Reviews Sybille Fischer's Modernity Disavowed; Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004); Patricia D. Fox's Being and Blackness in Latin America; Uprootedness and Improvisation (2006); Eleuterio Santiago-Dîaz's Escritura of ropuertorriqueòa y modernidad (2007); and Lucîa M. Suârez's The Tears of Hispaniola; Haitian and Dominican Diaspora Memory (2006).
Reviews a novel about the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States. In its depiction of African Americans, White Americans, Britons, and Caribbean immigrants, the book demonstrates Americans' obsession with race. In addition to the contrast between desires for racial authenticity and class mobility, Smith’s novel exposes the variability of Black America, and especially the intersection between class and race.
Reviews the book, Race, gender and educational desire: Why black women succeed and fail by Heidi Safia Mirza (2009). The author looks to understand and unpack the complex intersectionalities that mark contemporary black British feminism, teasing out their particular implications for education and educational debates today.
"On the basis of Bastide's Les Amériques noires, this book review dwells on the memory of slavery and of African origins among black people in the New World. It focuses on the everyday as well as literary identity constructs presented in two recent books about Afro-Colombians and Creoles in Martinique." (author)
