Hamburg, Germany: Institut fur Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Leibniz-Institut fur Globale und Regionale Studien
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have quickly recovered from the global financial crisis. With growth rates exceeding 6 percent from the previous year in 2010, the economies outpaced the OECD, which grew only by 2.3 percent. The growth prospects for the region are further analyzed.
Recent mass death incidents in Japan and Haiti have again focused attention on the challenge of dealing with large numbers of dead. Focusing on mass death incidents involving large numbers of Canadian victims, including the Titanic, Halifax explosion, Air India bombing and the 2004 Tsunami, the paper researches incidents dating back to the beginning of the 20th Century. By examining each stage of the process including initial response, identification, funerals, communication, religious services and inquests, the paper identifies key changes in the way that mass death incidents are handled.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Gorla (EPC: Ediciones de Periodismo y Comunicación)
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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unedited non–English abstract received by RILM] The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Héctor FERNÁNDEZ L'HOESTE, De música y colombianidades: En torno a una historia de la cumbia, la parrandera On music and Colombianicity: Around a history of cumbia—The parrandera] (RILM ref]2012-13010/ref]), and Todas las cumbias, la cumbia: La latinoamericanización de un género tropical All cumbias, the cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a tropical genre] (RILM ref]2012-13011/ref]); Eloís MARTÍN, La cumbia villera y el fin de la cultura del trabajo en la Argentina de los '90 The cumbia villera and the end of the work culture in 1990s Argentina] (RILM ref]2012-13012/ref]); Pablo SEMÁN, Pablo VILA, Cumbia villera: Una narrativa de mujeres activadas Cumbia villera: A narrative of activated women] (RILM ref]2012-13008/ref]); Malvina SILBA, La cumbia en Argentina: Origen social, públicos populares y difusión masiva The cumbia in Argentina: Social origin, popular publics, and mass diffusion] (RILM ref]2012-13013/ref]); Peter WADE, Construcciones de lo negro y de África en Colombia: Política y cultura en la música costeña y el rap Constructions of black and of Africa in Colombia: Politics and culture in coastal music and rap] (RILM ref]2012-13009/ref]).
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1 videodisc (205 min.), A documentary on the life and career of Jamaica's fourth Prime Minister Michael Manley. Over 3 hours of historical footage and interviews. Its cast is a "who's who" list of persons who were closest to Manley during his lifetime, from members of his cabinet to members of his family.
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241 p., Expanding on Audre Lorde's vision of embodied, even "useful," desire, Jafari S. Allen shows how black Cubans engage in acts of "erotic self-making," reinterpreting, transgressing, and potentially transforming racialized and sexualized interpellations of their identities. He illuminates intimate spaces of autonomy created by people whose multiply subaltern identities have rendered them illegible to state functionaries, and to most scholars. In everyday practices in Havana and Santiago de Cuba--including Santeria rituals, gay men's parties, hip hop concerts, the tourist-oriented sex trade, lesbian organizing, HIV education, and just hanging out--Allen highlights small but significant acts of struggle for autonomy and dignity.
