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By Weronika Zawora
This month, we celebrate all the wonderful countries which make up the Caribbean region. From revolution and folklore to art, music and literature, these islands in the sea are brimming full of unique cultures, histories, and politics that enrich and educate the world at large. Let's take a deeper dive into our collection with some picks to celebrate June's Caribbean American Heritage Month:
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith
The Things We Didn't Know by Elba Iris Pérez
Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination by Rudyard J. Alcocer
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
The Creole Archipalego: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy
From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic by Myriam J. A. Chancy
The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People by Harold Courlander
Bachata and Dominican identity = La bachata y la identidad dominicana by Julie A Sellers
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire by Christine Walker
Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans by Daryl Cumber Dance
White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti by Grace Sanders Johnson
The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Andrew Grant Wood
The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Laurent Dubois, Kaiama L., Glover, Nadève Ménard, Millery Polyné, Chantalle F. Verna
Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez
Rogue Revolutionaries: the Fight for Greater Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean by Vanessa Mongey
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
The Woe Shirt: Caribbean Folk Tales by Paulé Bartón
The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti by Brandon R. Byrd
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative by Eugenio Matibag
The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean by Martin Munro
Black Cake: A Novel by Charmaine Wilkerson
Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature by Christopher P. Iannini
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States by William Luis
One Blood: The Jamaican Body by Elisa Janine Sobo
The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples edited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano
Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization and the Afterlives of Disaster by Jossianna Arroyo
An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Gender Inequality In the Bahamas: Violence, Media, and Law by Juliette Storr
The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States edited by Annette M. Mahoney
Slave Revolt on Screen: the Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
América's Dream: A Novel by Esmeralda Santiago
Mother Imagery In the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women by Simone A. James Alexander
Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau
Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American Tales of the Supernatural selected by Mary E. Lyons
Puerto Rico Strong: A Comics Anthology Supporting Puerto Rico Disaster Relief and Recovery by Marco Lopez, Hazel Newlevant, Desiree Rodriguez, Derek Ruiz and Neil Schwartz
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by David Wheat
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