Blouet,Brian W. (Editor) and Blouet,Olwyn M. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
466 p., This 6th edition enables geographers to explore the changes and major issues facing this dynamic region today. Olwyn M. Blouet's chapter "Caribbean contrasts" includes Physical environments and hazards -- The making of the island Caribbean -- The Greater Antilles --
The Lesser Antilles -- Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (Guyane).
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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521 p., Considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States— including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade— are common to most of the Americas. Contents include: Jane Landers' "Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier: fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution"; J. Michael Dash's "Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and relational insularity"; and Leigh Anne Duck's "Travel and transference: V.S. Naipaul and the plantation past."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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425 p., An anthology focusing on the musical cultures of the "northern sphere" of Latin America, specifically Mexico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and parts of Central America.
Niblett,Michael (Editor) and Oloff,Kerstin (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Amsterdam ; New York: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
270 p., Includes Heidi Bojsen's "Other Americas, other genderings : postcolonial heroines and rhizomatic geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes," Patricia Krus' "The ethics of postcolonial healing in Astrid Roemer's trilogy of Suriname," Paulette Ramsay's "Cross-cultural poetics : debating the place of Afro-Mexican poetry in the context of Caribbean literary and cultural aesthetics," Theo D'haen's "Exile, Caribbean literature, and the world republic of letters" and Kerstin D. Oloff's "Wilson Harris, regionalism and postcolonial studies."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Workshop on Demographic Change and Social Policy in Latin America ; (2009 : Washington, D.C.)., 286 p, Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This process, which took over a century in the rich world, will occur in two or three decades in the developing world; seven of the 25 countries that will age more rapidly are in LAC. Population aging will pose challenges and offer opportunities.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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286 p., Explores three sets of issues. First covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also explores the relation between the life cycle and poverty. Second is the question of the health transition. How does the demographic transition impact the health status of the population and the demand for health care? And how advanced is the health transition in LAC? Third is an understanding of the fiscal pressures that are likely to accompany population aging and to disentangle the role of demography from the role of policy in that process.
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"
