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2. Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gooden,Amoaba (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(3) : 413-426
- Notes:
- "This article investigates the efficacy of community organizing by African Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Ontario. The author argues that community organizing was an instinctive initiative of African Caribbean people. Historically, Black community organizational agenda, although owing much to its own resourcefulness and fortitude, was intimately connected to the influence and strength of the larger White population. Racism and social exclusions were the major external factors influencing the majority of African Caribbean institutional building." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
3. Implementing low-cost landslide risk reduction: a pilot study in unplanned housing areas of the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anderson,Malcolm (Author), Holcombe,Liz (Author), Flory,Rob (Author), and Renaud,Jean-Philippe (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2008
- Published:
- Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Natural Hazards
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(3) : 297-315
- Notes:
- Landslides pose a serious physical and environmental threat to vulnerable communities living in areas of unplanned housing on steep slopes in the Caribbean. Some of these communities have, in the past, had to be relocated, at costs of millions of dollars, because of major slides triggered by tropical storm rainfall. Even so, evidence shows that: (1) risk reduction is a marginal activity; (2) there has been minimal uptake of hazard maps and vulnerability assessments and (3) there is little on-the-ground delivery of construction for risk reduction. This article directly addresses these issues by developing a low-cost approach to the identification of the potential pore pressure changes that trigger such slides.
4. Micro-Macro Linkages Between Gender, Development, and Growth: Implications for the Caribbean Region
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Seguino,Stephanie (Author) and Vermont,Burlington (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2008
- Published:
- Bridgetown, Barbados: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(4) : 8-42
- Notes:
- Over the last two decades, scholars have investigated the two-way relationship between gender inequality on the one hand, and economic development and growth on the other. Research in this area offers new ways to address the economic stagnation and crisis developing countries have experienced over the last two decades. , and in important ways, constrains economic development and growth in the Caribbean region. It further explores the endogeneity of gender inequality to the macroeconomic policy environment. The article concludes with a discussion of economic policies that can promote a win-win outcome-greater gender equality and economic development and growth.
5. Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hollinger,David A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall, 2008
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Callaloo
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(4) : 1033-1037
- Notes:
- Discusses the impact of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in the U.S. in 2008 examining Obama's black ancestry as well as his self-representation, which generates uncertainty about the meaning of blackness in American life. Looks into some studies examining the social status of African-Americans in the country, including their educational and employment opportunities. Moreover, addresses the social condition of Latin American and Asian American immigrants
6. Otra vez raza y racismo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caminos : revista cubana de pensamiento socioteológico
- Journal Title Details:
- No. 47
- Notes:
- 72 p.
7. Wider Caribbean Region A Pivotal Time to Strengthen Regional Instruments For Biodiversity Conservation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lausche,Barbara (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2008
- Published:
- Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill Academic Publishers,
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(3) : 499-530
- Notes:
- The countries of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) are linked economically by their trans-boundary living marine resources. The region is facing a continued decline of these resources. Science is improving our understanding of the human contributions to this decline, but national policies and programmes have not kept pace with this understanding. The Caribbean Regional Seas Programme and its Cartagena Convention and Protocols provide the regional legal framework for protection and sustainable management of the WCR's living marine and coastal resources. This article focuses on the Cartagena Convention's Protocol for biodiversity conservation, the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife, arguing that governments and organizations need to significantly increase participation in this regional treaty regime to effectively address transboundary environmental challenges.