From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Bringing to bear a comparative, diasporic perspective, Robert Carr examines the complex roles race, gender, sexuality, and history have played in the formation of black national identities in the U. S. and Caribbean—particularly in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana—over the past two centuries. He shows how nationalism begins as an impulse emanating "upwards" from the bottom of the social and economic spectrum and discusses the implications of this phenomenon for understanding democracy and nationalism.Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanonical literary works, which in turn illuminate debates over African-American and West Indian culture, identity, and politics. In addition to Martin Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America, Carr focuses on Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces; Crown Jewel, R. A. C. de Boissière’s novel of the Trinidadian revolt against British rule; Wilson Harris’s Guyana Quartet; the writings of the Oakland Black Panthers—particularly Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver; the gay novella Just Being Guys Together; and Lionheart Gal, a collection of patois testimonials assembled by Sistren, a radical Jamaican women’s theater group active in the ‘80s.With its comparative approach, broad historical sweep, and use of texts not well known in the United States, Black Nationalism in the New World extends the work of such theorists as Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, and Nell Irwin Painter. It will be necessary reading for those interested in African American studies, Caribbean studies, cultural studies, women’s studies, and American studies.

Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience (Latin America Otherwise)

Robert Carr

Duke University Press Books

America's wildlife sampler

Thomas B. Allen

ROBERT ROBINSON

David Sumner

Boyd Norton

Wayne Barrett

Reeve Brown

National Wildlife Federation

As events unfold through the first decades of the AIDS pandemic, a public health crisis that transformed a generation, the speaker in The Unbuttoned Eye insists on the survival of the erotic in the face of life-threatening disease. In sex clubs, men eat whipped cream off bodies wrapped in cellophane. In a neighbor's home, a young man dies on a sofa as toxic medication from a drip line strips color out of fabric. These poems dive deeply into an emotional world of contradiction, as the speaker follows desire and detaches from intimacy in order to survive. Photographs of the poet as an artist's model whisper in dialogue with the reader and with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe as poems ask-Who are your dead? What is the texture of possession? This collection is an unflinching journey into the evolution of identity. Each poem challenges our definitions of compassion, trauma and love.

The Unbuttoned Eye

3:A Taos Press

Deemed a classic for its reading level and illustrations, this work is suitable for one-semester Comparative Anatomy course.

Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates

KENT

McGraw=Hill

This dazzling book is written straight from the heart. It is the story of a 'lonely' American who has always lived on the edge. In this book, Carr rewinds and replays with heartbreaking simplicity the emotional memories of his lifelong struggle to find out the meaning and the mystery of life. It may not be wrong to call him a twenty-first-century Siddhartha.

God Men Con Men

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Smriti Books

Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile is a political and social history engaging with the dimensions of generosity via a study about Kosovar refugees fleeing to Australia during the 1999 war in the former Yugoslavia.

Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile (Brill's Specials in Modern History, 2)

History

Australia & Oceania

BRILL

Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean context by exploring risks, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender. It provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different sectors in society and an interdisciplinary, rather than segregated multi-disciplinary approach, can effectively address the spread of HIV and AIDS in the region. Divided into four sections, the volume raises controversial issues not formally discussed in the Caribbean context, but which require confrontation to arrest the spread of HIV.

Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights: Vulnerability in the Caribbean Context of HIV

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Christine Barrow

Marjan de Bruin

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Ian Randle Publishers

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