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2. A Caribbean showplace, maybe that is the answer
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rohlehr,Lloyd (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2005
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 : 20
- Notes:
- One of the things attracting tourists has taught us is to value the habit of preservation. We have to depend on devoted scholars and archeology diggers and always, tenacious individuals like Dr. Walter Roth. He was a medical man of German stock who moved to Guyana by way of Australia and was the moving spirit in the rise of Georgetown's museum of natural history. As a youth I made many trips to this museum and was fascinated by its presentation and displays; for instance the diorama of gold-digging operations in the far interior, the lighted fish tanks with fish such as the blood-thirsty pirai, a lifelike representation on the wall of the world's biggest freshwater fish, the arapaima, caught in Guyana. A huge live anaconda pans have all but vanished.
3. Bristol, slavery and the politics of representation: the Slave Trade Gallery in the Bristol Museum
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Otele,Olivette (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2012
- Published:
- Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Semiotics
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(2) : 155-172
- Notes:
- In 1996 the city of Bristol celebrated its maritime past by focusing on key explorers while forgetting to mention their involvement in transatlantic conquests, and in particular in the slave trade. This partial amnesia led to a local controversy and, as a result, Black and White liberals together with the local authority organised an exhibition in 1999 on Bristol and the Slave Trade. A year later, the exhibition was transferred from the Bristol Museum to a different site and became a permanent part of the display in the Bristol Industrial Museum. This article analyses the ways in which the period of the transatlantic slave trade was officially represented and perceived by visitors to the Slave Trade Gallery. The paper examines the politics of memory by trying to answer key questions concerning Bristol's commemoration of the past in a context in which multiculturalism was a hotly debated issue.
4. Caribbean culture on show at Historical Museum
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Stuempfle,Steve (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-09-30
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 : S14
- Notes:
- In 1984, the association opened an expanded Historical Museum at the Miami-Dade Cultural Center in downtown Miami. This 40,000-square-foot facility includes a permanent exhibition that traces the history of South Florida and the Caribbean, a temporary exhibition gallery that features several new exhibitions each year, a theater and classroom area for variety of educational programs, and storage areas for the museum's extensive collections of artifacts and archival materials, including books, manuscripts, maps and more than one million photographs related to the region. In recent year, the Historical Museum has directed increasing attention to Miami's role as a gateway of the Americas. To explore Miami's multifaceted connections with the Caribbean and Latin America, a new program series, Miami: The Gateway City, was introduced in Spring 1999. The objective of the 12-month series is to use the museum as a central forum for public dialogue about current issues facing Miami and as a space for related artistic presentations.
5. Museum planned to honor Haitian history
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Marks,Dave (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 11-May 18, 2004
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 36 : 1C
- Notes:
- "We provide this venue as a linkage for Haitians throughout the diaspora," President of the Haitian Heritage Museum Eveline Pierre told The Miami Times. "It's about educating the public about the phenomenal contributions Haitian Americans have made as a people, which will create a legacy for future generations." "In the building's design, we want it to reflect Haitian designs, and for that we want community imput," said [Serge Rodrigue].
6. Museum seeks interviews for immigration project
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Browne,J. Zamgba (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-08-14
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 2
- Notes:
- The Department of the Interior is seeking interviews with black people who went through Ellis Island when coming to America as part of an oral history project for the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.
7. Photo Exhibit Focuses on Cuba and African American Art
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-10-03
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- p. A3
- Notes:
- Ms. [Adona] is a photographer utilizing the visual medium to tell stories of cultures from around the world, with the hope of creating a better understanding of diverse people through the visual arts. Last summer Ms. Adona introduced "CUBA, Reflections of Life" during a speech at the United Nations in Geneve, Switzerland, where she spoke on the necessity utilizing a single, powerful image to tell the story of a nation.
8. Plantation to nation : Caribbean museums and national identity
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cummins,Alissandra (Editor), Farmer,Kevin (Editor), and Russell,Roslyn (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Champaign, Illinois: Common Ground
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 275 p, Explores the evolution of Caribbean museums from colonial-era institutions that supported imperialistic goals to today's museums that aim to recover submerged or marginalized histories, assert national identities and celebrate cultural diversity. Museologists from across the region and internationally address the challenges faced by museums in the Caribbean, both historically and in the contemporary setting.
9. Protecting heritage in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Siegel,Peter E. (Author) and Righter, Elizabeth (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 202 p., Practitioners of heritage management on the frontline of their own islands address the current state of affairs across the Caribbean to present a comprehensive overview of Caribbean heritage preservation challenges.