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    1. (Re) framing the nation the Afro-Cuban challenge to Black and Latino struggles for American identity

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gosin,Monika (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    La Jolla: University of California, San Diego
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    311 p., Focuses on conflict and convergence among African Americans, Cuban exiles, and Afro-Cubans in the United States. Argues that the racializing discourses found in the Miami Times, which painted Cuban immigrants as an economic threat, and discourses in the Herald, which affirmed the presumed inferiority of blackness and superiority of whiteness, reproduce the centrality of ideologies of exclusivity and white supremacy in the construction of the U.S. nation.

    2. A house built on faith: Religious rhetoric as narrative strategy in black writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    White,Artress Bethany (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Kentucky: University of Kentucky
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    164 p., Traces the journey of blacks from the Middle Passage through urban migration northward in black fiction. Argues that the historical use of religious rhetoric is transcended in black writing of the 20th century in order to recast black victimization during slavery, counter the progress of turn-of-the-century white supremacy, and chronicle the rise of economic racism which created the 20th century black ghetto. The religious doctrines discussed in this study include Puritan missionizing and heretical purges in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem , the social work of the Catholic church in Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South , and the cultural intensity of the Pentecostal/Apostolic church in Go Tell It on the Mountain.

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