Barrow,Christine (Editor), Bruin,Marjan de (Editor), and Carr,Robert (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Kingston ; Miami: Ian Randle Publishers
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
330 p., Examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS by exploring risk, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender. Provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different sectors in society and an interdisciplinary, rather than segregated multidisciplinary approach, can effectively address the spread of HIV and AIDS in the region.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
435 p., Analysis based on a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia's Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN's visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement's struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
248 p., Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.
Palmer,Steven Paul (Editor) and Molina Jiménez,Iván (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
383 p., Includes more than fifty texts related to the country's history, culture, politics, and natural environment. Most of these newspaper accounts, histories, petitions, memoirs, poems, and essays are written by Costa Ricans. Includes Jose Cubero's "A slave's story"; Cabildo of Cartago's "Free blacks, mulattoes, and mestizos seek legitimacy"; and Clodomiro Picado's "Our blood is blackening."
When Ernesto Estupinan Quintero was elected mayor of the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, in 2000, he was the first self-identifying Black person to reach this position. The city of Esmeraldas is the capital of the only province of the nation where Afro-Ecuadorians are the largest racial and cultural group. Immediately upon his election, Ernesto began commissioning murals and statues that contested traditional representations of Blackness.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
240 p., Survey and focus group sampling of students in high achieving schools compared to lower achieving schools were used to examine why there are fewer black men graduating from high schools in New York City as well as high schools around the country compared to other groups of students. Race is disaggregated in order to look at the difference in achievement rates for African American, black Hispanic, African, and Afro-Caribbean men.
Kachru,Braj B. (Editor), Kachru,Yamuna (Editor), and Nelson,Cecil L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
811 p., A collection of articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. Includes Michael Aceto's "Caribbean Englishes."
Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."
Gafaïti,Hafid (Author), Lorcin,Patricia M. E. (Author), and Troyansky,David G. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
460 p, Includes Joseph Militello's "Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim attic: reading Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane and Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate"
