In the Forests of Freedom

By Lennox Honychurch
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle ...

Direct Democracy

By Scott Henkel
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

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 ...

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo

By Jeroen Dewulf
Categories: African American Studies

Winner of the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation’s forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans ...

High Mas

By Kevin Adonis Browne
Categories: Caribbean Studies

Overall Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture explores Caribbean identity through photography, criticism, and personal narrative. ...

The Yoruba God of Drumming

Edited by Amanda Villepastour
Preface by J. D. Y. Peel
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is ...

Contesting Post-Racialism

Edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, and Rothney S. Tshaka
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by William Ackah, Allan Boesak, Ebony Joy Fitchue, Leah Gaskin Fitchue, Walter Earl Fluker, Forrest E. Harris Sr. , Nico Koopman, AnneMarie Mingo, Reggie Nel, Chabo Freddy Pilusa, Anthony ...

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located ...

Anywhere But Here

Edited by Kendahl Radcliffe, Jennifer Scott, and Anja Werner
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L. Robinson ...

City of Islands

By Tammy L. Brown
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as “windows” into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority ...

Musical Life in Guyana

By Vibert C. Cambridge
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

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 ...