• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Features
  • Campus News
  • CSUDH.edu
  • Contact
  • People
    • Staff Spotlight
    • Faculty Highlights
    • Alumni
  • Magazine
  • For Journalists
    • CSUDH In The News
    • Press Releases
    • Facts and Figures
    • Find Media Experts
    • Gallery
    • News Reporting on Campus

CSUDH News

The primary source of news and information about California State University, Dominguez Hills, its students, faculty, and staff.

You are here: Home / Archive / News / Africana Studies Faculty Promote Published Work at Book Signing

Africana Studies Faculty Promote Published Work at Book Signing

February 25, 2013

Rudy Vanterpool and Salim Faraji.

Published authors from the Department of Africana Studies faculty hosted a book-signing event on Feb. 19 in Loker Student Union, as part of the celebration of Black History Month at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Rudy Vanterpool, emeritus professor of philosophy and Africana studies, presented two books, “Speak My Soul: Poems on Migrations and Returns of a Native Son” (AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2011) and “In Job’s Sandals” (Vantage Press, Inc., New York, 2010), a philosophical exploration of biblical stories.

“I’ve always been interested in religion as an aspect of my philosophy. I am doing some writing on books of the Bible that are poetic by design,” Vanterpool said. “Some of them are rather controversial in the sense of understanding why this stuff is in the Bible.”

Jolandra Davis.

Jolandra Davis, a lecturer of Africana studies, showcased her novel “Butterfly Jar” (Dancingquills Industries, Inglewood, 2012), which she says is a coming-of-age story about protagonist Tanis Sutton, a “10-year-old girl who dreams of having straight hair, happy parents, and an ice-cream colored house on the west side of town,” and shares the experience of growing up Black in Los Angeles during the early ’90s. The book is for teen and adult readers.

Salim Faraji, chair and professor of Africana studies, presented two parenting guide books that he co-authored, “The Plan: A Guide for Women Raising African American Boys from Conception to College” and its companion piece, “The Plan: Workbook” (Third World Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2013).

Faraji is also the author of a text he wrote based on more than 25 years of research, “Roots of Nubian Christianity Uncovered: The Triumph of the Last Pharaoh” (African World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, 2012). He said it is a reference not only for Nubian history, but archeology, history, African history, and linguistics.

Selected books authored by university faculty are available through the University Bookstore.

 

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Communications, Faculty

Primary Sidebar

Social Media

Facebook
Twitter
Youtube
Instagram
LinkedIn
SOCIALICON

Recent Campus News

student and advisor at the CHHSN Success Center

New Student Success Centers Open Their Doors

In Conversation with Lauren Halsey

Amber Riley onstage

Amber Riley Shares Struggles, Triumphs at Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series

2022 Division II Conference Commissioners Association West Region Player of the Year Sulaiman Bah

Sulaiman Bah Named West Region Player of the Year

CSUDH student at computer

CSUDH Receives $5.3 Million to Address Digital Divide in the South Bay

... see all Campus News

Recently In the News

Students using microscopes

Insight into Diversity: California Grant Expands Health Professions Access for Underrepresented Students

January 4, 2023

Video still: 2:24 CSUDH can boast about graduating 5 current mayors

NBC4: CSUDH Can Boast about Graduating 5 Current Mayors

December 16, 2022

Recent graduates holding certificates from the Small Business Growth Academy

Daily Breeze: Carson Celebrates 1st Graduates of Small Business Growth Academy

December 16, 2022

... see all In the News

Footer

California State University, Dominguez Hills Logo

1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747
1-310-243-2001 • Send Email

Related Sites

  • csudh.edu
  • magazine.csudh.edu
  • gotoros.com

EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Get CSUDH News directly in your inbox

Copyright © 2023 · California State University, Dominguez Hills