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222. The hills of Hebron
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wynter,Sylvia (Author), Bogues,Anthony (Author), and Eudell,Demetrius Lynn (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Kingston ; Miami: I. Randle
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : J. Cape, 1962., 340 p., Written in the late 1950s on the cusp of Jamaica's independence from Britain, The Hills of Hebron tells the story of a group of formerly enslaved Jamaicans as they attempt to create a new life and assert themselves against the colonial power.
223. The social life of spirits
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Blanes,Ruy Llera (Editor) and Espirito Santo,Diana (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 305 p., By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities--with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions--providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents.
224. To the ministers, teachers, and priests (so called and so stileing your selves) in Barbadoes
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fox,George (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1672
- Published:
- London: s.n.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 69 p
225. Transcendence through aesthetic experience: Divining a common wellspring under conflicting Caribbean and African American religious value systems
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sager,Rebecca (Author) and Arce,Bridget Christine (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International (UMI) Ann Arbor, MI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black music research journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1) : 27
- Notes:
- [Unedited] My dissertation examines the way in which specific historical bodies such as the soldadera (a female camp follower), the mulata, and the figure of Emiliano Zapata have been appropriated in Mexico by different cultural genres such as literature, music, popular balladry, and film. All of the historical figures that I consider occupy the site of a powerful tropological discourse that has saturated the public imagination throughout the 20th c. Hayden White, among others, contends that trope, which is figurative language, constitutes a 'mode of thought.' As a mode of thought, trope can govern the expectations that are held of certain people. This project is concerned with defining those expectations within the confines of the nation-state, and more importantly, explaining how they are disrupted. This leads to my critical query: why do certain historical bodies constitute the sites of such discursive tension? The figures I examine in this study suggest something deeper in the concept of nationhood than the reigning paradigms of identity; their bodies become metaphors for the tensions within the spaces they occupy. In order to embrace this project, I explore the idea of tropes within traditional Western rhetorical practices and then enter into dialogue with indigenous thought and aesthetics. The process by which noted historical figures become aesthetic tropes in both popular cultural production and high art constitutes the crux of this study. For example, the soldadera and the mulata are given anonymous, even pejorative names that reveal their striking omnipresence in the national imaginary; nevertheless, they are erased from the national narrative. In effect, the participation of the soldaderas in the Mexican military was never officially recognized or remunerated; they were deplored as cumbersome parasites. Similarly, mulatas enter the imaginary as exceptional, exotic figures whose exuberant sexuality is perceived as dangerous to traditional culture. Yet their image is nonetheless pervasive in 20 th century Mexican culture. In light of the nation's historical amnesia regarding the place of Africans, I examine the way in which different musical genres and cultural traditions in the state of Veracruz articulate Mexico's legacy of blackness. Unlike the nameless anonymity of the soldadera, mulata and Africans, Emiliano Zapata begins as a specific individual with a proper name and history. However, the specificity of his historical context becomes abstracted through the appropriation of his name by the indigenous groups who, by assuming his patronymic as Zapatistas, forcefully insert their anonymity into the national narrative. Despite its program to achieve mestizo middle-class values, national culture repeatedly turns back to figurations of marginal subjects. How these figures inspire art forms as diverse as corridos, film, fiction, and music as well as the power of these uniquely marginalized figures to travel across genres so irreverently is what drives my intellectual endeavor.
226. Tukontology: How West African Sages Used Their Sciences to Beat Out Potent Forces in a British West Indian Auditorium
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Murray,Deryck (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009 winter
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(3) : 30-58
- Notes:
- West African powers in the Caribbean have often been studied as important cultural and religious formations. This article treats them as ontological formations by collapsing the modern opposition between reason/knowledge and power/force. The distinction between the "knowing" West anchored in a unified scientific reason and the "believing" Rest who trust in many cultures is therefore refused. With the above prerequisite in mind, a new approach to creolization, termed "tukontology," is deployed to reveal a Kuhnian type paradigm shift in the war-medicine of blacks on British West Indian plantations between 1645 and emancipation in 1838.
227. Uma história de branqueamento ou o negro em questão
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hofbauer,Andreas (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- São Paulo
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 375 p, O núcleo central da tese é uma reflexão sobre aquilo que na literatura antropológica especializada tem-se convencionado chamar de branqueamento. Em oposição às interpretações correntes segundo as quais a "ideologia do branqueamento" teriasurgido, no Brasil no final do século XIX, como uma espécie de derivação ou readaptação das "teorias raciais ortodoxas", argumenta-se que o "ideário do branqueamento" estava presente nos fundamentos da sociedade colonial brasileira. Paracomprovar isso, tornou-se necessária uma "reconstrução histórica" do conceito de negro. Esse percurso mostra que a idéia do branqueamento passou, ao longo dos séculos, por diversas reformulações devidas às lentas mudanças na concepção de mundo ea contextos sociais e históricos específicos. Foi-se ajustando aos valores supremos de cada época, de concepções religioso-morais, biológico-"progressistas" a um ideário culturalista. A tese defende também a idéia de que a persistência da"ideologia do branqueamento" está vinculada, em primeiro lugar, às características específicas das relações de poder no Brasil. A resistência característica das estruturas patrimoniais à formalização de direitos e deveres individuais e de idéiascomo igualdade e diferença manifesta uma postura sociopolítica que tende a se opor a qualquer tentativa de burocratizar processos de inclusão e exclusão. Foi apenas nos anos 50 do século XX que a idéia de transformação de negro em bra. (Continuação) desmoronamento do sistema escravista, isto é, com a abolição. O último capítulo consiste num estudo de caso no qual se procura aplicar as reflexões teóricas elaboradas ao longo desta tese: "opõem-se" dois "pólos típico-ideais" da"representação negra"--O candomblé e o movimento negro - com o objetivo de analisar as divergências e convergências entre essas duas posições sociopolíticas diante do mundo; Thesis/dissertation
228. Versos sagrados de ifá: núcleo ordenador dos complexos religiosos de Matriz iorubá nas américas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Xavier,Juarez (Author) and Kabengele,Munanga (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- São Paulo
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 313 p, These verses are religious that reflect the Latin American, Brazilian and cuban culture; Thesis/dissertation
229. Vodou et evangelisation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Paulemon,Mesina (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Canada: Universite de Sherbrooke
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 237 p., Arrivé en Haïti avec les Noirs d'Afrique aux 15e et 16e siècles, le vodou est depuis ce temps un élément de la culture haïtienne. Il y a aujourd'hui une coexistence des catholiques, des protestants avec les vodouisants d'où le problème de syncrétisme qui caractérise le vodou. Le silence entretenu à son sujet, dans divers milieux et pour. différentes raisons, renforce les préjugés vieux de plusieurs siècles et rend difficile l'évangélisation. Évangéliser la personne vodouisante suppose de bien connaître sa perception de Dieu et les valeurs véhiculées par le vodou. Un sondage auprès des jeunes et d'adultes a enrichi mes connaissances sur le vodou et les moyens d'une évangélisation en Haïti.
230. West Indian Hindus: Celebrate Phagwa in Colorful Fashion
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Campbell,C. H. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- April-May, 2002
- Published:
- New York: Black Diaspora Communications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black Diaspora
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(3) : 44
- Notes:
- The month of March sees thousands of West Indians in the U.S. and abroad in colorful celebration of their Phagwa holiday- the origin of which is almost mythical and its exact time of origination is not known