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301 p, The Family as the Agent of Socialization -- "I wouldn't be where I am today." Creating Moral Citizens through Church and School -- The Sky is the Limit: Migration to Britain -- Nurse Training and Education -- 'I've always wanted to work': Black Women and Professionalism -- Combining Work, Family and Community -- Nation Home and Belonging.; "Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada. Karen Flynn examines the shaping of these women's stories from their childhoods through to their roles as professionals and community activists. Flynn interweaves oral histories with archival sources to show how these women's lives were shaped by their experiences of migration, professional training, and family life. Theoretical analyses from post colonial, gender, and diasporic Black Studies serve to highlight the multiple subjectivities operating within these women's lives. By presenting a collective biography of identity formation, Moving Beyond Borders reveals the extraordinary complexity of Black women's history."--pub. desc.
Lopez-Levy,Arturo (Author) and Lopez,Lilla R. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Washington, DC: New American Foundation
Location:
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19 p., Explores the historic reform process currently underway in Cuba. It looks first at the political context in which the VI Cuban Communist Party Congress took place, including the Cuban government's decision to release a significant number of political prisoners as part of a new dialogue with the Cuban Catholic Church. It then analyzes Cuba's nascent processes of economic reform and political liberalization. To conclude, it discusses the challenges and opportunities these processes pose for U.S policy toward Cuba.
Romeu,Rafael (Author), Perez-Lopez,Jorge F. (Author), Mesa-Lago,Carmelo (Author), and Perales,Jose Raul (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
July 2011
Published:
Washington, DC: Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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91 p., This publication examines the contemporary state of Cuba's economy at a time of great transformation. Using econometric and other macroeconomic analysis tools, its authors have taken advantage of the recent availability of official economic statistics to offer new insights into longstanding questions about Cuba's economic behavior. Tables, Figures, References.
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Godfrey BALDACCHINO, Yoko ORYU, French Caribbean: Adieu foulard, adieu madras: A sonic study in (post)colonialism (RILM ref]2011-12101/ref]); Sergio BONANZINGA, Sicily: Navigating responses to global cultural patterns (RILM ref]2011-12111/ref]); Kathryn A. BURNETT, Ray BURNETT, Scotland's Hebrides: Song and culture, transmission, and transformation (RILM ref]2011-12104/ref]); Jennifer CATTERMOLE, Fiji Islands: A sustainable future for sigidrigi? (RILM ref]2011-12107/ref]); Ijahnya CHRISTIAN, English Caribbean: When people cannot talk, they sing (RILM ref]2011-12099/ref]); Judith R. COHEN, Ibiza and Formentera: Worlds of singers and songs (RILM ref]2011-12113/ref]); Cristoforo GARIGLIANO, Aeolian Islands: Three singers, their folk songs, and the interpretation of tradition (RILM ref]2011-12112/ref]); Waldo GARRIDO, Philip HAYWARD, Chiloé: An offshore song culture (RILM ref]2011-12109/ref]); Maria HNARAKI, Crete—Souls of soil: Island identity through song (RILM ref]2011-12110/ref]); Henry M. JOHNSON, Jersey: Jèrriais, song, and language revitalization (RILM ref]2011-12105/ref]); Soraya MARCANO, Spanish Caribbean: Liquid identities (RILM ref]2011-12100/ref]); Owe RONSTRÖM, Gotland: Where folk culture and island overlap (RILM ref]2011-12114/ref]); Heather SPARLING, Cape Breton Island: Living in the past? Gaelic language, song, and competition (RILM ref]2011-12102/ref]); Deatra WALSH, Newfoundland: From Ron Hynes to Hey Rosetta! (RILM ref]2011-12103/ref]); Oli WILSON, Papua New Guinea: Popular music and the continuity of tradition—An ethnographic study of the songs by the band Paramana Strangers (RILM ref]2011-12106/ref]).
Belafonte,Harry, (Author) and Shnayerson,Michael, (Collab.)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2011
Published:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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A personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America's greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists. Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and the resilient spirit of the Caribbean lifestyle instilled in him a tenacity to face the hurdles of life head-on and channel his anger into positive, life-affirming actions. He returned to New York City after serving in the Navy in World War II, and found his calling in the theater, before transitioning into a career as a singer and Hollywood leading man. During the 1960s civil rights movement, Belafonte became close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr., and used his celebrity as a platform for his activism in civil rights and countless other political and social causes. This book tells the inspiring story of an original and powerful entertainer who has always engaged fiercely with the issues of his day.
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402 p, Exploration of the musical heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, arranged by region, focusing on the major countries/regions (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, etc. in Latin America and Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Haiti, etc. in the Caribbean). In each chapter the author gives a complete history of the region’s music, ranging from classical and classical-influenced styles to folk and traditional music to today’s popular music.
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266 p, This study spans several linguistic areas of the Caribbean and parts of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., Mexico, and South America; it examines historical, national, popular, parading, sacred, and combat dances to reveal both meanings and consequences of performance. Beyond unfolding important physical and cultural significances of each genre, the analyses deepen to understand core motivations for African diaspora performance; the results are transcendence, resilience, and citizenship among dancing and music-making participants. The study repeatedly acknowledges Katherine Dunham, who began teaching the citizenship of Caribbean dance/music practices and reviews the literature since her original trilogy on Caribbean dance practices. Analyses also place local Caribbean dances as viable commodities within crucial Caribbean tourism and both cultural and economic globalization.
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Explores the vexed relationship between popular dance and value. In a critique of the Western art canon, it traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate multiple and often paradoxical expressions of judgment, significance, and worth through their embodied practice. Employing a cultural theory approach, it focuses on the choreographic content of neo-burlesque striptease in London and New York, the dance styles of British punk, metal, and ska fans, and the vernacular dances of a British-Caribbean dancehall to interrogate how value is produced, negotiated, and reimagined. Yet this is not to assume that they are autonomous values untouched by the social frameworks in which they exist. Rather, the corporeal enunciations of value constructed by those engaged in popular dance forms are informed by a complex matrix of aesthetic, economic, political, and social values that are already in circulation
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Examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. It analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early 21st c., in particular rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, the author finds a Bahamian music that has remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, he illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.
Schwartz,Peggy, (Author) and Schwartz,Murray, (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
New Haven: Yale University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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324 p, Pearl Primus (1919–1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their aesthetic. This book offers an intimate perspective on her life and explores her influences on American culture, dance, and education. It traces Primus's path from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was 'Dance is a weapon'), and a pioneer in dance anthropology. Primus traveled extensively in the U.S., Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the 'primitive' in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by dance critics and by contemporaries like Langston Hughes.
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"Revised and updated from Haiti : the Duvaliers and their legacy ... first published in 1988 by McGraw-Hill", 492 p, The tragic modern history of Haiti from 1957 to the present day, including the 2010 earthquake.
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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.
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1 vol., Interprets contemporary history of the Caribbean that affirms existence of an alter/native tradition and a basis on which to develop a more humanist Caribbean person. This book features essays that range from a critique of Eurocentric analysis of Caribbean writing and thought to a defense of the author's home against the pressure of development.
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1 vol., Interprets contemporary history of the Caribbean that affirms existence of an alter/native tradition and a basis on which to develop a more humanist Caribbean person. This book features essays that range from a critique of Eurocentric analysis of Caribbean writing and thought to a defense of the author's home against the pressure of development.
Chivallon,Christine (Author) and Alou,Antoinette Tidjani (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Kingston Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers
Location:
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231 p, The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States - the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still does not) have the uniformity of a national framework. Instead, the region presents differing situations and social experiences born of the varying colonial systems from which they were developed.
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266 p, Provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres. In discussing relationships among African, Caribbean, and other diasporic dances, Daniel investigates social dances brought to the islands by Europeans and Africans, including quadrilles and drum-dances as well as popular dances that followed, such as Carnival parading, Pan-Caribbean danzas, rumba, merengue, mambo, reggae, and zouk.
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214 p, A highly illustrated reference book providing information about the cultural, social, political, economic, geographic, natural and historic heritage of the Caribbean region. In addition to the English-, French-, Spanish- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, the book covers the countries with which these islands have close cultural, economic and historic ties: Guyana, Suriname, Belize, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda.
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158 p, The book is divided into two sections. The first offers a political and historical overview, starting with the British presence in the region and the introduction of slavery and indentured labor, and continuing with the rise of nationalist movements, political leaders’ vision for their respective states, and economic development. The second section explores the region as an entity, including development at state and national levels, the historical background for regional unity from the West Indian Federation to CARICOM, and an evaluation on how well regionalism works today and could work in the future.
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149 p., Examines Marshall's use of the trope of travel within and between the United States and the Caribbean to critique ideologies of development, tourism, and globalization as neo-imperial. This examination of travel in Marshall's To Da-Duh, In Memoriam; The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; Praisesong for the Widow; and Daughters exposes the asymmetrical structures of power that exist between the two regions.
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221 p, Rodney was disturbed by the inability of intellectuals to share common cause with the masses, thus ensuring that they would be unable to contribute to uplifting their talents or participate in the growth of the nation. Guyana and the Caribbean were subject to sugar and slave traffic that constituted cheap labor for the plantations and buttressed the capitalist-industrial system. A significant byproduct of that system was the master-slave relationship; a no-less iniquitous consequence was an active racism. Thus, social inequality became the heritage of Guyanese and Caribbean history.
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357 p, Presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements toward political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people.
Izquierdo,Alejandro (Author) and Talvi,Ernesto (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
Location:
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57 p., Conveys three key messages: first, in this new global economic environment, key structural characteristics of Latin American and Caribbean countries are defining two quite different regional clusters in terms of opportunities and challenges ahead. Second, substantial changes in trade and capital flow patterns, as well as in the international financial architecture, are already taking place and will impact the regional clusters in different ways. Third, economic policy design will have to accommodate these differences in order to ensure widespread and stable growth.
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161 p., An anthology of short stories focusing on people of the Caribbean. The characters face problems of freedom, history, race, class, violence, entrapment, and morality.
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306 p., Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the 18th century Caribbean.
Kelly,Kenneth G. (Author) and Hardy,Meredith D. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:
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250 p, Introduction /Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy -- -- French Protestants in South Carolina: the archaeology of a European ethnic minority /Ellen Shlasko -- -- French refugees and slave abuse in Frederick County, Maryland: Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendière Family at L'Hermitage Plantation /Sara Rivers-Cofield -- -- Commoditization of persons, places, and things during Biloxi's second tenure as capital of French colonial Louisiana /Barbara Thedy Hester -- -- The Moran site (22HR511): an early-eighteenth-century French colonial cemetery in Nouveau Biloxi, Mississippi /Marie Elaine Danforth -- -- The greatest gathering: the second French-Chickasaw War in the Mississippi Valley and the potential for archaeology /Ann M. Early -- -- Colonial and Creole diets in eighteenth-century New Orleans /Elizabeth M. ScottShannon Lee Dawdy -- -- Colonoware in Western colonial Louisiana: makers and meaning /David W. MorganKevin C. MacDonald -- -- Living on the edge : foodways and early expressions of Creole culture on the French colonial Gulf Coast frontier /Meredith D. Hardy -- -- La Vie Quotidienne : historical archaeological approaches to the plantation era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies /Kenneth G. Kelly -- -- Archaeological research at Habitation Loyola, French Guiana /Allison BainRéginald AugerYannick Le Roux -- -- Commentary /John de Bry.
Laurence,K. O. (Editor) and Ibarra, Jorge (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
London: Macmillan
Location:
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644 p, Covers the period from the end of slavery to the twentieth century. Its major themes are dependent labor groups, especially emigrants from Asia, the development and diversification of local economies, and the emergence throughout the region of varying degrees of national consciousness as well as forms of government.
Mahase,Radica (Author) and Baldeosingh,Kevin (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011-11-20
Published:
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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400 p, Offers comprehensive coverage of the new Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) syllabus, bringing history alive in the classroom with a range of activities and a lively written style that is suitable for all students. Written by experienced teachers and authors, and extensively reviewed across the Caribbean region, this title incorporates classroom-friendly content and activities to give students the opportunity to discuss, interpret and develop their critical analytical skills. It includes suggestions for debate, role play and source analysis as well as step-by-step guidelines to writing School-Based Assessment (SBA) research papers.
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221 p, In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Hispanic Caribbean was fundamentally a plantation economy dominated mainly by the world sugar market. The politics were shaped by revolutions, political coups, wars, and elections, resulting in an end of Spanish power, independent states, and the domination of the region by the United States. These developments led to changes in social values. The author follows these developments throughout the main Hispanic islands and provides a fascinating picture of a region in turmoil.
Moreman,Christopher M. (Author) and Rushton,Cory James (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Jefferson, NC: McFarland
Location:
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232 p, "Explores numerous aspects of the zombie phenomenon, from its roots in Haitian folklore, to its evolution on the silver screen, to its most radical transformation during the 1960s countercultural revolution. Contributors examine the zombie and its relationship to colonialism, orientalism, racism, globalism, capitalism and more" --Provided by publisher.
Moreno,Luis Alberto (Author) and Inter-American Development Bank (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
Location:
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153 p., Looks at economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and the region's challenges for the future. The book's author, Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, highlights the region's strengths as a result of a favorable external environment and its social gains and institutional reforms.
Moyne,Walter Edward Guinness, Baron (Author) and Benn,Denis (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers
Location:
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The Report of West India Royal Commission. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by command of his Majesty, July 1945., 480 p., Exposed the horrendous living conditions in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Following the British West Indian labor unrest of 1934–1939, the Imperial Government sent a royal commission to investigate and report on the situation while also offering possible solutions.
O'Meara, Trinidad and Tobago: UTT Corporate Communications Unit
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66 p., Documentation of the 2011 UTT Graduation, celebrated at the Lord Kitchener Auditorium, National Academy of the Peforming Arts (NAPA) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th, November, 2011, at 5:00 pm. Includes welcome address, graduation message as well as list of awardees and programmes.
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446 p., The sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers. The wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture.
Siegel,Peter E. (Author) and Righter, Elizabeth (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press
Location:
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202 p., Practitioners of heritage management on the frontline of their own islands address the current state of affairs across the Caribbean to present a comprehensive overview of Caribbean heritage preservation challenges.
United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
ECLAC, United Nations
Location:
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123 p., The factors behind a more positive performance include the continued dynamism of some key Asian economies, whose sustained demand for products from this region has created important conditions for a recovery in exports. Similarly, the recovery of the U.S. economy, though gradual, contributes to a better scenario for Mexico, Central America and, to the extent that raises the demand for tourism, possibly also for the Caribbean. For the latter, some recovery is projected in remittances from that country by migrant workers in the region.
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449 p, During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. The men responsible included, from Cuba, Fidel Castro, and his brother Raúl; from Argentina, Che Guevara; from the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo; and from Haiti, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. The superpowers thought they could use Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life.
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505 p., During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. The men responsible included, from Cuba, Fidel Castro, and his brother Raúl; from Argentina, Che Guevara; from the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo; and from Haiti, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. The superpowers thought they could use Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life.
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208 p., Examines the representation of violence in the work of contemporary writers and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diaspora in the United States.
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294 p, From New World to Pan-Atlantic: opening the history of America -- Francisco de Miranda, Toussaint Louverture, and the Pan-Atlantic sphere of liberation -- Pan-Atlantic exports and imports: translation, freedom, and the circulation of cultural capital -- Positioning South America from HMS Beagle: the navigator, the discoverer, and the ocean of free trade -- Pan-Atlantic migrations: capital, culture, revolution.; Time: 1700 - 1899
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762 p., A biography of the novelist Jean Rhys, author of Quartet and Wide Sargasso Sea, who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity.
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296 p., Examines how changes in political, economic, and social structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, José Martí, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story.
Donnell,Alison (Author) and Bucknor,Michael (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
New York: Routledge
Location:
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674 p, he volume is divided into six sections. It brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field.
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336 p, Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction with one another. The Passage of Literature unites the three in a bracing comparative study that breaks away from traditional conceptions of modernism, going beyond temporal periodization and the entrenched Anglo-American framework that undergirds current scholarship.
Hall,Kenneth O. (Author) and Chuck-A-Sang,Myrtle (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Georgetown, Guyana: Commonwealth Secretariat
Location:
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503 p, pt. 1. Globalization and CARICOM external policy options -- pt. 2. South-South cooperation -- pt. 3. External trade negotiations: concerns and convergence -- pt. 4. Caribbean imperatives and concluding reflections.
Hall,Kenneth O. (Author), Of Compilation (Editor), and Chuck-A-Sang,Myrtle (Editor)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Manchester, CT: Judah Press
Location:
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497 p., As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nears its fourth decade of existence, The Integrationist provides an overview of CARICOM's current status. As it moves between economics, domestic politics, international politics, and education, the developments and deficiencies of CARICOM are discussed constructively, with an eye on moving the Community towards a stronger international presence. Managing Mature Regionalism: CARICOM in the Twenty-First Century is both informative and thought-provoking as it transforms a vacation spot into a strong international presence, both politically and economically, before the reader's eyes.
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259 p, In an extensive collection of essays spanning 50 years of sustained scholarship, The Negritude Moment explores the many varied aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. F. Abiola Irele provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals. His collection also includes a rare essay on the structure of Aime Cesaire's imagery in its poetic transmutation of this experience.
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304 p., Shows how such movements as Pan-Africanism, the New Negro Renaissance, and pan-American modernism have significant Caribbean roots, although the United States has often failed to recognize them, effectively "purloining" those resources without acknowledgment.
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347 p., While investigating the seemingly innocent death of the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Edgar Espinosa-Jones (EJ) finds the Caribbean islands of the 1970s seething with political intrigue, revolutionaries, superstition, violence, and love affairs--with the curse of voodoo magic over all.
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158 p, Argues that engaging the Caribbean diaspora and the massive waves of migration from the region that have punctuated its history, involves not only understanding communities in host countries and the conflicted identities of second generation subjectivities, but also interpreting how these communities interrelate with and affect communities at home.
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105 p., Situation analysis of children and their families in the Eastern Caribbean in: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Island, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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310 p., Relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. Examines literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milans, Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris.
Smith,M. G. (Author), Meeks,Brian (Author), and Burnham,P. C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica; Miami FL.: Ian Randle Publishers
Location:
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"Collection of essays presented at the 2008 Caribbean Reasonings conference held in honour of M.G. Smith"--Page 4 of cover. "In June 2008 the Centre for Caribbean Thought hosted the Sixth Caribbean Reasonings Conference at the University of the West Indies Mona
Caribbean., 355 p, Introduction : the audacious M.G. Smith / Brian Meeks -- Critical contestations -- Anthropological excursions -- Beyond M.G. Smith -- Postscript : M.G. Smith, a brief personal memoir / Mary F. Smith.
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263 p., Analyzing pamphlets, newspapers, estate papers, trial transcripts, and missionary correspondence, this book recovers stories of ordinary Caribbean people, enslaved and free, as they made places for themselves in the empire and the Atlantic world, from the time of sugar tycoon Simon Taylor to the perspective of Samuel Ringgold Ward, African American eyewitness to the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion.
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336 p., Chapter 3, "Race and citizenship in the New Republics," examines Brazil, Cuba,
and the United States as three examples of distinct processes of emancipation. The chapter argues that the differences in the nature of slavery in these societies, along with different processes of emancipation, had important implications for the ways that race and citizenship were constituted in post-emancipation societies.
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396 p., In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. Before Haiti explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they created their own New World identity from 1760 to 1804.
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259 p, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge—or deny—their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries—Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru—through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism.
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336 p., Traces a trio of interrelated modernist genealogies. English modernism as exemplified by Conrad's Malay trilogy, Indonesian modernism of Pramoedya's Buru quartet, and creole modernism of the Caribbean in Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea.
La Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba: Casa Editora Abril
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204 p., Comentado e ilustrado sobre los números y leyendas cubanas afrodescendientes. Sus entradas léxicas muentran deidades, mitos y leyendas, con sus significado, caracterización, así como la impronta africana, europea y cubanas en sus interrelaciones y transculturaciones.
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Bocas Lit Fest
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119 p, This book of sixteen tales is divided into two parts: the first features stories told by youngsters beneath the age of 10, and the second showcases the work of children aged 11 through 15. The titles of some stories are the same, but this is where the similarities stop. Each of the sixteeen fables is equally precious, highlighting the talent, creativity and boundless imagination of our nation’s budding wordsmiths.
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239 p., Collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and American literature.
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236 p, Concludes that Peruvians of African descent give meaning to blackness without always referencing Africa, slavery, or black cultural forms. This represents a significant counterpoint to diaspora scholarship that points to the importance of slavery in defining blackness in Latin America as well as studies that place cultural and class differences at the center of racial discourses in the region.
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340 p., Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Reconstructs the lives of unique individuals who managed to move purposefully through French, Spanish, and English colonies, and through Indian territory, in the unstable century between 1750 and 1850. Mobile and adaptive, they shifted allegiances and identities depending on which political leader or program offered the greatest possibility for freedom.
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317 p., While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the "commonplace" to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attain.
Rogers,Robert Athlyi (Author) and Afro Athlican Constructive Church (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
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Northhampton: White Crane Pub
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Originally published 1924-1928., 87 p., A proto-Rastafari text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers (d. 1931), for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the Caribbean founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly. The Church saw Ethiopians (in the Biblical sense of Black Africans) as the chosen people of God, and proclaimed Marcus Garvey, the prominent Black Nationalist, an apostle. The church preached self-reliance and self-determination for Africans.
Berkeley: University of California Press Berkeley, CA, U.S.A
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Examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. It analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early 21st c., in particular rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, the author finds a Bahamian music that has remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, he illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.
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273 p., By looking at this history from the vantage point of black America and the Caribbean, a more complex story comes into focus, one largely missing from traditional narratives of baseball's history. Raceball unveils a fresh and stunning truth: baseball has never been stronger as a business, never weaker as a game.
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456 p., On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. This narrative describes the incredible suffering and resilience of the people of Haiti. It explores the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake -- the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster." The account includes stories from other doctors, volunteers, and earthquake survivors.
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156 p., The reconstruction of Haiti following the earthquake of January 12, 2010 was institutionalized through the creation of the Commission Interimaire pour la reconstruction d'Haiti (Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti, CIRH). More than a year later, the outlook for human rights in Haiti has not changed despite the great promise and strong rhetoric of change. This study seeks to provide evidence for understanding the many facets of extreme poverty in Haiti from a human rights perspective.
Gootnick,David (Author) and Ragland,Susan (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
May 2011
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United States Government Accountability Office
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70 p., Congress appropriated more than 1.14 billion dollars in supplemental funds for reconstruction assistance following the earthquake in Haiti, most of which was provided to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State (State). The Haitian government created the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), a joint Haitian-international entity, for an 18-month term to coordinate donors, conduct strategic planning, approve reconstruction projects, and provide accountability. GAO addressed (1) the planned uses for US reconstruction assistance and the amounts provided so far, (2) USAID's internal controls for overseeing US funds, and (3) IHRC's progress establishing governance and oversight structures.
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78 p., This documents the lack of access to reproductive and maternal care in post-earthquake Haiti, even with unprecedented availability of free healthcare services. The report also describes how hunger has led women to trade sex for food and how poor camp conditions exacerbate the impact of sexual violence because of difficulties accessing post-rape care. It looks at how recovery efforts have failed to adequately address the needs and rights of women and girls, particularly their rights to health and security.
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396 p, Contents: Foreigners : Sao Paulo, 1900-1925 -- Fraternity : Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1925-1929 -- Nationals : Salvador da Bahia and São Paulo, 1930-1945 -- Democracy : São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1945-1950 -- Difference : São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador da Bahia, 1950-1964 -- Decolonization : Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia, and São Paulo, 1964-1985 -- Epilogue : Brazil, 1985 to the new century.
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341 p., Examines the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia who viewed these traditions as "backward" and counter to the interests of the young Republic. Includes analyses of the work of Felipe Pichardo Moya, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, Emilio Ballagas, José Zacarías Tallet, Felix B. Caignet, Marcelino Arozarena, and Alfonso Camín.
Anderson,William M., (Ed.And Pref.), Campbell,Patricia Shehan, (Ed.And Pref.), and Seeger,Anthony, (Foreword)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2011
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Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: William M. ANDERSON, Michael B. BAKAN, Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Jackie Chooi-theng LEW, Phong NGUYỄN, Pornprapit PHOASAVADI, Music of Southeast Asia (RILM ref]2010-13857/ref]); William M. ANDERSON, Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Teaching music from a multicultural perspective (RILM ref]2010-13846/ref]); William M. ANDERSON, Kuo-huang HAN, Tatsuko TAKIZAWA, Ricardo D. TRIMILLOS, Music of East Asia (RILM ref]2010-13856/ref]); William M. ANDERSON, Kristin Olson RAO, Music of South Asia: India (RILM ref]2010-13858/ref]); Sarah J. BARTOLOME, Pierre Cary (Kazadi wa Mukuna) KAZADI, Elizabeth OEHRLE, Music of sub-Saharan Africa (RILM ref]2010-13847/ref]); Bryan BURTON, Kay L. EDWARDS, Music of native peoples of North America (RILM ref]2010-13853/ref]); Milton L. BUTLER, Marvelene C. MOORE, Rosita M. SANDS, Linda B. WALKER, African American music (RILM ref]2010-13848/ref]); Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, David G. HEBERT, World beat (RILM ref]2010-13855/ref]); Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Ellen MCCULLOUGH-BRABSON, Euro-American music (RILM ref]2010-13852/ref]); Patricia Shehan CAMPBELL, Music of Europe (RILM ref]2010-13851/ref]); Ann C. CLEMENTS, Peter DUNBAR-HALL, Sarah H. WATTS, Music of Oceania and the Pacific (RILM ref]2010-13854/ref]); David G. HEBERT, Jazz and rock music (RILM ref]2010-13850/ref]); Rita KLINGER, Christopher ROBERTS, George D. SAWA, Terese VOLK TUOHEY, Music of the Middle East (RILM ref]2010-13859/ref]); Dale A. OLSEN, Milagros Agostini QUESADA, Amanda C. SOTO, Music of Latin America and the Caribbean (RILM ref]2010-13849/ref]). The first edition is abstracted as RILM ref]1990-07600/ref], the second as RILM ref]1996-23510/ref].
Avelar,Idelber, (Ed.And Intro.) and Dunn,Christopher, (Ed.And Intro.)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press
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376 p, Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has served as an effective resource for communities to stake claims to political, social, and cultural rights in Brazil, it has also been appropriated by the state in its efforts to manage and control a socially, racially, and geographically diverse nation. The question of citizenship has also been a recurrent theme in the work of many of Brazil's most important musicians. These essays explore popular music in relation to national identity, social class, racial formations, community organizing, political protest, and emergent forms of distribution and consumption.
60 p., Explores the legal means by which victims of natural disasters could qualify as refugees and thus benefit from the power of migration as a tool for disaster recovery.
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, Bern Project on Internal Displacement
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68 p., The tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes, which hit parts of Asia and the Americas in 2004 and 2005, as well as the Haiti earthquake of 2010, highlighted the fact that affected persons may face multiple human rights challenges in the aftermath of natural disasters. A protection perspective can help in promoting and securing the fulfillment of human rights since the manner in which assistance is delivered, used and appropriated, as well as the context in which it is taking place, has an important impact on whether the needs and human rights of affected persons are being respected or fulfilled. Tables, Appendixes.
Chaparro,Juan Camilo (Author) and Graham,Carol (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
Mar 2011
Published:
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
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87 p. p., This paper explores the effects of crime and insecurity on well-being -- both happiness and health -- in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors posited that crime victimization and insecurity would have negative effects on both happiness and health, and having found that they did, tested the extent to which those effects were mitigated by people's ability to adapt to those phenomena.
