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Vincent Brown, “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Vincent Brown
Tacky's Revolt
The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 7, 2020 Adam McNeil

In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West... Read More
Rupert Lewis, “Marcus Garvey” (UP of West Indies, 2018)
Rupert Lewis
Marcus Garvey

University Press of the West Indies, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 13, 2020 Kirk Meighoo

Rupert Lewis has written a biography of Marcus Garvey published by the University Press of the West Indies in 2018. His book Marcus Garvey documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the... Read More
Roberto Strongman, “Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou” (Duke UP, 2019)
Roberto Strongman
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith February 4, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Duke University Press, 2019), Roberto Strongman reveals  the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil  were constituted.  Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how... Read More
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Racial Migrations
New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 3, 2020 Tyesha Maddox

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time,... Read More
Gregory P. Downs, “The Second American Revolution” (UNC Press, 2019)
Gregory P. Downs
The Second American Revolution
The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
UNC Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society January 29, 2020 Ryan Tripp

Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name the “Civil War.” In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil–meaning national–and not merely a war, but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies. Its implications transformed the U.S. Constitution... Read More
Ariel Mae Lambe, “No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War” (UNC Press, 2019)
Ariel Mae Lambe
No Barrier Can Contain It
Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 22, 2020 Rachel Grace Newman

Ariel Mae Lambe’s new book No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) is a history of transnational Cuban activists who mobilized in the mid-1930s to fight fascism both in Cuba and beyond. A wide variety of civic and political... Read More
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, “Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops” (Routledge, 2019)
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Aerial Imagination in Cuba
Stories from Above the Rooftops
Routledge, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 9, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

In her new book Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops (Routledge, 2019), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier looks up at the sky, and from there she begins her stories about wifi, pigeons, cacti, the lottery and congas. This dense and surprising ethnography considers the everyday lives of Cubans as they... Read More

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