"This volume provides guidance on teaching about Haiti's history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, offering ways of reshaping old narratives through women's and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture"--
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"Brand Jamaica is an empirical look at the postindependence national image and branding project of Jamaica within the context of nation-branding practices at large. Although a tiny Caribbean island inhabited by only 2.8 million people, Jamaica commands a remarkably large presenc…
"National Sentiments, Transnational Realities focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring my work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and edu…
"National Sentiments, Transnational Realities focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring my work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and edu…
"Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the West to the ongoing challenges h…
Anthropology and the savage slot : the poetics and politics of otherness -- The odd and the ordinary : Haiti, the Caribbean, and the world -- The vulgarity of power -- Good day Columbus : silences, power, and public history (1492-1892) -- The otherwise modern : Caribbean lessons…
"Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the West to the ongoing challenges h…
"This collection of writings from Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot includes his most famous, lesser known, and hard to find writings that demonstrate his enduring importance to Caribbean studies, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, and politically engaged s…
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coer…
"Stirring the Pot of Haitian History is the first-ever translation of Ti dife boule sou istoua Ayiti (1977), the earliest book written by Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Challenging understandings of two centuries of Haitian history, Trouillot analyzes the pivotal…
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where …
"Jamaica, the largest of the English-speaking Caribbean islands, has had an influence far greater than its size. The astonishing cultural reach of Jamaicans into the global mainstream is unmistakable. By contrast, many lesser-known aspects of the island's powerful history are un…
"Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts, The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country--from its pre-contact Indigenous origins to the present--to provide an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics."--
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican gover…
<Div>A transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to Michigan in 1…
"An intellectual biography of a major Haitian philosopher within the context of Latin American and western social thought. Dantès Bellegarde was the quasi-official ideologue of the Haitian state for half a century"--
"Engineering Vulnerability is an ethnography of climate adaptation in Guyana, where different portions of the population experience and understand environmental threats differently. Sarah E. Vaughn focuses on the collaborations between state experts and citizens following the 20…