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2. Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nwankwo,Ifeoma Chinwe Kiddoe (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 291 p
3. CAFTA is a bad deal for Blacks
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lee,Barbara (Author) and Shelton,Hilary (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Aug 10-Aug 16, 2005
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 48 : 6A
- Notes:
- CAFTA is also a step backward for labor rights. Under CAFTA, Central American countries are only obligated to uphold their own labor laws, which have been judged inadequate by the International Labor Organization in more than 20 ways. What's more, the enforcement of these deficient laws cannot be encouraged through the use of dispute settlement, fines or trade sanctions. Even putting labor conditions aside, CAFTA is bad the health of people of co south of the U.S. border. The countries of Central America have high rates of infection of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, rates that go up even more if you look at just the Afro-Latino communities. Provisions in CAFTA would actually delay or limit the introduction of cheaper, generic drugs to combat or cure many diseases and other health conditions. The result? Many of the 275,000 Central America living with HIV/AIDS will not be able to afford antiretroviral drugs. This impact will hit especially hard on Afro-Latinos, who make up a third of Latin America's population but represent 40 percent of Latin America's poor Maybe that's why Doctors Without Borders, the American Public Health Association and many others have come out strongly against CAFTA.
4. Castro defends Assata Shakur
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boyd,Herb (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 19-May 25, 2005
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 : 2
- Notes:
- As if her precious life and freedom were a game of poker, the FBI upped the ante or bounty on [Assata Shakur] to $1 million two weeks ago. In a television address last Tuesday, Cuban leader Fidel Castro rejected calls to hand over Shakur, stating that she was not a terrorist but a victim of racial persecution. "They wanted to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie," Castro said in his televised speech, while never mentioning Shakur's name. "They have always been hunting her, searching for her because of the fact that there was an accident in which a policeman died."
5. Degrees of freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Scott,Rebecca Jarvis (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 365 p., As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late 19th Century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Observes the people, places, legislation and leadership that shaped how these societies adjusted to the abolition of slavery. The two distinctive worlds also come together, as Cuban exiles take refuge in New Orleans in the 1880s, and black soldiers from Louisiana garrison small towns in eastern Cuba during the 1899 U.S. military occupation.
6. Haiti: One Year After Aristide Coup
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Winston,Bonnie V. (Author) and Blayton,Oscar H. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 10-Mar 16, 2005
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 20 : 1-1,31
- Notes:
- "The U.S. government would prefer to tell Haiti what to do and when and how to do it," said Eugenia Charles, the Haitian-born director of Fondasyon Mapou, a Washingtonbased group that seeks to improve the quality of life for Haitians. The group sponsors weekly demonstrations in front of the Haitian Embassy demanding that political prisoners be freed and democracy be restored in Haiti. Thomas Griffin, a Philadelphia attorney and human rights advocate who traveled to Haiti last year, presented details of his findings to members of the Congressional Black Caucus on March 2. His report, released by the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Miami School of Law, found that "Haiti's security and justice institutions fuel the cycle of violence. Summary executions are a police tactic, and even wellmeaning officers treat poor neighborhoods seeking a democratic voice as enemy territory where they must kill or be killed." [Barbara Lee]'s Haiti TRUTH (The Responsibility to Uncover the Tuth about Haiti) Act would form a TRUTH commission to investigate United States involvement in [JeanBertrand Aristide]'s removal.
7. Hands off Assata Shakur
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boyd,Herb (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 12-May 18, 2005
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- 20 : 7
- Notes:
- Ever since [Assata Shakur] (nee Joanne Chesimard) became a member of the Black Panther Party and subsequently a member of the Black Liberation Army, she has been involved in revolutionary activities to change the racist policies of America. She found herself in the crosshairs of the criminal justice system in the early 1970s after she and her comrades were stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by New Jersey State Troopers. Assata was traveling with Zayd Shakur and Sundiata Acoli in May 1973 when they were stopped, the troopers said, because of a faulty tail light on their car. Shortly after the stop, a shootout occurred. "There were lights and sirens," Shakur recalled in her autobiography. "Zayd was dead. My mind knew that Zayd was dead. The air was like cold glass, my mouth tasted like blood and dirt. Suddenly the [car] door flew open and I felt myself being dragged out onto the pavement. Pushed and punched, a foot upside my head, a kick in the stomach. Police were everywhere. One had a gun to my head," she wrote.
8. Mexico's Fox needs new Black/Hispanic agenda
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 18-May 22, 2005
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New Pittsburgh Courier
- Journal Title Details:
- 22 : A8
- Notes:
- What even serious individuals must note is that 40 or 50 years ago, the kind of jobs that illegal immigrants migrate towards today are the same positions that African Americans were relegated to. How else can we explain highly educated African Americans, even some with Ph.D's, being forced to work at the post office or as a hotel waiter. The barriers for African Americans were Jim Crow; for Hispanics or Latinos fleeing Mexico, El Salvador, Guatamala or other South American countries, it is the wretched poverty in those countries. For them, such jobs are a "step up" from what they had to accept in their country.
9. Point of order; The new Haitian revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clyne,Reginald (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 30-Apr 5, 2005
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 31 : 3A
- Notes:
- One group of Black immigrants have become involved in the economic and political life of Miami, and their power is being felt in North Dade. I call this the New Haitian Revolution. It began on many fronts. I remember listening to some Black American men laughing-at Haitians because family members would pool their money to buy a home. Multiple families would live in the house, and then the families would pool together and buy another house. Eventually, all of the Haitian families would own a home. I wonder what those same Black men are saying now, when Haitians now own homes and their detractors are still renting. This was the start of a quiet new Haitian revolution. Haitians working together to improve their economic fortunes - a method employed by other successful immigrant groups such as Jews and Cubans. The revolution took place quietly, but it is now clear that there is a new power group in this community. Haitians have started successful medical practices, radio stations, law firms, and other businesses. They have taken over the politics of the City of North Miami, and are one of the new power groups being courted by anyone running a county wide race.
10. The Samaná Americans: some forgotten Philadelphians
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Weeks,John M. (Author) and Zabala,Virginia Ramirez (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring, 2005
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: University Museum
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Expedition
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(1) : 38-41
- Notes:
- "Tells the story of the emigration of African Americans to Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1824. Today an enclave of descendants live in Samaná in the Dominican Republic."