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90° degrees of shade : image and identity in the West Indies

Title: 90° degrees of shade : image and identity in the West Indies / edited and introduction by Stuart Baker ; foreward by Paul Gilroy.
Publication: London, England : Soul Jazz Books, a division of Soul Jazz Records Ltd, 2014.

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252 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 31 x 31 cm

Summary

The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the West as it is the result of its population's incredibly complex identity. A melting pot of races born of the 400-year slave trade--Africans, indigenous Americans and their French, Spanish, German, Dutch and English colonizers--the identity of the Caribbean stands at the intersection of tourism, colonialism and tropicality. This deluxe large-format volume 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. The photographs show the many ways in which the region has been portrayed, from tropical backdrop of tourism and hedonism to colonial outpost and revolutionary threat in North America's own backyard. The introduction is by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack and Black Britain: A Photographic History (2004), among others.

Alternative Title

Ninety degrees of shade : image and identity in the West Indies
Over 100 years of photography in the Caribbean

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Call Number

Sc+ G 15-29

ISBN

9780957260030
0957260032

OCLC

893408699

Title

90° degrees of shade : image and identity in the West Indies / edited and introduction by Stuart Baker ; foreward by Paul Gilroy.

Publisher

London, England : Soul Jazz Books, a division of Soul Jazz Records Ltd, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Baker, Stuart, editor.

Gilroy, Paul, 1956- writer of foreword.

Note

Ninety degrees of shade : image and identity in the West Indies

At head of title: Over 100 years of photography in the Caribbean

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 15-29

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