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Cuban Festivals: A Century of Afro-Cuban Culture
	Bettelheim, Judith, editor Subject: Caribbean	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 … More Information

Cuban Legends
	Bueno, Salvador (illustrations by Siegfried Kaden; translated by Christine Ayorinde) Subject: Caribbean	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 … More Information

Cuban Music
	Roy, Maya (translated by Denise and Gabriel Asfar) Subject: Caribbean	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 … More Information

Cuentos: Stories from Puerto Rico (Bilingual)
	Wagenheim, Kal, editor Subject: Caribbean	*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 … More Information

Dominican Cultures: The Making of a Caribbean Society
	Vega, Bernardo (translated by Christine Ayorinde) Subject: Caribbean	The Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of Dominican culture. What is not as widely recognized is that a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic Jews from the Dutch … More Information

Frontiers, Plantations & Walled Cities: Society, Culture & Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1800–1945
	Martínez-Fernández, Luis Subject: Caribbean	For decades, the Hispanic Caribbean has eluded attempts by historians striving to view and analyze Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as a region rather than as isolated insular units. Focusing on similarities instead of differences and applying comparative … More Information

Fundaciones: Canon, Historia y Cultura Nacional
	González-Stephan, Beatriz Subject: Latin America	The first edition received the prestigious Primo Casa de las Americas Prize in 1987 and has become a classic of literary historiography. This is a corrected and updated edition.

Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans: Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World
	Schorsch, Jonathan Subject: Caribbean, Jewish Studies, Afro-Latino, Religion	“A real tour de force” –Reviews in History “Schorsch introduces a cast of characters in a series of one-act plays, short stories, and extended mediations that describe particular engagements with what it meant to live between identities.” –Journal of … More Information

Historical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Survival in the United States
	Rodriguez, Clara E. and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, editors Subject: Caribbean, U.S. History	This collection was originally developed as an interdisciplinary reader for Puerto Rican Studies courses under the title The Puerto Rican Struggle: Essays on Survival in the U.S. It is being reissued with updated commentary because of its continuing relevance to … More Information

History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	Updated and Expanded *Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, CHOICE* Magazine** One of Puerto Rico’s leading historians, Fernando Picó has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in … More Information