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    1. Black townsmen: urban slavery and freedom in eighteenth-century Americas

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Dantas,Mariana L. R. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    New York: Palgrave Macmillan
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    280 p., Compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns.

    2. Never meant to survive: genocide and utopias in black diaspora communities

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Vargas,João Helion Costa (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    262 p., By examining two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this book identifies a prevailing genocidal force that organizes individuals and groups across society. The 1965 and 1992 riots in Los Angeles, the work of the Black Panther Party and favela activists in Brazil, and police brutality in struggles between black communities and the state in both L.A. and Rio de Janeiro all figure importantly in Costa Vargas's compelling account.

    3. Tar Baby

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Morrison,Toni (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    New York: Paw Prints
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Winner of the 1978 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction., 305 p., The lives of 5 people, black and white, servant and millionaire, are entertwined. The setting is a Caribbean island. A visitor, young Jadine, neice of the butler and his wife and protegee of the Streets, educated at the Sorbonne, comes home for a visit from Paris. Son, black American street man breaks into the house and all lives are changed. Jadine and Son come together and strive to hold and understand each other as backgrounds and cultural circumstances come into play.