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The Lynching of Emmett Till
A Documentary Narrative
Metress, ChristopherAt 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle’s cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive...
Imperial Educación
Race and Republican Motherhood in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Genova, ThomasIn the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries’ supposedly unfit...
Talk Yuh Talk
Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets
Dawes, KwameBefore the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, there was reggae. In the past thirty years...
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...
The Belle Créole
Condé, MarysePossessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The twelfth...
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...
A New Plantation South
Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
Whayne, Jeannie M.Jeannie M. Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By manipulating laws and...
Cradock
How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town
Butler, Jeffrey, Elphick, Richard, Hopkins, Jeannette Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation...
Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82
Cesaire, AimeAime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as likely to "figure alongside the Eliot-Pound-Yeats triumvirate that has dominated official poetic culture for...
Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory
Strategies of Language and Resistance
Britton, CeliaEdouard Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Since he is known primarily as a novelist and poet, his theoretical essays...
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life
Freeburg, ChristopherChristopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long...
Pathologies of Paradise
Caribbean Detours
Nair, Supriya M. Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic...
A World of Their Own
A History of South African Women’s Education
Healy-Clancy, MeghanThe politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have...
Paradise and Plantation
Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
Strachan, Ian Gregory"It is hard to ignore the hotels. They rise like mammoths of iron and concrete above the homes, the office buildings, the trees of New Providence, island of my birth." So...
Historian
An Autobiography
Giliomee, HermannIn this eloquent memoir, already widely read and praised in the author’s native South Africa, Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his...
Reclaiming Difference
Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism
Mardorossian, Carine M.In Reclaiming Difference, Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers—Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/...
Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere
From the Plantation to the Postcolonial
Dalleo, RaphaelBringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the...