Caribbean Visionary
A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation
A critical biography of a major intellectual who struggled for justice against colonialism
People Get Ready
African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange
An examination of the rich, long-lasting exchanges between African Americans and Caribbean peoples
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
How African secret societies changed the music, art, and history of Cuba
Queen of the Virgins
Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
A comprehensive analysis of four centuries of protest, pride, and pomp in the beauty contests of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Decolonization in St. Lucia
Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010
A case study of how a Caribbean nation may achieve political but not economic independence
Haiti and the Americas
Perspectives that shatter the stereotypes and expand understanding of a complex island nation
Patrick Chamoiseau
A Critical Introduction
An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
How fiction, its forms, and its evolution reflect countries in the midst of postcolonial change
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Into the Postcolonial Moment
A study of the contributions of a public intellectual and a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
The Grenada Revolution
Reflections and Lessons
A detailed examination of the broad implications of Marxist revolution, politics, and the eventual invasion of the island nation
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
The most detailed history of the Black Caribs of St Vincent
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media
Island at War
Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences
City of Islands
Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature
Geographies of Cubanidad
Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba
A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999
The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America