Austin: University of Texas Press, Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
330 p, Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean "Creole" people on Nicaragua's southern Caribbean coast, Disparate Diasporas is a study of identity formation and politics in that community. Shows how a particular Black community can evolve distinct types of diasporic consciousness, and, depending on the historical moment, how different types of memories, consciousness, and politics come to predominate. Focusing on the period of the 1970s and 1980s, explains the inability of the Sandinistas to come to terms with the racial and cultural challenge to the Nicaraguan nation posed by the Creole community.
Chomsky,Aviva (Author) and Lauria-Santiago,Aldo (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
404 p, Research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean on rural workers, peasants, migrants, and women. Individual essays include discussions of plantation justice in Guatemala, highland Indians in Nicaragua, the effects of foreign corporations in Costa Rica, coffee production in El Salvador, banana workers in Honduras, sexuality and working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, the Cuban sugar industry, and agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic
