New World Diasporas
Edited by Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South FloridaSeries Description:
This series seeks to stimulate critical perspectives on diaspora processes in the New World. Representations of "race" and ethnicity, the origins and consequences of nationalism, migratory streams and the advent of transnationalism, the dialectics of "homelands" and diasporas, trade networks, gender relations in immigrant communities, the politics of displacement and exile, and the utilization of the past to serve the present are among the phenomena addressed by original, provocative research in disciplines such as anthropology, history, political science, and sociology.
For more Information:
Kevin A. Yelvington
University of South Florida
Department of Anthropology
Tampa, FL 33620-8100
(813) 974-0582
yelvingt@usf.edu
There are 22 books in this series.
Please note that while you may order forthcoming books at any time, they will not be available for shipment until shortly before publication date
Kimberly Simmons explores the fascinating socio-cultural shifts in Dominicans' racial categories, concluding that Dominicans are slowly embracing blackness and ideas of African ancestry.
The first study of Jamaican Maroons to place living voices at the center of analysis, True-Born Maroons sheds much new light on both the past and present situation of Jamaica's hidden Others, once described as "some of the world's most famous but least-known people."
