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  • An Unconquerable Spirit:

    The Indigenous Resistance to Colonalisation in the Caribbean Windward Islands

    by Helen Francis-Seaman, Alan Cobley - Editor ...
    Appropriately depicted in the title An Unconquerable Spirit, Helen Francis-Seaman’s seminal study details the history of resistance to settler colonialism by the Kalinago, Garifuna, and Maroon communities in Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and other Eastern Caribbean islands. The arrival of Christopher Colombus in 1492 was followed by the genocide of the Arawakan (Taino) communities and ... Read more

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  • Trajectories of Freedom

    Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007

    Edited by Alan Cobley, Victor C. Simpson ...
    This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference “Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807–2007”, a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire. The papers interrogate and problematize shifting notions and expressions of “freedom” as they have evolved in Caribbean societies over the past ... Read more

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  • Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007

    by Alan Cobley, Victor C. Simpson ...
    This work is a collection of selected essays which illustrate the historical and continuing efforts in the various spheres of human endeavour in the Caribbean,including culture, education, language, social organization, gender and politics - notwithstanding the constraints placed on Caribbean people by the legacies of slavery and colonialism - to finish the business of emancipation. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Creole Indigeneity

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  • The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

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  • Race

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  • The George Lamming Reader - The Aesthetics of Decolonisation

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    George Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming’s writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and literary life. Credited as a part of that group of Caribbean activists who awoke the Caribbean to ... Read more

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    Edited by Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto ...
    Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, Museum Frictions is a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied ... Read more

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  • iVenceremos?

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    by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
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