History from the bottom(s) up -- Quasheba, mother, queen -- Majesty's sable subjects -- Lost glimpses of 1865 -- Sword-bearing citizens -- You signed my name but not my feet -- Arboreal landscapes of power and resistance -- Returning the tourist gaze -- Erotic agency and a queer…
The Spanish-speaking islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic make up a relatively small region, but their musical and cultural traditions have had a dramatic, sweeping impact on the world. The first brief, stand-alone volume to explore the music of these three i…
The Spanish-speaking islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic make up a relatively small region, but their musical and cultural traditions have had a dramatic, sweeping impact on the world. The first brief, stand-alone volume to explore the music of these three i…
This anthology of queer writing from the Caribbean features work from José Alcántara Almánzar, Aldo Alvarez, Wesley E.A. Crichlow, Pedro de Jesús, Audre Lorde, Shani Mootoo, Anton Nimblett, Colin Robinson, Kevin Everod Quashie, Assotto Saint, and many others.
The transition from chattel slavery to forced labour in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has commanded increasing attention from scholars in recent years. The Wages of Slavery tackles this subject from a protoproletarian perspective, s…
"In a work brimming with fascinating firsthand voices and in-depth interviews with Caribbean Hispanics (she focuses on individuals self-identified as of Cuban, Dominican, or Puerto Rican ancestry) with high levels of circular migration to NYC and with health professionals workin…
Varieties of English
by Kortmann, Bernd, Burridge, Kate, Mesthrie, Rajend, Schneider, Edgar W.
fromMouton Textbook
Varieties of English
by Kortmann, Bernd, Burridge, Kate, Mesthrie, Rajend, Schneider, Edgar W.
fromMouton Textbook
"This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Americas and the Caribbean, including regional, social and ethnic dialects (such as Southern US, Canadian or Chicago English) as well as Caribbean creoles from the Bahamas to Suriname. The chapters …
"A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on t…