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2. Caribbean liberators : bold, brilliant and Black personalities and organizations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Teelucksingh,Jerome (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Bethesda, MD: Academica Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 294 p, Discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements)in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid to the Pan-African Movement and its linking of Black Africa and the diasporic Black world of the British West Indies. Colonial Office policies of the period are discussed along with attempts by local and international economic interests during and after both World Wars to control events and thwart labor and independence movements. African American influence in popular political culture and its political and social effect on organizations in the islands is discussed along with key African American newspapers such as The Crisis, Chicago Defender, The Negro Worker, and the Baltimore Afro-American.
3. Caribbean liberators : bold, brilliant and Black personalities and organizations, 1900-1989
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Teelucksingh,Jerome (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Bethesda, MD: Academica Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 294 p., Documents the lives and work of black individuals and organizations in the West Indies from 1900 to 1989, centered on the worlds of labor and black journalism. The French Caribbean is not covered here. Focuses on historical information as well as information on relationships between the two main "servant" minorities of the British Empire: Caribbeans originally from Africa and from India/Pakistan.
4. Women in Caribbean politics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Barrow-Giles,Cynthia (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 227 p, In Women in Caribbean Politics Cynthia Barrow-Giles and her co-contributors profile 20 of the most influential women in modern Caribbean politics who have struggled and excelled, in spite of the obstacles. Divided into four parts, this volume looks at women who led the struggle for freedom; those who agitated for equal rights and justice in the pre-independence period; postcolonial trailblazers; as well as a group which Cynthia Barrow-Giles refers to as ‘Women CEOs.’ The profiles cover women from 12 territories, with varying political, ethnic and socio-economic issues.