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Vodou Brooklyn
Five Ceremonies with Mambo Marie Carmel
Stephanie Keith |
| This book is an intimate portrayal of a Haitian immigrant Vodou priestess. Color photographs and text document the young Mambo presiding over five distinct Vodou ceremonies held in one year in a single basement in Brooklyn, NY. By focusing on what happens in this transformed basement, the reader becomes personally involved with the people of this community through seeing them... More |
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"...I have never seen photography as respectful, as transcendent, as perfect as that of Stephanie Keith's..."
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Houngan Asogwe and Professor of Africology
University of... Read review |
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"I began to follow Marie Carmel to all her various ceremonies....she started having small events in her apartment, and friends' apartments and at various rented... Read excerpt |
08/16/2010, CSP, 138pp, Full color photographs by Stephanie Keith, Paperback
ISBN 978-1-58432-670-0 |
$35.00 |
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Education, Assimilation, and Caribbean Identity
The Literary Journey of the French Caribbean
Marie Leticee, Ph.D. |
| A far-reaching and critical study of the role of education in shaping Caribbean identity. Perceptive studies of the literature and scholarship of French Caribbean writers are framed in the context of the foreign educational curriculum imposed on the people of these islands. Original research and literature analysis are combined in this syncretic approach to the development of the Caribbean... More |
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"Accepting assimilation into French culture meant that they could no longer define themselves as Antilleans. They were now defined by the other as a sub-group....Hence.... Read excerpt |
June, 2009, Caribbean Studies Press, 228pp, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-554-3 |
$24.50 |
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Caribbean Landscapes
An Interpretive Atlas
Timothy S. Brothers, Jeffrey S. Wilson and Owen P. Dwyer |
| A major new reference, this full-color work is a selective introduction to the diversity of Caribbean landscapes, showing underlying patterns without overlooking the uniqueness of individual places. Combining scholarship and expertise in remote-sensing technologies, cartography, photography, and fieldwork, this team of geographers from the University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis presents a taxonomy of Caribbean environments. Not an atlas in... More |
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From the Journal of Latin American Geography---
"It is the rare book that combines artistic images with informative text, but 'Caribbean Landscapes" accomplishes just that. The... Read review |
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From the Preface: The Geographical Perspective on the Caribbean
Our purpose is not merely to describe the landscapes shown here but to interpret them: set them... Read excerpt |
August, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press. Catalog Number: CSP4591, 249pp, full color throughout, twin loop lay-flat
ISBN 978-1-58432-459-1 |
$59.00 |
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Immigration and Politics in the Caribbean
Japanese and Other Immigrants in the Dominican Republic
Valentina Peguero |
| A revealing study of 20th century immigration and racial politics in the Dominican Republic.
The little-known settlements of Japanese immigrants in the Dominican Republic are the basis for this richly informed history of 20th century migration to the Caribbean and Latin America. Yet the connection of Japan to the region is strong, with a considerable volume of trade and approximately 1.5... More |
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"A study of one of the more obscure communities in the multicultural Caribbean, the Japanese who immigrated to the Dominican Republic in the 1950s, Peguero... Read review |
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"From Whie to Non-Black: A Change in Tone in Immigration Guidelines
Structured around contradictory notions of inclusion and exclusion in order to attract the flow of... Read excerpt |
July, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press, 321pp, with black and white photos, softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-482-9 |
$24.50 |
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Revolutionary Freedoms
A History of Survival, Strength, and Imagination in Haiti
Cecile Accilien, Ph.D., Columbus State University; Jessica Adams, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; and Elmide Meleance, Montgomery County (MD) Schools, Editors |
| This new perspective on Haitian history features essays that augment the historical paintings of renowned contemporary Haitian-American artist, Ulrick Jean-Pierre.
Poet, playwright, and scholar Kamau Brathwaite has written the powerful Foreword to this volume, which combines scholarship, experience, and inspiration to reveal the complex history of the island that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. Chapters cover pre-Columbian and colonial history;... More |
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From the Introduction:
Although Haiti is in constant political and economic turmoil, the fact remains that the Haitian Revolution has been a crucial benchmark in the... Read excerpt |
2006, Caribbean Studies Press, 266pp, 45 full-color reproductions, Hardcover
ISBN 1-58432-293-4 |
$40.00 |
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Let Haiti Live
Unjust U.S. Policies Toward Its Oldest Neighbor
Edited by Melinda Miles and Eugenia Charles. Foreword by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. |
| Important well-documented essays present facts, contexts, and perspectives beyond those provided by the mainstream media to better understand Haiti and its proud people. Distinguished contributors voice needed environmental, political, and social transformations and include: Edwidge Danticat, Tracy Kidder, Paul Farmer, Cheryl Little, Tom Driver, Marleine Bastien, Tom Ricker,and Larry Birns. |
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"Once the richest colony in the world, the source of much of France's wealth and correctly described as 'the first free nation of free men,'... Read review |
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From Chapter 2, “Lies My Media Told Me,’ by Kim Ives
It was sometime in the summer of 1986 or 1987. I was riding in a... Read excerpt |
2002, Educa Vision, Inc., 400pp, Softcover
ISBN 1-58432-188-1 |
$29.50 |
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Fifty Days on Board of a Slave Vessel
Pacoe G.Hill |
| A true and chilling account of life on a slave ship and the horrible business of slavery by the Chaplain aboard the H.M.S. Cleopatra in the Mozambique Channel in 1842. |
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"We hope this little book will have a wide circulation. We can conceive nothing so likely to do good to the righteous cause it... Read review |
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From "A Visit to Rio de Janeiro"
I attended on the slave-auctions which take place usually every week, having been previously advertised in the Gazettes. About... Read excerpt |
2002, Educa Vision, Inc., 166pp, Softcover
ISBN 0-933121-46-6 |
$10.00 |
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The Libertine Colony
Creolization in the Early French Caribbean
Doris Garraway, Ph.D., Northwestern University, IL |
| This study sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history and makes a path-breaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation that resulted in one of the most profitable yet brutal slaves societies in history. Garraway's readings highlight how French colonial writers characterized the Caribbean as a space of spiritual, social, and... More |
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“An inquiry into the limitless ambiguity of violence, lust, and law in the early French Caribbean, The Libertine Colony is a daring scholarly feat. A... Read review |
2005, Duke University Press, 408pp, 19 b & w photos, Softcover
ISBN 0-8223-3465-8 |
$24.95 |
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Rebecca's Revival
Black Christianity in the Black Atlantic World
Jon F. Sensbach, Ph.D., University of Florida |
| The remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American religion and society. Born in 1718, Protten had a childhood conversion experience, gained her freedom from bondage, and joined a group of German proselytizers from the... More |
2005, Harvard University Press, 320pp, 14, Hardcover
ISBN 0-674-01689-0 |
$24.95 |
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