Bøger om Caribien

"The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. Here, Cecilia Mâarquez uses social and cultural history methods to assess the racial logics that have shaped the Latinx experience in the region since the middle of the twentieth century. Structuring her argument around several major themes that frequently signpost the history of the South and of race relations in the United States-- the rise of an increasingly mobile middle class, the civil rights movement and fight over school integration, the growth global connection of the region's economy, and political conflict over immigration -- Mâarquez reveals how Latinx people in the South have confronted both whiteness and antiblackness, and how cultural boundaries to exclude Black people from full participation in the life of the region and nation have been essential to the construction of Latinx as a category"--

"In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity, O'Brien argues that present-day claims about fetal personhood are rooted in the use of surgical force against marginalized and racialized women. This history illuminates the theological, patriarchal, and epistemological roots of obstetric violence and racism today. O'Brien illustrates how ideas about maternal worth and unborn life developed in tandem. Eighteenth-century priests sought to save unborn souls through cesarean section, while nineteenth-century doctors aimed to salvage some unmarried women's social reputations via therapeutic abortion. By the twentieth century, eugenicists wished to regenerate the nation's racial profile, in part by sterilizing women in public clinics. The belief that medical interventions could redeem women, children, and the nation is what O'Brien refers to as 'salvation though surgery.' As operations acquired racial and religious significances, Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mixed-race people's bodies became sites for surgical experimentation. Even during periods of Church-state conflict, O'Brien argues, the religious valences of experimental surgery manifested in embodied expressions of racialized, and often-coercive, medical science"--

The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacarías, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA.Contains the plays Native Gardens / The Book Club Play / Destiny of Desire The Book Club PlayA hit comedy about books and the people who love them. When the members of a devoted book club become the subjects of a documentary filmmaker and accept a provocative new member, their long-standing group dynamics take a hilarious turn. Sprinkled with wit, joy and novels galore.Destiny of DesireOn a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born - one into a life of privilege and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a former beauty queen with an insatiable lust for power the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes to grow into one remarkable destiny. Karen Zacarías infuses the Mexican telenovela genre with music, high drama and burning passion to make for a fast-paced modern comedy.Native GardensYou can't choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo's colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples' notions of race, taste, class and privilege.

In Book 2 of this early reader series about a Haitian-American girl named Liline, her cat Pepper, and their multi-generational family, Liline and Pepper learn a little about Grann's homeland, Haiti, during the morning routine of getting ready for school.

Meet Liline, a Haitian-American kindergartener and her sassy cat Pepper as they learn, explore, and have fun in their city neighborhood. In Book 1 of this Level 1 early reader series, Liline and her family discover a cat and after trying to find its family with no luck, happily keep her. It takes a bit to pick the perfect name but they finally do!

La autora de esta serie de anécdotas narra con conmovedora sinceridad los juicios y reminiscencias de su niñez en el campo. Con sencillez exquisita, introduce al lector a la vida campesina, mostrando los valores morales y la belleza que prevalecían en aquel escenario. Belkis M. Marte nos muestra en estos textos que la felicidad a veces no está relacionada con "cuánto", sino más bien con "cómo" y con "quién". Tiene el libro un valor antropológico importante ya que captura costumbres, tradiciones y valores de una comunidad determinada en un determinado tiempo: el campo de la República Dominicana en la segunda mitad del Siglo XX. Con este libro, además, la autora deja un legado familiar a las futuras generaciones; para que no olviden nunca que alguna vez fueron muy pobres... pero también muy felices".

A survey of the paintings of Abraham Ángel that situates the celebrated artist's work within the broader arc of Mexican art in the 1920s

An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City

The A-Z of Neglected Writers from the English-speaking Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region's rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers - such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson - whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others - Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete, for example - whose work has never been properly recognized. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these 'lost' writers, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works.

For many years he investigated the lives of the twelve young people who sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom, fraternity and human dignity. This book is the result of that work and leaves for history the lives of those martyrs who knew how to shout, before dying: LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING!*****************************************************************************Por muchos años investigó la vida de los doce jóvenes que sacrificaron sus vidas por la causa de la libertad, fraternidad y dignidad humana. Este libro es resultado de ese trabajo y deja para la historia la vida de aquellos mártires que supieron gritar, antes de morir: ¡VIVA CRISTO REY!

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history?the Cuban Missile Crisis?providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century?the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis?America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors.Combining in-depth research with Hasting's well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, DC, to Havana, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance. Reflecting on the outcome of these events, he reveals how the aftermath of this momentous crisis continues to reverberate today.Powerful, and riveting, filled with compelling detail and told with narrative flair, The Abyss is history at its finest.

Norbelis González Ramírez, (Holguín, Cuba, 1969). Mujer entre trastes es el segundo poemario de Norbelis Gonzalez. Escritora y actriz dramática, graduada en el Instituto Superior de la Artes de Holguín. Trabajó en la Compañía de Teatro Dramático de Holguín, dirigido por Carlos Jesús García. En el Proyecto Federico García Lorca de Norma Arencibia, y La buhardilla, de Arturo Pupo, bajo la dirección de estos reconocidos dramaturgos interpretando los personajes protagónicos en obras como Romeo y Julieta, Bodas de Sangre, La Señorita X de Strimberg, La Abadesa de José Ramón Brenes; A la diestra del Dios Padre, de Enrique Buenaventura. Filomena en Cuentos del Decamerón, Macicas en El Camarón encantado. Obtuvo el segundo premio de periodismo "Sara Salkajasi", 2007, convocado por el Centro Janssen.Premio San Isidoro de Holguín, 2012, con el poemario Campos del otro (Ediciones Janssen, 2013). Publicado por Editorial Primigenios, Miami, 2022. Su segundo poemario, Mujer entre trastes, (La Orilla Oscura Ediciones, Querétaro, México, 2022).Norbelis Gonzalez Ramirez nos presenta este hermoso poemario para mostrar sus versos de fuertes resonancias a pesar de llegar de lugares comunes pero poblados de angeles como ella.

Adventures at Grandma Bahamas is a charming picture book that follows a boy named Chatoen as he visits his grandmother's home in the Bahamas. He learns about plants that grow in the Bahamas while he helps grandma water her garden, learns about flamingos as he feeds them, and visits a Junkanoo parade too! Chatoen also helps his grandmother cook dinner and learns about the foods in the Bahamas. Then a cool glass of water takes his imagination on a fantastic underwater voyage to the famous blue hole. In the sea he makes friends with a shark who gives him a ride back to grandma's house. Packed with colorful illustrations, Adventures at Grandma Bahamas will delight children and adults alike with a journey to a faraway land in the mind of a child.

Nicholas goes to the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean to visit his grandparents and to see other family members. Life on the island is different from Canada where he is born, but he is interested in seeing new things. He learns to play some traditional games, he visits lots of fun places and most importantly, he learns about his family's cultural heritage and background. This story sheds light on the significance of one's cultural heritage and gives a better sense of who one is.

Art from the mind of a genius.King Josiah is the son of The World Famous Reggae Legend Dr Jamaica does not beat the Children

The Enchanted Isles begins with a dream in which Oh, the narrator, returns to a voyage he made to the Galápagos - known as enchanted because of their danger-ous currents, which lured seamen to their deaths - ten years earlier. It was to be a voyage of enchantment, a lovers' voyage, an eight-day cruise paid for by a magical win at roulette, the number eight coming up eight times in a row. But in the meantime, Ah and Oh have separated, and so the memory dream is shot through with regret and also with a sometimes nightmarish vision of the ugly black volcanic islands where Darwin, observing mutations in finches, first came up with the idea of evolution. In a multi-themed jazz rondo form, extracts from Darwin's writings, geo-metry, chance and fate, giant tortoises complaining of human depredation, iguanas, jellyfish, blades of grass, extinct volcanoes, scuba diving and tender tourist conversation dance round and round. Occasionally the music breaks down and stutters: we hear dissonance as well as secret harmonies. This is a work of great lyricism, teasing humour and complex originality, a poem of everything."A radical experiment in poetics, a world that is both real and unreal." -Miguel Casado, La Vanguardia, Barcelona"One of the best books in Spanish of the past 20 years." -Francesco Tarquini, Ispanoamericana, University of Roma La sapienza

Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of 'true' human nature.

Después de muchas luchas e intentos infructuosos, Simón Bolívar se asocia con Francisco de Paula Santander y José Antonio Paéz, y conforma el ejército que en cinco años dará la independencia a cinco países de hoy: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, y Bolivia. Esta NO-NOVELA (un nuevo género) no es una ficción, pero tampoco un libro de historia, es algo que se mueve, con pinzas, por un delgado límite entre esos dos territorios. Esta obra permite al lector acompañar al ejército, paso a paso, sin que el autor invente qué piensan los personajes, que desean, ni que temen, cada parlamento está soportado en datos históricos y la minucia y rigor son las reglas principales de esta narración que se lee con facilidad porque no proviene de la pluma de un historiador sino de la de un novelista y ensayista.

What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European onslaught? All but a few were wiped out. This remarkable book explores the history and culture of those who survived: the Kalinagos of Dominica - from resistance, to refuge and now revival.