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January 3, 2023 (November 14, 2023)

Q&A with Leslie M. Alexander, author of FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLIC

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Leslie M. Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States, answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader […]

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July 1, 2020 (June 17, 2020)

Q&A with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, Author of Between Fitness and Death

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Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy answers questions about the inspirations, discoveries and takeaways of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]

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June 10, 2020 (June 4, 2020)

Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize

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We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded […]

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March 13, 2014 (March 14, 2014)

Q&A with Caribbean Spaces author Carole Boyce Davies

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Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. She is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture and several other collections […]

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February 25, 2014

Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize

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Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated […]

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