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To Defend This Sunrise
To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the
Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and
transnational modes of activism to remap the nation's racial order
under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy.
The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women
activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of
racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial
dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores
how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario
Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political,
economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the
Sandinista state's co-optation of multicultural discourse and
growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate
their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new
forms of \"multicultural dispossession.\" This concept describes the
ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of
its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of
democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal
practices and policies that undermine black political demands and
weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims
of these activists against the state.
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The fear of French negroes
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces expressions of both aesthetic and experiential transcolonial black politics across the Caribbean world, including Hispaniola, Louisiana and the Gulf South, Jamaica, and Cuba. Johnson examines the lives and work of figures as diverse as armed black soldiers and privateers, female performers, and newspaper editors to argue for the existence of \"competing inter-Americanisms\" as she uncovers the struggle for unity amidst the realities of class, territorial, and linguistic diversity. These stories move beyond a consideration of the well-documented anxiety insurgent blacks occasioned in slaveholding systems to refocus attention on the wide variety of strategic alliances they generated in their quests for freedom, equality and profit.
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Crescent over Another Horizon
Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for
more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently
overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that
synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another
Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved
through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging.
Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world,
the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim
communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization
as \"minorities\" obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion
that continues to foster transnational ties.
Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved
Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and
Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden
processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout
each analysis-spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive
nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols-the authors offer
innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam
has facilitated the building of new national identities while
fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the
essays transition from imperialism (with studies of
morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave
uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in
Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina,
Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of
the United States, including Muslim communities in \"Hispanicized\"
South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a
fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of
fields.
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Sex and the Citizen
Sex and the Citizenis a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about \"legitimate\" sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward, homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise or between giving in ignominiously to the autocratic demands of the global north and equating postcolonial sovereignty with a \"wholesome\" heterosexual citizenry.
The contributors use parliamentary legislation, novels, film, and other texts to examine Martinique's relationship to France; the diasporic relationships between the Dominican Republic and New York City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico's capital city and its Caribbean coast; \"indigenous\" names for sexual practices and desires in Suriname and the Eastern Caribbean; and other topics. This volume will appeal to readers interested in how sex has become an important register for considerations of citizenship, personal and political autonomy, and identity in the Caribbean and the global south.
Contributors: Vanessa Agard-Jones * Odile Cazenave * Michelle Cliff * Susan Dayal * Alison Donnell * Donette Francis * Carmen Gillespie* Rosamond S. King * Antonia MacDonald-Smythe * Tejaswini Niranjana * Evelyn O'Callaghan * Tracy Robinson * Patricia Saunders * Yasmin Tambiah * Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley * Rinaldo Walcott * M. S. Worrell
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Among the Garifuna : family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast
\"Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the \"Black Carib,\" whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua. In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn McKillop Wells found herself embarking on an \"improbable journey\" when she was invited to the area to do fieldwork with the added challenge of revealing the \"real\" Garifuna. Upon her arrival on the island, Wells was warmly embraced by a local family, the Diegos, and set to work recording life events and indigenous perspectives on polygyny, Afro-indigenous identity, ancestor-worshiping religion, and more. The result, as represented in Among the Garifuna, is a lovingly intimate, earthy, human drama. The family narrative is organized chronologically. Part I, \"The Old Ways,\" consists of vignettes that introduce the family backstory with dialogue as imagined by Wells based on the family history she was told. We meet the family progenitors, Margaret and Cervantes Diego, during their courtship, experience Margaret's pain as Cervantes takes a second wife, witness the death of Cervantes and ensuing mourning rituals, follow the return of Margaret and the children to their previous home in British Honduras, and observe the emergence of the children's personalities. In Part II, \"Living There,\" Wells continues the story when she arrives in Belize and meets the Diego children, including the major protagonist, Tas. In Tas's household Wells learns about foods and manners and watches family squabbles and reconciliations. In these mini-stories, Wells interweaves cultural information on the Garifuna people with first-person narrative and transcription of their words, assembling these into an enthralling slice of life. Part III, \"The Ancestor Party,\" takes the reader through a fascinating postmortem ritual that is enacted to facilitate the journey of the spirits of the honored ancestors to the supreme supernatural. Among the Garifuna contributes to the literary genres of narrative anthropology and feminist ethnography in the tradition of Zora Neal Hurston and other women writing culture in a personal way. Wells's portrait of this Garifuna family will be of interest to anthropologists, Caribbeanists, Latin Americanists, students, and general readers alike. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Among the Garifuna
An intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous
family in the twentieth-century Caribbean
Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative
of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the
“Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan
Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from
Belize City to Nicaragua. In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn
McKillop Wells found herself embarking on an “improbable
journey” when she was invited to the area to do fieldwork
with the added challenge of revealing the “real”
Garifuna. Upon her arrival on the island, Wells was warmly
embraced by a local family, the Diegos, and set to work recording
life events and indigenous perspectives on polygyny,
Afro-indigenous identity, ancestor-worshiping religion, and more.
The result, as represented in
Among the Garifuna, is a lovingly intimate, earthy human
drama. The family narrative is organized chronologically. Part I,
“The Old Ways,” consists of vignettes that introduce
the family backstory with dialogue as imagined by Wells based on
the family history she was told. We meet the family progenitors,
Margaret and Cervantes Diego, during their courtship, experience
Margaret’s pain as Cervantes takes a second wife, witness
the death of Cervantes and ensuing mourning rituals, follow the
return of Margaret and the children to their previous home in
British Honduras, and observe the emergence of the
children’s personalities. In Part II, “Living
There,” Wells continues the story when she arrives in
Belize and meets the Diego children, including the major
protagonist, Tas. In Tas’s household Wells learns about
foods and manners and watches family squabbles and
reconciliations. In these mini-stories, Wells interweaves
cultural information on the Garifuna people with first-person
narrative and transcription of their words, assembling these into
an enthralling slice of life. Part III, “The Ancestor
Party,” takes the reader through a fascinating postmortem
ritual that is enacted to facilitate the journey of the spirits
of the honored ancestors to the supreme supernatural.
Among the Garifuna contributes to the literary genres of
narrative anthropology and feminist ethnography in the tradition
of Zora Neal Hurston and other women writing culture in a
personal way. Wells’s portrait of this Garifuna family will
be of interest to anthropologists, Caribbeanists, Latin
Americanists, students, and general readers alike.
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