Author: Ida May Hill StarrPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465586253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Gardens of the Caribbees: Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main (Complete)
Author: Ida May Hill StarrPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465586253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Gardens of the Caribbees
Author: Ida May Hill StarrPublisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Catalogue of Books
Author: Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Gardens of the Caribbees
Author: Ida May Hill StarrPublisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Class List
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
List of Books on Latin American History and Description (with Reference to Articles in Magazines) in the Columbus Memorial Library ...
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Callaloo Nation
Author: Aisha KhanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal the tension that exists between identity as a source of equality and identity as an instrument through which social and cultural hierarchies are reinforced. Focusing on the Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, Khan examines this paradox as it is expressed in key dimensions of Hindu and Muslim cultural history and social relationships in southern Trinidad. In vivid detail, she describes how disempowered communities create livable conditions for themselves while participating in a broader culture that both celebrates and denies difference. Khan combines ethnographic research she conducted in Trinidad over the course of a decade with extensive archival research to explore how Hindu and Muslim Indo-Trinidadians interpret authority, generational tensions, and the transformations of Indian culture in the Caribbean through metaphors of mixing. She demonstrates how ambivalence about the desirability of a callaloo nation—a multicultural society—is manifest around practices and issues, including rituals, labor, intermarriage, and class mobility. Khan maintains that metaphors of mixing are pervasive and worth paying attention to: the assumptions and concerns they communicate are key to unraveling who Indo-Trinidadians imagine themselves to be and how identities such as race and religion shape and are shaped by the politics of multiculturalism.
Tropical Whites
Author: Catherine CocksPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort—white sand, blue waters, and towering palms—become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the dramatic shift in attitudes toward and popularization of the tropical tourist "Southland" in the Americas: Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Cocks examines the history and development of tropical tourism from the late nineteenth century through the early 1940s, when the tropics constituted ideal winter resorts for vacationers from the temperate zones. Combining history, geography, and anthropology, this provocative book explains not only the transformation of widely held ideas about the relationship between the environment and human bodies but also how this shift in thinking underscored emerging concepts of modern identity and popular attitudes toward race, sexuality, nature, and their interconnections. Cocks argues that tourism, far from simply perverting pristine local cultures and selling superficial misunderstandings of them, served as one of the central means of popularizing the anthropological understanding of culture, new at the time. Together with the rise of germ theory, the emergence of the tropical horticulture industry, changes in passport laws, travel writing, and the circulation of promotional materials, national governments and the tourist industry changed public perception of the tropics from a region of decay and degradation, filled with dangerous health risks, to one where the modern traveler could encounter exotic cultures and a rejuvenating environment.