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    1. "A Conversation With Nicolás Guillén."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Guillen,Nicolas (Author) and Prescott,Laurence E. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1987
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    10(2) : 352-356

    3. "Black Skin, Blue Eyes": Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922-1944

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Thompson,Krista A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Sep 2004
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
    Journal Title Details:
    8(2) : 1-31
    Notes:
    Presents an article on Jamaican art and the early artistic production of Edna Manley and Albert Huie, two artists that are commonly identified in art historical accounts as pioneers in the development of a national Jamaican art. Problem of race and representation in Jamaica as perceived by Huie and Manley; Character which held a particular representational significance for Huie and Manley; Role of Ethiopianism, Rastafarianism, Garveyism, and cultural nationalism in Jamaica.;

    6. "Sis Cat" as Ethnographer: Self-Presentation and Self-Inscription in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Boxwell,D. A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter 1992
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    26.(4.) : 605-617 P.
    Notes:
    Examines Zora Neale Hurston's work, particularly her collection of folklore and ethnography of the American South, "Mules and Men." Looks at the author's role, the ways the ethnographer inscribes herself into the text, and speculates about Hurston's understanding of the limits of the impersonal researcher.

    7. "What, Then, Is the African American?" African and Afro-Caribbean Identities in Black America

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Johnson,Violet M. Showers (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    University of Illinois Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of American Ethnic History
    Journal Title Details:
    28(1) : 77-103
    Notes:
    Discusses the oral and written life histories and other personal testimonies of African Americans. It clears up the realities behind invisible enclaves and spotlight of the immigrant's own history. Professor John H. McWhorter argues that modern America is the home to millions of immigrants who were born in Africa. He notes that their cultures and identities are separated between Africa and the U.S. However, his vision of an unencumbered, native-born black ownership of black is considered optimistic. Transnational identities of immigrants and their children are formed, negotiated and projected primarily within their experiences.

    14. <Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, by Margarite Fernández Olmos; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Payne-Jackson,Arvilla (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2002
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(3) : 484
    Notes:
    "The Spanish expression--la cultura cura (culture heals)--is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people"

    16. <Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics, by Patrick Taylor>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hintzen,Percy C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 1991
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    48(2) : 312-313

    19. <Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Carribean edited by Darien J. Davis> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Smothers,Bonnie (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February 15, 1995
    Published:
    Chicago: American Library Association
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Booklist
    Journal Title Details:
    91(12) : 1055
    Notes:
    Review also covers Whither Thou Goest -- Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country by Carl A. Brasseaux and others; and 'Who Set You Flowin'?' by Farah Jasmine Griffin

    21. <The Colonial Caribbean in Transition. Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History, by Bridget Brereton and Kelving A. Yelvington> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Emmer,Pieter C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Oct 2002
    Published:
    The Netherlands: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    73 : 140-141

    24. A So Di Ting Set: Conceptions of Male and Female in Jamaica and Barbados

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Carpenter,Karen (Author) and Walters,Gavin (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-12
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sexuality & Culture
    Journal Title Details:
    15(4) : 345-360
    Notes:
    Develops data from interviews about stereotypes of Jamaican and Barbadian men and women.&nbsp;The popular music from Jamaica and Barbados&nbsp;is used as a lens for understanding the cultures within which the respondents develop their gender stereotypes. The stereotype data is then compared with the music that is popular during the interviews.

    25. A Vision of the Land: V.S. Naipaul's Later Novels

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cooke,John (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    December, 1979
    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:
    25(4) : 31-47
    Notes:
    Part of the vision depicted in the novels Middle Passage and Mimic Men is that the image local history is the scenery and landscape. Expresses idea that colonization creates nothing. It is obvious in a place, thrives there then disappears.

    27. A short, Storied Tale of (Transplanted and Transcribed) Talking Animal/Objects/beings

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Fox,Patricia (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) : 52-66
    Notes:
    Fox discusses Lydia Cabrera, a novelist and short story writer many consider the mother of Afro-Cuban studies. Examined are her contributions to Cuba's Africanized popular culture, as well as her bridging the cultures of France, Africa and Cuba.;

    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.;

    42. Black rural speech in Venezuela

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    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Megenney,William W. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring 2002
    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:
    21(1/2) : 63-69
    Notes:
    "In this paper I should like to discuss a particular geographical area in Venezuela which has been heavily influenced by black populations stemming from colonial trans-Atlantic slave trade, i.e., the region known as Barlovento, which lies east-southeast of Caracas." (author);

    44. Born in Africa, Reared in Trinidad: Calypso

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Slater,Les (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February-March, 2002
    Published:
    New York: Black Diaspora Communications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Diaspora
    Journal Title Details:
    23(2) : 38-41
    Notes:
    Explored is the history of Calypso music, which though originating in Trinidad, most likely has its roots among the many African cultural retentions that were transported with the ancestors to the west via the slave trade

    46. Caribbean Fashion Week

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Waye,Runn (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February-March, 2002
    Published:
    New York: Black Diaspora Communications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Diaspora
    Journal Title Details:
    23(2) : 76-80+

    48. Caribbean Poetry in Papiamentu

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Van Putte-De Windt,Igma (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 1998
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    21(3) : 654-659

    50. Cases Not Proven: An Evaluation of Two Studies of Teacher Racism

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Foster,Peter (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1990
    Published:
    Oxford: Carfax
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    British Educational Research Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    16(4) : 335-49
    Notes:
    Evaluates two British ethnographic studies claiming to find evidence of teachers' racist attitudes and behaviors toward Afro-Caribbean students that contributed to student underachievement