Mohammed,Patricia (Editor) and Shepherd,Catherine (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
360 p, Contents: I. WOMEN'S STUDIES: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- II. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: MODELS AND THEORIES -- III. FEMINISM: HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL -- IV. DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -- V. IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE -- VI. WOMEN'S LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM -- VII. ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY -- VIII. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AND WOMEN WHO ORGANIZE.
Batur-Vanderlippe,Pinar (Author) and Feagin,Joe R. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
Stamford, CT: JAI Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
394 p, Includes Enid Logan's "El apóstol y el comandante en jefe: dialectics of racial discourse and racial practice in cuba, 1890-1999" and Mimi Sheller's "Resistance and struggle: The 'Haytian fear': racial projects and competing reactions to the first Black republic"
Argues that the Trinidad carnival and the overseas Caribbean carnivals (e.g. Notting Hill, London; Caribana, Toronto; Labour Day, New York) are products of and responses to the processes of globalization as well as transcultural and transnational formations. Carnival is theorized as a hybrid site for the ritual negotiation of cultural identity and practice by the Caribbean diaspora.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
143 p, Uses U.S. and Haitian interview data, coupled with a broader analysis of Haitian rural conditions and the effects of foreign and domestic policy on their movement, to underscore the need for a comprehensive rural strategy for economic development in Haiti.
