Esteves,Carmen C. (Author) and Paravisini-Gebert,Lizabeth (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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273 p, Contents: Tétiyette and the devil / Anonymous (Guadeloupe) -- Little Cog-burt / Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Dominica) -- Cotton Candy / Dora Alonso (Cuba) -- See me in me Benz and t'ing : like the lady who lived on that isle remote / Hazel D. Campbell (Jamaica) -- They called her Aurora (a passion for Donna Summer) / Aida Cartagena Portalatín (Dominican Republic) -- Columba / Michelle Cliff (Jamaica) -- A pottage of lentils / Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall (Haiti) -- Three women in Manhattan / Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe) -- Hair / Hilma Contreras (Dominican Republic) -- Piano-bar / Liliane Dévieux (Haiti) -- Barred : Trinidad 1987 / Ramabai Espinet (Trinidad) -- The poisoned story / Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico) -- Cocuyo Flower / Magali García Ramis (Puerto Rico) -- How to gather the shadows of the flowers / Ángela Hernández (Dominican Republic) -- Opéra Station. Six in the evening. For months-- / Jeanne Hyvrard (Martinique/France) -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua) -- No dust is allowed in this house / Olga Nolla (Puerto Rico) -- Widow's walk / Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica) -- Parable II / Velma Pollard (Jamaica) -- Red flower / Paulette Poujol-Oriol (Haiti) -- The day they burned the books / Jean Rhys (Dominica) -- Lola or the song of spring / Astrid Roemer (Surinam) -- Brights Thursdays / Olive Senior (Jamaica) -- ADJ, Inc. / Ana Lydia Vega (Puerto Rico) -- Of nuns and punishments / Bea Vianen (Surinam) -- Passport to paradise / Myriam Warner-Vieyra (Guadeloupe) -- Of natural causes / Mirta Yáñez (Cuba)
Ansano,Richenel (Editor), Clemincia,Jocelyn Cook (Editor), and Martis,Ethel (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
Willemstad, Curacao: Fundashon Publikashon
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
240 p, Published on the occasion of the third International Caribbean Women's Writers, hosted by Curacao. Conference Provides valuable information on Curacao's women. Also contains 29 poems, short stories and articles on a variety of subjects.
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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168 p., Provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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462 p., On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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275 p, Research Setting -- Study as a "Talking Book" -- Travessao -- Book Overview -- 1. "A Passport to Heaven's Gate" -- "Heaven's Gate": Canada in the North American and Caribbean Black Imaginary -- Church-Ship: Spiritual Voyaging -- Spiritual Baptists in Multicultural Canada: Considering Religious and National Identities in Migration -- Countercultures of Modernity and the Problem of Multiculturalism -- Historical Overview of Multiculturalism in Canada -- Multiculturalism in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Spiritual Baptist Perceptions and Experiences of Multiculturalism in Canada -- 2. "This Spot of Ground": The Emergence of Spiritual Baptists in Toronto -- Origins of the Spiritual Baptist Church in the Caribbean -- "This Spot of Ground": The Spiritual Baptist Church as "Homeplace" in Toronto -- Founding of the First Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto (1975-1980) -- Toronto Spiritual Baptist Church Organization -- 3. "So Spiritually, So Carnally": Spiritual Baptist Ritual, Theology, and the Everyday World in Toronto -- "So Carnally, So Spiritually" -- Ritual as Performance and Social Commentary -- Joining the Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto -- Coming to Canada -- Work Experiences -- "It Hurt Me Feelings": Naming Racism -- "I Say You Can Call Me 'Damn Bitch' ... Just Don't Call Me 'Madam'!": Challenging Sexist Racism -- Church as Community: Support Networks in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- 4. "Africaland": "Africa" In Toronto Spiritual Baptist Experience -- Africaland -- Sacred Space and Place in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Sacred Time in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Travelling to Africaland -- Africa as Eden -- Africaland and the African Diaspora -- 5. "Dey Give Me a House to Gather in Di Chil'ren": Mothers and Daughters in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Overview of Domestic Service in Canada -- Mothers of the Church -- Family in the Spirit: Extended Family in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- "If You Don't Come to Me, I'm Coming to You": Ancestral Mother -- "Dey Give Me a House to Gather in di Chil'ren": Spiritual Mother/Carnal Mother -- "God Has Work for You to Do": Nation Mother -- "It Makes You Feel Like Home": Spiritual Daughter -- 6. Aunt(Y) Jemima in Toronto Spiritual Baptist Experiences: Spiritual Mother Or Servile Woman? -- "Seeing" Aunt Jemima -- (Re)Turning the Gaze on Aunt(y) Jemima -- Re-reading Aunt(y) Jemima and the Creole Woman -- Tie-head Woman -- Head-ties and the Social Construction of Identity -- "To Pick It Up and Take It Forward''.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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126 p, Contents: The book is organized as a series of essays on related topics all applied to Caribbean women's fiction: white women writers; madness; postcolonial theory, female subjectivity, Bakhtin's Carnival image; ideology (Elaine Savory)
Allende,Isabel (Author) and Peden,Margaret Sayers (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New York: Harper
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
457 p, The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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241 p, In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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228 p, The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.;
Landale,Nancy S. (Author), Oropesa,R. S. (Author), and Davila,Ana Luisa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
University Park, PA: Penn State, Population Research Institute
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1 microfiche, "The Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study (PRMIHS) is a cross-sectional study designed to provide information on the determinants of poor infant health among Puerto Ricans. The PRMIHS entailed collection of personal interview data from 2,763 mothers of Puerto Rican infants sampled from the 1994 and 1995 birth and infant death records of six U.S. vital statistics reporting areas (Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania) and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The included U.S. states are those with the greatest number of births to Puerto Rican women each year. In 1994 and 1995, 72.3% of all births to mainland Puerto Rican women occurred in the included states.";
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Synopsis This biography of the writer and politician, recreates Allfrey's life against the background of 20th-century Caribbean political and literary history - from the decline of the planter class, the rise of party politics and the efforts to join the West Indies into a federation in the 1960s and 1970s. ;
Rivera-Batiz,Francisco L. (Author) and Santiago,Carlos E. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
198 p, Contents: Island paradox : Puerto Rico in the 1990s -- Population growth and demographic changes -- Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States -- The socioeconomic transformation : income, poverty, and education -- The labor market and the unemployment crisis -- Immigration and the population born outside Puerto Rico -- The Puerto Rican population in the United States -- Between two worlds : Puerto Rico looks toward the twenty-first century -- Appendix 1. Census data -- Appendix 2. Measuring migration to the United States -- Appendix 3. Population of Puerto Rico by municipio -- Appendix 4. Multivariate regression analysis of the growth and presence of Puerto Ricans in 25 U.S. SMSAs, 1980-90.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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223 p, Ileana Rodriguez's House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women offers an insightful look into the role the feminine has played in the constructions of nation and nationalism in critical moments of Latin American history. Although feminism is at the center of the study, it is always predicated by concerns of ethnicity and social class. (BNET);
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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406 p, indentureship, morant bay, grajales, enslaved women, maceo, caribbean women, agpr, slave women, seacole, eastern delta, qender, african diaspora, calabar, lodging houses, beckles, antonio maceo, hilary beckles, lucille mathurin, janet schaw, yseult bridges; History and gender analysis -- Text and testimony -- Women and slavery -- Women in the post-slavery period -- Women, protest and political movement -- Comparative perspectives
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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111 p, Examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Negritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Negritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure.
Gutiérrez de Velasco,Luzelena (Author), Prado,Gloria (Author), and Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
México, D.F. ; UAM-Iztapalapa: Colegio de México, Iztapalapa
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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407 p, Aunque parezca un clisé, los pesares y las alegrías definen la vida de los seres humanos. Este volumen reúne deiversas lecturas sobre escritoras latinoamericanas -entre otras cosas, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi- a partir de esos dos ejes temáticos. Los acercamientos se sustentan en propuestas metodólogicas y enfoques teóricos de actualidad. www.libreria.mora.edu.mx; Project undertaken by the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literaria "Diana Morán"-Coyoacán
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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213 p., A ollection of stories about the lives of 10 remarkable people in the region. From Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia and the Dominican Republic to Columbia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico, readers will come to know individuals whose lives reflect the history and immense changes underway in these countries.
Houston,Elsie (Author) and Araujo,Emanoel (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
São Paulo: Negras Memórias
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
32 p, Catalog from the exhibition, Negras Memórias, Memórias de Negros. "Outubro 2003"--Colophon. Disc offers a selection of 14 tracks recorded from 1930, all presenting themes and folk rhythms and songs.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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316 p., She was an 18th century black Suriname woman with millions of dollars. But she sought the forbidden: to marry a white man. Why, when she already had so much? Elisabeth Samson's immense wealth puzzled many early historians who concluded that it could only have been the result of an inheritance from a master with whom she had lived and by whom she had been set free.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Prev. ed. published: Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1996, 268 p., Contents: 1. A matriz africana no mundo -- 2. Cultura em movimento : matrizes africanas e ativismo negro no Brasil -- 3. Guerreiras de natureza : mulher negra, religiosidade e ambiente -- 4. Afrocentricidade : uma abordagem epistemológica inovadora.
