SS150: Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean Professor Lagana

                              SPRING 2009: Caribbean Bibliography

The following is a selected list of books about Caribbean history  and cultures.  Some of these

books can be found in the library here at Queensborough; most of the others can be found at

larger libraries (such as QueenCollege, the main branch of the Queens Public Library, and the

research branches of the NY Public Library in Manhattan). You'll find this list useful when you're

researching your term paper or if you'd like to learn more about a particular aspect of Caribbean

history and cultures.

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Abrahams, Roger D. and John F. Szwed. After Africa: Excerpts From British Travel

Journals of the 17th,18th and 19th Centuries Concerning The Slaves, Their Manners

and Customs in The British West Indies.  

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand. Dignity.

Arroyo, Antonio Stevens. The Cave of the Jagua: The Mythological World of the Taino Indians.

Austerlitz, Paul. Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity.

Austin, Diane. Urban life in Kingston, Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighborhoods.

Averill, Gage.  A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti.

Baker, Abigail.  Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion.

Barnet, Miguel. Afro-Cuban Religions.

Barrett, Leonard D. The Rastafarians: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance.

Barrett, Leonard D. The Sun and The Drum: African Roots in Jamaican Folk Culture.

Barrow, Steve and Peter Dalton.  Reggae: The Rough Guide.

Beckford, George and Michael Witter. SmallGarden, Bitter Weed: The Political Economy of Struggle and Change in Jamaica.

Beckles, Hilary. A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation State.

Beckles, Hilary. White Servitude and Black Slavery in Barbados 1627-1715.

Beckles, Hilary and Verene Shepherd.  Caribbean Slave Socierty and Economy.

Beckwith, Martha Warren. Black Roadways: A Study of Jamaica Folk Life.

Besson. Jean. Martha Brae’s Two Histories: European Expansion and CaribbeanCultureBuilding in Jamaica.

Best, Curwen. Culture@The Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music.

Boggs, Vernon. Salsiology: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City.

Bolles, A. Lynn. Sister Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work and Households in Kingston.

Bradley, Lloyd. Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King.

Bradley, Lloyd. This is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica’s Music.

Brandon, George. Santeria From Africa to the New World: The dead Sell Memories.

Brathwaite, Edward. The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica: 1770-1820.

Brody, Eugene. Sex, Contraception, and Motherhood in Jamaica.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn.

Burnard, Trevor. Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and

His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World.

Burton, Richard D.E. Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean.

Bush, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838.

Campbell, Horace. Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney.

Campbell, Mavis C. The Dynamics of Change in a Slave Society: A Sociopolitical

History of the Free Coloreds of Jamaica.

Campbell, Mavis C. The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655-1796.

Carrion, Aruro Morales.  Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History.

Cassidy, Frederic G. Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language on Jamaica.

Castro, Fidel. History will Absolve Me.

Chang, Kevin and Wayne Cheng. Reggae Routes.

Chavannes, Barry. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology.

Chavannes, Barry.  Rastafari and Other African Caribbean World Views.

Clarke, Colin. Kingston,. Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692-1962.

Clarke, Edith. My Mother Who Fathered Me: A Study of the Family in Three

Selected Communities in Jamaica.

Clarke, John Henrik (editor). Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa.

Clarke, Sebastian. Jah Music: The Evolution of the Popular Jamaican Song.

Cliff, Michelle. No Telephone to Heaven (a novel).

Comitas, Lambros and David Lowenthal (editors). Slaves, Free Men

Citizens: West Indian Perspectives.

Cook, Noble David. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650.

Cooper, Carolyn. Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large. 

Crahan, Margaret and Franklin W. Knight. Africa and The Caribbean: The Legacies of a Link.

Craton, Michael. Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica.

Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to slavery ion the British West Indies.

Craton, Michael and James Walvin. A Jamaican Plantation.

Curtin, Philip. Africa Remembered: Narratives of Slaves from the Era of the Slave Trade.

Curtin, Philip. The Atlantic Slave Trade.

Curtin, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex.

Dance, Daryl. Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans.

Daniel, Yvonne. Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba.

Davis, Stephen. Bob Marley.

Davis, Stephen and Peter Simon. Reggae Bloodlines: In Search of the

Music and the Culture of Jamaica.

Davis, Stephen and Peter Simon. Reggae International.

Davis, Wade. The Serpent and the Rainbow.

Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti.

Dreher, Melanie.  Working Men and Ganja: Marijuana Use in Rural Jamaica.

DuBois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.

Dudley, Shannon. Carnival Music in Trinidad: Expressing Music, Experiencing Culture.

Dunn, Richard. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the British West Indies.

Dupuy, A.  Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700.

Edmonds, Ennis. Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers.

Ellis, Pat. Women of the Caribbean.

Endore, Guy. Babouk (a novel about the Haitian slave revolt of 1791).

Enriques, Fernando. Family and Color in Jamaica.

Erskine, Noel. From Garvey to Marley: Rastafarian Theology.

Estevez, Carmen and Elizabeth Paravasini (editors). Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam:

Short Stories By Caribbean Women.

Exquemelin, Alexander. The Buccaneers of America.

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks.

Fanon, Frantz.  A Dying Colonialism.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth.

Farley, Christopher. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley.

Ferguson, James. A Travelers History of the Caribbean.

Ferguson, James.  The Dominican Republic: Beyond the Lighthouse.

Ferguson, James. Far From Paradise: An Introduction to Caribbean Development.

Ferguson, James. Grenada: The Revo in Reverse.

Ferguson, Moira. The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave Related by Herself.

Fernandez-Olmos, Margurite and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. 

Sacred Possessions: Vodu,  Santeria,  Obeah in the Caribbean.,

Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution From Below.

Foner, Nancy. Islands in the Sun: West Indian Migration to New York City.

Foehr, Stephen. Dancing with Fidel.

Foehr, Stephen. Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots, and Culture.

Foster, Chuck. Roots, Rock, Reggae.

Fraginals, Miguel. Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish

Speaking Caribbean in the 19th Century.

Freeman. Carla. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy:

Women, Work and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean.

Galloway, D.H. The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography.

Gilmore, James. Faces of the Caribbean.

Girvan, Norman.  Foreign Capital and Economic Underdevelopment in Jamaica.

Gmelch, George and Sharon Gmelch. The Parish Behind God’s Back:

The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados.

Gmelch, George. Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism.

Gonzalez-Whippler, Migene. Santeria: African Magic in the New World.

Gonzalez-Whippler, Migene. Rituals and Spells of Santeria.

Gordon, Shirley.  God Almighty Make Me Free: Religion in Pre-Emancipation Jamaica.

Gossai, Hemchand and Nathaniel Samuel Murrell. Religion, Culture, and Tradition in the Caribbean.

Grasmuck, Sherry and Patricia Pressar. Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration.

Gray, Obika. Demeaned But Empowered: The Urban Poor of Jamaica.

Gray, Obika. Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972.

Grenier, Guillermo and Lesandro Perez. The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States.

Griffith, Ivelaw. The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean.

Guervara, Che.  Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War.

Guilbault, Jocelyne.  Zouk: World Music in the Caribbean.

Gunst, Laurie. Born Fi` Dead: A Journey Through the Jamaican Posse Underworld.

Hall, Douglas. In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750-1786.

Hamshere, Cyril.  The British in the Caribbean.

Hausman. Gerald. The Kibra Negast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia to Jamaica.

Hebdidge, Dick. Cut ‘N’ Mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music.

Herskovits, Melville.  Life in a Haitian Valley.

Heuman, Gad.  The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica.

Hope, Donna P. Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica.

Houk, James. Spirits, Drums and Blood: The Orisha Religion in Trinidad.

Hulme, Peter.  Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797.

Inikori, Joseph and Stanley L. Engerman (editors). The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas and Europe.

James, C.L.R. Beyond a Boundary.

James, C.L.R.  The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Overture and the Santo Domingo Revolution.

Kasnitz, Philip.  Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race.

Katz, David.  People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Katz, David.  Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae.

Kempadoo, K. Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor.

Kempadoo, Kamala. Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean.

Kiple, Kenneth.  The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History.

Klein, Alan. Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream.

Knight, Franklin W.  Slave Society in Cuba During the 19th Century.

Knight, Franklin W. The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism.

Knight, Franklin W. and Colin Palmer.  The Modern Caribbean.

Kurlansky, Mark.  A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Identity.

Lacey, Terry. Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-1970: Internal Security in a Developing Nation.

Laguerre, Michel.  American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City.

Laguerre, Michel. Voodoo and Politics in Haiti.

Lee, Helene. The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the rise of Rastafarianism.

Lewis, Gordon K. The Growth of the Modern West Indies.

Lewis, Gordon K. Main Currents in Caribbean Thought.

Lewis, M.G. Journal of a West Indian Proprietor.

Lewis, Oscar. La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York.

Leyburn James G. The Haitian People.

Look Lai, Walton. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian

Migrants to The British West Indies, 1838-1918.

Lopez, Adalberto. The Puerto Ricans: Their History, Society and Culture.

Lopez, Alfredo. Dona Lucha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico.

Lopez-Springfield, Consuelo.  Daughter of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century.

Lovejoy, Paul. Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade.

Lowenthal, David. West Indian Societies.

Mack, Douglas. From Babylon to Rastafari: Origin and History of the Rastafarian Movement.

Manley, Michael. A History of West Indian Cricket.

Manley, Michael. Struggle in the Periphery.

Manuel, Peter. Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae.

Manuel, Peter. Essays on Cuban Music: North American and Cuban Perspectives.

Marti, Jose. Inside the Monster: Writings on the United States and American Imperialism.

Mason, Michael Atwood. Living Santeria: Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion.

Metraux, Alfred. Voodoo in Haiti.

Mintz, Sidney. Worker in the Cane.

Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History.

Momsen, Janet.  Women and Change in the Caribbean: A Pan-Caribbean Perspective.

Montejo, Esteban. Autobiography of a Runaway Slave.

Morrissey, Marietta. Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean.

Moya Pons, Frank.  The Dominican Republic: A National History.

Mullin, Michael. Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance

in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831.

Murphy, Joseph. Santeria: An African Religion in America.

Murrel, Nathaniel, William Spencer and Adrian MacFarlane. 

Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari  Reader.

Nettleford, Rex. Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica.

Nettleford, Rex. Caribbean Cultural Identity.

Nichols, David. From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, color and Independence in Haiti.

Ospina, Hernando Calvo. Salsa: Havana Heat, Bronx Beat.

Owens, Joseph. Dread: The Rastafarians of Jamaica.

Palmer, Colin A. Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700-1739.

Palmer, Colin A. The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617.

Palmer, Ransford. Pilgrims from the Sun: West Indian Migration to America.

Parry, J.H. and Philip Sherlock. A Short History of the West Indies.

Palme, Stephan.  Slave Cultures and The Cultures of Slavery.

Palmer, Ransford. Pilgrims from the Sun: West Indian Migration to America.

Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study.

Patterson, Orlando. The Children of Sisyphus (a novel).

Patterson, Orlando. The Sociology of Slavery.

Pattulo, Polly. Last Resorts: the Costs of Tourism in the Caribbean.

Pessar, Patricia. A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States.

Pessar, Patricia.  Caribbean Circuits: New Directions in the Study of Caribbean Migration.

Pollard, Velma. Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari.

Potash, Chris. Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music From Ska to Dub.

Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Caribbean.

Prince, Rod. Haiti: Family Business.

Quinlan, Martha. From the Bush: The Front Line of Health Care in a Caribbean Village,

Rawley, James. The Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History.

Richardson, Bonham C.  The Caribbean in the Wider World.

Roberts, John Storm. Black Music of Two Worlds.

Roberts, Peter A. West Indians and their Languages.

Robinson, Carey. The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica.

Rodney, Walter. Groundings with My Brothers.

Rouse, Irving. The Taino: The Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus.

Roy, Maya. Cuban Music.

Rubin, Vera and Lambros Comitas.  Ganja in Jamaica: The Effects of Marijuana Use.

Scarano, Francisco. Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico: The Plantation Economy of Puerto Rico.

Schmidt, Hans. The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934.

Senior, Olive. Working Miracles: Women=s Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean.

Shepherd, Verene, Bridget Bereton and Barbara Bailey.

Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective.

Shepherd, Verene.  Slavery Without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean

Economy and society Since the 17th Century.

Sheridan, Richard. Doctors  and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic

History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1600-1834.

Sherlock, Philip and Hazel Bennett.  The Story of the Jamaican People.

Silen, Juan Angel. We the Puerto Rican People: A Study of Oppression and Resistance.

Simpson, George E. Black Religions of the New World.

Simpson, George E. Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica and Haiti.

Sobo, Elisa. One blood: The Jamaican Body.

Smallwood, Stephanie. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora.

Stepick, Alex. Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the U.S.

Stewart, Bobert.  Religion and Society in Post-Emancipation Jamaica.

Stinchcombe, Arthur  Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy

of the Caribbean World.

Stolzoff, Norman. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica.

Sunshine, Catherine A. The Caribbean: Survival, Struggle and Sovereignty.

Strachan, Ian G. Paradise and Plantation: Tourism, Culture and the Anglophone Caribbean.

Sutton, Constance R. and Elsa Chaney. Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.

Taylor, Patrick. Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Culture Difference in the Caribbean.

Thelwell, Michael. The Harder They Come (a novel).

Thomas, Clive Y. The Poor and the Powerless: Economic Policy and Social Change in the Caribbean.

Thomas, Deborah A. Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization,

and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870.

Tinker, Hugh. A New System of Slavery: The Export of Indian Labor Overseas.

Toop, David. Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop.

Trouillot, Michel. State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism.

Turner, Mary.  Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834.

Veal, Michael. Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae.

Vega, Marta Moreno. The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria.

Watts, David. The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change.

White, Timothy. Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley.

Vargas-Llosa, Mario. Feast of the Goat ( a novel about Rafael Trujillo, the dictator who ruled the

Dominican Republic for 30 years).

Whitehead, Neil.  Wolves from the Sea: Readings in the Anthropology of the Native Caribbean.

Whitten, Norman and Arlene Torres. Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 2.

Wilentz, Amy. The Rainy Season: Haiti After Duvalier.

Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery.

Williams, Eric. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969.

Wilson, Samuel M. Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus.

Wilson, Samuel N.  The Indigenous People of the Caribbean.

Zips, Werner. Black Rebels: African Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica.

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