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The Sides of the Sea

Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora

University Press of Mississippi

An essential study focused on theories of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the work of contemporary Caribbean women writers

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Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War

University Press of Mississippi

How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean

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Matria Redux

Caribbean Women Novelize the Past

University Press of Mississippi

A feminist exploration of postcolonial Caribbean literature, analyzed within the framework of an imagined maternal space and time

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Reproducing Domination

On the Caribbean Postcolonial State

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive collection of essays from a renowned postcolonial scholar

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The Unexceptional Case of Haiti

Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society

University Press of Mississippi

A deeply researched upending of the trope of Haiti as the Black Republic

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Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard

Folklore and Culture in Jamaica

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of two sisters’ writings that emphasizes Jamaica from a local perspective

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Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

By Marcel Weltak; Translated by Scott Rollins
University Press of Mississippi

Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation

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One Grand Noise

Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean

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Slave Revolt on Screen

The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games

University Press of Mississippi

A trailblazing book on the depiction of the Haitian Revolution in film and video games

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Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Adding to the Mix

University Press of Mississippi

A sounding of a vibrant multiracial identity often unknown outside the Caribbean

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Taking Flight

Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad

University Press of Mississippi

A groundbreaking exploration of the impact of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race across the Anglophone Caribbean

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Maroons and the Marooned

Runaways and Castaways in the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

A provocative juxtaposition of escaped slaves and the shipwrecked across the Americas

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating discovery of the inception of both black Cuban literature and its Afro-Latino religious powers

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating discovery of the inception of both black Cuban literature and its Afro-Latino religious powers

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Carnival Is Woman

Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas

University Press of Mississippi

Revelations of both the burgeoning power and expression of women celebrating Carnival

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Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory

University Press of Mississippi

A well-known public intellectual’s intense engagement with politics in the contemporary Caribbean

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Connecting Histories

Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive introduction to five Caribbean writers and their confrontation with trauma

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Mulata Nation

Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba

University Press of Mississippi

A vivid exploration of the key role played by multiracial women in visualizing and performing Cuban identity

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In the Forests of Freedom

The Fighting Maroons of Dominica

University Press of Mississippi

The untold story of escaped slaves, their battle against colonial overlords, and the lasting impact in the Caribbean

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The Indian Caribbean

Migration and Identity in the Diaspora

University Press of Mississippi

A primary survey of the oral history and ethnography in the transformative South Asian diaspora

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Direct Democracy

Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

A provocative account of what motivates prolific mass movements teeming for revolutionary change

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What She Go Do

Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music

University Press of Mississippi

How women have expanded the creative reach of calypso, soca, and steelband music

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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles

Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart

By Jan Brokken; Translated by Scott Rollins
University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African, and New World influences that created it

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Caribbean Masala

Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad

University Press of Mississippi

How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean

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Riding with Death

Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince

University Press of Mississippi

The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti

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Resisting Paradise

Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture

University Press of Mississippi

How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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