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Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity in colonial Martinique. As José transitions from childhood to young adulthood and from rural plantations to urban Fort-de-France on a quest for upward mobility, he bears witness to and struggles against the various manifestations of white supremacy, both subtle and overt, that will alter the course of his life.

For more than 200 often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images - Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island.

When Jamaica became independent on August 6, 1962, ska music was playing in yards, dancehalls, and in recording studios as this new nation celebrated. It was a spirited music, full of promise, optimism, and energy and it was the perfect sound to showcase to the world. Now that Jamaica was independent, what better way to demonstrate the culture, beauty, and art of Jamaica than through ska, both as a music and as a dance. The Jamaican government, tourist and business industry, and newly developing music industry made it their mission to bring Jamaican music to the world, through events they ...

Recopilaciones de docunmentos de los siguientes personajes de la época: GUSTAVO ALEMÁN BOLAÑOS. Escritor, autor de varios libros sobre Sandino. PABLO EMILIO BARRETO. Periodista, antiguo reportero del diario La Prensa, de Managua. ARTURO BLISS-LANE. Ministro de los Estados Unidos en Nicaragua. SALVADOR CALDERÓN RAMÍREZ. Ministro de Nicaragua en México, delegado de Sandino a los arreglos de paz con el Presidente Sacasa. ABELARDO CUADRA VEGA. ex-Teniente de la Guardia Nacional, hombre de confianza de Somoza y uno de los participantes en la conjura contra la vida de Sandino y sus ...

Displaced from his oppressive yard, Johnny finds no work for a trombonist in the recording studios of Kingston. A life of crime as a rude boy is an easy way out, but will Johnny join his friends, or will he confront his past to realize his true potential? Set in Kingston, Jamaica, 1966, Johnny Too Bad is an historical fiction set in a record-heat summer when ska transitioned to rocksteady and politics defined the country’s identity. Go inside the musicians’ studios, the Rasta camps, the streets and the tenement yards to witness first-hand life during a time of both creation and ...

Tras los embates producidos por la heroica Revolución Francesa en el siglo XVII, en la Isla caribeña de la Española, el territorio que abarca el actual estado de Haití, sufrió profundos cambios a causa de la explotación europea y los deseos de libertad del pueblo haitiano.

Bloody Plátanos: La oscura historia de United Fruit y el nacimiento de las repúblicas bananeras Detrás de la simple y cotidiana banana se esconde un imperio global construido sobre el poder, la explotación y el derramamiento de sangre. Bloody Plátanos la historia no contada de cómo la United Fruit Company (UFC), más tarde conocida como Chiquita Brands International, transformó una fruta tropical en un símbolo de la codicia corporativa, la manipulación geopolítica y la represión laboral. A lo largo de más de un siglo, este impactante reportaje lleva a los lectores desde las ...

¿Cómo narrar el final de uno de los procesos políticos más relevantes ocurridos en Latinoamérica? ¿Qué registrar cuando se visita una isla donde se cede lentamente el paso a la modernización? Ambas preguntas remiten a una cuestión innegable: un capítulo en la historia contemporánea está terminando.

Bajo las sábanas de Ponce es una cautivadora colección de cuentos que nos transporta a la diversidad cultural y social de Puerto Rico en el siglo XVIII, a través de relatos en los que la historia y la ficción se entrelazan de manera sorprendente. José Gregorio Parada reúne con maestría historias de amor, pasión prohibida, conflictos familiares y las luchas de los más desfavorecidos, revelando las complejidades de una sociedad marcada por normas estrictas y secretos ocultos. Cada cuento ofrece un vistazo a la vida de personajes apasionados y sufridos, invitando al lector a ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the images of two men came to dominate the iconography of left-wing movements: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The story of the revolution these two men led in Cuba became a fable that drove and encouraged other revolutionary movements around the world. The Cuban Revolution is certainly astonishing. Beginning with fewer than 100 armed men, the Fidelistas took on a government that had a well-equipped army, air force, and navy. On paper, the handful of rebels stood no chance.

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives.

Are you interested in Caribbean history? More specifically, in the Arawakan people? One of the indigenous tribes of the Caribbean, the Arawakans are a fascinating study in how culture and social order can be disrupted and wiped out by one historical event - the colonizers’ arrival. This account explores the Arawakan people and their culture in detail, together with an exploration of the events surrounding Christopher Columbus’s arrival and what followed - the Arawakans were forced to change their social institutions and forget. Explore their culture and social institutions:

Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before and after the revolution, and the criminal networks known as the Mafia.

Join abolitionist Richard Henry Dana as he explores Spanish Cuba in 1859, where kidnapped Black Africans were slaves on vast sugar plantations along with impoverished Chinese coolies suffering under unbreakable eight-year contracts. Dana visited Cuba on a fact-finding mission he calls a vacation voyage. He describes Cuban slavery; explores Cuban society, institutions, and educational systems; and exposes a corrupt prison system, where the more a prisoner pays, the less he is punished.

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent1700s with slave revolts in the British colony of Jamaica as well as the American Revolution, The Master’s Daughter is the story of the young mulatto Felice Henderson whose Scottish father Duncan Henderson acknowledges her parentage and takes full responsibility for her upbringing. The naïve Felice is thrown into a world with which she is unfamiliar and must deal with her changing relationships with the slaves on the estate. When she meets a kindred spirit in Mulatto John, she faces the rude awakening of her status as a creole and a colonial. ...

Coinciding with the 230 year anniversary of the establishing of the first Baptist church in Jamaica by the Ethiopian Baptist society and their brutal demise almost 150 years ago, Slavery's Heroes documents its pioneers; the men and women who, led by George Liele, advocated for a nation from enslavement to emancipation and beyond. This work offers insight into a people, a faith and a movement which demonstrated boldness, bravery and self-sacrifice.

Dos manuscritos completos en 1 libro: Historia del Caribe y La edad de oro de la piratería.

Cuba is a nation with a long, rich history. The study of Cuban history is also the study of the development of the New World by Europe, and the first steps taken by New World countries to establish independent governments. Cuba played a significant role in the growth of the New World, and throughout its history has been a part of major world events that have taken place around it. This audiobook is designed to familiarize listeners with a broad overview of Cuban history and the context that made that development possible.

Una biografía completa del conquistador Pizarro, con una análisis completo de los pasajes más sorprendentes de tu vida.

When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from the slave plantations worked by people of African descent, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was a history that he knew surprisingly little about. In White Debt, Harding vividly brings to life the story of the uprising by enslaved people that took place in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana) in the Caribbean in 1823.