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Subject: Caribbean
Puerto Rican Arrival in New York: Narratives of the Migration, 1920–1950
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Flores, Juan
Subject: Caribbean, U.S. History
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“First to disembark were passengers traveling first class, businessmen, well-to-do families, students. In second class, where I was, there were the emigrants, most of us tabaqueros, or cigar workers. . .”
Thus writes Bernardo Vega in this collection of engaging …
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Puerto Rico’s Revolt for Independence: El Grito de Lares
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de Wagenheim, Olga Jiménez
Subject: Caribbean
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This book interprets Puerto Rico’s first and most significant attempt to end its colonial dependence on Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as El Grito de Lares (the …
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Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam
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Lovejoy, Paul E., editor
Subject: Africa, Middle East, Religion,History of Slavery,Latin America
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This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined …
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Stella: The Epic Saga of the Haitian Revolution
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Bergeaud, Emeric (translated by Adriana Umaña Hossman; introduction by Luis Duno-Gottberg)
Subject: Caribbean, Latin America: Colonialism, World Literature
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Emeric Bergeaud’s Stella (1859), the first Haitian novel ever published, combines descriptions of moving scenes with factual accounts of the thirteen years of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). Stella is an epic saga: the novel’s chapter headings refer to major events …
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The African Experience in Spanish America
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Rout, Leslie, Jr.
Subject: Africa, Latin America, History of Slavery
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This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of …
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