People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (Caribbean Studies Series)

People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (Caribbean Studies Series)Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American Caribbean dialogue through the lives and works of four key individuals: historian Arthur Schomburg, writer archivist Zora Neale Hurston, poet Jayne Cortez, and

" Clear away your lack of self-awareness—see yourself for who you truly are

Each storyteller was paired with an illustrator from a similar linguistic and cultural heritage

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the reactions of political leaders would be heavily scrutinized in the aftermath

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By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles

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" ―Elizabeth Acevedo

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