Focus--Caribbean
By: edited by Sidney W. Mintz and Sally Price.
Contributors: Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-; Price, Sally.; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Latin American Program.
Publisher: [Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Washington, D.C. (Smithsonian Institution Bldg., Washington 20560)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Ethnology -- Caribbean Area.; Sugar trade -- Caribbean Area.; Music -- Caribbean Area.; Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 1945-; Caribbean Area -- Politics and government -- 1945-; Caribbean Area -- Languages.; Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration.; United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Table of contents: title: [1] The contemporary Caribbean / Gordon K. Lewis; title: [2] A political profile of the Caribbean / Carl Stone; title: [3] "Race" and color in the Caribbean / H. Hoetink; title: [4] Sugar in the Caribbean / G.B. Hagelberg; title: [5] From plantations to peasantries in the Caribbean / Sidney W. Mintz; title: [6] Castro's Cuba / Wayne S. Smith; title: [7] Jamaica's democratic socialist experience / Evelyne Huber Stephens, John D. Stephens; title: [8] Nation, state, and society in Haiti, 1804-1984 / Michel-Rolph Trouillot; title: [9] The Caribbean as a musical region / Kenneth M. Bilby; title: [10] A linguistic perspective on the Caribbean / Mervyn C. Alleyne; title: [11] Caribbean immigrations and their implications for the United States / Roy S. Bryce-Laporte.