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2. Building the future
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cregan,Elizabeth R. (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 48 p., Examines black history from 1968 until 2008, discussing race relations around the world, apartheid in South Africa, genocide in Rwanda, the assassination of Martin Luther King, affirmative action programs, Hurricane Katrina, artists and important figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Includes sections on "Black and British" and "Caribbean independence."
3. Cubans, the U.S., and Blacks: Getting to the bottom of this
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clark,William DC (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 5-May 11, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 36 : 3A
- Notes:
- The CIA created a covert operation called JM WAVE which was based in South Miami. It's mission was to assassinate [Fidel Castro] and repatriate this area's Cubans back to their land. This undertaking had over 15,000 exiles on it's bankroll and had a budget of over $50 million dollars, which is worth over $350 million dollars in today's market.
4. La guerre d'indépendance cubaine
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ferrer,Ada (Author) and Thomas Van Ruymbeke (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Bécherel: Les Perséides
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 318 p.
5. Latin American identities after 1980
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Yovanovich,Gordana (Editor) and Huras,Amy (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 316 p., Takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, this book focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Includes Jessica Franklin's "Afro-Brazilian women's identities and activism : national and transnational discourse," Adrian Smith's "Legal creolization, 'permanent exceptionalism,' and Caribbean sojourners truths" and Janelle Joseph's "The transculturation of capoeira : Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian martial art."
6. Military struggle and identity formation in Latin America : race, nation, and community during the liberal period
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foote,Nicola (Author) and Horst,René Harder (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p, Introduction: Decentering war : military struggle, nationalism, and Black and indigenous populations in Latin America, 1850-1950 / Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst -- pt. 1. Soldiering and citizenship. Subaltern strategies of citizenship and soldiering in Colombia's civil wars : Afro- and indigenous Colombians' experiences in the Cauca, 1851-1877 / James E. Sanders -- Soldiers and statesmen : race, liberalism, and the paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan military service, 1844-1863 / Justin Wolfe -- Afro-Cubans in Cuba's War for Independence, 1895-1898 / Aline Helg -- Monteneros and macheteros : Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous experiences of military struggle in liberal Ecuador, 1895-1930 / Nicola Foote -- Race and ethnicity in the Guatemalan army, 1914 / Richard N. Adams -- Mayan soldier-citizens : ethnic pride in the Guatemalan military, 1925-1945 / David Carey, Jr. -- pt. 2. War and the racing of national boundaries and imaginaries. Indigenous peoples of Brazil and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Maria de Fátima Costa -- Illustrating race and nation in the Paraguayan War era : exploring the decline of the Tupi Guarani warrior as the embodiment of Brazil / Peter M. Beattie -- The conquest of the desert and the free indigenous communities of the Argentine plains / Carlos Martínez Sarasola -- "The slayer of Victorio bears his honors quietly" : Tarahumaras and the Apache wars in nineteenth-century Mexico / Julia O'Hara -- Embattled identities in postcolonial Chile : race, region, and nation during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Joanna Crow -- Racial conflict and identity crisis in wartime Peru : revisiting the Cañete Massacre of 1881 / Vincent C. Peloso -- Crossfire, cactus, and racial constructions : the Chaco War and indigenous people in Paraguay / René D. Harder Horst.; Time: 1800 - 1999