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    34. Ancestors and Migrants: On Tradition and Reflection in Surinamese Singing, Storytelling and Writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Van Kempen,Michiel (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov 2004
    Published:
    Barbados: University of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of West Indian Literature
    Journal Title Details:
    12(1/2) : 31-52
    Notes:
    Van Kempen discusses the songs and traditions of the Saramaccan peoples of the Upper Suriname. The music and lyrics of the Saramaccans depicts the troubles the ethnic groups have experienced in the 1990s from transmigration ordered by the government, typically lamenting or singing the praises of their old African villages, and cursing Western engineers for the uprooting of their cultures.;

    37. Augusta Zelia Fraser in Jamaica: The Case for Racial Separation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bryan,Anthony T. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    48(4) : 12-26
    Notes:
    This work describes cleavages of race, class and caste in the colonial Jamaican company. It tackles the question of the relation between race and culture.

    38. Awakening the Caribbean African: The socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Tillis,Antonio D. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2003
    Published:
    United States: Vanderbilt University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    22(2) : 29
    Notes:
    Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;