New Books in Caribbean Studies

Matthew Pettway, “Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion” (UP of Mississippi, 2019)

Matthew J. Pettway
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion
University Press of Mississippi, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Religion & Faith July 7, 2020 Adam McNeil

Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, Plácido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and... Read More

A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana” (Cambridge UP, 2020)

A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in History New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 24, 2020 Adam McNeil

How did Africans become ‘blacks’ in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge University Press, 2020) tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones.... Read More

Alejandra Bronfman, “Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean” (UNC Press, 2016)

Alejandra Bronfman
Isles of Noise
Sonic Media in the Caribbean
The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Communications New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Sound Studies June 23, 2020 Sharika Crawford

The Caribbean has figuratively and literally been entangled in processes of global integration earlier than other parts of the Americas. In Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (UNC Press, 2016), Alejandra Bronfman offers a refreshing perspective to this well-trodden story. In this book, she traces the emergence and growth... Read More

Aaron Kamugisha, “Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition” (Indiana UP, 2019)

Aaron Kamugisha
Beyond Coloniality
Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Indiana University Press, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network June 16, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

Aaron Kamugisha reads CLR James and Sylvia Wynter to glean from them ways to navigate the “beyond” of coloniality. In his new book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2019), reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class... Read More

Robert C. McGreevey, “Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration” (Cornell UP, 2018)

Robert C. McGreevey
Borderline Citizens
The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration
Cornell University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in History New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 15, 2020 Steven P. Rodriguez

In Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration (Cornell University Press 2018), Robert C. McGreevey explores the contested meaning and limits of citizenship for Puerto Ricans from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s. This timely monograph brings together legal, cultural, and labour... Read More

Cristina Soriano, “Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela” (UNM Press, 2018)

Cristina Soriano
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
University of New Mexico Press, 2018

New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Communications New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 10, 2020 Sharika Crawford

In Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (University of New Mexico Press, 2018), Cristina Soriano examines the links between the spread of radical ideas, literacy, and the circulation of information in a society without a printing press. In doing so, Soriano shows the ways... Read More

Tanya Harmer, “Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America” (UNC Press, 2020)

Tanya Harmer
Beatriz Allende
A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
University of North Carolina Press, 2020

New Books in Biography New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 3, 2020 Rachel Grace Newman

Tanya Harmer’s new biography, Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist. The daughter of Salvador Allende, Beatriz Allende was born in 1942 and... Read More

Monique A. Bedasse, “Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization” (UNC Press, 2017)

Monique A. Bedasse
Jah Kingdom
Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
University of North Carolina Press, 2017

New Books in African Studies New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network June 1, 2020 Sharika Crawford

Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization (UNC Press, 2017), examines Rastafarian repatriation to Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s. In doing so, Monique A. Bedasse situates Rastafarianism’s connection to black radical politics and internationalism within Tanzania, the site for pan-African solidarity in independent Africa after... Read More

Manuel Barcia, “The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade” (Yale UP, 2020)

Manuel Barcia
The Yellow Demon of Fever
Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network May 27, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020), Manuel Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World. In... Read More