... disciplinary field that understands its own organizing category as strategically historical, contextual, and critical. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 On (Our) American Ground Caribbean-Latino-Diasporic Cultural Production and the Postnational “Guantanamera” Ricardo L. Ortíz...

... , this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Structured by the conventions of the corporate-sponsored anthology drama, the CBS...

... postcolonial theory is still a productive approach, this entry questions the applicability of the postcolonial paradigm to study sixteenth-century Latin America, nineteenth-century Africa, or the twentieth-century Caribbean. The Caribbean and Latin America are used as a disciplinary counterpoint, to trace...

... into what the article calls the barbed ecologies of the hills of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, sites of black and indigenous marronage and symbiosis. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 choreography Ligia Lewis the Caribbean black fugitivity marronage ecology “How do I...

..., emplotting James’s engagement with the Missourian sharecroppers within a deeper, circum-Caribbean history of agrarian revolt. Taylor argues that although rural subalterns might be fated to disappear from narratives of national capitalist development, James’s writings show how their scripts of resistance...

... cancer, head and neck cancers, and genital cancers. 1 The Caribbean is currently among the top four highest subregions in the world with respect to the incidence of cervical cancer and has the highest burden of HPV in the Americas. 2 In Barbados specifically, cervical cancer is the second most...

... Press . Castle Stephen . 2013 . “Caribbean Nations Seek Reparations, Putting Price on Damage of Slavery.” New York Times , 20 October . www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/world/americas/caribbean-nations-to-seek-reparations-putting-price-on-damage-of-slavery.html . Chakrabarty Dipesh...

... Girl in the Ring (1998) and Midnight Robber (2000), and the editor of an anthology of “Caribbean fabulist fiction,” Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root (2000). A collection of Hopkinson’s short stories, entitled Skin Folk, was published in the winter of 2001. In 1998 Hopkinson was the first recipient...

.... The impasse at which we find ourselves today in the Caribbean, despite our electoral successes, seems to me to settle the matter: I opt for the broader rather than the narrower choice; for the movement that places us shoulder to shoulder with others...

... in the Caribbean during the first half of the twentieth century. If African engagements with the European-dominated Atlantic slave trade led to the creation of the African diaspora in the Americas in the first place, Afro- diasporic encounters with U.S. American capital facilitated the reconstitu- tion...

... of emancipation in the British Empire as an apotheosis of racial capitalism, where the production of value depended on the ongoing terrorization and wastage of black life, overseen by the emerging liberal British state. Necropolitical terror ruled the Caribbean, Mauritius, and the Cape Colony during the four...

... of Women’s and Gen­ der Studies and in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. His book Tacit Subjects: Dominican Trans- national Identities and Male Homosexuality in New York City is forthcom­ ing from Duke University Press. Alyshia Gálvez received her PhD...

... Caribbean culture (or, for that matter, the culture of any area) as determined and circumscribed by certain basic events of its history. As a representative example of this “localized historicism,” I would point to Richard D. E. Burton’s Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean...

... black European communities: black Britons and black Germans. Frank Guridy is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications have appeared in Radical History Review and Caribbean Studies. His book Diaspora in Action: Afro-Cubans and African- Americans...

... in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Eze Emmanuel Chukwudi . 1997 . Race and the Enlightenment . Oxford : Blackwell . Fanon Frantz . (1963) 1968 . Wretched of the Earth . Translated by Farrington Constance . New York...

... is also affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. In 2008, she attended the Tepoztlán Institute, where she presented her essay, “Planetary Longings: Sitting in the Light of the Great Solar TV.” She is studying...

... South Asia, China, the Caribbean, and Africa would soon be having their own children. Thus the birthplace question would fail to identify people of these and other ethnic backgrounds.14 This argument, though, belied the fact that there had been many ethni- cally different peoples...

... in the eighteenth century — ­chocolatiers continue to invoke Sloane’s name as purveyors of “London’s finest hand-­made chocolates.” The Web site of the Sir Hans Sloane chocolatier explains that “while exploring the Caribbean...

... Juana (American Knowledge(s): Subalternity and Epistemology in the Writing of Sor Juana) (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana) and Caribe Two Ways: Cultura de la migración en el Caribe insular hispánico (Caribe Two Ways: The Culture of Migration in the Hispanic Caribbean...

... the violent production of Man to climate crisis as early as her open letter concerning Rodney King in 1994. 5 I have written in other contexts about how Afro-Caribbean thought is expropriated and exported for general consumption, uprooted from lived landscapes and put into circulation as a colorful...