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2. Brazilian Abolitionism, Its Historiography, and the Uses of Political History
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Needell,Jeffrey D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May, 2010
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Latin American Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 42(2) : 231-261
- Notes:
- Explanations of the Abolitionist movement's success in Brazil (1888) have, since the 1960s and 1970s, emphasized the movement's material context, its class nature, and the agency of the captives. These analyzzes have misunderstood and gradually ignored the movement's formal political history. Even the central role of urban political mobilisation is generally neglected; when it is addressed, it is crippled by lack of informed analysis of its articulation with formal politics and political history. It is time to recover the relationship between Afro-Brazilian agency and the politics of the elite. In this article this is illustrated by analysing two conjunctures critical to the Abolitionist movement: the rise and fall of the reformist Dantas cabinet in 1884-85, and the relationship between the reactionary Cotegipe cabinet (1885-88), the radicalisation of the movement, and the desperate reformism that led to the Golden Law of 13 May 1888.
3. Cuba: Race Matters
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Binns,Leory A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-08
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race, Gender & Class
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(3) : 333-345
- Notes:
- The Cuban journey on race relations denotes an adventure driven by ideology. A doctrine of equals and the need for consensus building towards national unity called for the reversal of disenfranchisement commonly practiced prior to the revolution. Public policy has affirmed a commitment to social integration of people of color yet the residue of bigotry still inflames the Cuban populace and stymies potential maturity among its people.
4. Novels of decolonization in modernity: Malambo, Um defeito de cor, and Fe en disfraz
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Souza Hogan,Maria Leda (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 243 p., Analyzes three novels by contemporary female Caribbean and Latin American Afro-descendent writers of the diaspora: Peruvian Lucía Charún-Illescas' Malambo (2001), Brazilian Ana Maria Gonçalves' Um defeito de cor (2006), and Puerto Rican Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz (2009). In these texts, the old and the new intermingle in the space of the narrative. The colonial past is reexamined and reconstructed out of the need to understand its reminiscences into the present and the necessity to transform the future.
5. The Impact of Race, Class and Gender on Second-Generation Caribbean Immigrants' Assimilation Patterns into the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- John,Mauricia Alissa (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Ohio: The Ohio State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 266 p., The premise of this research rests on the idea that race, class and gender are all central to the immigrants' experience and that assimilation into the dominant culture is influenced by the immigrants' national origin, the immigrants' gender and his or her family's socioeconomic status. employ the Children of Immigrants' Longitudinal Study to determine the assimilation patterns of second-generation immigrants from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and the West Indies to the United States.