Brenda Ralph Lewis. The History of Pirates. London: Amber Books, 2017. Illustrations. 192 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78274-490-0.
Reviewed by Michael F. Dove (Western University) Published on H-Caribbean (January, 2018) Commissioned by Gregg French
Toni Pressley-Sanon. Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen. Contributions to Zombie Studies Series. Jefferson: McFarland Publishing, 2016. 200 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9424-8.
Reviewed by Simon Lee (The College of Science, Technology, and Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago) Published on H-Caribbean (October, 2017) Commissioned by Sarah Foss
Yeidy M. Rivero. Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960. Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 264 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5871-8; $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5859-6.
Reviewed by Susan Harewood (University of Washington at Bothell) Published on H-Caribbean (August, 2017) Commissioned by Sarah Foss
Ann Twinam. Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. 553 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-5093-6.
Reviewed by Cecily Jones (University of Warwick) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2017) Commissioned by Sarah Foss
Sarah Phillips Casteel. Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 336 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17440-4.
Reviewed by Patrick Taylor (York University) Published on H-Caribbean (January, 2017) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
Rethinking "Calypso Jews" in the Caribbean Imagination
Sehon S. Goodridge, edited by Anthony De Vere Phillips. Facing the Challenge of Emancipation: A Study of the Ministry of William Hart Coleridge, First Bishop of Barbados, 1824-1842. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2014. xix + 131 pp. $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-653-014-3.
Reviewed by Christopher Taylor (University of Western Ontario) Published on H-Caribbean (March, 2015) Commissioned by Gregg French
Woodville K. Marshall. From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, Barbados. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2013. viii + 156 pp. $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-321-8.
Reviewed by Justin Roberts (Dalhousie University) Published on H-Caribbean (February, 2015) Commissioned by Jason Michelakos
A Troubled Ground: A History of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill
Rosamond S. King. Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. 275 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4980-9.
Reviewed by David Murray (York University) Published on H-Caribbean (November, 2014) Commissioned by Jason Michelakos
A New Imagining? Exploring Caribglobal Sexualities through a Multi-Genre Lens
Supriya M. Nair, ed. Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Options for Teaching Series. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2012. ix + 459 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60329-106-4; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60329-107-1.
Reviewed by Sarah Phillips Casteel (Department of English, Carleton University) Published on H-Caribbean (September, 2014) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
Destabilizing the Caribbean Literary Canon
(Director) Andrea E. Leland. Yurumein (Homeland). January 2014. 50-minute documentary / DVD format / 4:3 aspect ratio / surround sound.
Reviewed by MAXIMILIAN FORTE (Concordia University) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2014) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
Resistance, Rupture, and Repair: The Story of the Caribs of St. Vincent in the Caribbean
Hilary McD. Beckles. Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide. Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2013. 292 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-349-2.
Reviewed by Jason Michelakos (York University) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2014) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
David A. Sartorius. Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 336 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5593-9; $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5579-3.
Reviewed by Gregg French (Western University)
Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2014)
Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
Challenging the Study of Race and Loyalty on La Siempre Fiel Isla
Cindy Hahamovitch. No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 352 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-16015-3; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-10268-9.
Reviewed by James Braun (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto) Published on H-Caribbean (June, 2013) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
J. R. McNeill. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New Approaches to the Americas Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 371 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-45286-1; $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-45910-5.
Reviewed by Jefferson Dillman (University of Texas) Published on H-Caribbean (October, 2012) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. vi + 300 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4172-3.
Reviewed by Bernard Moitt (Virginia Commonwealth University) Published on H-Caribbean (August, 2010) Commissioned by Audra Abbe Diptee
The Meaning of Liberty in Martinique: The Final Days of Slavery
