Surviving the Americas : Garifuna persistence from Nicaragua to New York City /

Surviving the Americas : Garifuna persistence from Nicaragua to New York City /

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Author / Creator:	Cosgrove, Serena, 1963- author.
Imprint:	Cincinnati : The University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. ©2021
Description:	xxv, 179 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Garifuna (Caribbean people) -- Nicaragua -- Social conditions. Garifuna (Caribbean people) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions. New York (State) -- New York. Nicaragua.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12526784

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Other authors / contributors:	Idiáquez, José, author. Gorvetzian, Andrew (Andrew James), author. Bent, Leonard Joseph, author.
ISBN:	9781947602113 194760211X 9781947602106 9781947602120
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Surviving the Americas directly engages the vital social justice issues of diaspora, exclusion, and resilience through an ethnographic study with the Garifuna, a Central American afro-indigenous group with roots in western Africa and the Caribbean. Today, the Garifuna are concentrated on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Belize, and about 50,000 Garifuna live in the United States. The editors focus on the resilience and survival of the Garifuna communities of Pearl Lagoon on the southeastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and trace the recent movement of the Central American Garifuna to the United States through interviews with Garifuna families living in the Bronx. A people born of the rupturing processes of the slave trade and colonization in the 1600s and 1700s, the Garifuna today challenge our very notions of culture, indigeneity, and resistance and provide a rich opportunity to critique how the Western gaze"--
Other form:	Online version: Surviving the Americas. Cincinnati, Ohio : The University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. 9781947602106

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