Solow,Barbara L. (Editor) and Engerman,Stanley L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 345 p.
Notes:
Includes Dunn, "Dreadful Idlers' in the Cane Fields: The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831," pp. 163-90, 173, 179, 188; Craton and Walvin, "Jamaican Plantation," pp. 134-41; and Long, "History of Jamaica," pp. 2:437-40.
Sutherland,Patsy (Editor), Moodley,Roy (Editor), and Chevannes,Barry (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
New York, NY: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
264 p., Draws on the knowledge of prominent clinicians, scholars, and researchers of the Caribbean and the diaspora, exploring healing traditions in the context of health and mental health.
Special journal issue., 211 p., During the colonial era, after abolition of slavery in 1833, the British faced extreme shortage of labor for sugar plantation in their sugar producing colonies of the Caribbean. To overcome this problem, over half a million Indians were transported to the region as indentured workers (often called as Indian coolies) with false hopes and promises.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Caribbean Reasonings Conference (5th : 2006 : Mona, Jamaica)., 302 p, Richard Hart's quest for political autonomy, decolonization and regional unity has earned him a space in the annals of history as one of Jamaica s leading nationalist figures and as a vital contributor to the Caribbean integration movement. As a key proponent of social, political and economic transformations in the region, Hart fought arduously for trade unionism, political sovereignty and mass-based democratic political parties among other important issues which advanced the lives of Caribbean nationals.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
517 p., Focuses on the period after the Second World War, when a significant number of Caribbean countries gained their independence, and the character of the region's post-colonial politics had become clear. The survey of political thought in this collection is divided into four sections: theories of the post-colonial state, theorizing post-colonial citizenship, Caribbean regionalism and political culture.
Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies Arizona State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers presented at a conference, October 31, 1986, Arizona State University; sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona Council for the Social Studies, Arizona Humanities Council., 133 p., Contents: Caribbean and Central American literature and art / Emil Volek -- Caribbean alternatives, Cuba and Puerto Rico / Juan M. Garcia Passalacqua -- The novel of the Cuban revolution, phase five, 1975-1986 / Seymor Menton -- The role of women in Cuba / K. Lynn Stoner -- Central American alternatives, Nicaragua and Costa Rica / Jennie K. Lincoln -- United States relations with Central America and the Caribbean / Thomas L. Karnes.
Anderson,Jaynie (Editor) and Comité international d'histoire de l'art (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Carlton, Vic: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
International Congress of the History of Art (32nd :; 2008 :; Melbourne, Vic.); Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA, The University of Melbourne, 13-18 January 2008., 1108 p., Presents an examination of the effect of globalism on art and art history. Covering different aspects of art, this title explores the themes of conflict, migration and convergence in the visual, symbolic and artistic exchanges between cultures throughout history. Includes Roberto Conduru's "From silence to multiple incorporation: art and Afro-Brazilian religions."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
311 p., Works by Argentine and Uruguayan specialists in the study of the black population and its impact on cultural formation of the Río de la Plata intertwines. The central idea is to strengthen the dialogue and discussion on issues that were silenced by official cultures for many years.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
942 p., Verene A. Shepherd builds on her previous collaborative work with colleagues Bridget Brereton and Barbara Bailey and presents a completely revised and expanded version of Engendering History (1995), which became a required text in colleges and universities in the Caribbean, North America and the UK. Focuses on key debates in history, sociology and politics in its survey of the critical discourses relating to conquest, the treatment of indigenous women, slavery, emancipation and the post-emancipation period.
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.
