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Vibes Up: Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn

By Sabia McCoy-Torres
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By Sabia McCoy-Torres
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Second Place Winner, 2025 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association

Examines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian Diaspora

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 empowe...

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