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    2. Forging diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a world of empire and Jim Crow

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Guridy,Frank Andre (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    270 p., Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to US imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. Drawing on archival sources in both countries, the author traces four encounters between Afro-Cubans and African Americans.

    5. Race, nation, and West Indian immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Chambers,Glenn Anthony (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    202 p, Examines the West Indian immigrant community in Honduras through the development of the country's fruit industry, revealing that West Indians fought to maintain their identities as workers, Protestants, blacks, and English speakers in the midst of popular Latin American nationalistic notions of mestizaje, or mixed-race identity.