Chapdelaine’s book successfully goes beyond them to establish how exploitation of children’s bodies has remained significant to capital and wealth generation within Nigeria’s socioeconomic arrangements." --Journal of African History "The Persistence of Slavery is a major intervention in the scholarship on unfree labor in Nigeria and Africa more broadly, as well as in research on modern childhoods, gender, and the family." --Journal of Family History "...The Persistence of Slavery is an important book that expands the literature on slavery in Africa and the emerging historical scholarship on children in colonial Nigeria." --Journal of Social History "An important, original contribution to the history of child trafficking in the twentieth century, the history of children globally, and to Nigerian and West African history, in general." --Benjamin N. Lawrance, editor in chief of African Studies Review and author of Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling "One of the few book-length studies on the history of children in colonial Africa, The Persistence of Slavery is necessary and timely. It will be a first choice for courses on African history and childhood studies." --Saheed Aderinto, author of When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958 |
When Will the Joy Come? Black Women in the Ivory Tower (University of Massachusetts Press, August 2023).
REVIEWS When Will the Joy Come? "... is a beautiful text. Timely, relevant--as if holding up a mirror--reflecting our trials by fire, but also framing, theorizing, and offering strategies of resistance. It is balm and hope. But I have to agree that this text gives me (and possibly others) so much hope. I feel a depth of love within the pages--for rendering us and our experiences visible. Hope that we can not simply break into academia and survive it's harsh terrain, but co-create spaces, moments, and burgeoning joy. The book is a safe space for others who "get it"; and as such a space to become whole. --Toni C. King, Co-editor of Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline “The focus on joy makes this collection indispensable among books that consider Black women and women of color in higher education. Readable and engaging, When Will the Joy Come? makes a significant contribution to the intersecting fields of women’s studies, African American studies, and higher education administration.” --Shanna Greene Benjamin, author of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay “The contributors to When Will the Joy Come? offer personal perspectives on the multiple meanings of ‘joy’ for Black women working within the academy. A timely, compelling book.” --Carole Boyce Davies, author of Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power 
Embrace Black Joy
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