Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and lecturer based in Lublin, Poland. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora and editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South.

"This book does something rare and urgently needed: it places Latin American and Caribbean documentary within a shared analytical frame while treating the non-Hispanophone Caribbean seriously on its own terms. Shooting Back will be a fresh, go-to resource for scholars and students of film, visual culture, and the politics of memory." - Michael J. Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, University of California, Davis

Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and lecturer based in Lublin, Poland. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora and editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South.

"This book does something rare and urgently needed: it places Latin American and Caribbean documentary within a shared analytical frame while treating the non-Hispanophone Caribbean seriously on its own terms. Shooting Back will be a fresh, go-to resource for scholars and students of film, visual culture, and the politics of memory." - Michael J. Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, University of California, Davis

Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and lecturer based in Lublin, Poland. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora and editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South.

"This book does something rare and urgently needed: it places Latin American and Caribbean documentary within a shared analytical frame while treating the non-Hispanophone Caribbean seriously on its own terms. Shooting Back will be a fresh, go-to resource for scholars and students of film, visual culture, and the politics of memory." - Michael J. Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, University of California, Davis