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2. Blacks and Latinos: Historic Alliances Must be Revisited
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Berry,W. K. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1995-05-11
- Published:
- San Bernardino, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Precinct Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 43 : A-1-1
- Notes:
- Portuguese and Spanish slavers supplied the Americas with "los Negros," the Blacks. Only those young and strong, impervious to European disease and able to withstand months of torturous living packed in the cruel quarters of slave shipholds survived the middle passage. Those who arrived, stunned and malnourished, lost in a foreign land, were easy prey to the slavers. Removed from a world that had nourished them, left to the mercy of those whose own lack of humanity prevented the recognition of theirs, they were utterly dependent and at the mercy of their captors. Vestiges of racism threaten to dismantle further progress in South America, as they do here. The prophecies of Willie Lynch, a slave owner who created a divisive plan to keep Blacks separate by fostering dissent among them, are coming true. Lynch outlined the differences in physical characteristics among the slaves-skin shade, hair texture, height, etc. By playing up these differences, Lynch promised, "The Black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands." Throughout North and South America, Lynch's plan lives on. Color lines rule, with the predominantly European strains remaining in power, and those of darker skin and crisper hair texture continue to be oppressed. It is a chilling reality that echoes down from the brutal suppression of the native peoples of Chiapas to the continued repression of Mexicans here and in their own country, to the harsh discrimination shown the Blacks of Brazil and America.
3. The Economics and Politics of Depropriation in the Other Colombia
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rodriguez,Paricia M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2010
- Published:
- Boston, MA: Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Dollars and Sense
- Journal Title Details:
- 291 : 18-22
- Notes:
- It is not uncommon to hear about how corporations bring investment to developing countries and even their willingness to address problem areas such as environmental contamination and child labor practices. But in some cases, corporations leave a trail of destruction of violence. The article highlights the Caribbean region of Colombia, where the construction of a mega-port has seen the displacement of communities and takeover of property and livelihoods with complete impunity.