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Summary:

"This book focuses on reggae/dancehall culture and West Indian historic and contemporary migration to Costa Rica and Brooklyn. It centers an analysis of migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, affect, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity using reggae/dancehall culture as an ethnographic lens. The author unveils underexplored forms of resistance, negotiations of gender and sexuality, and creation of informal cultural institutions with transnational ties"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Caribbean migration
• Caribbean feeling
• Caribbean becoming
• Caribbean consciousness
• Caribbean recognition
• Caribbean joy
• Caribbean erotics
• Epilogue.

Author/Creator:

McCoy-Torres, Sabia , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Vibes up: reggae and Afro-Caribbean migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn [by McCoy-Torres, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Vibes up [by McCoy-Torres, S.] (New York : New York University Press, 2024 — ISBN 9781479827190; LCCN 2023038952)

Subjects:

West Indians — Costa Rica — Social conditions

West Indians — New York (State) — New York — Social conditions

Reggae music — Social aspects

Group identity — Caribbean Area

Caribbean Area — Emigration and immigration — Social aspects

Costa Rica — Social life and customs

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs

West Indians — Social conditions

West Indians

Reggae music

Group identity

Emigration and immigration — Social aspects

Manners and customs

Caribbean Area

New York (State) — New York

Costa Rica

New York (State) — New York — Brooklyn

New York (State) — Kings County

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

F1557.B55 M33 2024

ISBNs:

9781479827114 (hardcover)
1479827118 (hardcover)
9781479827176 (paperback)
1479827177 (paperback)
9781479827190 (electronic book) [Invalid]
9781479827206 (electronic book other) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023038951

OCLC Numbers:

1400971118