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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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