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2. "We are the planet": incipient solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Entin,Joseph (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2012
- Published:
- Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- WorkingUSA
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(1) : 51-66
- Notes:
- Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.
3. 'A limp with rhythm': Convergent choreographies in Black Atlantic time
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hutchinson,Sydney, (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Yearbook for traditional music
- Journal Title Details:
- 44 : 87-108
- Notes:
- The concept of limping is widespread in various forms of music and dance in the northern Cibao region of the Dominican Republic. A limp is said to characterize the way in which accordion and percussion instruments interpret rhythms in merengue típico music, and some consider it a feature distinguishing the típico style of merengue from other styles around the country. Traditionally, merengue típico is also danced with a limping movement. Moreover, the typical Carnival characters of the Cibaeño cities Santiago and La Vega are also meant to move with limps. Musicians, dancers, and Carnival celebrants give various verbal explanations to explain the limp’s history and importance, and many of these tie it to stories about devils or other amoral characters. The limp is, however, not only a local stylistic feature, but one that connects Cibaeño culture with other expressions involving limps around the Caribbean region, from blues rhythms to zydeco dancing to the so-called pimp walk. The connective tissue between all these diverse cultural expressions might be Esu, Elegguá, or Papa Legba, the deity of the crossroads who limps, is sometimes syncretized with the Christian devil, and is invoked at the beginning and end of vodou and santería ceremonies. This article uses data collected through interviews with merengue típico musicians and dancers, four years’ participation in Santiago Carnival, and the theories of Henry Louis Gates and Paul Gilroy to explore Black Atlantic expressions in a Dominican context, while explaining the connections between dance and music from a Cibaeño perspective., unedited non–English abstract received by RILM] El concepto de “cojear” está muy extendido en diversos géneros de música y de baile en la región norteña de la República Dominicana denominada el Cibao. Se dice que el “cojo” caracteriza la forma en que el acordeón y los instrumentos de percusión interpretan los ritmos del merengue típico, y algunos lo consideran una característica que distingue el estilo típico cibaeño del merengue de los merengues de otras regiones el país. El merengue típico tradicional también se bailaba “cojeando.” Por otra parte, los personajes típicos del carnaval cibaeño en las ciudades de Santiago y La Vega también avanzan, según se dice, con un “cojo.” Músicos, bailarines, y carnavaleros dan varias explicaciones verbales sobre la historia y la importancia del cojo, y muchas se lo atan a historias sobre diablos y otros personajes amorales. Sin embargo, el cojo no es solamente una característica estilística local, sino una que conecta la cultura cibaeña con otras expresiones del “cojo” en toda la región caribeña, desde los ritmos blues hasta el baile del zydeco y el “pimp walk.” El tejido conectivo entre todas estas diversas expresiones culturales podría ser Esu, Eleguá, o Papa Legba, el dios de las encrucijadas que cojea, que a veces se sincretiza con el diablo cristiano, y a quien se invoca al comienzo y al final de las ceremonias de vudú y de la santería. El presente artículo utiliza los datos recogidos a través de entrevistas con músicos y bailarines del merengue típico, cuatro años de participación en el carnaval santiaguero, y las teorías de Henry Louis Gates y Paul Gilroy para explorar las expresiones del Atlántico Negro en un contexto dominicano, mientras explique las conexiones entre la danza y la música desde una perspectiva cibaeña.
4. 'Chango 'ta vein'/chango has come': Spiritual embodiment in the Afro-Cuban ceremony, bembé
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Murphy,Joseph M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black music research journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1) : 69
5. 'Chango 'ta veini'/chango has come': Spiritual embodiment in the Afro-Cuban ceremony, bembé
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Murphy,Joseph M., (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring; Spring, 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black music research journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1) : 69-94
6. 'I'm not your typical nurse': Caribbean nurses in Britain and Canada
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Flynn,Karen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Summer2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's History Magazine
- Journal Title Details:
- 69 : 26-35
- Notes:
- The article focuses on Caribbean women who traveled to Great Britain after World War II to train as state-registered nurses and then migrated to Canada. The author provides brief biographical information about the interviewees featured in the paper, compares their recollections with the predominant images and ideas of Black women in Great Britain during that time, and discusses the women's reactions to nursing in Canada. She also explores the interviewees' revelations about their occupation, involvement in organisations that represented their interest, and the lessons they wish to pass on to future generations.
7. 'In my Liverpool home': an investigation into the institutionalised invisibility of Liverpool's black citizens
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boyle,Bill (Author) and Charles,Marie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2012
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Education Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(3) : 335-348
- Notes:
- Reviewing the 22 years that have elapsed since Gifford's 1989 report labelled Liverpool as racist, the authors focus on the fact that in a city which has had a British African Caribbean community for over 400 years, there is minimum representation of that community in the city's workforce.
8. 'You got a pass, so what more do you want?': race, class and gender intersections in the educational experiences of the Black middle class
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gillborn,David (Author), Rollock,Nicola (Author), Vincent,Carol (Author), and Ball,Stephen J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race Ethnicity and Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(1) : 121-139
- Notes:
- The article discusses the findings of an ESRC funded project (RES-062-23-1880) which used in-depth interviews to explore the educational experiences and strategies of 62 Black Caribbean parents; the biggest qualitative study of education and the Black middle class yet conducted in the UK. The article focuses on the parents' interactions with their children's teachers and, in particular, their experience that teachers tend to have systematically lower academic expectations for Black children (alongside a regime of heightened disciplinary scrutiny and criticism) regardless of the students' social class background. The parents' accounts highlight the significance of a cumulative process where a series of low level misdemeanours sometimes build into a pattern of seemingly incessant and unfair criticism that can have an enormously damaging impact on their children. Although our data suggest that these processes can involve children of both sexes and of any age, the parents report a particular concern for Black young men, whom they perceive to be especially at risk. Our findings demonstrate the continued significance of race inequality and illuminate the intersectional relationship between race and social class inequalities in education. This is particularly important at a time when English education policy assumes that social class is the overwhelming driver of achievement and where race inequity has virtually disappeared from the policy agenda. Our findings reveal that despite their material and cultural capital, many middle-class Black Caribbean parents find their high expectations and support for education thwarted by racist stereotyping and exclusion.
9. A Revolution in the Binary? Gender and the Oxymoron of Revolutionary War in Cuba and Nicaragua
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- De Volo,Lorraine Bayard (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Winter2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(2) : 413-439
- Notes:
- An essay on the gendered aspects of war and revolution in Cuba and Nicaragua. According to the author, militarized violence in these states was hierarchical and ultimately created alternative privileged masculinities despite revolutionary movements' ideological commitments to equality. Details related to racial and gender binaries are also presented.
10. A case study of exclusion on the basis of behaviour (and experiences of migration and racialisation)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Underwood,Kathryn (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2012
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Inclusive Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(3) : 313-329
- Notes:
- Dwayne is a Grade 6 student who came to Canada from Jamaica at the age of seven. Upon arrival in a new school Dwayne had to adapt to a new culture. In addition, Dwayne was identified as having severe behavioral problems and learning difficulties, and it was recommended within the first month of school that the boy be medicated in order for him to cope. His mother refused. Through interviewing Dwayne's mother and his teacher, a case study details Dwayne's experiences of schooling. The story of Dwayne illustrates how experiences of disablement are interrelated with experiences of migration and racialization.