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2. Esclavitud, resistencia y magia en el Caribe colombiano y en Puerto Rico, siglo XVI-XIX
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras Campus). Centro de Investigaciones Históricas. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Río Piedras, P.R.: Departamento de Historia, Centro de Investigaciónes Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Outgrowth of a seminar held at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, in June 2006., 50 p., Contents: Presentación / Sharon Meléndez Ortiz y Rafael Díaz Díaz -- Del machete al hechizo : formas de resistencia entre los esclavos y esclavas de origen africano y afro-caribeño durante el periodo colonial / Sharon Meléndez Ortiz -- Sometiéndose para ser libres : el caso de la libertad pedida por los negros de los palenques de la Sierra de María, Cartagena, 1691 / César Augusto Salcedo Chirinos -- Mujer negra : resistir para construir : Nueva Granada siglo XVIII / Yanelba Mota Maldonado -- Las juntas como resistencia al sistema esclavista, Cartagena de Indias, siglo XVI / Frank Cosme Arroyo -- La magia negra, resistencia y seducción / Rubén Lasanta -- Los caminos a la manumisión : ley de 21 de julio de 1821 / Damaris J. Marrero Villali.
3. Extending the diaspora: new histories of Black people
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Curry,Dawne Y. (Editor), Duke,Eric D. (Editor), and Smith,Marshanda A. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Based on conference papers., 306 p., Perspectives on the black diaspora's global histories. Includes John Campbell's "How free is "free"? the limits of manumission for enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century British Caribbean sugar society," Beatriz G. Mamigonian's "A harsh and gloomy fate: liberated Africans in the service of the Brazilian state, 1830s-1860s," Stephen G. Hall's "Envisioning an antislavery war: African American historical constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850s," Micol Seigel's "Comparable or connected? afro-diasporic resistance in the United States and Brazil," and Matthew J. Smith's "Race, color, and the Marxist left in pre-Duvalier Haiti." --
4. From Toussaint to Tupac: the Black international since the age of revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- West,Michael O. (Editor), Martin,William G. (Editor), and Wilkins,Fanon Che (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 318 p., Focuses on three moments in global black history: the American and Haitian revolutions, the Garvey movement and the Communist International following World War I, and the Black Power movement of the late twentieth century.
5. Negritude: legacy and present relevance
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Constant,Isabelle (Editor) and Mabana,Kahiudi Claver (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- "The impetus for this book was a conference to mark the centenary of Senghor's birth, held at the Cave Hill campus, University of the West Indies, Barbados.", 321 p., A collection of 20 essays on the beginnings and continued significance of the Negritude movement in literature.
6. The Costa Rica reader history, culture, politics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- 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."