It was not just technicalities but serious blunders by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) in the collection of the urine samples of Veronica Campbell Brown which forced the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to exonerate the athlete from any doping violations.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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194p., Highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger historical framework.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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213 p., Reveals the emotional and social consequences of gendered difference and racial division as experienced by black and ethnicised women, teachers and students in schools and universities, taking the topic in new, challenging directions.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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326 p., Shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.
