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224 p, Broken show window: the West Indian risings and their aftermath, 1938-1940 -- Securing the Caribbean: the establishment of United States bases in the British West Indies, September 1940-March 1941 -- Beyond security: the forming of the Anglo-American Caribbean commission, April 1941-March 1942 -- With bread or bullets: the Caribbean food crisis, the maintenance of order, and the sugar question, March-December 1942 -- The search for principles: the London conversations, December 1942 -- Unfinished business: divergent paths and broken promises, January 1943-March 1944 -- The birth of a program: the first West Indian conference, March-October 1944 -- Under the microscope: the Barbados recommendations and American economic foreign policy, July 1944-January 1945 -- Standoff: imperial policy and the joint statement, January-July 1945 -- A bitter rehearsal? Epilogue and conclusions.;
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150 p, Contents: 1. The Significance of African and Indigenous Peoples' Contacts in the Americas -- 2. New Identities, New Alliances -- 3. The Promised Island: Andros, Bahamas -- 4. "We Reach": Bahamaland -- 5. De People Dem: Black Seminoles in the "Land behind God's Back" -- 6. Bahamian Black Seminole Identity -- 7. The Meaning of Heritage -- 8. Conclusion
Protesters gathered at the corner of 64th Street and 22nd Ave., carrying yellow placards reading "Stop Using Black Men as Target Practice," and "Free Haitian Refugees." "If we can't vote people in the positions to do the right thing then we have no other alternative than to protest," said [Lorraine Goddard], who held a sign that read "No Justice, No Transit Tax." "We demand that the police who have been guilty of killing our youth be prosecuted and put in jail," said Mel Reeves, an organizer with the coalition. "We also demand that they free the Haitian refugees who are being held in the Chrome detention center."
"In this paper I should like to discuss a particular geographical area in Venezuela which has been heavily influenced by black populations stemming from colonial trans-Atlantic slave trade, i.e., the region known as Barlovento, which lies east-southeast of Caracas." (author);
Arbitrary detention of Haitian refugees should not be part of U.S. foreign policy. Minors should not be held captive, nor should any of the refugees be denied due process or the right to legal representation. In the past, all Haitian refugees were considered economic refugees. Today, even the president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is claiming that he is being persecuted. While the U.S. Special Forces and the State Department are busy chasing Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, on the island nation of Haiti, a powerful and deadly drama is unfolding. Mob killings of reporters and shootouts in broad daylight between mayors and congressmen have become common occurrence.
