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Subject: Caribbean
Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History
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de Barros, Juanita, Audra Diptee and David Trotman (edited by Franklin Knight)
Subject: Caribbean
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In this book, leading scholars pull together some of the most recent research on the key themes of Caribbean history: slavery, the transition to freedom, colonialism, and decolonization. Although all parts of the Caribbean experienced these phases, the manner in …
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Bon Papa: Haiti’s Golden Years
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Diederich, Bernard
Subject: Caribbean
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This is Haiti, pearl of the Antilles, during the presidency of General Paul E. (Bon Papa) Magloire (1950-56). It was an exciting time, when Haitians stood tall, and their country flourished, as reported in the pages of the Haiti Sun …
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Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City
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Haslip-Viera, Gabriel, Angelo Falcón and Félix V. Matos-Rodríguez, editors
Subject: Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. History
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This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York’s Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings of the great migration in the 1940s to the present time. The collection also honors …
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Caribbean Sociology Introductory Readings
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Subject: Caribbean studies, textbook
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There is now a significant body of Caribbean sociological literature, much of which is either scattered, difficult to access or out of print.
This book addresses the problem by bringing the literature together in a single volume.
This reader is …
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Caribbean: Sea of the New World
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Arciniegas, Germán
Subject: Caribbean
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This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Commonweal wrote of the 1946 edition, “Arciniegas has written a most informative and entertaining book…the student of …
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Clemente! The Enduring Legacy
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Wagenheim, Kal
Subject: Latin America, U.S. History
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Roberto Clemente, the first Latino baseball superstar, died on December 31, 1972, when his plane crashed while he tried to fly relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Clemente’s legacy endures nearly four decades after his tragic death, because he …
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Cuban Festivals: A Century of Afro-Cuban Culture
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Bettelheim, Judith, editor
Subject: Caribbean
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Bettelheim describes the secular rituals and celebrations of Cuban culture. The editor’s black-and-white photos shed additional light on these little-known rituals. This edition features the first English translation of the article “Afro-Cuban Festivals” by Afro-Cuban Studies founder Fernando Ortiz, complete …
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Cuban Legends
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Bueno, Salvador (illustrations by Siegfried Kaden; translated by Christine Ayorinde)
Subject: Caribbean
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This collection of Cuban legends, compiled by the renowned essayist and literary critic Salvador Bueno, brings readers the best of a time-honored tradition of storytelling in Cuba. These tales, passed on from generation to generation throughout the island, are here …
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Cuban Music
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Roy, Maya (translated by Denise and Gabriel Asfar)
Subject: Caribbean
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Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling …
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Cuentos: Stories from Puerto Rico (Bilingual)
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Wagenheim, Kal, editor
Subject: Caribbean
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Cuentos is a bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine The San Juan Review, co-founded by Kal Wagenheim and Augusto Font. Written by six of Puerto Rico’s leading writers, the …
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