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  • Under Basil Leaves

    An Anthology of Poems

    In her debut collection of poetry, Paulette Ramsay addresses the 'unsanctioned' layers of experience that are often hidden behind social codes and the cloak of respectability. Her layered and subtle wit runs like a thread through poems that cover a diverse range of subject matters - childhood memories, politics, religion, women's concerns, life, death and love. Ramsay's ironic, often hilarious ... Read more

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  • Améfrica in Letters

    Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone

    Series series Hispanic Issue
    Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker Lélia Gonzalez, Améfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration

    Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects through the lenses of cultural studies, critical race theory, narrative theory, and border studies. These narratives cover the United States, the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula and ... Read more

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  • Through the Hibiscus Hedge

    Through the Hibiscus Hedge tells of children who veer off course into sticky situations and amuse themselves by pushing boundaries, and the adults who outwit and surprise them. Set in the beautiful Jamaican countryside where trees grow in all shades of green, roosters crow fiercely and youngsters can fly over mountain ranges, this collection of short stories by Paulette A. Ramsay is woven together ... Read more

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  • Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation

    Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.The interdisciplinary research draws on several theoretical constructs: cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, masculinity studies, gender studies, feminist criticisms, and broad ... Read more

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  • Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation

    The book comprises five chapters, which draw on contemporary theoretical paradigms from diaspora studies, cultural studies, feminism, gender studies and post-colonialism. The aim is to provide a critical text that can be utilized in acacemic programmes designed for the critical production by Afro-Mexican writers and oral performers. ... Read more

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  • The West Indian Presence and Heritage in Cuba

    Edited by Paulette A. Ramsay ...
    Voluntary migration from Jamaica to Cuba began in 1875 when a small group of Jamaicans went to Cuba to participate in the War of Independence as part of the Cuban Liberation Army. A second wave of migration from Jamaica to Cuba occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when West Indians sought opportunities to work on sugar plantations and in the sugar mills. As the demand for ... Read more

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  • Spanish Short Stories For Beginners (Vol 1)

    Use short stories to learn Spanish the fun way with the bilingual reading natural method

    Series series Foreign Language Learning Guides
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  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

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  • Better Reading Spanish, 2nd Edition

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    Sharpen your Spanish language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and cultureBetter Reading Spanish offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Spanish vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and ... Read more

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  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

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