Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger

By Frankie McIntosh & Ray Allen
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie ...

The Sides of the Sea

By Johanna X. K. Garvey
Categories: Literature
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the ...

Through Jamaican Lenses

By Fern June Khan
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Born and raised on the island of Jamaica, Fern June Khan has valued and embraced Jamaica in each stage of her life. Despite the island’s economic and educational challenges during her youth, Khan’s ...

Monsters and Saints

Edited by Shantel Martinez & Kelly Medina-López
Categories: Diaspora Studies
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Contributions by Kathleen Alcalá, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Moises Gonzales, Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Spencer R. Herrera, Brenda Selena Lara, ...

Intersecting Aesthetics

Edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith

Intersecting Aesthetics: ...

Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism

Edited by Aaron X. Smith
Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Taharka Adé, Molefi Kete Asante, Alonge O. Clarkson, John P. Craig, Ifetayo M. Flannery, Kofi Kubatanna, Lehasa Moloi, M. Ndiika Mutere, and Aaron X. Smith

In the twenty-first century, ...

Memories of Africa

By Toyin Falola
Categories: Literature
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live ...

Emma's Postcard Album

By Faith Mitchell
Categories: History
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora

BCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner

The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob ...

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

Edited by Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, and Megan Feifer
Foreword by Nadège T. Clitandre
Afterword by Thadious M. Davis
Categories: Diaspora Studies

Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan ...

Black Man in the Netherlands

By Francio Guadeloupe
Categories: Caribbean Studies

Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist by vocation, he is a keen observer by honed habit. In his new book, he wields both personal and anthropological ...