Thanks to Google Scholar, I’ve just discovered that academic journals have published reviews of two Funmilayo titles: Travessias no Atlântico Negro: Reflexões sobre Booker T. Washington e Manuel R. Querino (also published by Edufba in Brazil) and Manuel Querino (1851-1923): An Afro-Brazilian Pioneer in the Age of Scientific Racism, the anthology also published in Brazil by Sagga Editora.

Travessias was reviewed in the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) last October, and the review of the anthology just came out this month (August 2024) in the Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR) in Portuguese.

Querino is finally reaching academic outlets outside Brazil. The first time, that I know of, was when E. Bradford Burns’s bibliographical essay about the Afro-Brazilian polymath came out in The Journal of Negro History in the 1970s (that essay is also included in the Manuel Querino anthology).

Meanwhile

We’re putting the finishing touches on the latest addition to the Unsung Heroes in Black History series – Heroes Sung and Unsung: Black Artists in World History is in press and scheduled for publication in September. The illustrations include a self-portrait of the photographer Addison Scurlock (above). Here is another illustration, included in the afterword by Ayrson Heráclito and Beto Heráclito:

Xango Eyes, by Bauer Sá (reproduced with permission from the photographer)