Tampa

Wenceslao Gálvez Y Delmonte

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• In 1896, Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte fled the violence of Cuba's war for independence and settled in Tampa. He soon made his new home the focus of a w... Lees meer

Islam and the Americas

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker ... Lees meer

Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "A sophisticated, elegant, well-researched, very varied, brilliantly and fluidly written book. Also an indispensable guide to understanding the Haitia... Lees meer

Islam and the Americas

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker ... Lees meer

Circulating Culture

Jennifer Cearns

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Exploring the movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders Despite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economic sanctions,... Lees meer

True-Born Maroons

Kenneth Bilby

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "An impressive ethnography of identity and cultural memory among the little-known Windward Maroons of eastern Jamaice, descended from escaped slaves w... Lees meer

Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo

Misha Klein

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Being Jewish in Brazil--the world's largest Catholic country--is fraught with paradoxes, and living in São Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradict... Lees meer

From Douglass to Duvalier

Millery Polyné

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "A remarkable new analysis of how African Americans and Haitians interacted over the long term. It asserts bold new methods and conclusions on inter-A... Lees meer

Blackness in Mexico

Anthony Russell Jerry

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• An up-close view of the movement to make "Afro-Mexican" an official cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexic... Lees meer

Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean

Keith E McNeal

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "Provides us with a masterful account of how socially marginalized segments of the African and Indian communities of Trinidad and Tobago developed tra... Lees meer

Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

Kimberly Eison Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "Documents a seismic shift in Dominican identity over the last two decades which the author argues is the result of contact with the U.S.; that Domini... Lees meer

Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment

Ana Aparicio

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "An original and significant contribution to the growing field of Latino Studies that documents the emergence of a pan-ethnic and interracial sense of... Lees meer

African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil

Scott Ickes

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "A sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics, recognizing both the fundamental changes that took place as Afro-... Lees meer

Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil

Stephen Selka

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "A brave work that helps relieve the issue of race and religion in Brazil from the heavy weight of ideology it all too often carries, while advancing ... Lees meer

The Tears of Hispaniola

Lucía M Suárez

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "The first book on the market that considers the experience of Haitians and Dominicans in the United States in one single effort of analysis and does ... Lees meer

Building a Nation

Eric D Duke

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award - Honorable Mention The initial push for a federation among British Caribbean colonies m... Lees meer

Circulating Culture

Jennifer Cearns

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Exploring the movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders Despite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economic sanctions,... Lees meer

Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean

Keith E McNeal

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• "Provides us with a masterful account of how socially marginalized segments of the African and Indian communities of Trinidad and Tobago developed tra... Lees meer

Yo Soy Negro

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in P... Lees meer

Building a Nation

Eric D Duke

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award - Honorable Mention The initial push for a federation among British Caribbean colonies m... Lees meer

African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil

Scott Ickes

• Paperback | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as "Brazil's Black Rome." Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its Af... Lees meer

More Than Black

Susan D. Greenbaum

• Hardcover | New World Diasporas
• This ethnography follows Cuban exiles from Jose Marti's revolution to the Jim Crow South in Tampa, Florida, as they shape an Afro-Cuban-American ident... Lees meer

Salvadoran Migration to Southern California

Beth Baker-Cristales

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• Beth Baker-Cristales describes the ways in which migrants create multiple--and sometimes contradictory--relations to the states in which they live, de... Lees meer

Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation

Philip W Scher

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Diasporas
• This dual-site ethnography follows the celebration of Carnival from Trinidad to North America, where immigrant Trinidadian-Americans loyally perpetuat... Lees meer