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Reproducing Domination
On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
Av Percy C. Hintzen, Percy C. Hintzen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1282 kr
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Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the …
Reproducing Domination
On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
Av Percy C. Hintzen, Percy C. Hintzen m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
398 kr
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Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the …
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
Häftad, 2020
402 kr
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In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a …
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
Inbunden, 2016
1294 kr
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In Chocolate Surrealism Njoroge Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a …
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
Av Hope Munro
Inbunden, 2016
1294 kr
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In the 1990s, expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago, thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance of …
Grenada Revolution
Reflections and Lessons
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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Grenada experienced much turmoil in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in an armed Marxist revolution, a bloody military coup, and finally in 1983 Operation Urgent Fury, a United States-led invasion. Wendy C. Grenade combines various perspectives to tell a Caribbean story about this revolution, …
Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, …
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the study of the …
Island at War
Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
Av Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, L. Bolivar Fresneda
Häftad, 2016
398 kr
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Despite Puerto Rico being the hub of the United States' naval response to the German blockade of the Caribbean, there is very little published scholarship on the island's heavy involvement in the global conflict of World War II. Recently, a new generation of scholars has been compiling …
Connecting Histories
Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
Inbunden, 2017
1432 kr
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The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories …
Direct Democracy
Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
Av Scott Henkel
Inbunden, 2017
1445 kr
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Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy as a form oforganization fit for worker cooperatives or political movements. Henkel reinterprets it as a type of collective power, based on …
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957-1999
Inbunden, 2017
768 kr
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“Maybe you won’t like steel band. It’s possible. But it’s been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin.” When the US Navy distributed this press release, anxieties and tensions of the impending Cold War felt palpable. As President Eisenhower cast his …
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
Av Jana Braziel
Inbunden, 2017
1294 kr
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On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital’s automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on …
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Av J. Dillon Brown, Leah Reade Rosenberg
Häftad, 2017
449 kr
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This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as “the Windrush writers” in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose …
City of Islands
Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of West Indian intellectuals to investigate the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 40,000 black immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island during the first wave of Caribbean …
Geographies of Cubanidad
Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting a …
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
Häftad, 2017
398 kr
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Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association’s 2016 Barbara T. Christian AwardTourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in …
Indian Caribbean
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
Inbunden, 2018
1294 kr
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This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean – one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the people and the ways in which they define themselves and the world around them. Through oral history and ethnography, Lomarsh Roopnarine …
Mulata Nation
Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba
Inbunden, 2018
1294 kr
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Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how …
Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
Inbunden, 2021
1282 kr
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Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Arthur Lamur, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O'Bryan, and Marcel Weltak When Marcel Weltak's Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch in 1990, it was the first book to provide an overview of the music styles originating …
Caribbean Masala
Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
Av Dave Ramsaran, Linden F. Lewis
Inbunden, 2018
1294 kr
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In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying …
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
Häftad, 2018
402 kr
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On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on …
Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt Before Chopin's Heart
Av Jan Brokken
Häftad, 2018
398 kr
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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where …
Direct Democracy
Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
Av Scott Henkel
Häftad, 2019
449 kr
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Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association.Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy as a …
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
Av Hope Munro
Häftad, 2019
402 kr
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In the 1990s, expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago, thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance of …
Indian Caribbean
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
Häftad, 2019
402 kr
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Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association.This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean-one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the people …
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
Inbunden, 2019
1432 kr
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Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic Language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, …
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
Häftad, 2019
445 kr
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Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic Language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, …
