African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
190 p., Contributes to the understanding of ethnic, class, and gender relationships in the Caribbean, and it is notable for its emphasis on how individuals manipulate and manage social differences on a day-to-day basis. Using ideas of time as a lens through which to watch these divisions evolve, explores the implications of the existence of multiple models of time on social organization.
Joseph,Lynn (Author) and Pinkney, J. Brian (Illustrator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
New York Cambridge Mass.: Clarion Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
51 P., On the island of Trinidad, Tantie tells the children six stories, some originating in the countries of West Africa, some in Trinidad, and some in her own imagination.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
368 p., A series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh's final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Reprint of Mrs. Carmichael, Domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies (London, Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1833)., 2 vols
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
50 p, An emigrant from the Caribbean nation Trinidad, Brand has been recognized as one of Canada's most important contemporary writers for articulating concerns traditionally silenced by mainstream society. No Language Is Neutral is a poetry collection which was nominated for the prestigious Governor General's Award. It demonstrates how racism, classism, and heterosexism affect speakers' attitudes toward the English language.
