The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this b...

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The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive a...

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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the...

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Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement

Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong di...

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Mental slavery : psychoanalystic studies of Caribbean people

Examines the complex historical and psychological effects of slavery across generations of Caribbean people. It is a unique contribution ...

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British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams

Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams...

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Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there name...

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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thous...

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The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive h...

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Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries

The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and cu...

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The New African Diaspora

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibl...

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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave...

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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ri...

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Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer ...

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Mental Slavery: Psychoanalytic Studies of Caribbean People

Mental Slavery is a unique and timely contribution to the field of trans-cultural psychoanalysis, casting light on an area previously neg...

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Contrary Destinies: A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation,and Reoccupation of Haiti

“Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and po...

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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World David P.Geggus

The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlant...

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The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950

This study of Boston’s West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from t...

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Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience

Loiza is a Puerto Rican town known for best representing the African traditions, a community of a mostly black population affected by pr...

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Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at aBahamian Plantation

The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, a...

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