Caribbean Studies: Showing 1 to 19 of 19 results sorted by Newest to oldest

Grounding Practice

Dancing Haiti on Tè Glise

By Dasha A. Chapman
Subjects: Dance, Caribbean Studies, African Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

The worldmaking potential of Haitian folkloric dance

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

Reimagining the Educated Citizen

Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896

By Petra Munro Hendry
Subjects: History, African American History, Caribbean Studies

A radical egalitarian vision of the transatlantic, creole roots of American public education

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Ghosts in the Family Tree

By Jarrod Hayes
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Jewish Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Diaspora Studies

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

By Ruth Behar
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Literary Studies

An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

By Umi Vaughan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Music, Dance, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World

Rituals and Remembrances

Edited by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo & Mamadou Diouf
Subjects: African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

Mongrel Nation

Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

By Ashley Dawson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Caribbean Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

Cultural Conundrums

Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics

By Natasha Barnes
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Caribbean popular culture—including cricket, carnival, beauty pageants, and calypso—sheds light on the evolving cultural politics of the region

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

Revised Edition

Edited by Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, American Studies

A new edition of the extraordinary autobiography of a black woman who escaped slavery in the West Indies

Poetics of Relation

By Edouard Glissant
Translated by Betsy Wing
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, American Studies

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English