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Africa: Roots of Jamaican Culture
Mervyn Alleyne / Paperback / Published 1996
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Afrocuba : An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
Pedro Perez Sarduy (Editor), et al / Paperback / Published 1994
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Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean
Ivelaw L. Griffith, Betty N. Sedoc-Dahlberg / Paperback / Published 1997
Our Price: $21.00, 288 pages
Hardcover / Published 1997
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Book News, Inc., 08/01/97:
Examines the nature of democratization and human rights in the region, extending analysis beyond political democracy and civil rights to economic democracy and economic and social rights. Early chapters address issues common to the democracy and human rights landscape throughout the region, looking at areas such as economic crisis, drug trafficking, and political instability. Later chapters consider how Caribbean democracy and human rights have been influenced by foreign actors and external developments, paying particular attention to the roles of the OAS, the UN, NGOs, and international law.

Dread Culture : A Rastawoman's Story
Masani Montague / Paperback / Published 1995, 189 pages
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Eastern Caribbean in Focus : A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (In Focus Guides)
James Ferguson / Paperback / Published 1997
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures : Middle America and the Caribbean (Ed by David Levinson) Vol 8
David Levinson (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
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Book News, Inc., 08/31/96:
The ninth in the ten-volume set covering world cultures focuses on those located in Africa and the Middle East. More than 90 contributors shared expert information in descriptive summaries ranging from a few lines (due to available information) to five or six pages, providing demographic, historical, social, economic, political and religious information. Among the numerous cultures discussed, representing the major groups of both regions, are the Igbo, Nubians, Tiv, Shona, Bedouin, Chaldeans, Sakalava,and the Yemenis. The series places particular emphasis on the life of the people, and the factors that have caused cultural changes over time. Includes maps, ethnonym index, filmography, and glossary.

French and West Indian : Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today (New World Studies)
Fred Reno, Richard D. E. Burton / Hardcover / Published 1995, 202 pages
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Globalization, Communications and Caribbean Identity
Hopeton S. Dunn (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
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The Parish Behind God's Back : The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados
George Gmelch, Sharon Bohn Gmelch / Hardcover / Published 1997
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The Problem of Freedom : Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
Thomas C. Holt / Paperback / Published 1992, 517 pages
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The Steelband Movement : The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago
Stephen Stuempfle / Paperback / Published 1996, 287 pages
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The Voodoo Kit Handbook
Voodoo Lou / Calendar / Published 1997
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Is your boyfriend giving you trouble? Are you hoping to get that big raise and promotion soon? Here's everything you need to get started, including a powerful 9-inch doll good for hours of pin-pricking fun, plus a complete guide to tapping your own special voodoo powers. Just watch the terrific results when you do that voodoo that you do so well.

West Indians and Their Language
Roberts / Paperback / Published 1988
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The West Indies : Patterns of Development, Culture, and Environmental Change Since 1492 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, 8)
David Watts / Paperback / Published 1990
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Zouk : World Music in the West Indies / Book and Disk (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Jocelyne Guilbault, et al / Paperback / Published 1993, 279 pages
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Shiva Naipaul, Trinidad - 9 titles (fiction)

The Chip-Chip Gatherers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Shiva Naipaul / Paperback / Published 1997, 320 pages
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The author brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters set in a tightly knit Hindu community in Trinidad, against a backdrop of the idiosyncrasies of a particular culture and the sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant truths about human society. "A compelling, tragic, painfully comic masterpiece." THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

Fireflies (Twentieth Century Classics)
Shiva Naipaul / Paperback / Published 1996
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A Hot Country (Twentieth Century Classics)
Shiva Naipaul / Paperback / Published 1996
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A Man of Mystery and Other Stories (Twentieth Century Classics)
Shiva Naipaul / Paperback / Published 1996
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North of South : An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Shiva Naipaul / Paperback / Published 1997, 349 pages
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Beyond the Dragon's Mouth : Stories and Pieces
Shiva Naipaul / Hardcover / Published 1985
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

An Unfinished Journey
Shiva Naipaul / Hardcover / Published 1987
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Black and white
Shiva Naipaul
(Hard to Find)

Journey to Nowhere : A New World Tragedy
Shiva Naipaul / Published 1990
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Walter Rodney, Guyana - 6 titles (nonfiction)

Groundings with My Brothers
Walter Rodney / Paperback / Published 1996, 68 pages
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A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905
Walter Rodney / Paperback / Published 1982, 282 pages
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A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800
Walter Rodney / Paperback / Published 1981
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney / Paperback / Published 1981
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Walter Rodney Speaks : The Making of an African Intellectual
Walter Rodney / Paperback / Published 1990
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Hardcover / Published 1990
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Migrant labour in Tanzania during the colonial period : case studies of recruitment and conditions of labour in the sisal industry
Walter Rodney
(Hard to Find)


Clive Thomas, Guyana - 4 titles (nonfiction)

Plantations Peasants and State : A Study of the Mode of Sugar Production in Guyana
Clive Thomas / Paperback / Published 1984
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Hardcover / Published 1984
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The Poor and the Powerless : Economic Policy and Change in the Caribbean
Clive Thomas / Paperback / Published 1988
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Hardcover / Published 1988
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The Rise of the Authoritarian State in Peripheral Societies
Clive Y. Thomas / Hardcover / Published 1984
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Dependence and transformation: the economics of the transition to socialism
Clive Yolande Thomas
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Sugar, threat or challenge? : an assessment of the impact of technological developments in the high-fructose corn syrup and sucrochemicals industries
Clive Yolande Thomas
(Hard to Find)


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