Imagining Caribbean Freedoms
Cuba: A boy playing baseball in a square in the capital, Havana.
With complex colonial histories of indigenous genocide, bondage, exploitative extraction and class/colour stratification, the Caribbean has long been a site for imagining the meaning(s) of freedom. This section features strong materials on Cuban Socialism, Black Power, The Haitian Revolution, The Grenadian Revolution, Hispanic Independence Movements, Anglophone Independence Movements and Popular Culture (music, carnival and dance).
Key catalogue subject themes: Haiti History Revolution ; Maroons ; Radicalism West Indies British History; Caribbean Area Decolonization ; Cuba History Revolution ; Grenada History Coup Detat ; Carnival Trinidad And Tobago ; Reggae.
Materials on the independence movements of the Hispanic Caribbean and The Confederación Antillana, an attempted regional federation that sought to ensure the sovereignty of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Marronage
- The history of the Maroons: from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone : including the expedition to Cuba, for the purpose of procuring Spanish chasseurs, and the state of the island of Jamaica for the last ten years… by R. C. Dallas. 1803 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1674347~S4
- The maroon narrative: Caribbean literature in English across boundaries, ethnicities, and centuries / Cynthia James. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2045829~S24
- The proceedings of the governor and Assembly of Jamaica : in regard to the Maroon Negroes / published by order of the Assembly 1796 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1308984~S4
- Cudjoe the Maroon / Milton McFarlane. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3082381~S4
- Obi, or, Three-fingered Jack : a drama, in two acts / by W.H. Murrey. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3168828~S4
- The fighting Maroons of Jamaica. 1969 Robinson, Carey http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2385831~S24
- Transformations of freedom in the land of the Maroons: Creolization in the cockpits, Jamaica / Jean Besson. 2016 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3354192~S24
- Montejo, Esteban [1837] 1994 Biografía de un cimarrón / Biography of a runaway slave [English translation by W. Nick Hill] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2913183~S24
- Le marronisme moderne : traditions populaires et recherches artistiques à la Martinique / René Louise. [on popular traditions and maroon art in Martinique] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1742027~S24
- The Haitian maroons: liberty or death / Jean Fouchard ; translated from the French by A. Faulkner Watts ; preface by C.L.R. James. 1981 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1367822~S24
- Your time is done now: slavery, resistance and defeat : the Maroon trials of Dominica (1813-1814) / Polly Pattullo Ed. 2015. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3320957~S24
- From isolation towards integration : the Surinam Maroons and their colonial rulers : official documents relating to the Djukas (1845-1863) / Silvia W. de Groot. 1977 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1354592~S24 / http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2305232~S24
- The works of Richard Price amongst maroon populations of Suriname and the Guyanas [15 titles] http://bit.ly/2v7FXI4
- Los cimarrones y los negros antillanos en Panamá / por Luis A. Diez Castillo. 1981 [1968] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1373592~S24
The Haitian Revolution
- Silencing the past: power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2911177~S24
- Nation, state, and society in Haiti, 1804-1984 Michel-Rolph Trouillot http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2613584~S24
- Farewell, Fred Voodoo : a letter from Haiti / Amy Wilentz. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3266729~S24
- Haiti : A Primer on Its Revolution and Diaspora / Reginald Mombrun. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3356099~S24
- C.L.R. James Toussaint Louverture : the story of the only successful slave revolt in history : a play in three acts http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3275951~S24
- The Black Jacobins reader / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, editors. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3373398~S24
- Conscripts of modernity: the tragedy of colonial enlightenment / David Scott. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2949863~S24
- [very rare] Haiti, de Dessalines a nuestros días / Franklin J. Franco. [Santo Domingo : Editora Nacional, 1988] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1398403~S24
- Avengers of the New World: the story of the Haitian Revolution / Laurent Dubois. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2058514~S24
Materials on the independence movements of the Hispanic Caribbean and The Confederación Antillana, an attempted regional federation that sought to ensure the sovereignty of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
Hispanic Caribbean independence movements and The Confederación Antillana
- Betances, Ramón Emeterio - Las Antillas para los antillanos - http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1351876~S24
- La idea de la Federación Antillana en los independentistas puertorriqueños del siglo XIX / Carlos M. Rama. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1408359~S24
- Álvarez López, Luis. The Dominican Republic and the beginning of a revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean, 1861-1898 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3140884~S24
- Dominican Republic History 1844 to 1930 – uprisings, civil wars and the independence movement [17 items] http://bit.ly/2t3CcT6
- Dialogando sobre independentismos [videorecording] : parte I y II, 1890-1980 Mariel C. Marrero-García, Freddie Rodríguez, 2010 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3361300~S24
- El autonomismo puertorriqueño, su transformación ideológica, 1895-1914 : la prensa en el análisis social, La Democracia de Puerto Rico / Mariano Negrón-Portillo. 1981 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1201187~S24
- Puerto Rico under colonial rule : political persecution and the quest for human rights / edited by Ramón Bosque-Pérez and José Javier Colón Morera. 2006 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2957238~S24
- Dream nation : Puerto Rican culture and the fictions of independence / María Acosta Cruz. 2014 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3309929~S24
The Radical Caribbean
The many-headed hydra : sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden story of the revolutionary Atlantic / Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2804898~S24
Cuba, the revolution and socialism
- Ron Heisler is a collector of leftist political materials which he has been donating to library since 2004. He has shared extensive materials on Cuba with the library. http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/special-collections/printed-special-collections/ron-heisler-collection
- ‘Cuba Solidarity Campaign’ (London) materials – e.g. medical aid appeal pamphlets http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3310484~S4 and Cuba solidarity conference materials http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3310777~S4
- Socialist Workers Party pamphlets. E.g. Cuba, Castro and socialism / by Peter Binns and Mike Gonzales http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3277029~S4
- Deutschmann, David. Cuba, socialism and the 'new world order': an interview with Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodríguez http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3294537~S4
- London Latin America Bureau. [Book] Jean Stubbs, Cuba : the test of time. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3097853~S4
- Cuban Congreso Nacional de Educación y Cultura [book] ‘The paths of culture in Cuba’. - Contains excerpts from the Declaration of the congress and the complete text of a speech delivered by Fidel Castro. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3294533~S4
- Toronto Fair Play for Cuba (1963) Committee report – ‘A Report by four Canadians on Cuba as they saw it!’ http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3078178~S4
A collection of original papers from the 1970s, 80s and 90s based on seminars held at ILAS about Cuban society, politics and economy.
- Nissa Torrents 1984 The incorporation of women in revolutionary Cuba. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978362~S4
- Jill Hamberg 1991 New problems and debates in urban planning and self-help housing in Cuba http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2141282~S4
- Christopher Abel. 1982 Cuba and the United States http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978119~S4
- Brian H. Pollitt. 1981 Agrarian reform and the 'agricultural proletariat' in Cuba, 1958-66 / http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978034~S4
- Jean Stubbs 1981 Dandy or rake? cigar makers in Cuba, 1860-1958 /. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978041~S4
- A. M. Kapcia 1980.Culture and ideology in post-revolutionary Cuba / http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2977993~S4
- Nissa Torrents.1978 Cinema in revolutionary Cuba / http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978362~S4
- Roberto Espíndola 1980 Trade unions in Cuba: an alternative hypothesis /. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978025~S4
- Robert Pring-Mill 1980 The climate of current Cuban poetry. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2977997~S4
- International Commission of Jurists (1962) Cuba and the rule of law. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2646674~S6
- James D. Rudolph (1987) Cuba, a country study http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1582806~S24
- Christine Hatzky (2012) Cubans in Angola [electronic resource] : South-South cooperation and transfer of knowledge, 1976-1991 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3329206~S6
- Human Rights Watch (2005) Families torn apart : the high cost of U.S. and Cuban travel restrictions http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2915271~S6
- Center for Cuban Studies (NYC) (1977) Código de familia / Cuban family code [text in English] [electronic resource]. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3300995~S6
- The IMF (1967) The International Monetary Fund and the international recognition of exchange control regulations : the Cuban insurance cases http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2668189~S6
- Joseph Gold (IMF) (1966) The Cuban insurance cases and the Articles of the Fund http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2135178~S6
- Henry L. Brown (1963) The Cuban quarantine [electronic resource] [thesis transcript on ‘the Cuban missile crisis’ - Thesis (LL. M.)--Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army, 1963.] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3238062~S6
- Frank, Marc (2013) Cuban revelations: behind the scenes in Havana. [reflections based on 25 years of author’s reportage and commentary] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3351823~S24
- Lyons, Brian. (1994) Victims of war: the untold story of the exodus from Cuba / Brian Lyons, John Waller. [Sheffield : Cuba Solidarity Campaign 33pg pamphlet] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3294541~S4
- Zoé Valdés 1997 Yocandra in the paradise of nada : a novel of Cuba [feminist interjection, discontent with socialism – signed copy by author] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3232306~S4
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1979 Los sobrevivientes [feature film] / Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica [members of the aristocratic Orozco family in aftermath of Castro's revolution ‘revert to more rudimentary relationships’] http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3021562~S24
- El caso Padilla : literatura y revolución en Cuba; documentos / Introd., selección, notas, guía y bibliografía por Lourdes Casal. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1353477~S24
Black power, Decolonisation and Independence Movements
- Billy Strachan: air force officer, legal administrator; political activist in the labour and independence movements of Guyana; campaigner on UK race relations; on the committee of the Communist Party.
Papers feature: Correspondence w/ Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, Michael Manley, Richard Hart.http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/ICS158.pdf
- Decolonization Belize History [3 items] http://bit.ly/2uWWmyr
- Decolonization Jamaica [2 items ] http://bit.ly/2uX4bo1
- Decolonization Trinidad And Tobago [ 2 items ] http://bit.ly/2vZPyNh
- Beyond fragmentation : perspectives on Caribbean history / edited by Juanita De Barros, Audra Diptee, David V. Trotman ; with a preface by Franklin Knight. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2966603~S24
- Black power in the Caribbean / edited by Kate Quinn. 2014 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3285973~S24
- Radical Caribbean : from black power to Abu Bakr / Brian Meeks ; with a foreword by Rupert Lewis. 1996 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2527844~S24
- Black power in Bermuda : the struggle for decolonization / Quito Swan. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3134499~S24
- [very rare] - Desmond Trotter Defence Committee documents [7 items] http://bit.ly/2ue6Zfp
- Many speeches and writings by Rodney in addition to catalogued materials on Rodney (incl. his last ever speech) http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2386087~S24 [30 items] http://bit.ly/2te4AgR
Grenada Revolution
- Extensive Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection on 20th century Grenada politics and the revolution [102 items] http://bit.ly/2u8GJDG
- "Is freedom we making" : the new democracy in Grenada / [Merle Hodge, Chris Searle http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1376823~S24
- Shahabuddeen, M 1986 The conquest of Grenada: sovereignty in the periphery, University of Guyana, 1986 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1396786~S24
- Bishop, Maurice. (1982 speech) Fight unemployment through production to Conference on Unemployment, the Dome, Grand Anse, 28th June, 1982 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1427862~S24
- [SHL is only holder in UK] Coard, Phyllis U.S. war on one woman: my conditions of imprisonment in Grenada(Oct. 1983-August 1986). 1988 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3141169~S24
- [SHL is only holder in the UK – ILAS publication] Hart, Richard, The people’s revolutionary government of Grenada, 1997. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3141169~S24
Performing Freedoms in Popular Culture
- Music Caribbean Area [3 items] http://bit.ly/2uwOkuZ
- Yanique Hume and Aaron Kamugisha 2016 (eds) Caribbean popular culture: power, politics and performance http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3351815~S1
- A reader in African-Jamaican music, dance and religion / edited by Markus Coester and Wolfgang Bender. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3298148~S24
- [Very rare] John Cowley 1999 Carnival, calypso and commentary: historical case studies. National and international issues reported by the Calypsonian 1889-1954 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3020579~S4
- [Very rare] Richard D. E. Burton.1999 Cricket, carnival and street culture in the Caribbean http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978655~S4
- [Very rare] Frank E. Manning. 1982 Carnival and the West Indian diaspora http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978131~S4
- Bear Family Records 2006 [10 CD various artists sound recording] West Indian rhythm: Trinidad calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings - 1938-1940. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2963136~S4
- The Afro-Jamaican Jonkonnu Festival : playing the forces and operating the cloth / Judith Bettelheim. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2627900~S24
- Governing sound : the cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics / Jocelyne Guilbault. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3067638~S24
- Dance Music Cuba [ 6 items ] - on cuban dance and music http://bit.ly/2uB8oea
- Making Caribbean dance: continuity and creativity in island cultures / edited by Susanna Sloat. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3182355~S24
- Caribbean dance from abakuá to zouk : how movement shapes identity / edited by Susanna Sloat. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2800807~S24
- Danzón : circum-Caribbean dialogues in music and dance / Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3301856~S24
- Caribbean and Atlantic diaspora dance : igniting citizenship / Yvonne Daniel. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3275937~S24
- Jamaican popular music, from mento to dancehall reggae : a bibliographic guide / John Gray. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3212141~S24
- Rock it come over : the folk music of Jamaica / Olive Lewin. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2916775~S24
- Forty folk songs of Jamaica / collected and transcribed by Olive Lewin. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1561849~S24
- Reggae, rasta, revolution : Jamaican music from ska to dub / edited by Chris Potash. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3373638~S24
- Reggae from yaad : traditional and emerging themes in Jamaican popular music / [edited by] Donna P. Hope. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3323283~S24
- Man vibes : masculinities in the Jamaican dancehall / Donna P. Hope. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3159876~S24
- Jamaica, Babylon on a thin wire / Adrian Boot, Michael Thomas. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2228917~S24
- Time and memory in reggae music : the politics of hope / Sarah Daynes. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3335799~S24
- Sound clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large. / Carolyn Cooper. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3015308~S24
- Riseup [videorecording] : stories from Jamaica's underground / Riseup Entertainment presents ; directed by Luciano Blotta ; produced by Luciano Blotta, Darrin Holender. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3193900~S24
- The harder they come [videorecording]; written, produced and directed by Perry Henzell. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2991346~S24
- From vodou to Zouk : a bibliographic guide to music of the French-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora / John Gray ; foreword by Julian Gerstin. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3336232~S24
- Zouk : world music in the West Indies / Jocelyne Guilbault with Gage Averill, Édouard Benoit, Gregory Rabess. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1034628~S24