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Subject: Textbook
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Busha’s Mistress: A Stirring Romance from the Days of Slavery in Jamaica
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Perkins, Cyrus Francis (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Verene Shepherd and David Trotman)
Subject: Caribbean, World Literature
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This is one of the earliest Caribbean novels written in English. The novel tells the story of Catherine, the slave concubine of a cruel white overseer on Greenside Estate, near Falmouth, whose ruins today attest to the tensions of a …
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Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
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Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga
Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History
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From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear …
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Space and History in the Caribbean
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Lara, Oruno D.
Subject: Caribbean
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Oruno D. Lara explains the history of the Caribbean as a history of exploitation.
From Christopher Columbus to the modern vacationer, outside observers have looked upon the Caribbean as a paradise on earth. However, behind the images of sea, …
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