Download or read book Vibes Up written by Sabia McCoy-Torres and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on reggae/dancehall culture and West Indian historic and contemporary migration to Costa Rica and Brooklyn. It centers an analysis of migration, diaspora, queerness, Blackness, affect, and Caribbean cultural subjectivity using reggae/dancehall culture as an ethnographic lens. The author unveils underexplored forms of resistance, negotiations of gender and sexuality, and creation of informal cultural institutions with transnational ties"--