Surviving the Americas – Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City

Surviving the Americas is a vivid and intimate account of the Nicaraguan Garifuna. The activist commitments and collaborative nature of the work as well as its decolonial lens provide keen
insights into the persistence of this under-acknowledged Afro-Indigenous community in the Garifuna and African Diasporas.
  * Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics, Michigan State University *
Beautifully written… contextualized, and nice integration of academic sources and Garifuna voices.
  * Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Soka University of America *
Ethnographically rich! Surviving the Americas intervenes to decolonize Garifuna ethnography by attending to critical discussions of indigeneity, intersectionality, and resilience.
  * Keri Vacanti Brondo, Professor of Anthropology, University of Memphis *
"Surviving the Americas is a welcome addition to the literature on Garifuna and Indigenous and Afro descendant Central America. Garifuna in Nicaragua have received little attention in the literature, and the book helps us understand both the diversity of Garifuna communities in Central America and the social and political conditions confronting Garifuna in different nation-states. It is well suited to course adaption in introductory or advanced courses in anthropology, Indigenous studies, or Central American studies. Clearly written and accessible to non-specialists, it provides a compelling account of cultural persistence under neocolonial structures that produce displacement, highlighting how 'those routes that so often take people away from communities while allowing exogenous forces in can also prove to be sources of new hope for resilience.'"
  * New West Indian Guide *