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An Island Called Homeby Ruth Behar
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it Hotel Cuba. But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe stayed in Cuba. The beloved island ceased to be a hotel, and Cuba eventually became home. But after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the majority of the Jews opposed his communist regime and left in a mass exodus. Though they remade their lives in the United States, they mourned the loss of the Jewish community they had built on the island. As a child of five, Ruth Behar was caught up in the Jewish exodus from Cuba. Growing up... more...
Guerrilla Princeby Georgie Anne Geyer
Garrett County Press 2011; US$ 9.99Based on hundreds of interviews conducted over many years in 28 countries, including extensive personal interviews with Castro himself, Georgie Anne Geyer reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro in this definitive biography. more...
Operation Pedro Panby Yvonne Conde
Routledge 1999; US$ 43.95This book investigates the events and key figures surrounding the exodus, including the roles of the Catholic Church and the State Department, and the extent of the CIA's involvement. more...
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848by Bernard Moitt
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848 Bernard Moitt Examines the reaction of black women to slavery. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848. Moitt examines the lives of black women in bondage, evaluates the impact that the slave... more...
A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaicaby Bruce L. Mouser
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 11.95"Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... [Mouser's] exhaustive background research and editing are exemplary." -- George Brooks Captain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser's faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century. Gamble was captain of the British merchant Sandown. During... more...
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Culturesby Daniel Balderston; Mike Gonzalez; Ana M. L'opez
Routledge 2000; US$ 735.00This ground-breaking Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the dynamic and exciting contemporary cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. more...
Caribbean Migrationby Mary Chamberlain
Routledge 1998; US$ 133.00This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences within the Caribbean, to North America and to Europe. more...
Consuming the Caribbeanby Mimi Sheller
Routledge 2003; US$ 55.95Demonstrates how colonial exploitation of the Caribbean led directly to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products, aiming to trouble innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption. more...
Black Studies Readerby Jacqueline Bobo; Cynthia Hudley; Claudine Michel
Routledge 2004; US$ 46.95With an all-star cast of contributors, the Black Studies Reader takes on the history and future of this multi-faceted academic field. more...
Sexing the Caribbeanby Kamala Kempadoo
Routledge 2004; US$ 42.95The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. more...