People get ready : African American and Caribbean cultural exchange / Kevin Meehan.

First printing 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theorizing African American and Caribbean contact : comparative approaches to cultural decolonization in the Americas -- Vested in the anonymous thousands : Arthur A. Schomburg as decolonizing historian -- Decolonizing ethnography : Zora Neale Hurston in the Caribbean -- Red pepper poetry : Jayne Cortez and cross-cultural saturation -- Mass media contact zones : Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the dialectics of our America.

The author offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present, tracing the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue through the lives and works of historian/archivist Arthur Schomburg, writer/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, jazz poet Jayne Cortez, and theologian/politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He 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, he notes, is not free of contradictions, and misunderstandings arise on both sides. In addition to noting dialogues of unity, the book also focuses on instances of intellectual elitism, sexism, color prejudice, imperialism, national chauvinism, and other forms of mutual disdain that continue to limit African American and Caribbean solidarity.

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