slavery
No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. Th…
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slavery
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans strug…
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Labor
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues tha…
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slavery
Mental Slavery: Psychoanalytic Studies of Caribbean People
Mental Slavery is a unique and timely contribution to the field of trans-cultural psychoanalysis, casting light on an area previously neglected wit…
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Politics
Contrary Destinies: A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation,and Reoccupation of Haiti
“Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and political sc…
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Haitian Revolution
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World David P.Geggus
The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its re…
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West Indies
The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950
This study of Boston’s West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British…
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Puerto Rico
Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience
Loiza is a Puerto Rican town known for best representing the African traditions, a community of a mostly black population affected by profound rac…
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The Bahamas
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at aBahamian Plantation
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African…
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Nicaraqua
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: Assessment of Cuba,Nicaragua and Grenada
This volume re-examines the meaning of revolution as a useful concept in politics. It traces the history of the concept from its ancient beginnings…
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Caribbean
Caribbean Festival Arts
Nunley, curator of Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the St. Louis Art Museum, and Bettelheim, professor of art history at San Francisco S…
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Creole
Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the CaribbeanDiaspora
“Rich in scope and audacious in its critical vision, Creole Renegades incisively advances debates about fundamental aspects of our postcolonial and…
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Panama
The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian LiteraryDiscourses of Contention
“Delves into the historical convergence of peoples and cultural traditions that both enrich and problematize notions of national belonging, identit…
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pan african
Black Power in the Caribbean
“An altogether path-breaking collection of riveting essays.”—Robert A. Hill, Editor in Chief of The Marcus Garvey & UNIA Papers “A fascinating,…
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slavery
From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society,1775-1807
From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out the historical portrait of the African men, w…
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Migration
The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas
Although the Bahamas is geographically part of the West Indies, its population has consistently rejected attempts to link Bahamian national identit…
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racism
Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and theCaribbean
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. …
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Politics
The Reordering of Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada inthe Hood
Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global dreams&qu…
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Maroons
Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales ofTransnational Movements in Racialized Space
Born of the union between African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St. Vincent, and later exiled to Honduras, the Garifuna way of life combi…
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spirituality
Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction
Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the …
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