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Special issue of the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica Review., 133 p, A collection of case studies focused on the formation of mostly independent communities in the region. All of the communities under consideration emerged in the immediate post-emancipation period. The condition, historical and cultural, which they have in common is the rise and fall of the West Indian plantation system.
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219 p., This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary.
Lachatañeré,Rómulo (Author) and Ayorinde,Christine (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Princeton, NJ: M. Wiener Publishers
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156 p, Distinguishes between the two most important religious forms - the Regla de Ocha (Santeria), which promotes worship of the Oshira (gods), and the traditional oracles that originated in the old Yoruba city of lle-lfe', which promote a more animistic worldview. Africans who were brought to Cuba as slaves had to recreate their old traditions in their new Caribbean context. As their African heritage collided with Catholicism and with Native American and European traditions, certain African gods and traditions became more prominent while others lost their significance in the new Afro-Cuban culture. This book, the first systematic overview of the syncretization of the gods of African origin with Catholic saints, introduces the reader to a little-known side of Cuban culture.
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614 p, Cuba has been central to popular music developments throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States and Europe. Unfortunately, no one has ever attempted to survey the extensive literature on the island's music, in particular the vernacular contributions of its Afro-Cuban population. This unprecedented bibliographic guide attempts to do just that. Ranging from the 19th century to early 2009 it offers almost 5000 entries on all of the islandâ¿¿s main genre families, e.g. Cancion Cubana, Danzon, Son, Rumba, and Sacred Musics (Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Arara), as well as such recent developments as timba, rap and regueton.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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204 p., Examines cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, to challenge the selective and Euro-centric view of Mexican identity in the discourse about racial and ethnic homogeneity and the existence of black people in the country, as well as assumptions and stereotypes about gender and sexuality.
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258 p., Explores a little known branch of the African Diaspora - Afro-Mexicans - and discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism and the socioracial terms that are the focus of the main study: indio, blanco, nero and moreno. These terms are part of daily life in Mexico, used in variable ways as tags of social identity.
Gonzalez,Anita, (Author), Jackson,George O. (Photography), and Pellicer,Jose Manuel (Photography)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
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Austin: University of Texas Press
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163 p, rticulates African ethnicity and artistry within the broader panorama of Mexican culture by featuring dance events that are performed either by Afro-Mexicans or by other ethnic Mexican groups about Afro-Mexicans. She illustrates how dance reflects upon social histories and relationships and documents how residents of some sectors of Mexico construct their histories through performance.
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191 p., Comparing Cuban American and African American religiosity, this book argues that Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture are central to understanding the Cuban and Cuban American condition. It interprets this saturation of the Afro-Cuban as transcending race and affecting Cubans and Cuban Americans in spite of their pigmentation or self-identification.
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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.
Santa Domingo, República Dominicana: Editora Manati
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Articles previously published in the newspaper Hoy of the Dominican Republic., 118 p., Contents: Afrodominicano por elección/negro por nacimiento --
Para ser dominicano hay que incluirlo todo : los pesimistas dominicanos y su Haití dialéctico --
Historias de hombres y mujeres libres/historias cimarronas --
¿Somos étnicamente taínos? --
Los africanos/negros en la fundación y desarrollo de Santo Domingo --
Los negros y la esclavitud en Santo Domingo.
Vinson,Ben III (Author), Vaughn,Bobby (Author), and García Ayluardo,Clara (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
México D.F., México: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica: Fondo de Cultura Económica
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135 p, DETALLE El tema de la negritud ha sido poco estudiado en México, a pesar de la existencia de varios estudios como los de Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán. 'Afroméxico. El pulso de la población negra en México: una historia recordada, olvidada y vuelta a recordar' muestra la importancia de éste al situarlo dentro de una perspectiva histórica, y además ofrece una discusión antropológica que define su carácter contemporáneo. Este libro está pensado como una herramienta tanto para estudiantes como para profesores e investigadores, ya que contiene una bibliografía con los principales títulos al respecto. El ensayo introductorio provee al lector un amplio panorama sobre la presencia afromexicana, familiarizándolo con las tendencias historiográficas y los hallazgos antropológicos modernos. (Prometeo libros); Introducción/ por Ben Vinson II y Bobby Vaughn --La historia del estudio de los negros en México/por Ben Vinson III -- Los negros, los indígenas y la diáspora / Bobby Vaughn
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246 p., With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the emancipation of all slaves throughout the British Empire in 1833, Britain washed its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates Britain continued to contribute to and profit from the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Chapter 4 is about Cuba and Brazil, pp. 83-111.
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192 p, "Markham's memoirs begin with a return to post-volcanic Montserrat to rediscover the now abandoned village of Harris’ and his grandmother’s old house and his meticulous and moving reconstruction of his boyhood in that house – a grand house that made the family feel that settling in the Harrow Road end of Maida Vale was a distinctly ‘downwards’ move for a cultivated Caribbean family. And it is Markham’s wryly humorous navigation between the poles of his family’s confident sense of their worth and the racial attitudes of those times that makes his account of his travails in the rag-trade, his pop-singer ambitions, the discovery that they were living next door to a leading member of the British Union of Fascists, and his involvement with the ‘angry-young-men’ shifts in 1950s British culture such a rewarding and human document."
38 p., Analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and 2007. The results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth. The highest growth within the region has occurred in the last two decades, especially due to improvements in efficiency and the introduction of new technologies. Within the region, land-abundant countries consistently outperform land-constrained countries.
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Confiant analyzes 60 years of Césaire's poetic and political existence. While denouncing the oppression of the Third World by the West as a poet, as a politician Césaire advocated the law of assimilation for the Antilles-Guyane and Reunion.
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307 p, Contents: On diaspora and the Akan in the Americas -- Quest for the river, creation of the path: Akan cultural development to the sixteenth century -- History and meaning in Akan societies, 1500-1800 -- The most unruly: the Akan in Danish and Dutch America -- The antelope (adowa) and the elephant (esono): the Akan in the British Caribbean -- All of the Coromantee country: the Akan diaspora in North America -- Diaspora discourses : Akan spiritual praxis and the claims of cultural idenitity
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1 microfiche, Earl McKenzie’s poems are deceptively simple, but their crystalline observations record life in all its complexity. Patricia Harkins, in The Caribbean Writer described his earlier Against Linearity as a ‘book to cherish’ for the particularity of its images from nature and ‘his keen insight into human hearts’. These qualities are deepened in this new collection, where the whiff of mortality demands an even stronger sense of continuance, affirmation and joy in love, family, music, art and, above all, in his beloved Jamaica. If this Eden is a fallen one, Adam has not been expelled from the garden where, with his mate, ‘Together/we share the temptation of the snake/in the garden of rocks and flowers’ (‘Adam to his Maker’). But McKenzie’s vision is never one that gilds. Sitting enjoying the morning and the sight of an egret in flight, a dog that has effected its freedom and an ancient, enduring tree, the mood is poisoned when ‘with an accuracy/ bowlers could envy,/ the newspaperman/ hurls the day’s sad tidings/ to my doorste ’ I forget the tree’s fabled endurance; the egret’s unconscious geometry; the dog’s hard-earned freedom. I sip my coffee and read; suddenly it tastes bitter.
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198 p, Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in both human and socio-economic terms, of the Haitian immigrant community in three boroughs of New York City.
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639 p, Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. (Google);
Mona, Jamaica: Department of History, University of the West Indies
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125 p, Contents: The passing of a nation : the Carib Indians of the Lesser Antilles / Gérard Lafleur -- St. Domingan refugees in the Philadelphia community in the 1790's / Susan Branson -- An archaeological record of plantation life in the Bahamas / Grace Turner
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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
Perl,Matthias (Author), Schwegler,Armin (Author), and Lorenzino,Gerardo (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
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Vervuert; Madrid: Frankfurt am Main
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379 p, Contents: ntroduction / Matthias Perl -- El español caribeño : antecedentes sociohistóricos y lingüísticos / Gerado Lorenzino ... [et al.] -- O portugûes vernáculo do Brasil / Heliana R. de Mello ... [et al.] -- El papiamentu de Curazao / Philippe Maurer -- El palenquero / Armin Schwegler -- Perspectivas sobre el español bozal / John M. Lipski
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Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13282; included in Thomson Gale's Eighteenth century collections online., 64 p
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292 p, This book provides information that was not readily available about the people and economy of the Bahamas from the colonial economy of 1492 - 1899 through plans for the early 1980's (My Life Site).;
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261 p, Contents: Map of the Caribbean -- Preface -- Chronology for Anglophone Caribbean poetry -- West Indian poetry and its audience -- The Caribbean neighbourhood -- Overview of West Indian literary histories -- The relation to 'Europe' -- The relation to 'Africa' -- The relation to 'America' -- Guide to further reading.
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183 p, "Prose fiction, mainly novels, written by people who were born or who grew up in the West Indies. The literary works to be approached usually have a West Indian setting. The books have all been written in the twentieth century." (Publisher)
Hauser,Mark W. (Author) and Florida museum of natural history (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Gainesville: University Press of Florida
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269 p., In 18th-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks
