A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media. Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity Gives us an entirely different picture of Muslims in the Americas than can be found in the established literature. A complex glimpse of the rich diversity and historical depth of Muslim presence in the Caribbean and Latin America. Katherine Pratt Ewing, editor of Being and Belonging: Muslim Communities in the United States since 9/11 Finally a broad-ranging comparative work exploring the roots of...
A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media. Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker ...
Remarkable, impressive. Duke makes a double contribution to historical scholarship: to the historiography of federalism in the Caribbean and to the historiography of political dissent, activism, and solidarity within Caribbean diaspora Winston James, author of Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America This well-researched and accessible book deepens our understanding of early twentieth-century West Indian political culture and transnational mobilization. April Mayes, author of The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican...
Remarkable, impressive. Duke makes a double contribution to historical scholarship: to the historiography of federalism in the Caribbean and to the hi...
Provides us with a masterful account of how socially marginalized segments of the African and Indian communities of Trinidad and Tobago developed trance-based religious cults linked with differing cultural heritages. Penetrating deeply into these two different communities with his careful fieldwork, he then places them within a brilliant account of the overall cultural history of this island nation. Paul Younger, author ofNew Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions...
Provides us with a masterful account of how socially marginalized segments of the African and Indian communities of Trinidad and Tobago developed tran...
A sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics, recognizing both the fundamental changes that took place as Afro-Bahian cultural politics became incorporated into representations of Bahia and the limited material gains for Afro-Bahians during this period. Hendrik Kraay, editor ofNegotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as Brazil s Black Rome. Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its African-descended population is one of the largest in Latin America. Yet...
A sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics, recognizing both the fundamental changes that took place as Afro-B...
The special strength of this book, aside from its lyrical writing, is that the author effortlessly blends the meaning of being Jewish in Brazil with that country s much noted racial and cultural tolerance and shows how Jewish identity is impacted by Brazilian concepts of race and ethnicity. It is a delight to read. Maxine Margolis, University of Florida
A fascinating ethnography of contemporary life among middle- and upper-middle class Jews in Sao Paulo, Brazil, one of the world s largest cities. Although representing a tiny fraction of Brazil s multicultural population, the Jewish...
The special strength of this book, aside from its lyrical writing, is that the author effortlessly blends the meaning of being Jewish in Brazil wi...
Provides a rare excursion in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial connections. It demonstrates how religion, ritual, and aesthetic practices affect lives on both sides of the Caribbean, and it debunks myths of exotic and primitive vodou.
Provides a rare excursion in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial con...
By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Eric Duke convincingly expands and connects the movement's history squarely into the wider history of political and social activism in the early to mid-twentieth century black diaspora.
By examining support for federation among many Afro-Caribbean and other black activists in and out of the West Indies, Eric Duke convincingly expands ...
Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities in a transnational setting.
Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, thi...
An up-close view of the movement to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long viewed the non-Black mestizo as the archetypal citizen. Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico’s Costa Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is imagined. Jerry’s study of the Costa Chica shows the political stakes of the...
An up-close view of the movement to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in ...
