Maier,Elizabeth (Author) and Lebon,Nathalie (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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375 p, Contributors explore the emergence of the area’s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Includes Helen Safa's "Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic ";
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Originally published: 1953., 272 p., A powerful reflection on colonial Jamaica and the condition of the urban poor, told through the voices and stories of several boldly drawn characters.
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160 p, Twentieth-century Black literary and political figures of the United States and the Caribbean related to Africa in complex and ambivalent ways that did not prevent them from denouncing the social, economic, and political oppressions of the West against Blacks of Africa and its Diaspora from slavery through colonialism and neocolonialism.
Mendoza,Eduardo (Author) and Moreira,Mauricio Mesquita (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
Aug 2010
Published:
Inter-American Development Bank
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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74 p., This paper draws on the literature on trade, growth and regional agreements to discuss the motivation behind the Caribbean drive for integration, the results obtained so far and what is in stock for the future. It argues, with the help of descriptive statistics, an empirical growth model and a gravity model, that the traditional, trade related gains from regional integration have been and are bound to be limited because of (1) the countries' high openness; (2) the limited size of the "common", enlarged market; and (3) the countries' relatively similar factor endowments.
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364 p, Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership.
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257 p., Argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization represented a tremendous creative art by enslaved peoples. Creolization was not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement.
Mörner,Magnus (Author) and Conference on Race and Class in Latin America (1965: New York, NY.)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1970
Published:
New York: Columbia University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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309 p, Includes Gonzalo Aquirre Beltrán's "The abolition of slavery and its aftermath. The integration of the Negro into the national society of Mexico"; Carlos M. Rama's "The passing of the Afro-Uruguayans from caste society into class society"; Richard Graham's "Action and ideas in the abolitionist movement in Brazil"; Harry Hoetink's "The Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century: some notes on stratefication, immigration, and race"; and Florestan Fernandes' "Immigration and race relations in São Paulo";
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226 p., Investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka.
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432 p., Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean Religions, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell provides a comprehensive study that respectfully traces the social, historical, and political contexts of these religions.
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Originally published: London : Latin American Bureau, 2006., 205 p., Relates the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, an organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that employs music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of shantytowns to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.
Núñez,Benjamín (Author) and African Bibliographic Center (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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525 p, A historical and descriptive dictionary of historical events, with selected biographies of Afro-Latin political leaders, writers, and other important personalities. Drawing on 14 glossaries and dictionaries, 126 books, and 20 articles, the author has carefully selected for this attractively organized reference tool more than 4500 entries pertinent to the study of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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248 p., Case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants' new homelands. Includes chapter on Black British perspectives. From black Britain to the Caribbean : the return of the (im)migrant in Caryl Phillips's A state of independence.
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247 p., A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban people and culture during the 19th century, with special emphasis on the Aguda community.
Pagliaro,Harold E. (Author) and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1973
Published:
Cleveland, OH: Press of Case Western Reserve University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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468 p, Includes Leon G. Campbell's "Racism without race: ethnic group relations in late colonial peru," pp. 323-333; and David Lowenthal's "Free colored West Indians: a racial dilemma";
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Original edition translated from Portuguese by Elena Langdon., 266 p., An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
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205 p., Content: PME cor ou raça : setembro de 2006 -- Redação originária, exposição de motivos e redação dada pelo relator deputado federal Carlos Abicalil do PL 3.627/04 -- Boletim informativo sobre o 2° vestibular sob o sistema de cotas da UnB --Análise do cenário institucional do sistema de cotas da UnB -- Íntegra do leading case junto ao egrégio tribunal regional federal da 4a. região sobre a implantação do vestibular com cotas raciais e sociais da UFPR -- Avaliação do reitor da UFPR sobre o novo perfil da universidade pós-vestibular com o sistema de cotas -- Recursos administrativos envolvendo a seleção da UFPR pós-cotas -- Batalha jurídica para a implantação do vestibular de cotas da UFPR.
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184 p., Offers an account of the historical transformations which sugar's representation has undergone. It is suitable for scholars in Slavery, and Caribbean studies. Includes "'Daughters sacrificed to strangers' : interracial desires and intertextual memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge."
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Based on a conference which took place in Sandton, Johannesburg from 14-15 July 2008., 346 p., This conference is the first of three conferences on the African diaspora with respect to the returnee phenomenon of 'Back to Africa'. Contents: volume 1. Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities -- volume 2. The ideology and practice of the African returnee phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa.
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282 p., Prior tO 1640, When the Regular Slave Trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest importer of slaves in the Americas. Even so, slavery never supplanted indigenous labor in the colony, and by the second half of the 17th century there were more free Afromexicans than slaves in Mexico.
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312 p., Argues for inclusion of more Afro-Hispanic poets in the Caribbean literary canon. This book offers an introductory overview of the literary tradition of Black writing in the Hispanic Caribbean. It also provides a survey of black poets.
Rodríguez Garavito,César A. (Author), Alfonso Sierra,Tatiana (Author), Cavelier Adarve,Isabel (Author), and Antonio Rosero,Eliana Fernanda (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá, DC: Observatorio de Discriminación Racial : Programa de Justicia Global y Derechos Humanos y CIJUS, Universidad de los Andes : Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) : Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rodríguez Garavito,César A. (Author), Alfonso Sierra,Tatiana (Author), and Cavelier Adarve,Isabel (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Derecho, CIJUS : Ediciones Uniandes
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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271 p., Contents: Introducción -- El desplazamiento forzado y su incidencia en la población afrocolombiana -- Desplazamiento y discriminación racial: las obligaciones del estado colombiano -- De las normas a la realidad: la situación de los afrocolombianos desplazados -- Conclusiones bibliográficas -- Anexo: Corte Constitucional de Colombia, Auto 05 de 2009 -- 466.
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221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.
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270 p., Contents: 1. El arribo -- 2. De oficios, ocupaciones y formas de subsistencia -- 3. Los afroporteños propietarios -- 4. El proceso abolicionista -- 5. Las manifestaciones religiosas -- 6. Las cofradías religiosas -- Conclusiones.
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458 p., Offers a contemporary approach to World Regional Geography, acknowledging the geographic changes that accompany today's rapid rate of globalization. Includes chapter on "The Caribbean."
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618 p, Includes Mavis C. Campbell's "Marronage in Jamaica: Its origin in the seventeeth century," pp. 389-419; Richard N. Bean's "Food imports into the British West Indies: 1680-1845," pp. 581-590; and Edward K. Brathwaite's "Quantitative and economic analysis of West Indian slave societies: research problems," pp. 610-612;
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335 p., This study offers in-depth discussion and a new approach to interpreting the failure of the nation state and the chronic weakness of economic development in Haiti. It illustrates, through presentations and recommendations, how the road to true democracy and the eradication of endemic poverty in Haiti has to go through the establishment of the rule of law and strong and sustained economic growth.
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213 p., One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its religious objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments
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"This book was also printed as a special edition in Accra, Ghana for the Brazilian Embassy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil/Itamaraty. A bilingual edition (Portuguese-English) was launched during the inauguration of the Brazil House (15.11.2007) with ISBN 978-184799-013-6"., 146 p., Description of a community of freed slaves who came from Brazil in the mid 19th century and settled in Accra.
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302 p, Outlines the key research in Caribbean studies from history, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and folklore, examining classic ethnographies as well as new scholarship. Highlights the major concepts and debates in the anthropology and history of the Caribbean, including its unique Anglo, French, and Hispanic communities. Offers an overview of the strong traditions of art, literature, music, dance, and architecture in the Caribbean.
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560 p, Describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Using many previously unexamined sources, it goes beyond mere inter-ethnic polemics to lay out for the first time the scope of Jewish anti-Blackness in places such as Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam and the Caribbean. Readers will see that Jewish attitudes and behavior remained barely distinguishable from general European trends, hardly benign, but far less intense.
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2 vols. (564 p.), Drawing heavily on Inquisition sources, this book rereads race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the 17th-century Iberian Atlantic world: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians.
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140 p, Includes Anne Dimock's "Capoeira Angola"; Bernice Reagon's "Interview with Freddy Massey, Director of the Guybau Invaders, Champion Steelband of Guyana"; and Leonard Goines' "Black music of Latin America and the Caribbean";
Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala : Agence canadienne de développement international
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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436 p., Cómo han construido y construyen sus identidades étnicas y de género las mujeres y hombres negros del norte de Esmeraldas?, es la pregunta central de investigación que se plantea la autora. Sobre la base de un enfoque integrado de varias corrientes críticas del pensamiento social y combinando la investigación bibliográfica y el trabajo de campo en dos comunidades representativas, la autora resuelve la pregunta planteada inicialmente.
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at Tate Liverpool (Liverpool), 29 Jan. - 25 Apr. 2010., 12 p., Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and consumer capitalism.
Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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330 p, Includes Joseph E. Inikori's "The slave trade and the Atlantic economies, 1451-1870"; José Luciano Franco's "The slave trade in the Caribbean and Latin America"; Jean Fouchard's "The slave trade and the peopling of Santo Domingo"; and Oruno D. Lara's "Negro resistance to slavery and the Atlantic slave trade from Africa to Black America";
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231 p., Contents: Introduction -- Genocide in the African diaspora : Brazil, United States, and the imperatives of holistic analysis and political method -- The inner city and the favela : transnational black politics -- Hypersegregation and revolt : the Los Angeles black ghetto in historical perspective -- The Los Angeles Times' coverage of the 1992 rebellion : still burning matters of race and justice -- Hyperconsciousness of race and its negation : the dialectic of white supremacy in Brazil -- When a favela dared to become a condominium : challenging Brazilian apartheid -- Black radical becoming : the revolution imperative of genocide.
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Unedited] Shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. The book reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, it reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers. By looking at the experiences of black Cubans and exploring the notion of 'Afro Cuba', the book explains timba's evolution and achieved significance in the larger context of Cuban culture. It discusses a maroon aesthetic extended beyond the colonial era to the context of contemporary society; describes the dance spaces of Cuba; and examines the performance of identity and desire through the character of the 'especulador'.
