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    1. Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Perry,Keisha-Khan Y. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2013-01-01
    Published:
    Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    213 p., Examines the need for international solidarity with grassroots movements in Brazil and throughout the African diaspora. Intertwined with the everyday happenings of a social movement currently underway in Brazil, the author conveys an in-depth sense of the women who drive the community movement in the neighborhood of Gamboa de Baixo in Salvador (Brazil).

    2. Caribbean liberators : bold, brilliant and Black personalities and organizations

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    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.

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