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People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange

People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange

Meehan, Kevin

Paperback

Series: Caribbean Studies

Health GeneralBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1617032018
ISBN13: 9781617032011
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Aug 29 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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/archivist Arthur Schomburg, writer/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, jazz poet Jayne Cortez, and theologian/politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide. People Get Ready examines how these influential figures have reevaluated popular culture, revised the relationship between intellectuals and everyday people, and transformed practices ranging from librarianship and anthropology to poetry and broadcast journalism. This discourse, Meehan notes, is not free of contradictions, and misunderstandings arise on both sides. In addition to noting dialogues of unity, People Get Ready focuses on instances of intellectual elitism, sexism, color prejudice, imperialism, national chauvinism, and other forms of mutual disdain that continue to limit African American and Caribbean solidarity.

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