Be Rootful and Fly
Elsie Augustave, The Roving Tree (New York: Akashic Books/Open Lens, 2013); 224 pages; ISBN 9781617751653 (paperback).
Elsie Augustave, The Roving Tree (New York: Akashic Books/Open Lens, 2013); 224 pages; ISBN 9781617751653 (paperback).
Engendering the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz’s Guide to Love and Loss
Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her (New York: Riverhead Books, 2012); 213 pages; ISBN: 9781594487361 (hardcover).
Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her (New York: Riverhead Books, 2012); 213 pages; ISBN: 9781594487361 (hardcover).
Reparation and the Religio-Legal Injustices of Empire
Hilary McD. Beckles, Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide (Mona: University of the West Indies Press, 2013); 292 pages; ISBN: 9789766402686 (paperback).
Hilary McD. Beckles, Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide (Mona: University of the West Indies Press, 2013); 292 pages; ISBN: 9789766402686 (paperback).
Fleshing the Bones of Caribbean Slavery
Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (New York: Knopf, 2013); 384 pages; ISBN: 9780307272836 (hardcover).
Dave St. Aubyn Gosse, Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807–1838 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2012); 248 pages; ISBN: 9789766402693 (paperback).
Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (New York: Knopf, 2013); 384 pages; ISBN: 9780307272836 (hardcover).
Dave St. Aubyn Gosse, Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807–1838 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2012); 248 pages; ISBN: 9789766402693 (paperback).
Higglers in Kingston: Bridging Theory, Teaching, and Women’s Informal Labors
Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011); 225 pages; ISBN: 9780826517654 (hardcover).
Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011); 225 pages; ISBN: 9780826517654 (hardcover).
Looking beyond the Rubble: Refounding Haiti amid Continued Challenges
Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, eds., Tectonic Shifts: Haiti since the Earthquake (Sterling, VA: Kumarian, 2012); 271 pages; ISBN: 9781565495128 (paperback).
Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, eds., Tectonic Shifts: Haiti since the Earthquake (Sterling, VA: Kumarian, 2012); 271 pages; ISBN: 9781565495128 (paperback).
Writing Against Black Brutality
Deborah A. Thomas, Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011); 320 pages; ISBN: 9780822350866 (paperback).
Deborah A. Thomas, Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011); 320 pages; ISBN: 9780822350866 (paperback).
Kingston Piece by Piece
Colin Channer, ed., Kingston Noir (New York: Akashic, 2012); 285 pages; ISBN: 978-1-61775-074-8 (paperback).
Colin Channer, ed., Kingston Noir (New York: Akashic, 2012); 285 pages; ISBN: 978-1-61775-074-8 (paperback).
Looking for “Decolonial Love” in Postcolonial Jamaica
Diana McCaulay, Huracan (London: Peepal Tree, 2012); 276 pages; ISBN: 9781845231965 (paperback).
Diana McCaulay, Huracan (London: Peepal Tree, 2012); 276 pages; ISBN: 9781845231965 (paperback).
The Scent of the Past
Wayne Brown, The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2011); 381 pages; ISBN: 9781845231538 (paperback).
Wayne Brown, The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2011); 381 pages; ISBN: 9781845231538 (paperback).