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12. African Guyanese kweh-kweh ritual performance: Triculturalism, rediasporization, and the negotiation of identities in Guyana and New York
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Richards-Greaves,Gillian (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 322 p., Kweh-kweh is an African Guyanese pre-wedding ritual system that emerged among African slaves in Guyana and historically functioned as a medium for music-centered matrimonial instruction for soon-to-be-married couples. The ritual is executed on the eve of a wedding ceremony and encompasses music, dance, proverbial speech, and a plethora of ritual practices that allow participants to chide, praise, and instruct the bride and groom and their nations (relatives, friends, and representatives) on matters of marriage. However, kweh-kweh performances also reveal embedded values of the Guyanese community, such as what it means to be a "real man" or a "proper woman." African Guyanese hold conflicting views on kweh-kweh, but at the onset of a wedding, they devise ways to celebrate kweh-kweh, a "pagan" ritual they also regard "our culture." This work demonstrates how African Guyanese manipulate the kweh-kweh ritual, their religious values, and themselves to articulate the complex of their identities, particularly racial and gendered identities.
13. Africans in global migration : searching for promised lands
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Arthur,John A. (Author), Takougang,Joseph (Author), and Owusu,Thomas Y. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 326 p, Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African migrant economic integration, occupational, and labor force roles and statuses and impact on host societies.
14. Africans in global migration: searching for promised lands
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Arthur,John A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Searching for promised lands: conceptualization of the African diaspora in migration / John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu -- The role of Ghanaian immigrant associations in Canada / Thomas Owusu -- Identity formation and integration among bicultural immigrant Blacks / Msia Kibona Clark -- Identity politics of Ghanaian immigrants in the Greater Cincinnati area: emerging geography and sociology of immigrant experiences / Ian E. A. Yeboah -- Reconciling multiple Black identities: the case of 1.5 and 2.0 Nigerian immigrants / Janet T. Awokoya -- Making in-roads: African immigrants and business opportunities in the United States / Joseph Takougang and Bassirou Tidjani -- Geography of globalized nursing markets: Zimbabwean migrant nurse trajectory and work experiences in the United Kingdom / Ian E. A. Yeboah and Tatenda T. Mambo -- Relationships among Blacks in the diaspora: African and Caribbean immigrants and American-born Blacks / Nemata Blyden -- Conceptualizing the attitudes of African Americans towards United States immigration policies / John A. Arthur -- African immigrant relationships with homeland countries / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- African women in the new diaspora: transnationalism and the (re)creation of home / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Border questions in African diaspora literature / Hilary Chala Kowino -- Modeling the determinants of voluntary reverse migration flows and repatriations of African immigrants / John A. Arthur -- Africans in global migration: still searching for promised lands / John A. Arthur and Thomas Owusu.
15. Africans to Spanish America : expanding the diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bryant,Sherwin K. (Author), O'Toole,Rachel Sarah (Author), and Vinson,Ben (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 279 p, The Shape of a Diaspora : The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America / Leo Garofalo -- African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 / Frank "Trey" Proctor -- To Be Free and Lucumí : Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Between the Cross and the Sword : Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Finding Saints in an Alley : Afro-Mexicans in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico City / Joan Cameron Bristol -- The Religious Servants of Lima, 1600-1700 / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Whitening Revisited : Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints / Karen Y. Morrison -- Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba / Michele B. Reid -- The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective : The Current Question of the Debate / Herbert S. Klein; Time: To 1830
16. Africans to Spanish America expanding the diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bryant,Sherwin K. (Editor), O'Toole,Rachel Sarah (Editor), and Vinson,Ben III (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 279 p, Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities.
17. Afro-cuban diasporas in the atlantic world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Otero,Solimar (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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.
18. Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Reiter,Bernd (Author) and Simmons,Kimberly Eison (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- East Lansing: Michigan State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 314 p, By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi-faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas. Includes Faye V. Harrison's "Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights."
19. An Allegory for Life: An 18th century African-influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Turner,Grace S. R. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Virginia: The College of William and Mary
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 271 p., Uses W.E.B. Du Bois' reference to the worlds 'within and without the veil' as the narrative setting for presenting the case of an African-Bahamian urban cemetery in use from the early 18th century to the early 20th century. The author argues that people of African descent lived what Du Bois termed a 'double consciousness.' Thus, the ways in which they shaped and changed this cemetery landscape reflect the complexities of their lives. Since the material expressions of this cemetery landscape represent the cultural perspectives of the affiliated communities so changes in its maintenance constitute archaeologically visible evidence of this process. Evidence in this study includes analysis of human remains; the cultural preference for cemetery space near water; certain trees planted as a living grave site memorial; butchered animal remains as evidence of food offerings; and placement of personal dishes on top of graves.
20. Antigua PM wants to deepen relations with Africa
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Aug 6-Aug 12, 2009
- Published:
- Jamaica, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Weekly Gleaner
- Journal Title Details:
- p. E2
- Notes:
- Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer on Saturday. August 1 urged citizens to ensure that the horrible and dehumanising system of slavery is never allowed to happen again while encouraging closerunity between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Africa. "Therefore celebrating our Emancipation should inspire us to unite as citistens of the Caribbean to ensure that we never allow ourselves to be subjected to any form of slavery^'Spencer said in a message marking the 175th anniversary of the end of slavery.