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2. Booknotes. Coal to Cream: a Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lamb,Brian (Author) and Robinson,Eugene (Author)
- Format:
- Video/DVD
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- West Lafayette, IN: C-SPAN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 videocassette (59 min.)
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast on the television program Booknotes on November 7, 1999. Brian Lamb interviews Eugene Robinson about his book Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. The book examines race relations in the United States and much of the Western Hemisphere by looking at Mr. Robinson's personal experiences in the U.S. and Brazil, where he noted that racism is rare but inequality still exists.
3. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Persons,Georgia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 7
- Notes:
- 313 p, Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyse manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists; "A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists"
4. Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rahier,Jean Muteba (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey,
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- xxvi, 264 : ill., map ; 24 cm, Festive rituals, religious associations, and ethnic reaffirmation of Black Andalusians / Isidoro Moreno -- Presence of Blackness and representation of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian celebrations of the Semana Santa (Eduador).
5. Residential Segregation of West Indians in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Area: The Roles of Race and Ethnicity
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Crowder,Kyle D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring 1999
- Published:
- UK: Blackwell
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Migration Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(1) : 79-113
- Notes:
- To assess the relative roles of race and ethnicity in shaping patterns of residential segregation, this article utilizes indices of segregation and a geographic mapping strategy to examine the residential patterns of West Indian blacks in the greater New York City area. The socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods occupied by West Indian blacks are also examined and compared to those of areas occupied by African Americans. The results indicate that, on one hand, West Indians are largely denied access to residential areas occupied predominantly by whites and are confined to areas of large black concentrations. On the other hand, West Indians appear to have carved out somewhat separate residential enclaves within these largely black areas, and there is evidence to indicate that these areas are of somewhat higher quality than areas occupied by similar concentrations of African Americans. The discussion of these results focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the formation of these distinct residential enclaves and the maintenance of a distinct West Indian ethnic identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
6. Roots, rock, reggae: an oral history of reggae music from ska to dancehall
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foster,Chuck (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New York, NY: Billboard Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 352 p