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The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging …
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on …
As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial …
In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address …
Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in …
Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association?)Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that …
This exciting new anthology gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by the team of …
Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize?Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and …
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, …
It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. As Premier of British Guiana, he led the country to …