Surviving the Americas : Garifuna persistence from Nicaragua to New York City / Serena Cosgrove, José Idiáquez, Leonard Joseph Bent, and Andrew Gorvetzian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cosgrove, Serena, 1963- author.

Idiáquez, José, author.

Gorvetzian, Andrew (Andrew James), author.

Bent, Leonard Joseph, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Nicaragua--Social conditions.

Garifuna (Caribbean people).

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

New York (State)--New York.

Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

xxv, 179 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : The University of Cincinnati Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Surviving the Americas directly engages the vital social justice issues of diaspora, exclusion, and resilience through an ethnographic study with the Garifuna, a Central American afro-indigenous group with roots in western Africa and the Caribbean. Today, the Garifuna are concentrated on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Belize, and about 50,000 Garifuna live in the United States. The editors focus on the resilience and survival of the Garifuna communities of Pearl Lagoon on the southeastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and trace the recent movement of the Central American Garifuna to the United States through interviews with Garifuna families living in the Bronx. A people born of the rupturing processes of the slave trade and colonization in the 1600s and 1700s, the Garifuna today challenge our very notions of culture, indigeneity, and resistance and provide a rich opportunity to critique how the Western gaze"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Persisting: Garifuna Histories / Jose Idiaquez

ch. Two Framing: Decolonial Intersectionality / Serena Cosgrove

ch. Three Rooting: Garifuna Connection to Nature / Andrew Gorvetzian

ch. Four Believing: Garifuna Spirituality / Jose Ididquez

ch. Five Routing: Youth Persistence / Andrew Gorvetzian

ch. Six Rooting, Routing, and Believing: Garifuna Persistence in Nicaragua, Honduras, and New York City / Leonard Joseph Bent

ch. Seven Unlearning/Relearning: Decolonial Methodologies / Serena Cosgrove.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Surviving the Americas.

ISBN:

9781947602113

194760211X

OCLC:

1133661738

Publisher Number:

99989843520