African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
224 p., Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
Sudarkasa,Niara (Author) and Nwachuku,Levi A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
288 p, Includes Maghan Keita's "Linking precolonial Africa and Pre-Columbian America: the implications and their impact on Old World/New World scholarship," Janice- Marie McDonaldand's "An afrocentric approach to Afro-Latino literature" and Richard Allsopp's "African systems in Caribbean communication."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
247 p, Set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
Rivera-Batiz,Francisco L. (Author) and Santiago,Carlos E. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
198 p, Contents: Island paradox : Puerto Rico in the 1990s -- Population growth and demographic changes -- Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States -- The socioeconomic transformation : income, poverty, and education -- The labor market and the unemployment crisis -- Immigration and the population born outside Puerto Rico -- The Puerto Rican population in the United States -- Between two worlds : Puerto Rico looks toward the twenty-first century -- Appendix 1. Census data -- Appendix 2. Measuring migration to the United States -- Appendix 3. Population of Puerto Rico by municipio -- Appendix 4. Multivariate regression analysis of the growth and presence of Puerto Ricans in 25 U.S. SMSAs, 1980-90.
