{"product_id":"people-get-ready-african-american-and-caribbean-cultural-exchange-9781617032011","title":"People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin Meehan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American\/Caribbean dialogue through the lives and works of four key individuals: historian Arthur Schomburg, writer\/archivist Zora Neale Hurston, poet Jayne Cortez, and politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeople Get Ready\u003c\/i\u003e examines how these influential figures have reevaluated popular culture, revised the relationship between intellectuals and everyday people, and transformed practices ranging from librarianship and anthropology to poetry and broadcast journalism. This discourse, Meehan notes, is not free of contradictions, and misunderstandings arise on both sides. In addition to noting dialogues of unity, \u003ci\u003ePeople Get Ready\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on instances of intellectual elitism, sexism, color, prejudice, imperialism, nationalism, chauvinism, and other forms of mutual disdain that continue to limit African American and Caribbean solidarity.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47578842726551,"sku":"9781617032011","price":2960.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781617032011.webp?v=1774907222","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/people-get-ready-african-american-and-caribbean-cultural-exchange-9781617032011","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}