African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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223 p., "This collection is wide-ranging, moving from the Caribbean (Jamaica in particular) to Cambridge, England, and from poetry to sex to discrimination." -Library Journal
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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228 p, Contents: The role of the coloured middle class in Nassau, 1890-1942 -- Women in the Bahamian society in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries -- A historical sketch of family life in the Bahamas -- Isolation within an isolated archipelago : the out island communities in the Bahamas during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century -- Emancipation and 'over-the-hill' -- Aspects of traditional African-Bahamian culture in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century -- The blockade running era in the Bahamas : blessing or curse? -- Prohibition : a mixed blessing for the Bahamas -- The changing face of Nassau : the impact of tourism on Bahamian society in the 1920s and 1930s -- The 1937 riot in Inagua -- The 1942 riot in Nassau : a demand for change? -- The 1956 resolution : breaking down the barriers of racial discrimination in the Bahamas -- The 1958 general strike in Nassau : a landmark in Bahamian society -- Race relations and national identity in the formation of the Bahamian society: a historical perspective.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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239 p., Combines historical elements on the formation of Brazil in their ethnic identity and cultural character and shows the reader the contributions of Bantus in this process. Moreover, Nei Lopes sets new parameters on the relationship between Islam and negritude. By way of its involvement with the black cultural resistance in Brazil and Africa, presents the reader with a face of history unknown to most Brazilians.
Kasinitz,Philip (Author), Mollenkopf,John M. (Author), and Waters,Mary C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
New York: Russell Sage Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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419 p, Includes Nancy López' "Unraveling the race-gender gap in education: second-generation Dominican men's high school experiences"; Nicole P. Marwell's "Ethnic and postethnic politics in New York City: the Dominican second generation"; Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield's "'We're just black': the racial and ethnic identities of second-generation West Indians in New York" /; and Natasha Warikoo's "Cosmopolitan ethnicity: second-generation Indo-Caribbean identities"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
Brock,Lisa (Editor) and Castaneda Fuertes,Digna (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Philadelphia: Temple University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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298 p, The relationship between two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery, their struggles for political power, and their parallel race consciousness.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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627 p, This study explores issues of race, racism, and strategies to improve the status of people of African descent in Brazil, South Africa and the USA. The authors provide in-depth information about each country, together with analyses of cross-cutting themes;
