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

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

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

A comprehensive collection of essays from a renowned postcolonial scholar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most detailed history of the Black Caribs of St Vincent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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