Herman L. Bennett Colonial Mexico was home to the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way in a culture of Spanish and Roman Catholic absolutism by using the legal institutions of church and state to create a semblance of cultural autonomy. From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects. His findings demonstrate the malleable nature of African identities in the Atlantic world, as well as the ability of Africans to deploy their own psychological resources to survive displacement and oppression.

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins

Alissandra Cummins, Allison Thompson

Anne Walmsley, Stanley Greaves

Natalie Urquhart First book to offer an overview of the art of the Cayman IslandsFully illustrated with multimedia works from over seventy artistsA cultural journey through this popular touristThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of the art of the Cayman Islands as seen through highlights from the National Gallery's permanent collection. The collection traces a historical and stylistic journey that begins with the visionary markings of intuitive artists such as Gladwyn 'Miss Lassie' Bush, and moves on to the work of the early realist painters who sought to capture the picturesque tropical island paradise before concluding with the more critically engaged, multi-disciplinary work that the islands' contemporary artists are generating.

This overview, which also functions as the gallery's first collection guide, features essays on the history of art, the story of the National Gallery and its collection, and works by over 70 artists.

Eva Breukink

Kamau Brathwaite

George H.H. McLellan

Warren Alleyne, Henry Fraser This work reveals many aspects of the historical relationship between Barbados and Carolina, throwing a light on the history and architecture of both places, on the people - both distinguished and notorious - and on the two dialects.

Trevor A. Carmichael

Goldie Spieler This book tells the heartwarming story of a young artist who came to the island of Barbados to recover from a personal tragedy, stayed to follow her Muse, became dedicated to the Cause of preserving the art of pottery making on the island and eventually founded Earthworks Pottery, one of the most successful businesses in the Caribbean, for which she was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997. But this book also tracks the story of the author's own personal spiritual journey, which has taken her from the synagogues of her native Canada to the dusty streets of Jerusalem and to a fateful day at a Bajan tent meeting. It's a remarkable story of one woman's lifelong journey as an artist and a human being.

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Gerardo Mosquera Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts, London

This anthology, edited by Cuban art historian and critic Gerardo Mosquera, offers a wide selection of writings by some of the most important cultural theoreticians of contemporary Latin America. Together they comprise a distinctive corpus of new theoretical discourses, critical of modernity and solidly and pragmatically anti-utopian. The collection balances traditional and popular aesthetic-symbolic production as well as Afro- and Indo-American presences in the visual arts, and covers the whole of the Americans, including the Caribbean and the United States.

Contributors: Monica Amor. Pierre E. Bocquet. Gustavo Buntinx. Luis Camnitzer. Nestor Garcia Canclini. Ticio Escobar. Andrea Giunta. Guillermo Go­mez-Pena. Paulo Herkenhoff. Mirko Lauer. Celeste Olalquiaga. Gabriel Peluffo Linari. Carolina Ponce de Leon Mari Carmen Ramírez. Nelly Richard. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto. George Yudice.

Monya Anyadike-Danes

C. L. R. James, null l Author of such classic works as Minty Alley, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, C. L. R. James was one of the most significant writers of our times.

In a life which reflected many of the distinctive features of the twentieth century (from his birth in Trinidad in 1901, to his death in Brixton, London, 1989), James made an outstanding contribution to debates on politics, history, art, literature and sport. His revolutionary vision has inspired social movements in the United States, Britain, Africa and the Caribbean. It remains central to any understanding of the modern world.

Until now much of his work has remained inaccessible; but Anna Grimshaw brings together here both published and unpublished material to give us the essential C. L. R. James. Prepared in collaboration with James in his final year, this collection offers unique insight into the range and development of his life's work.

It includes a selection of early fiction, the complete text of the play The Black Jacobins, numerous extracts from his personal archive and the classic essays, The Case for West-Indian Self-Government, Popular Art and the Cultural Tradition and Black Power.

Peter McKenna This book traces the developing relationship between Canada and the oas (Organization of American States) and the pau (Pan American Union) before Canada's accession to full membership in the former organization in 1989.

Philip Nanton

Veerle Poupeye A strong link exists between Caribbean art and its popular culture and religion—such as Voodoo, Santaria, and Rastifarianism, as well as the influence of Trinidad carnival and similar traditions. This wonderfully illustrated survey covers a wide range of artists providing a compelling look at a great body of original and imaginative art. 200 illustrations. 35 in color.

Compliation, Jane Bryce Caribbean Dispatches takes a highly original approach to one of the world s most diverse cultures, covering a wide cross-section from Guyana to Trinidad & Tobago in the south to the Bahamas in the north.

It offers an entertaining and idiosyncratic collection of
personal perspectives on the Caribbean, by 28 writers
of different backgrounds, for readers who want to get
beneath the exotic surface of the tourist experience.

It s not a guide book, but for the curious it s full of inside
information, with the emphasis on variety, the unexpected
and the intimate. It is the ideal companion for anyone
fascinated by the Caribbean who wants to find out more,
while for those who know the area already, it illuminates
hidden corners and takes you further than you ve ever gone
before... so gripping is it that you ll have read it on the plane
before you even get there!

Contributors include:
· Shake Keane
· Oonya Kempadoo
· Ian McDonald
· Mark McWatt
· Opal Palmer-Adisa
· Polly Pattullo
· Olive Senior
· Marina Warner
· Anthony C. Winkler

Michael Connors This will be a gorgeous, heavily illustrated book on the uniquely refined and aristocratic style of living that has flourished on the islands of the Caribbean from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. The book will be organized by related island groups: the French Islands (Martinique and Guadaloupe); the Dutch Islands (Aruba, Bonnaire, and Curacao); the Spanish islands (Cuba, Santo Domingo); the English islands (Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia); and the Danish islands (St. Thomas, St. John, Ste. Croix). The text will explore not only the beauty of the landscape, the houses, and the works of art and furniture, but also something of the historical background and the manner of life in the islands.

Caribbean Examinations Council

Karen Fog Olwig Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond its current focus on sending and receiving societies, Karen Fog Olwig makes migratory family networks the locus of her analysis. For the people whose lives she traces, being “Caribbean” is not necessarily rooted in ongoing visits to their countries of origin, or in ethnic communities in the receiving countries, but rather in family narratives and the maintenance of family networks across vast geographical expanses.

The migratory journeys of the families in this study began more than sixty years ago, when individuals in the three families left home in a British colonial town in Jamaica, a French Creole rural community in Dominica, and an African-Caribbean village of small farmers on Nevis. Olwig follows the three family networks forward in time, interviewing family members living under highly varied social and economic circumstances in locations ranging from California to Barbados, Nova Scotia to Florida, and New Jersey to England. Through her conversations with several generations of these far-flung families, she gives insight into each family’s educational, occupational, and socioeconomic trajectories. Olwig contends that terms such as “Caribbean diaspora” wrongly assume a culturally homogeneous homeland. As she demonstrates in Caribbean Journeys, anthropologists who want a nuanced understanding of how migrants and their descendants perceive their origins and identities must focus on interpersonal relations and intimate spheres as well as on collectivities and public expressions of belonging.

Kathleen J. Renk

Herman L. Bennett Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks, who became majority populations soon after the Spanish conquest. The resulting history of 17th-century Mexico brings forth tantalizing personal and family dramas, body politics, and stories of lost virtue and sullen honor. By focusing on these phenomena among peoples of African descent, rather than the conventional history of Mexico with the narrative of slavery to freedom figured in, Colonial Blackness presents the colonial drama in all its untidy detail.

George Lamming

Kamau Brathwaite

Dr. Glenford D. Howe

Pierrette Frickey

Andrea O'Reilly Herrera As an island—a geographical space with mutable and porous borders—Cuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migration and exile have always informed the Cuban experience, and loss and displacement have figured as central preoccupations among Cuban artists and intellectuals. A major expression of this experience is the unconventional, multi-generational, itinerant, and ongoing art exhibit CAFÉ: The Journeys of Cuban Artists. In Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera focuses on the CAFÉ project to explore Cuba's long and turbulent history of movement and rupture from the perspective of its visual arts and to meditate upon the manner in which one reconstitutes and reinvents the self in the context of diaspora.

Approaching the Cafeteros' art from a cultural studies perspective, O'Reilly Herrera examines how the history of Cuba informs their work and establishes their connections to past generations of Cuban artists. In interviews with more than thirty artists, including José Bedia, María Brito, Leandro Soto, Glexis Novoa, Baruj Salinas, and Ana Albertina Delgado, O'Reilly Herrera also raises critical questions regarding the many and sometimes paradoxical ways diasporic subjects self-affiliate or situate themselves in the narratives of scattering and displacement. She demonstrates how the Cafeteros' artmaking involves a process of re-rooting, absorption, translation, and synthesis that simultaneously conserves a series of identifiable Cuban cultural elements while re-inscribing and transforming them in new contexts.

An important contribution to both diasporic and transnational studies and discussions of contemporary Cuban art, Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora ultimately testifies to the fact that a long tradition of Cuban art is indeed flourishing outside the island.

David A. Bailey, Alissandra Cummins, Axel Lapp, Allison Thompson Emerging out of the Black Diaspora Visual Arts (BDVA) programme, which began in 2007 and has included exhibitions, arts events, seminars and conferences, this book deals with the contextualization of post-war Black Art against the background of generational shifts as a result of migration across the Diaspora. Further, it presents a particularly Caribbean position on using visual art as a medium for breaking the silences common in the post-colonial constellation of developing countries. Ranging in focus from Barbados to Haiti, and from Jamaica to Curaçao, it entails a fascinating and relevant art historical discussion from the perspective of its observers and participants.

Edwige Danticat

Ian Gregory Strachan

Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, Barbara Bailey

Harvey O'Brien

Bram Gieben, Stuart Hall Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'.

Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.

Hilary Beckles This book sets out for the general reader and student alike the peculiar features of the post emancipation condition of the formerly enslaved community in Barbados. It was here on this small island of 166 square miles that tens of thousands of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean first experienced the full brutality of the sugar plantation. It was here also, in this incubator of chattel slavery, that Africans received the worst possible emancipation deal the Caribbean, if not the Americas. Barbados, the first black majority slave plantation society in the New World, remained structurally unaltered by the powerful source for change that was unleashed on August 1st 1838 – emancipation day. Here, an unrelenting landless freedom was imposed upon the blacks whose conditions of work and life remained largely unchanged for a century on plantations that produced more sugar with less labour for below subsistence wages.

The formerly enslaved community, persisted with its protest and rebellion; Wage protest in the sugar fields intermingled with the civil rights agitation on the assembly floor, finally led to open warfare in the form of the 1876 Rebellion.

Against this background of 19th century popular protests and workers’ agitation, the modern labour movement, the anticolonial campaign, and agitation for democratic governance came to maturity by the 1920s. The final breach in the walls of the structures of white supremacy was achieved in 1937 when the workers took to the streets and field with arms under the ideological leadership of the charismatic Garveyite organizers, Clement Payne. It had taken a full century of struggle after emancipation to see, even at a distance, the freedom that was promised by the abolition of slavery legislation.

Daniel Kedar

Anne Walmsley

Stuart Hall

Petrine Archer Straw and Kim Robinson

Ernesto J. Castillero Reyes

Edited by Erica Moiah James

Barrington Watson A rare glimpse into what inspires an artist to paint. In his own words Barrington Watson, a formost master painter, writes his inspiration in a collection of short stories. Brilliant paintings throughout the book shows the painter's versatility and brings the stories to light visually.

Ministry of Community Development and Culture

Luis Camnitzer Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition includes a new epilogue that discusses developments in Cuban art since the book's publication in 1994, including the exodus of artists in the early 1990s, the effects of the new dollar economy on the status of artists, and the shift away from socialist themes to more personal concerns in the artists' works. Twenty-four new color plates augment the more than 200 b&w illustrations of the original volume.

El Museo del Barrio

In 1932, at the very peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne in Paris established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Legitime Defense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at the time. Yet its publication began a remarkable series of debates and collaborations between surrealism and Caribbean intellectuals that had a profound impact on the struggle for cultural identity. In the next two decades these exchanges greatly influenced the evolution of the concept of negritude, initiated revolution in Haiti in 1946, and crucially affected the development of surrealism itself. This fascinating book explores the nature of this relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the Caribbean and the most radical of the European avant-gardes, and presents a series of key texts which reveal its complexity - most of them never before translated into English. Included are Rene Menil's subtle philosophical essays and the fierce polemics of Aime and Suzanne Cesaire that had a great influence on Franz Fanon, appreciations of surrealism by Haitian writers, lyrical evocations of the Caribbean by Andre Breton and Andre Masson, and rich explorations of Haiti and voodoo religion by Pierre Mabille and Michel Leiris.

Chris Salewicz and Adrian Boot

Antonio Benitez-Rojo In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Committee for National Reconciliation

David Buisseret Just when private property materialized as an important social institution, a new kind of map appeared—the estate map. Prepared for private owners rather than national powers, these maps have been a little-studied strain of cadastral mapping until now. Here a group of leading historians—Sarah Bendall, David Buisseret, P. D. A. Harvey, and B. W. Higman—follow the spread of estate maps from their origin in England around 1570 to colonial America, the British Caribbean, and early modern Europe.

Generously illustrated with reproductions of rare manuscripts, including 8 color plates, these accounts reveal how estate maps performed vital economic and cultural functions for property owners until the end of the nineteenth century. From plans of plantations in Jamaica and South Carolina to a map of Queens College, Cambridge, handsome examples show that estate maps formed an important part of the historical record of property ownership for both individuals and corporations, and helped owners manage their land and appraise its value. Exhibited in public places for pleasure and as symbols of wealth, they often displayed elaborate cartouches and elegant coats-of-arms.

Dorothea Smartt Focusing on a sense of duty—to record family history, to envision wholeness out of fragments, and to dissolve the differences that prejudice may interpose between private and public selves—this rich collection of poetry hinges upon a sequence of poems that excavate the missing history of Samboo, an African slave brought from the Caribbean to the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. Drawing connections between present-day Lancaster and the foundations of its 18th-century prosperity in slave trading, the account places Samboo’s tragedy in the Lancaster landscape and text that offers a deeply personal response to the bicentennial of the abolition of the British slave trade. Contemporary poems provide both a counterpoint to the emptiness of Samboo’s too-soon curtailed life and echo a continuity of loss wrought by the fragmentation of Afro-Caribbean families through continuing migrations and death.

Various Authors

Lucette ter Borg Put together alongside the 2008 Olympic Games, this collection of one-minute videos from 90 countries—in book and DVD form—includes work by emerging and established artists. It opens a window on China, then travels to the Netherlands, Alaska, Benin, Morocco, Egypt and other countries, before heading back to Beijing.

Paul Bahn Written in Bones brings together a team of international experts to show how the careful study of bones reveals a compelling picture of the lives, cultures, and beliefs of ancient societies from around the world.

This compelling and scientifically-accessible book: Provides 38 case studies examining the discoveries at archeological sitesIntroduces readers to ancient peoplesIncludes more than 350 color photographs

Human remains tell us much about how our ancestors lived and died. In Written in Bones, significant discoveries are carefully brought together and analyzed. Readers learn how experts use modern scientific techniques to piece together the stories behind the bones. The data is used to create a picture of cultures and ritual beliefs. There are such astonishing discoveries as: Han Dynasty aristocrat preserved in an unknown red liquidBog bodies in EuropeThe riddle of Tomb KV55 - where a male body was found inside a female coffinWorld's oldest dwarfThe headless men and giant wolves of the Mesolithic cemetery in Siberia

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Barbados Museum and Historical Society