A New Book: The Silence of the Miskito Prince

I’m delighted to announce that my book The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized is available from the University of Minnesota Press!

How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite open conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Focusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, and taking its title from an emblematic eighteenth-century interaction between Olaudah Equiano and Prince George of the Miskito Tribe, this book explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience.

The cover: with many thanks to the entire production crew at the University of Minnesota Press, who did a magnificent job from start to finish of envisioning and making this book.