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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456687503321

Autore

Meehan Kevin <1962->

Titolo

People get ready [[electronic resource] ] : African American and Caribbean cultural exchange / / Kevin Meehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48546-6

9786612485466

1-60473-282-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Caribbean studies series

Disciplina

972.9/00496

Soggetti

African Americans - Intellectual life

Black people - Caribbean Area - Intellectual life

Anti-imperialist movements - History

Decolonization - History

Electronic books.

United States Relations Caribbean Area

Caribbean Area Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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