"The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how …
"The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how …
Creole Jews: negotiating community in colonial Suriname
by Vink, Wieke
fromCaribbean series
The creolization of theory
This bold intervention in debates about the role of theory in the humanities advocates the development of a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional critical methodology attentive to the legacies of colonialism.
Suggesting that the abstract universalisms of Euro-American theory may ultimately be the source of its demise, Lionnet and Shih advocate the creolization of theory: the development of a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional critical approach attentive to the legacies of col…
"Creolizing the Nation develops a new account of how to understand difference, locally and globally. The book analyzes what it means concretely to create emancipatory communities of composite cultures and ways of being"--.
Doris Garraway explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degeneracy in the 17th and 18th century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
Doris Garraway explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degeneracy in the 17th and 18th century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout an…