Sidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Worker in the Cane, Caribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power. Sally Price, also a Johns Hopkins anthropologist, has co-written Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest and Co-wives and Calabashes.

This book is truly pan-Caribbean in scope and approach... The contributors, who know the region well and are generally leading scholars in their field, succeed in surveying diverse aspects of Caribbean life with sensitivity, erudition, and a proper respect for the complexity of theirsubject. -- Bridget Brereton Hispanic American Historical Review

• IntroductionChapter 1. A Political Profile in the CaribbeanChapter 2. "Race" and Color in the CaribbeanChapter 3. Sugar in the Caribbean: Turning Sunshine into MoneyChapter 4. From Plantations to Peasantries in the Caribbean Chapter 5. A Linguistic Perspective on the CaribbeanChapter 6. The Caribbean as a Musical RegionChapter 7. The Contemporary Caribbean: A General OverviewNotes on the ContributorsList of Books in the Series