The Carib, Kalinago, and Garifuna Peoples: Indigeneity, Hybridization, and Mobility in the Americas, edited by Paula Prescod, was published by University of Illinois Press last month. With a comprehensive introduction by Paula Prescod, the volume includes essays by Fernando Y. Alvarado Benítez, Sarah England, Nicholas Faraclas, Adrian Fraser, Sarah-Lee R. Gonsalves, Silke Jansen, Andrea E. Leland, Melinda Maxwell-Gibb, Ernesto Mercado-Montero, Lauren Madrid Poluha, Paula Prescod, Santiago J. Ruiz, and Cesar Andoni Vargas Sabio.
Jo-Anne S. Ferreira (author of The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority) explains, “This vital multidisciplinary collection brilliantly illuminates the intersections of indigeneity, hybridization, and modern mobility. By assembling histories of resilience, Paula Prescod offers an indispensable and extraordinary tribute to the enduring Garifuna and Kalinago legacies that continue to shape the Americas.”
Description: The Indigenous peoples of the Lesser Antilles used the sea and waterways to sow a diaspora across the Caribbean basin and beyond. Their histories all-too-often reflect colonial viewpoints and stereotypes dating back to the region’s imperial era. Paula Prescod edits a collection of studies that examine the intermingling and interdependencies of indigenous Caribbean populations and the groups they encountered following the European conquest of the Americas. Works in the first section explore the historical entwinement of the Indigenous, European, and African populations thrown together in the region, and the agency and power each group invested in itself to survive. In part 2, contributors illuminate the complex and dynamic natures of interrelatedness and identification of the descendants of Indigenous populations while seeing the Carib, Kalinago, and Garifuna peoples as a heterogeneous group.
An overdue and wide-ranging reconsideration, The Carib, Kalinago, and Garifuna Peoples presents an invaluable collection of multidisciplinary studies that reposition the three groups’ history and experiences.
Paula Prescod is an associate professor of linguistics and didactics at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, France.
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