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2. A Six-Year Follow-Up Study of Social Network Changes among African-American, Caribbean, and U.S.-Born Caucasian Urban Older Adults
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Conway,Francine (Author), Magai,Carol (Author), Jones,Samuel (Author), Fiori,Katherine (Author), and Gillespie,Michael (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Aging and Human Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 76(1) : 1-27
- Notes:
- Explores dynamic changes in network size and composition by examining patterns of older adults' social network change over time, that is: types of movements; the reason for the loss of network members; and the relation of movement and composition in concert. This study is a 6-year follow up of changes in the social networks of U.S.-Born Caucasian, African-American, and Caribbean older adults.
3. Beyond the Slave Ship: Theorizing the Limbo Imagination and Black Atlantic Performance Geographies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Niaah,Sonjah Stanley (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-10
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Comparativ: Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und Vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(5) : 11-30
- Notes:
- Using theories of performance geography, the author considers how black music and dance, especially the slave ship dance Limbo, create an urban counter-culture that evokes historic transcultural experiences of the Middle Passage, space, and modernity. Social theories of scholars including Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy, and Catherine Nash are considered. Other topics include cultural geography, the Maroons of Jamaica, and dance customs of Trinidad. Interrelationships between performances at the Dancehall in Kingston, Jamaica, Blues music, and South African Kwaito music are explored.
4. Madam Zajj and US Steel: Blackness, Bioperformance, and Duke Ellington's Calypso Theater
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vogel,Shane (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Text
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(4) : 1-24
- Notes:
- Develops a theoretical framework of biopolitical performance with which to approach the 1957 televised broadcast of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's A Drum Is a Woman. Presented on the drama anthology program The United States Steel Hour, this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Argues that through their experimentation Ellington and Strayhorn created a hybrid performance in the mode of "calypso theater": a formal and thematic engagement with an Afro-Caribbean performance history.
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. Surinamese Maroons as reggae artistes: music, marginality and urban space
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- JAFFE,RIVKE (Author) and Sanderse,Jolien (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2010
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(9) : 1561-1579
- Notes:
- Examines how marginalized Maroon youth in Paramaribo, the capital of the Caribbean nation of Suriname, employ musical strategies in combating ethno-racial stigmatization and improving their socio-economic position. Traditionally, Maroons, after escaping the plantations during slavery, have lived in semi-isolation in Suriname's dense rainforest. In recent decades, they have become increasingly urbanized, to the discontent of many in Paramaribo, who view Maroons as backward, violent criminals. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and popular culture analysis, the article discusses how young Maroons use reggae and dancehall to create and recreate physical and social spaces of their own within the city and outside the forest. They protest local conditions and inequity by drawing on regional images of marginality that have been shaped by Rastafari musicians in Jamaica.