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The South and the Caribbean (Paperback)
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The first comprehensive study of the close ties between the
American South and the Caribbean With essays and commentaries by
Roger D. Abrahams, Kenneth Bilby, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman,
Aline Helg, Milton Jamail, Charles Joyner, Daniel C. Littlefield,
Bonham C. Richardson, and Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Download Plain
Text version With the trade of sugar, rum, and African slaves in
the islands that form a perimeter around the Gulf of Mexico, the
broad expanse of water known as the Caribbean ringed what came to
be known as the South. Today concise political boundaries separate
the coasts of the American South from the multicultural worlds that
dominate the islands. Yet all anecdotal evidence suggests far
greater ties. One listens to the reggae in the streets of New
Orleans or to the rumba in Atlanta. One notes the moans of the
blues in the cafes of Veracruz and watches Major League games in
which young Dominican athletes hurling lightning-fast balls become
national heroes on their island homeland beset by political and
economic woes. Do these human links suggest a greater regionalism
than was previously acknowledged? This exciting study of two
discrete yet kindred areas gives an affirmative answer. It comes to
terms with what many have considered distinct yet fluctuating
boundaries that separate and bond southern peoples. These papers
from the Chancellor's Symposium at the University of Mississippi in
1998 focus on and examine the strong connections. Geographer Bonham
C. Richardson analyzes the territory as a cultural region ""with
Little Rock at the northwest corner and French Guiana at the
southeast that also includes the eastern rim of Central America as
well as the Bahamas."" Other contributors explore the creative
cultures that emerged when a brutal European economy enslaved
Africans for labor. The essays also examine the economic
connections that have created such dissimilar and lasting legacies
as the plantation system and the love of baseball. The South and
the Caribbean flow into each other culturally, economically, and
socially. These papers and their commentaries suggest that future
study of these regions must deal with them together in order to
understand each. The merging of the two through music, dance,
language, sports, and political aspiration -- all discussed in this
book -- serves to give birth to a New South and a New Caribbean. At
the University of Mississippi, Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez is an
associate professor of history and Charles Reagan Wilson is the
director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
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