Race and racism in Caribbean critical thought

• Europe's encounter with the Other in the Caribbean islands
• Haiti: Race and Revolution
• Haiti: Race and Revolution in the Long 20th Century
• Between Negritude, Mulatto Identity, and Transculturation
• Fernando Ortiz and The Deception of Races
• Negritude – a concept for universal thought. The critical work of Aimé Césaire
• From Blackness to Decolonization: The Work of Frantz Fanon
• From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney: The Transcendence of Black Power in the Anglophone Caribbean
• From E. Glissant's Antillean discourse to In Praise of Creolity
• Caribbean women and insular feminism. Black feminism

• “Algeria Removes the Veil” (Sociology of a Revolution or Year V of the Algerian Revolution) Rupert Lewis, Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonialist Champion. (Fragments).
• Aimé Césaire, “Discourse on Negritude. Negritude, Ethnicity and Afro-American Cultures.” Taken from Discourse on Colonialism, Akal, 2007. (Available in the Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Critical Thought. West Indies, French Antilles and Dutch Antilles)
• Aimé Césaire. Discourse on Colonialism. Madrid: Akal, 2007.
• Alissa Trotz. Gender, Generation and Memory: Remembering a FutureCaribbean.
• Antenor Firmin. The Equality of Human Races. Havana, Social Sciences Publishing House, 2010. (Excerpts)
• Brian Meeks, “CY Thomas, the Authoritarian State and Revolutionary Democracy.” From Radical Caribbean: From Black Power to Abu Baker. Kingston: Press University of the West Indies, 1996. [English].
• Claude Moïse and Emile Ollivier “A heavy burden”, taken from Repenser Haïti. Grandeur et misères d'un mouvement démocratique (Montréal: Éditions du CIDIHCA) pp. 192-229, available in Spanish in Anthology of Contemporary Haitian Social Thought, CLACSO, 2018
• Constitution of Toussaint Louverture (1801) and Jean Jacques Dessalines (1805).
• Édouard Glissant. The Antillean Discourse, 2010 (fragments). In: Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Critical Thought: West Indies, French Antilles and Dutch Antilles. Coordinator: Felix Valdés García. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, Argentina, 2017.
• Epiphany of mulatez. History and poetry. Compilation and prologue José A. Matos Arévalos. Fernando Ortiz Foundation Editorial. 2015. (Fragment)
• Fernando Ortiz against race and racism. Compilation by Jesús Guanche and José Matos. Editorial Ciencias Sociales. 2013.
• Fernando Ortiz. The Deception of Races. Havana, Social Sciences. Excerpts
• Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Havana: Ediciones Venceremos 1965. (Fragments).
• Frantz Fanon. Black Skin, White Masks. (Fragments).
• GUILLÉN, Nicolás. Fragments of Poetic Works 1920-1958, Volume I, 1972 (“Prologue to Sóngoro cosongo”, pp. 113-114, “Negro Bembón”, “Mulata”, “Si tú Supiera…”, “La canción del bongó”, “Canto Negro”, pp. 103-105, 116-118, 122-123.
• Jacques Stephane Alexis, essay “Prolegomena to a wonderful Haitian realism”, (1956, Paris, Premier Congrès des Écrivains et Artistes Noirs).
• Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, In Praise of Creolity, Havana: Casa de las Américas, 2014 (Fragments). In: Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Critical Thought: West Indies, French Antilles, and Dutch Antilles. Coordinator: Felix Valdés García. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, Argentina, 2017.
• José Martí. Our America (Critical Edition)
• The Black Jacobins, CLR James, Casa de las Américas Publishing Fund.
• Michel Rolph-Trouillot, “The Haitian Revolution as a non-event”, Anthology of Contemporary Haitian Social Thought, CLACSO, 2018
• Ortiz, Fernando. “On the social phenomenon of 'transculturation' and its importance in Cuba', Cuban Counterpoint of Tobacco and Sugar, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1983, pp. 86-90.
• Ortiz, Fernando. “The xylophonic key of Cuban music”, The instruments of Afro-Cuban music: The anatomical instruments and the percussive sticks. Volume I, Publications of the Directorate of Culture of the Ministry of Education, 1952, (fragments).
• Ortiz, Fernando. Epiphany of Mulatto Identity: History and Poetry, Fernando Ortiz Foundation, 2015. (Fragments).
• Quijano, A. (1991). "Coloniality and modernity/rationality." Indigenous Peru Vol. 13 (No. 29): 11-29; and, What about races. Venezuelan Journal of Economics and Social Sciences 2000, Vol. 6 No. 1 (Jan.-Apr.), 37-45
• René Depestre “Homo Papadocus”, Casa Magazine, no. 96, May-June, 1976, pp. 84-91.
• René Depestre. Good morning and goodbye to blackness, Havana, Casa de las Américas Publishing Fund, 1980. (Chapter 2. Available in the Anthology of contemporary Haitian critical thought).
• Rhoda Reddock. Feminism, Nationalism and the Early Women's Movement in the English-Speaking Caribbean (With Special Reference to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago).
• Suzy Castor, “Part IV. The accommodation of the neocolonial apparatus”, The North American occupation…, Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 1981, pp. 105-126.
• Violet Eudine Barriteau. “Contributions of Black feminism to feminist thought: a Caribbean perspective.”
• Walter Rodney, “Black Power – Its relevance to the West Indies” [in English]. Taken from The Groundings with My Brothers. London, 1990. [There is a Spanish version in the Anthology of Critical Thought]
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