Excerpt from this ebook's description: "In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States."
Excerpt from this ebook's description: This biography "traces Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba, where she played baseball with the boys on the streets of El Cerro, to her reinvention as a professional baseball player and American citizen."
Novel. Author Julia Alvarez has received the Hispanic Heritage Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, and the National Medal of Arts (U.S.). Excerpt from this writer's web page: "Born in New York City in 1950, Julia Alvarez's parents returned to their native country, Dominican Republic, shortly after her birth. Ten years later, the family was forced to flee to the United States because of her father’s involvement in a plot to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo."
Excerpt from this ebook's description: "Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution....The product of ten years of original research, this biography draws on interviews with Sánchez's friends, family, and comrades in the rebel army, along with countless letters and documents. Biographer Nancy Stout was initially barred from the official archives, but, in a remarkable twist, was granted access by Fidel Castro himself, impressed as he was with Stout's project and aware that Sánchez deserved a worthy biography."
Excerpt from this ebook's description: This biography and intellectual history offers a "new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture." Louverture lived from 1743-1803.
Autobiography of Representative Shirley Chisholm, who was born in Brooklyn, served seven terms (starting in 1969) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and ran for President. Chapter 1 is: Early Years in Barbados.
Excerpt from ebook's description: "Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves [Representative] Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life." Chapter 1 is: Daughter of the Caribbean and Chapter 3 is: Brooklyn Politics.
Ten stories about life in Haiti by Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.
Memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. At www.quiara.com, Quiara Alegría Hudes describes herself as "a Philly Rican barrio feminist."
This is a recent publication by a professor at Hunter College. Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe explores racism and the climate crisis through the lens of the exploitation of the Caribbean by imperialists, and how this exploitation set the stage for continued violence, against both the Caribbean's people and its natural environment, in the modern age.
Gabriela Garcia's novel (winner of the International Latino Book Award) tells the stories of multiple immigrant women whose stories all intersect in some way. It begins in 19th-century Cuba and weaves all the way to present-day Miami. Some of the women are directly related (mothers and daughters), others are neighbors, and others meet each other by chance.
Excerpt from this ebook's summary: "Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first Black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to the United States from the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1915. Three decades later, he was elected to the New York state legislature, representing the Bedford Stuyvesant section. A pioneer and a giant, Baker has a story that is finally revealed in intimate and honest detail by his grandson Ron Howell."
Literary study. Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D., is a Haitian Canadian American author, scholar and photographer.
In the first chapter, former Vice President Kamala Harris noted: "My father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica in 1938. He was a brilliant student who immigrated to the United States after being admitted to the University of California at Berkeley."
According to Historical Society of the New York Courts' page on Alexander Hamilton: "Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757 (or perhaps 1755), in Charlestown on the island of Nevis, British West Indies."
Chapter 5 is: Shirley Chisholm and the Style of Multicultural Democracy. Tammy L. Brown notes on p. 139 that Shirley Chisholm was "the first Black woman elected to Congress, representing the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the United States House of Representatives." Brown states on p. 137 that Shirley Chisholm was "the daughter of a mother from Barbados and a father born in British Guiana [now Guyana] and raised in Cuba and Barbados."
See the interview: Ezell A. Blair Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Lucy Thornton, and Jean Wheeler (March 4, 1964) Washington, DC. Robert Penn Warren explains: "Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinidad in 1941. He immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven and lived with his parents in New York City. Carmichael studied philosophy at Howard University. As a college freshman, Carmichael took part in his first Freedom Ride and was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi. He spent forty-nine days in the notorious state penitentiary known as Parchman Farm."
Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph. D., is a Haitian Canadian American author, scholar and photographer.
Biography of leader, publisher and writer Marcus Garvey, who was born in Jamaica. Garvey immigrated to Harlem in 1916. Excerpt from this ebook's description: "This biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)."
Activist Louise Langdon Norton Little was born in Grenada. She was the mother of Malcolm X.
Biography of leader, publisher and writer Marcus Garvey, who was born in Jamaica. Garvey immigrated to Harlem in 1916.
Available through HathiTrust.
