90° of shade : over 100 years of photography in the Caribbean : image and identity in the West Indies
2014
Book
Total copies: 1
The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the outsider as it is the complex identity of its people a melting pot of races created out of the participants in the 400 year slave trade enforced Africans, indigenous Americans and their colonisers French, Spanish, German, Dutch, English. The identity of the Caribbean stands at this intersection of tourism, the detritus of the slave trade, colonialism and tropicality. The regions politics span a hot bed of ideas and radicalism from Castros Cuba, communist thorn in the side of North America, to the violent right-wing dictatorship of Haitis Papa Doc in the 1960s. This book features hundreds of fascinating and unique photographs that span 100 years of Caribbean history, culture, industry and more as well as the subsequent diaspora of its people to America, England and elsewhere.
Main title:
90° of shade : over 100 years of photography in the Caribbean : image and identity in the West Indies / foreword by Paul Gilroy.
Imprint:
London : Soul Jazz Records, 2014.
Collation:
252 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cm
ISBN:
9780957260030 (hbk)
Dewey class:
779.99729R779.99729BAK
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
1696682