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Schooling Jim Crow
The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics
Driskell, Jay Winston Jr.In 1919 the NAACP organized a voting bloc powerful enough to compel the city of Atlanta to budget $1.5 million for the construction of schools for black students. This victory...
Leonora
The Buried Story of Guadeloupe
Bebel-gisler, DanyLeonara is a first in francophone Caribbean literature: neither fiction nor biography, this book by sociologist and Creole-culture advocate Dany Bebel-Gisler has elements of...
Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity
Returning Medusa's Gaze
Fumagalli, Maria CristinaTaking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, Maria Cristina...
The Equality of Believers
Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
Elphick, RichardFrom the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa’s ruling white minority and...
Cuba and the Fall
Christian Text and Queer Narrative in the Fiction of José Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas
González, EduardoThe literature of Cuba, argues Eduardo González in this new book, takes on quite different features depending on whether one is looking at it from "the inside" or from "the...
The Purloined Islands
Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880–1959
Karem, Frederick J. The Purloined Islands offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-...
The Sacred Act of Reading
Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature
Castro, Anne MargaretFrom Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The...
In Search of Julien Hudson
Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
Greenwald, Erin M.[Book description not available]
Locating the Destitute
Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
Radović, StankaWhile postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as "users...
Staging Creolization
Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean
Sahakian, EmilyIn Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean...
Of Dreams and Assassins
Mokeddem, MalikaOf Dreams and Assassins is the urgent and rhythmic fourth novel of Malika Mokeddem, her second to appear in English. Born in Algeria to a Bedouin family that had only recently...
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Munro, MartinIn Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by...
New World Modernisms
T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Pollard, Charles W.James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a "traveling culture" because it reflects the "discrepant cosmopolitanism" of the twentieth century – that is, a world in...
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Goings, Henry, Schermerhorn, Calvin, Plunkett, Michael, Gaynor, Edward Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia...
Rituals of Race
American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Lorini, AlessandraIn this sophisticated study of the struggle for African American human rights in America, Alessandra Lorini examines public events in New York City from the end of the Civil...
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature
From Alexis to the Digital Age
Murray-Román, JeannineFocusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared...
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers
History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
MacGaffey, WyattIn his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that...
Violence and Solace
The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa
Mchunu, Mxolisi R.The Natal Midlands in South Africa was ravaged by conflict in the 1980s and 1990s between supporters of the United Democratic Front and Inkatha. The violence left thousands of...
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Welsh, DavidOn his way into Parliament on February 2, 1990, F. W. de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: "South Africa will never be the same...
Vulnerable States
Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
De Ferrari, GuillerminaAccording to Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while...
Dézafi
Frankétienne Dézafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frankétienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a...
Charlottesville 2017
The Legacy of Race and Inequity
Harold, Claudrena N., Nelson, Louis P.When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a...
I Die by This Country
Zouari, FawziaThe first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one of the most important North African authors writing today, begins with an emergency crew’s arrival at a...
American Imperialism's Undead
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Dalleo, RaphaelAs modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration...
Far from My Father
Tadjo, Véronique"To attain some sort of universal value," Véronique Tadjo has said, "a piece of work has to go deep into the particular in order to reveal our shared humanity." In Far from...