Uwi Press: 71 books

The authors in this volume espouse a social constructivist approach and make significant contributions to the international discourse in masculinity studies.

The book is a collection of articles written over many years that explores the common themes of race and class in the Caribbean and the attempt to overcome social domination.

This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary...

The ten essays in this volume employ a variety of literary, cultural and sociological approaches to illuminate the art and imagination of a writer celebrated as one of the most complex authors of the Harlem Renaissance.

This work is a collection of selected essays which illustrate the historical and continuing efforts in the various spheres of human endeavour in the Caribbean,including culture, education, language, social organization, gender and politics - notwithstanding the constraints placed on Caribbean people by the legacies of slavery and colonialism - to finish the business of emancipation.

A multidisciplinary collection of essays with a focus on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies.

Revealing personal trajectories, Giulia Bonacci shows that Rastafari were not the first black settlers in Ethiopia. She tracks the history of return over the decades, demonstrating that the utopian idea of return is also a reality. Exodus! is based on indepth archival and print research, as well as...

Obika Gray asserts that state power in Jamaica is predatory in its reach, incorporating contradictory social forces in an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy.

Spotlights of the deeds and harships of West Indian soldiers long engaged in Africa, the Middle East, and Caribbean.

The book is essential for Caribbean economists who seek to understand the institutional evolution of Caribbean monetary regimes over the colonial era and since independence. It is also essential for regional economic policymakers.

The core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications.

The historic Hope lands was once the site of one of the island's earliest sugar estates. In 1848 the estate was dismantled and in 1909 the government acquired the property. By 1960 the landscape was transformed to a commercial, residential and educational land use.

This work investigates and documents the different technical, musical and organizational steps by which the steelband movement was born and grew to maturity.

This is a timely study of the processes by which male children are socialized, against the backdrop of growing concern among educators, social workers and the general public that Caribbean males are becoming increasingly marginalized.