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32. Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hutchinson,George (Editor) and Young,John K. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 236 p., Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. This collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Includes "More than McKay and Guillén: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps's The Poetry of the Negro (1949)."
33. Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture: In Honour of Kamau Brathwaite
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brathwaite,Kamau (Editor), Shepherd,Verene A. (Editor), and Richards,Glen L. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 305p, Contents: Highway to vision : this sea our nexus / Mary Morgan -- Creolisation and Creole societies : a cultural nationalist view of Caribbean social history / O. Nigel Bolland -- Creole : the problem of definition / Carolyn Allen -- Enslaved Africans and their expectations of slave life in the Americas towards a reconsideration of models of "creolisation" / Paul Lovejoy and David Trotman -- Race and Creole ethnicity in the Caribbean / Percy C. Hintzen -- Contestations over culture, class, gender and identity in Trinidad and Tobago : "the little tradition" / Rhoda Reddock -- The "creolisation" of Indian women in Trinidad / Patricia Mohammed -- "Yuh know bout coo-coo? Where yuh know bout coo-coo?" Language and representation, creolisation and confusion in 'Indian cuisine / Veronica Gregg -- Questioning Creole : domestic producers and Jamaica's plantation economy / Verene A. Shepherd -- Creolisation in action : the slave labout elite and anti-slavery in Barbados / Hilary McD. Beckles -- "Driber tan mi side" : Creolisation and the labour process in St. Kitts-Nevis, 1810-1905 / Glen Richards -- The politics of Samuel Clarke : Black Creole politician in free Jamaica, 1851-1865 / Swithin Wilmot -- Creolisation processes in linguistic, artistic and material cultures / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- African sacredness and Caribbean cultural forms / Lucie Pradel -- Hip-hopping across cultures : crossing over from Reggae to Rap and back / Carolyn Cooper -- Angel of dreamers and My uncle / Lorna Goodison -- Po'm for Kamau / Jean Small.
34. Race & Nation in Modern Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rosemblatt,Karin Alejandra (Editor), Appelbaum,Nancy (Editor), and MacPherson,Anne S. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 1 microfiche
- Notes:
- Synopsis This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Includes Anne S. Macpherson's "Imagining the colonial nation: race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898" and Peter Wade's "Race and nation in Latin America: an anthropological view"
35. Raça como questão: história, ciência e identidades no Brasil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maio,Marcos Chor (Editor) and Santos,Ricardo Ventura (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Rio de Janeiro: Editora FIOCRUZ
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 314 p., Contents: Entre a riqueza natural, a pobreza humana e os imperativos da civilização, inventa-se a investigação do povo brasileiro / Jair de Souza Ramos, Marcos Chor Maio -- Raça, doença e saúde pública no Brasil : um debate sobre o pensamento higienista do século XIX / Marcos Chor Maio -- Mestiçagem, degeneração e a viabilidade de uma nação : debates em antropologia física no Brasil (1870-1930) / Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Crânios, corpos e medidas : a constituição do acervo de instrumentos antropométricos do Setor de Antropologia Biológica do Museu Nacional no fim do século XIX-início do século XX / Guilherme José da Silva, et al. -- "Estoque semita" : a presença dos judeus em Casa-grande & senzala / Marcos Chor Maio -- Cientificismo e antirracismo no pós-2a Guerra Mundial : uma análise das primeiras declarações sobre raça da Unesco / Marcos Chor Maio, Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Antropologia, raça e os dilemas das identidades na era da genômica / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Marcos Chor Maio -- No fio da navalha : raça, genética e identidades / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Marcos Chor Maio -- A cor dos ossos : narrativas científicas e apropriações culturais sobre "Luzia," um crânio pré-histórico do Brasil / Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto, Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Política de cotas raciais, os "olhos da sociedade" e os usos da antropologia : o caso do vestibular da Universidade de Brasília / Marcos Chor Maio, Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Política social com recorte racial no Brasil : o caso saúde da população negra / Marcos Chor Maio, Simone Monteiro.
36. Readings in Caribbean history and culture : breaking ground
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dunkley,Daive A. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 302 p, A collection of eleven essays. Among the themes examined are colonialism, slavery, and the involvement of the Christian Church in both colonial rule and enslavement. The essays also analyze the pre-independence and post-independence periods of the twentieth century, with examinations on topics that include prostitution, departmentalization, education, visual art, and the musical form known as Reggae.
37. Revolution! : the Atlantic world reborn
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bender,Thomas (Editor), Dubois,Laurent (Editor), and Rabinowitz,Richard (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- London; New York: D Giles Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 287 p, A season of revolutions : the United States, France, and Haiti / Thomas Bender -- Insurgents before independence : the revolution of the American people / T.H. Breen -- A port in the storm : Philadelphia's commerce during the Atlantic revolution era / Cathy Matson -- Atlantic revolutions and the age of abolitionism / David Brion Davis and Peter P. Hinks -- The achievement of the Haitian revolution, 1791-1804 / Robin Blackburn -- An African revolutionary in the Atlantic world / Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott -- Liberty in black, white, and color : a trans-Atlantic debate / Jeremy D. Popkin -- A vapor of dread : observations on racial terror and vengeance in the age of revolution / Vincent Brown -- One woman, three revolutions : Rosalie of the Poulard nation / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- The 1804 Haitian revolution / Jean Casimir -- Curating history's silences : the Revolution exhibition / Richard Rabinowitz.; Explores, largely through illustrations, how three globally influential revolutions transformed politics and culture between 1763 and 1816, from the triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.; Time: Geschichte 1763-1815. 1700 - 1804
38. Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fradera,Josep Maria (Editor) and Schmidt-Nowara,Christopher (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York: Berghahn Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 340 p, African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire.
39. Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean : a history of enslavement and identity since the 18th century
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ojo,Olatunji (Editor), Lovejoy,Paul E. (Editor), and Hunt,Nadine (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- London: I.B. Tauris
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Most of the chapters in this book derive from conference papers presented at the Canadian Association for African Studies (CAAS) Annual Meeting and Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa in May 2010., 224 p, Based on Jamaican and African archival sources, analysis demonstrates how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European, and Islamic systems of slavery.
40. Slavery in African and the Caribbean : a history of enslavement and identity since the 18th century
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ojo,Olatunji (Editor) and Hunt,Nadine (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- London: Tauris
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 224 p., Analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European, and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources.