Reviews

Caribbean Writers and the Public Sphere

Raphael Dalleo, Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011); 320 pages; ISBN 978-0813931999 (paper).

Faith Smith
May 2012

Parsing Aftershocks and History

Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012); 448 pages; ISBN 978-0805093353 (hardcover).

Jeremy M. Glick
May 2012

Afro-Latinidades in the United States

Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010); 566 pages; ISBN-13 978-0-8223-4572-5 (paper).

Yvette Fuentes
May 2012

South-South Liming

Rahul Bhattacharya, The Sly Company of People Who Care (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011); 278 pages; ISBN 978-0-374-26585-4 (hardcover).

Charles V. Carnegie
February 2012

The Redrawn Map of Eric Walrond’s Caribbean

Eric Walrond, In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond, ed. Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2011); 224 pages; ISBN 978-0813035604 (hardcover).

James Davis
February 2012

Slavery and Freedom in Latin America

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011); 204 pages; ISBN-13 978-0-8263-3904-1 (paper).

Marcela Echeverri
February 2012

The Radical Reggae Moment

Colin Grant, The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011); 305 pages; ISBN 978-0-393-08117-6 (hardcover)

Anthony Bogues
February 2012

A Darker World Order

Caryl Phillips, Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 (New York: New Press, 2011); 339 pages; ISBN 978-1-59558-650-6 (paper).

Bastian Balthazar Becker
December 2011

Revolutionary Lives of the Atlantic

Jane G. Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010); 352 pages; ISBN 978-0674035911 (paper).

Kristina Huang
December 2011

Who Lacks an Ethical Code?

Kate Ramsey, The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011); 448 pages; ISBN-13: 978-0226703794 (hardcover).

Toni Pressley-Sanon
December 2011