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People get ready : African American and Caribbean cultural exchange / Kevin Meehan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meehan, Kevin, 1962-
- Series:
- Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
- Caribbean studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938--Influence.
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso.
- Hurston, Zora Neale--Influence.
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- Cortez, Jayne--Influence.
- Cortez, Jayne.
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand--Influence.
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Black people--Caribbean Area--Intellectual life.
- Black people.
- Anti-imperialist movements--History.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Decolonization--History.
- Decolonization.
- United States--Relations--Caribbean Area.
- United States.
- Caribbean Area--Relations--United States.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700's to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue through the lives and works of four key individuals: historian/archivist Arthur Schomburg, writer/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, jazz poet Jayne Cortez, and theologian/politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide. People Get Ready examines how these influential figures have reevaluated popular
- Contents:
- Theorizing African American and Caribbean contact : comparative approaches to cultural decolonization in the Americas
- Vested in the anonymous thousands : Arthur A. Schomburg as decolonizing historian
- Decolonizing ethnography : Zora Neale Hurston in the Caribbean
- Red pepper poetry : Jayne Cortez and cross-cultural saturation
- Mass media contact zones : Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the dialectics of our America.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612485466
- 9781282485464
- 1282485466
- 9781604732825
- 1604732822
- OCLC:
- 609863405
- Publisher Number:
- heb40105 hdl
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