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Caribbean Visionary

A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation

University Press of Mississippi

A critical biography of a major intellectual who struggled for justice against colonialism

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People Get Ready

African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the rich, long-lasting exchanges between African Americans and Caribbean peoples

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Voice of the Leopard

African Secret Societies and Cuba

University Press of Mississippi

How African secret societies changed the music, art, and history of Cuba

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Queen of the Virgins

Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive analysis of four centuries of protest, pride, and pomp in the beauty contests of the U.S. Virgin Islands

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Decolonization in St. Lucia

Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010

University Press of Mississippi

A case study of how a Caribbean nation may achieve political but not economic independence

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Haiti and the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

Perspectives that shatter the stereotypes and expand understanding of a complex island nation

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Patrick Chamoiseau

A Critical Introduction

University Press of Mississippi

An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author

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The Caribbean Novel since 1945

Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State

University Press of Mississippi

How fiction, its forms, and its evolution reflect countries in the midst of postcolonial change

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The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming

Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity

University Press of Mississippi

An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions

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Wolf Tracks

Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

University Press of Mississippi

How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation

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The Legacy of Eric Williams

Into the Postcolonial Moment

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the contributions of a public intellectual and a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago

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The Grenada Revolution

Reflections and Lessons

University Press of Mississippi

A detailed examination of the broad implications of Marxist revolution, politics, and the eventual invasion of the island nation

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The Black Carib Wars

Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Signal Books, Ltd.

The most detailed history of the Black Caribs of St Vincent

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Musical Life in Guyana

History and Politics of Controlling Creativity

University Press of Mississippi

A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media

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Island at War

Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War

University Press of Mississippi

An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort

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Chocolate Surrealism

Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean

University Press of Mississippi

A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences

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City of Islands

Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

University Press of Mississippi

How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice

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Beyond Windrush

Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature

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Geographies of Cubanidad

Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba

University Press of Mississippi

A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba

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Steelpan Ambassadors

The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999

University Press of Mississippi

The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America

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