Caribbean Studies
Bahamian Islanders on the Maritime Highway
Once regarded as a critical maritime highway in the wake of British abolition, the channels of The Bahamas became a crossroads where freedom, commerce, and control collided. As trade relationships shifted ...
Shooting Back
Contributions by Rudyard J. Alcocer, Christopher L. Ballengee, Lázaro J. González, Koby Bryan Hansen, Kim Johnson, Shweta Kishore, Sinah Theres Kloß, Gabriela Martínez, Thomas Matusiak, María Fernanda Miño ...
Facing Uncertain Futures
Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author ...
Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out
Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out: Nonfiction Narratives of Cuban Slavery by Cuban and US Writers is a critical exploration of how nineteenth-century nonfiction texts—written by authors from both Cuba a ...
Real and Imagined Worlds
Claude McKay (1890–1948) was a versatile Jamaican American writer and poet and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In addition to two autobiographies and a documentary study of Harlem, McKay wrote p ...
Insurgent Beauty
Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama examines artistic and political developments from 1968 to the present, exploring how Native American artists leveraged Panama’s populist military reforms f ...
Us According to Them
The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States—the military, correspondents, investors, missionaries, politicians, scientists, and tourists. Wanting t ...
On the Very Edge
On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional c ...
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger
Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie ...
The Sides of the Sea
In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the ...