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Caribbean Studies: A subject guide to selected materials in the TCNJ Library



The Caribbean:

 

General reference works:


The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean / general editors, Simon Collier, Thomas E. Skidmore, Harold Blakemore. Cambridge UP, 1992.
Ref F1406 .C36 1992

Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures / edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López. Routledge, 2000.
Ref F1406 .E515 2000

Literature:
Caribbean writers : a bio-bibliographical-critical encyclopedia. Three Continents Press, 1979. Ref PN849.C3 C3


Music:
Situating salsa : global markets and local meanings in Latin popular music / edited by Lise Waxer. Routledge, 2002. ML3535.5 W39 2002.
Includes essays on salsa in Cuba, Colombia, London and elsewhere.

 

Cuba


General reference works:
Enciclopedia de Cuba. Enciclopedia y Clásicos Cubanos, 1973-
Ref F1754 .E52

Encyclopedia of Cuba : people, history, culture / edited by Luis Martínez-Fernández ... [et al.]. Greenwood Press, 2002

Historical dictionary of Cuba. Scarecrow Press, 2001
Ref F1754 .S83 2001

Art:
Camnitzer, Luis. New art of Cuba. University of Texas Press, 1994. N6603 .C26 1994

Levi, Vicki Gold. Cuba style : graphics from the golden age of design. Princeton Architectural Press, c2002.
ON ORDER

Martínez, Juan A. Cuban art and national identity : the Vanguardia painters, 1927-1950 University Press of Florida, c1994.
ND303 .M37 1994

Emigration:

Cuban Americans. Greenwood Press, 1998.
E184.C97 G64 1998

ReMembering Cuba : legacy of a diaspora. University of Texas Press, 2001.
E184.C97 R39 2001

Pérez Firmat, Gustavo. Vidas en vilo : la cultura cubanoamericana. Colibri, 2000. E184.C97 P4713 2000



Literature:

Cámara, Madeline. La letra rebelde : estudio de escritoras cubanas. Ediciones Universal, 2002.
PQ7378 .C36 2002

Cuba, una literatura sin fronteras = Cuba, a literature beyond boundaries. Iberoamericana, c2001.
PQ7372 .C84 2001

Dictionary of twentieth-century Cuban literature. Greenwood Press, 1990.
PQ7378 .D53 1990

Henríquez Ureña, Max. Panorama historico de la literatura cubana. Ediciones Mirador [c1963-
PQ7371 .H37

Music:

Carpentier, Alejo. Music in Cuba. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. On order.

Farr, Jory. Rites of rhythm : the music of Cuba. Regan Books, 2003. On order.

Moore, Robin. Nationalizing blackness : afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-1940. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. On order.

Buena Vista Social Club (video). V5573

 

Dominican Republic


Literature:

Cuevas, Eugenio de J. García. Juan Bosch : novela, historia y sociedad. Isla Negra, 1995.
PQ7409.B65 Z685 1995

Music:

Austerlitz, Paul. Merengue : Dominican music and Dominican identity. Temple University Press, 1997. ML3465 .A95 1997

Politics:

Diederich, Bernard. Trujillo : the death of the dictator. Markus Wiener Pub., 2000. F1938.5.T7 D5 2000

Matibag, Eugenio. Haitian-Dominican counterpoint : nation, state, and race on Hispaniola. Palgrave, 2003. F1938.25.H2 M38 2003

Turits, Richard Lee. Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history. Stanford University Press, 2003. HD1531.D6 T87 2003

 

Haiti


Art:

Christensen, Eleanor Ingalls. The art of Haiti. Art Alliance Press,1975.
N6606 .C54.

Haitian art / by Ute Stebich. H. N. Abrams, c1978.
N6606 .H34

Emigration:

American odyssey : Haitians in New York City / Michel S. Laguerre. Cornell University Press, c1984. F128.9.H27 L34 1984

Las relaciones domínico-haitianas : geopolítica y migración / María Elena Muñoz. Editora Alfa y Omega, 1995.
F1938.25.H2 M86 1995

Georges woke up laughing : long-distance nationalism and the search for home / Nina Glick Schiller & Georges Eugene Fouron. Duke University Press, 2001.
E184.H27 S35 2001

Literature:

Framing silence : revolutionary novels by Haitian women / Myriam J.A. Chancy. Rutgers University Press, c1997
PQ3944 .C47 1997

Literature and ideology in Haiti, 1915-1961. J. Michael Dash. Barnes & Noble Books, 1981. PQ3941 .D37 1981

L'image comme echo : essais sur la litterature et la culture haitiennes / Maximilien Laroche. Editions Nouvelle optique, 1978.
PM7854.H3 L3

 

Jamaica


Economics:
Harrison, Michelle. King sugar : Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the world sugar industry. New York University Press, 2001. HD9114.J252 H37 2001


Music:

Kevin O'Brien Chang. Reggae routes : the story of Jamaican music. Temple University Press, 1998. ML3532 .C45 1998

Stephen A. King. Reggae, Rastafari, and the rhetoric of social control. University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
ML3532 .K55 2002

Reggae, Rasta, revolution : Jamaican music from ska to dub. Prentice Hall International, c1997. ML3486.J3 R44 1997

Saakan, Amon Saba. Jah music : the evolution of the popular Jamaican song. Heinemann Educational, 1980 ML3486.J3 C6

Stolzoff, Norman C. Wake the town and tell the people : dancehall culture in Jamaica. Duke University Press, 2000. ML3486.J3 S76 2000

Politics:
Bayer, Marcel. Jamaica : a guide to the people, politics and culture. Ian Randle Publishers, 1993. F1868 .B3913 1993.

Meeks, Brian . Narratives of resistance : Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean. University of the West Indies Press, c2000. On order.

Persaud, Randolph B. Counter-hegemony and foreign policy : the dialectics of marginalized and global forces in Jamaica. State University of New York Press, 2001. JZ1541 .P47 2001

Rose, Euclid A. Dependency and socialism in the modern Caribbean : superpower intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985. Lexington Books, 2002. F2183 .R67 2002

Religion:

Chevannes, Barry. Rastafari : roots and ideology. Syracuse University Press, 1994. BL2532.R37 C47 1994

Edmonds, Ennis Barrington. Rastafari : from outcasts to culture bearers. Oxford University Press, 2003. BL2532.R37 E36 2003

Gordon, Shirley C. God Almighty, make me free : Christianity in preemancipation Jamaica. Indiana University Press, 1996. BR645.J3 G67 1996

 

Puerto Rico


General Reference Works:
Historical dictionary of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Scarecrow Press, 1973.
Ref F1954 .F37

Puerto Rico past and present : an encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 1998
Ref F1954 .F47 1998


Emigration:

Joseph P. Fitzpatrick. Puerto Rican Americans : the meaning of migration to the mainland.
F128.9.P85 F57 1987

Ramón Grosfoguel. Colonial subjects : Puerto Ricans in a global perspective. On Order
Manuel Maldonado-Denis. The emigration dialectic : Puerto Rico and the U.S.A.
International Publishers, c1980.
E184.P85 M3413

Julio Morales. Puerto Rican poverty and migration : we just had to try elsewhere. Praeger, 1986.
JV7381.Z79 U65 1986

Carmen Teresa Whalen. From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia : Puerto Rican workers and postwar economies. Temple University Press, 2001.
F158.9.P85 W53 2001

Literature:

La mujer puertorriqueña en su contexto literario y social. Verbum Editorial, c2002. HQ1522 .M8445 2002

Juan G. Gelpí. Literatura y paternalismo en Puerto Rico. Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1993
PQ7428 .G45 1993

José Luis González. El país de cuatro pisos y otros ensayos. Ediciones Huraca´n, 1989.
F1960 .G66 1989
Includes essay on “Literatura e identidad nacional en Puerto Rico”.

Music:
Annie Figueroa Thompson. An Annotated bibliography of writings about music in Puerto Rico. Music Library Association, 1975, c1974.

Politics:
Taíno revival : critical perspectives on Puerto Rican identity and cultural politics. Markus Wiener Publishers, c2001. F1983.A1 T35 2001

 

Trinidad


General reference works:
Historical dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago / Michael Anthony. Scarecrow Press, 1997.

 

Websites:

Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies
http://pw1.netcom.com/~hhenke/