{"product_id":"vibes-up-reggae-and-afro-caribbean-migration-from-costa-rica-to-brooklyn-paperback-softback-9781479827176","title":"Vibes Up; Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn (Paperback \/ softback) 9781479827176","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVibes Up\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSabia McCoy-Torres (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479827176\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 5 b\/w images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Reflects the best of ethnographic writing. McCoy-Torres writes beautifully and evocatively about the cultural, political, and social practices that structure Caribbean diasporic life, love, labor, community and joy. Her careful attention to the collective labor and love that produce reggae culture reveals novel ways of understanding politics, race, gender and sexuailty that are simultaneously grounded in people's deep sense of place and pride as Afro-Caribbeans in a diasporic context. In this, McCoy-Torres is part of a distinguished tradition of feminist ethnographers whose research and writing is rigorous, rich, and a delight to read.\" - Gina Pérez, author of Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina\/o Communities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian Diaspora\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In popular media Caribbean culture has either been reduced to stereotypes of laziness, marijuana, and reggae music, or conversely, to an identity centered around a refutation of colonialism. Both are oversimplifications, and do not explain the enduring Caribbean identity and empowerment throughout the diaspora. \u003ci\u003eVibes Up\u003c\/i\u003e offers an exploration of Caribbean culture as it is felt, understood, and expressed, centered on research conducted in Brooklyn and Costa Rica.\u003cbr\u003e Sabia McCoy-Torres demonstrates how reggae culture—which encompasses the music and performance modes of both \"roots\" and \"dancehall\"—helps to shed light on dynamics relating to migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity. Through an examination of elements of the Black outdoors, including nightlife venues, sidewalks, and streets in front of homes, the book shows the important role that reggae plays in articulating the frustrations of migration, establishing community and belonging, and forming transnational relationships.\u003cbr\u003e Although reggae's creators and producers are often perceived as homophobic, \u003ci\u003eVibes Up \u003c\/i\u003ealso offers a more nuanced examination of the transforming relationships between hetero and LGBTQ+ people in reggae spaces and the accommodation of an array of queer intimacies. The framing of Caribbean Blackness as an expression of perseverance, agency, joy, and the erotic, as opposed to a reaction to colonization, oppression, and enslavement, is a distinctly important and timely view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591097610520,"sku":"9781479827176","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/vibes-up-reggae-and-afro-caribbean-migration-from-costa-rica-to-brooklyn-paperback-softback-9781479827176","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}