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1. "In Chetumal We Are Not Rastas But We Like Reggae": Afro-Caribbean Music In The Border Between Mexico And Belize

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cunin,Elisabeth (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: Jan 2012
Published:: Iztapalapa, Vicentina, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Alteridades
Journal Title Details:: 22(43) : 79-94
Notes:: Attempts to understand what the presence of Black music means in the absence of Black people. Is this an expression of a global circulation of Afro-Caribbean cultural trends as symbols of belonging and difference among urban youngsters? Does it take us back to the history of Quintana Roo as a Caribbean region and the Black Atlantic? Is it a form of revision of Mexican national ethnic mixture and inclusion of other population groups? Adapted from the source document.

2. "The Haitian turn": Haiti, the Black Atlantic, and black transnational consciousness

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Joseph,Celucien L. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Texas: The University of Texas at Dallas
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 480 p., This dissertation examines the role of the Haitian Revolution and Haiti's national history in the construction of Black Internationalism and Black Atlantic intellectual culture in the first half of the twentieth century. The author argues for the centrality of Haiti in the genesis of Black internationalism, contending that revolutionary Haiti played a major place in Black Atlantic thought and culture in the time covered. Suggests viewing the dynamics between the Harlem Renaissance, Haitian Indigenism, and Negrtude and key writers and intellectuals in terms of interpenetration, interindepedence, and mutual reciprocity and collaboration.

3. 'I was too relaxed'

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Levy,Leighton (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 30-Sep 5, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 18
Notes:: [Jason Morgan], 30, who broke the national record twice this season, and who along with Traves Smikle became the first two Jamaicans to ever represent the country at the Olympics by achieving the Olympic 'A' standard of 65 metres, went into the Games with a season best of 67.15m. However, at the Games he was a shadow of himself, failing to throw beyond 60 metres and was subsequently eliminated during the preliminary round. "Yes, I should have competed better at the Games but I think I became too relaxed, too complacent," he conceded.

4. 'I'm not your typical nurse': Caribbean nurses in Britain and Canada

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Flynn,Karen (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Summer2012
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Women's History Magazine
Journal Title Details:: 69 : 26-35
Notes:: The article focuses on Caribbean women who traveled to Great Britain after World War II to train as state-registered nurses and then migrated to Canada. The author provides brief biographical information about the interviewees featured in the paper, compares their recollections with the predominant images and ideas of Black women in Great Britain during that time, and discusses the women's reactions to nursing in Canada. She also explores the interviewees' revelations about their occupation, involvement in organisations that represented their interest, and the lessons they wish to pass on to future generations.

5. 'In my Liverpool home': an investigation into the institutionalised invisibility of Liverpool's black citizens

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Boyle,Bill (Author) and Charles,Marie (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: May 2012
Published:: Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Education Policy
Journal Title Details:: 27(3) : 335-348
Notes:: Reviewing the 22 years that have elapsed since Gifford's 1989 report labelled Liverpool as racist, the authors focus on the fact that in a city which has had a British African Caribbean community for over 400 years, there is minimum representation of that community in the city's workforce.

6. 'Jamaican culture has special challenges' - Prof Carolyn Cooper

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Scott,Derrick A. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 20, 2012-Jan 2, 2013
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 5
Notes:: In her exciting presentation entitled "Stuck in Traffic: Jamaican Culture Outa Road," Dr. Cooper explained that "Jamaican culture, like Jamaican traffic has special challenges." Addressing an overflow audience at the Embassy, she surveyed aspects of Jamaican Culture through a metaphorical review of the traffic situation in the country from the time of Independence.

7. 'Just never got going'

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: May 31-Jun 6, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 20
Notes:: "It's hard to explain," [Bolt] said. "I don't really know what went wrong." "I was looking to come here for a good time. I guess it's one of those days," he said. "I just never got going." "I did some starts and I was flying from the blocks so I said, "Yeah, this is good". I can't tell you what happened."

8. 'Let's Play' initiative means a lot to Blake

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,Andre (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Nov 15-Nov 21, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 17
Notes:: "It's the training of PE teachers, and if they don't have a PE teacher, then another that's interested in physical activity and getting children healthy! its not only about getting them involved in a formal sport, there are many children with abilities and we iust want our children to know now important it is for them to be physical and see the emotional and health benefits of getting that habit from an early age, [Heidi Clarke] added. "It helps to foster leadership, friendships and all of those things to exert energy positively."

9. 'The Beast' craves cricket

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Jones,Ryon (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Sep 20-Sep 26, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 19
Notes:: "Usain (Bolt) and I said let's go to Australia and play some cricket; let's check out the Big Bash and see what it is all about," he noted. "With this hard training in track and field and I know that cricket training is not that hard and I can make the team and it is my first love, I would go to play cricket," he declared. "I want to finish this (athletics) as early as possible, so I can play my cricket: like somewhere around 30, 29, 28. in that region," he added. [Yohan Blake] was last month given the honour of being the first noncricketer to ring the bell at the 'home of cricket', Lord's, in England. He did so ahead of the start of the third Test match between England and South Africa.

10. 'Walk and don't look back'

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 30-Sep 5, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E8
Notes:: This is a narrative of Jamaica told on a musical crescendo, no 'bungar.ung'. Just the words of Jah. `Equal Rights: Reggae and Social Change' is seeking to transform the bare walls of the Jamaica Music Museum, stringing together notes of this truly Jamaican genre. "Since reggae is Jamaican, we have used it to convey the message," said Herbie Miller, director/curator of the Jamaica Music Museum. "It is a journey highlighting socio-political and spiritual sensibility." The realm of the `happy go lucky' Jamaica transitions to Ska depicting plain and modern art building the crescendo of social change as the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers resonate 'Get Up Stand Up', evolution of musicians on the frontline of social change.

11. African/Caribbean-Canadian women coping with divorce: Family perspectives

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rawlins,Renee Nicole (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Canada: University of Toronto
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 310 p., African/Caribbean-Canadian women's experiences of coping with divorce were explored. Six separated/divorced women from the same family, representing two generations, were interviewed individually and as a group using a semi-structured interview guide. The participants discussed their reflections on marriage and marital disruption, their post-separation experiences and challenges, and the coping resources they accessed during the divorce process. The participants also discussed how their own marriages and divorces were influenced by the marriages and marital disruptions of their family members.

12. Africans in global migration : searching for promised lands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Arthur,John A. (Author), Takougang,Joseph (Author), and Owusu,Thomas Y. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 326 p, Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African migrant economic integration, occupational, and labor force roles and statuses and impact on host societies.

13. Africans in global migration: searching for promised lands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Arthur,John A. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Searching for promised lands: conceptualization of the African diaspora in migration / John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu -- The role of Ghanaian immigrant associations in Canada / Thomas Owusu -- Identity formation and integration among bicultural immigrant Blacks / Msia Kibona Clark -- Identity politics of Ghanaian immigrants in the Greater Cincinnati area: emerging geography and sociology of immigrant experiences / Ian E. A. Yeboah -- Reconciling multiple Black identities: the case of 1.5 and 2.0 Nigerian immigrants / Janet T. Awokoya -- Making in-roads: African immigrants and business opportunities in the United States / Joseph Takougang and Bassirou Tidjani -- Geography of globalized nursing markets: Zimbabwean migrant nurse trajectory and work experiences in the United Kingdom / Ian E. A. Yeboah and Tatenda T. Mambo -- Relationships among Blacks in the diaspora: African and Caribbean immigrants and American-born Blacks / Nemata Blyden -- Conceptualizing the attitudes of African Americans towards United States immigration policies / John A. Arthur -- African immigrant relationships with homeland countries / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- African women in the new diaspora: transnationalism and the (re)creation of home / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Border questions in African diaspora literature / Hilary Chala Kowino -- Modeling the determinants of voluntary reverse migration flows and repatriations of African immigrants / John A. Arthur -- Africans in global migration: still searching for promised lands / John A. Arthur and Thomas Owusu.

14. Africans to Spanish America : expanding the diaspora

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Bryant,Sherwin K. (Author), O'Toole,Rachel Sarah (Author), and Vinson,Ben (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 279 p, The Shape of a Diaspora : The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America / Leo Garofalo -- African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 / Frank "Trey" Proctor -- To Be Free and Lucumí : Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Between the Cross and the Sword : Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas / Charles Beatty-Medina -- Finding Saints in an Alley : Afro-Mexicans in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico City / Joan Cameron Bristol -- The Religious Servants of Lima, 1600-1700 / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Whitening Revisited : Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints / Karen Y. Morrison -- Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba / Michele B. Reid -- The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective : The Current Question of the Debate / Herbert S. Klein; Time: To 1830

15. Africans to Spanish America expanding the diaspora

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Bryant,Sherwin K. (Editor), O'Toole,Rachel Sarah (Editor), and Vinson,Ben III (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 279 p, Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities.

16. Afro-Cuban music: A bibliographic guide

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gray,John (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Nyack, NY: African Diaspora Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 614 p, Cuba has been central to popular music developments throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States and Europe. Unfortunately, no one has ever attempted to survey the extensive literature on the island's music, in particular the vernacular contributions of its Afro-Cuban population. This unprecedented bibliographic guide attempts to do just that. Ranging from the 19th century to early 2009 it offers almost 5000 entries on all of the islandâ¿¿s main genre families, e.g. Cancion Cubana, Danzon, Son, Rumba, and Sacred Musics (Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Arara), as well as such recent developments as timba, rap and regueton.

17. Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Reiter,Bernd (Author) and Simmons,Kimberly Eison (Author)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: East Lansing: Michigan State University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 314 p, By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi-faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas. Includes Faye V. Harrison's "Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights."

18. All things are possible

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Springer,Bevan (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 13-Dec 19, 2012
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: 50 : 18
Notes:: [...]we already are making it, so it's time to stop complaining about the system and claim our inheritance in 2013.

19. An ethnographic case study of school administrators' responsiveness to the cultural and educational needs of Afro-Caribbean immigrant students

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gordon,Aneita Elaine (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Maryland: Morgan State University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 214 p., This ethnographic case study was designed to explore with a sample of urban school administrators their responsiveness to the cultural and educational needs of English-speaking Caribbean immigrant students. The goal is to describe and interpret the culture of Enwood High School through administrators' beliefs, values, actions, assumptions, and cultural artifacts in order to develop a better understanding of their responsiveness to the cultural and educational needs of English-speaking Caribbean immigrant students that will ultimately help to improve their learning outcome.

20. Arrival Cohort, Assimilation, and the Earnings of Caribbean Women in the United States

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hamilton,Tod (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012-12
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Review of Black Political Economy
Journal Title Details:: 39(4) : 445-460
Notes:: Using data on U.S.-born and Caribbean-born black women from the 1980-2000 U.S. Censuses and the 2000-2007 waves of the American Community Survey, documents the impact of cohort of arrival, tenure of U.S. residence, and country/region of birth on the earnings and earnings assimilation of black women born in the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

21. Artful stories : the teacher, the student, and the muse

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dowdy,Joanne Kilgour (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: New York: Peter Lang
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 149 p., The story of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago —a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer—who have made a name for themselves internationally. The work also centers on their role as educators in their fields.

22. Asafa eyes Rio

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,Andre (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 30-Sep 5, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 19
Notes:: "I don't know, I really hope that I am there though. I will be working hard and hopefully I can improve my times and start to run some really fast times again," [Asafa Powell] said. "But if I keep doing that, then I will be there (2016 Olympic Games)." "I would love to be in Brazil," said Powell Thursday, August 23 during an interactive online question and answer session with his fans through his sponsor LIME. A very light-hearted Powell, while joking about his age, says he will be working hard to give himself a chance of making the trip to Rio and he is hopeful that he will still be active by the time the next instalment of the Olympic Games comes around.

23. Athletes will be rewarded - Simpson Miller

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Sep 27-Oct 3, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 19
Notes:: JAMAICA'S PRIME Minister Portia Simpson Miller says athletes who represented the country in last month's Olympic Games in London will be rewarded for their efforts. Earlier this month, Sports Minister Natalie Neita-Headley announced plans to stage celebrations in honour of the athletes on the weekend of National Heroes' Day, around the middle of October.

24. BBPA announces 2012 Harry Jerome Award winners

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Apr 5-Apr 11, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E1
Notes:: Presented by RBC Royal Bank, the BBPA Harry Jerome Awards are recognized as the premier national awards gala in the African-Canadian community and a coveted symbol of achievement. The winners receive awards in sixteen categories: Academics, Athletics, Arts, Business, Community Service, Diversity, Entertainment, Health Sciences, Leadership, Lifetime Achievement, Media, the President's Award, Professional Excellence, Technology & Innovation, Trailblazer, and the Young Entrepreneur Award.

25. Barnett, Brown take National Cross Country Championships

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Graham,Raymond (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 20, 2012-Jan 2, 2013
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 43
Notes:: Holmwood Technical's Shanieke Watson and Munro College's Herbert Thomas were the best junior female and male athletes in their respective categories. Competing in the four-kilometre event for females, Watson recorded 15 minutes 52 seconds for the win, getting the better of the St Jago High duo of Monique McPherson (16:09) and Roshae Burrell (16:11).

26. Belizean Racial Project: A Preliminary Exploration of a Black Racial Project

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lee,Devon (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Kansas: University of Kansas
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 76 p., This preliminary Belizean racial project connects how Black identity was used as a political platform through a Pan-African framework to overthrow colonialism and neo-colonial aspects of what developed into a contemporary nationalist outlook. This project utilized a subjective outlook derived from historiographical materials, memoirs, periodicals and journal articles to show how Black collectivity as a tool for liberation (Pan-Africanism) was used as a racial project and later developed into a national project in Belize.

27. Black Cubans still suffering from Hurricane Sandy

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Perez,Jose (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Nov 14-Nov 20, 2012
Published:: Chicago, IL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Chicago Defender
Journal Title Details:: 29 : 14
Notes:: "There are tens of thousands of roofless or windowless homes, schools, healthcare facilities, nursing homes, daycares and cultural centers that were partially or totally destroyed," Jones added.

28. Black social movements in Latin America : from monocultural mestizaje to multiculturalism

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rahier,Jean Muteba (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 250 p, Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades.

29. Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place - edited by Gudmundson, Lowell and Wolfe, Justin

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Olsen,Margaret M. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Bulletin of Latin American Research
Journal Title Details:: 31(2) : 241-242
Notes:: A review of the book "Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place," edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe is presented.

30. Blake drops cricket plan

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,Andre (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Nov 15-Nov 21, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 17
Notes:: [Yohan Blake], who will be defending his 10Om crown in Moscow next summer, is widely known to be an avid fan of the sport. Several decent showings in local cricket competitions were expected to be a precursor to his appearance at the massive Big Bash Twenty20 league in Australia in a few weeks. However, it seems Blake and his coach, Glen Mills, have struck a deal of sorts. "Coach (Glen) Mills had a talk with me and he told me that I have the (100m World) title to defend, so I should focus on that and then the other year (2014) is going to be an off year, so I can play my cricket and also run, so I am just going to wait until next year to look at the cricket," Blake told The Gleaner.

31. Blake will be faster

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Sep 27-Oct 3, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 17
Notes:: "I am feeling confident more than ever and I think next year it's going to be really hard for anybody coming up against me because I will be stronger, I will be much fitter and I will be much faster. Each year I grow day by day," said [Yohan Blake], nicknamed The Beast' for his work ethic. During an interview on local television in late 2008, [Bolt] named Blake as "a potential threat" to his reign. "My true potential was not at the Olympics because if you look back at my races after the Olympics I was running really fast. I was really nervous. If you touch me I would have fallen. That's how nervous I was but I covered it up pretty well," said Blake.

32. Bolt booked for Ostrava

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 23-Feb 29, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 20
Notes:: Bolt will be part of a star-studded cast that includes compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown in the women's 100, as well as LaShawn Merritt and Oscar Pistorius in the 400, Christian Cantwell and Dylan Armstrong in the shot put, Dayron Robles at 110m hurdles, and Barbora Spotakova in the javelin.

33. Bolt wants to try new discipline

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 30-Sep 5, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 18
Notes:: The world's fastest man had expressed some doubt regarding his participation at the Rio showpiece, which will take place in four years' time. Bolt, after emulating his performance in Beijing four years ago and London, a few weeks ago, the sprinter admitted to being uncertain about the future and a possible target. It seems, however, that the sprinter is now a bit more certain. While admitting that he is likely to be past his prime at the next Olympic Games, in which the sprinter will turn 30 years old, he will certainly compete.

34. Bolt, Fraser-Pryce shortlisted for Laureus Awards

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 20, 2012-Jan 2, 2013
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 43
Notes:: Jamaica's Usain Bolt and [Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pruce]-Pryce, along with Jessica Ennis, Missy Franklin, Andy Murray, Michael Phelps, Ye Shiwen, Bradley Wiggins and Serena Williams, are among those who received nominations when the shortlist was announced in Rio de Janeiro Monday, December 17. With the exception of Lindsey Vonn, who won her fourth overall skiing World Cup in five years, the nominations for the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award are all dominated by the Olympics. Jamaica's Shelly- Ann Fraser-Pryce, the fastest woman on earth after successfully defending her 100m Olympic title, and Britain's Jessica Ennis, who won the heptathlon gold in front of an ecstatic home crowd, are also among the six nominees.

35. Bones cry out: Palo Monte/Mayombe in Santiago de Cuba

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Johnson,Sonya Maria (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Michigan: Michigan State University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 196 p., Argues that practitioners of Palo Monte/Mayombe in the city of Santiago de Cuba construct a religious genealogy inclusive of spirits to affirm their sense of an "African" identity in contemporary Cuba. Demonstrates that these practitioners' sense of being African includes an understanding that they are the ritual descendants and stewards of the blended spiritual knowledge created by sixteenth and seventeenth century AmerIndian Taíno and Kongolese inhabitants of eastern/Oriente, Cuba.

36. Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: O'Toole,Rachel Sarah (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 257 p., Chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans.

37. Bristol, slavery and the politics of representation: the Slave Trade Gallery in the Bristol Museum

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Otele,Olivette (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Apr 2012
Published:: Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Social Semiotics
Journal Title Details:: 22(2) : 155-172
Notes:: In 1996 the city of Bristol celebrated its maritime past by focusing on key explorers while forgetting to mention their involvement in transatlantic conquests, and in particular in the slave trade. This partial amnesia led to a local controversy and, as a result, Black and White liberals together with the local authority organised an exhibition in 1999 on Bristol and the Slave Trade. A year later, the exhibition was transferred from the Bristol Museum to a different site and became a permanent part of the display in the Bristol Industrial Museum. This article analyses the ways in which the period of the transatlantic slave trade was officially represented and perceived by visitors to the Slave Trade Gallery. The paper examines the politics of memory by trying to answer key questions concerning Bristol's commemoration of the past in a context in which multiculturalism was a hotly debated issue.

38. CPR Annual Kwanzaa - A Community Celebration

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jan 12-Jan 18, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E5
Notes:: The annual event is a celebration of the second principle of Nguzo Saba, 'Kujichagulia' which means 'self determination'. Providing musical entertainment for the night was the Anthem Band along with saxophonist, Jerry Johnson and roots reggae singers Ossie Dellimore, Major Daps and Noel Jones. Cater Van Pelt was the selector for the evening and food was catered · by Totally Delicious Restaurant.

39. Caribbean liberators : bold, brilliant and Black personalities and organizations, 1900-1989

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Teelucksingh,Jerome (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Bethesda, MD: Academica Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 294 p., Documents the lives and work of black individuals and organizations in the West Indies from 1900 to 1989, centered on the worlds of labor and black journalism. The French Caribbean is not covered here. Focuses on historical information as well as information on relationships between the two main "servant" minorities of the British Empire: Caribbeans originally from Africa and from India/Pakistan.

40. Caribbean nations got head start on equality

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Julal,Beverly (Author) and Davis,Clair (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2012-02-26
Published:: Philadelphia, PA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Philadelphia Tribune
Journal Title Details:: 15 : 7A
Notes:: With the new law instituted, the face of the population of the Caribbean evolved and whites eventually became a minority although they continued to hold their superior social status. According to a book called "Caribbean Islands - The Sugar Revolutions and Slavery," by the early 19th century, less than 5 percent of the population in Grenada, Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Tobago were white. They accounted for less than 10 percent of the population of Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and the Virgin Islands. Only in the Bahamas, Barbados and Trinidad were more than 10 percent of the population white.

41. Caribbean sprinters ready to pounce

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gaye,Egbert (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2012-07-26
Published:: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Montreal Community Contact
Journal Title Details:: 14 : 11
Notes:: No doubt the friendly, but highly-charged rivalry between Jamaica's two world record holders. [Yohan Blake] and Bolt will be the focus of attention after what has been a highlight year for both. But other Caribbean sprinters such as St. Kitts' [Kim Collins] and Trinidad and Tobago's [Richard Thompson] and fellow Jamaican Powell cannot be ruled out of the medal mix in the 100 and 200 meters. The 22-year-old Blake made a show of his aspirations when he easily won last year's World Championships after Bolt was disqualified: he then made a permanent dent in Bolt's armor of invincibility by clobbering him twice (100m and 200m) at Jamaica's Olympic trials earlier this month. Other Caribbean athletes poised to make their mark in London are Grenada's Rondell Bartolomew, (400m), Ryan Braithwaite à former World Championship gold medalist of Barbados, (110m Hurdles); St. Vincent and the Grenadines' Kineke Alexander (Women's 400m), Antiguan sprinter Daniel Bailey, (100m), and Guyana's Aliann Pompey, a former Commonwealth Games gold medalist (Women's 400m).

42. Carlos Cooks and Garveyism: Bridging Two Eras of Black Nationalism

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rivera,Pedro R. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: District of Columbia: Howard University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 230 p., Carlos A. Cooks (1913-1966) was a pan-African leader, street speaker and is remembered as perhaps the most militant advocate of the racial-pride philosophies and self-help programs of Marcus Garvey (1887-1940). Cooks was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in a household where his father was a Garveyite. Cooks arrived in New York City in 1929, joined the ranks of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and later formed his own organization, the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement (ANPM), after Garvey died in 1940. For the following two decades, Cooks struggled to materialize the original objectives of the UNIA, exhibiting the commitment that earned him distinction among Harlem personalities. By the 1960s, Cooks had kept the legacy of Garvey going, worked with leaders fighting for freedom in Africa and the diaspora, and organized cultural and economic activities that became part of the Black Power Movement. T

43. Celebrating Marcus Garvey

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Daniels,Ron (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2012-08-15
Published:: Seattle, WA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Skanner
Journal Title Details:: 33 : 4
Notes:: Speaking of "audacity of hope," [Marcus Mosiah Garvey] burst upon the global scene at a time when the vast majority of Africans suffered under the boot of white supremacy either through ruthless, exploitative and humiliating forms of European colonialism or segregation/apartheid in the Diaspora. As his life's commitment, the Jamaican-bom national was determined to use his extraordinary gins as a visionary, orator and organizer to uplift the African race and propel Black people to their rightful place in the forefront of civilization. To achieve his goal, however, he had to find a way to "keep hope alive." One of Garvey's greatest gifts was his keen appreciation of the role that symbols play in inspiring, uplifting and motivating disadvantaged and oppressed people. There was hardly a more daunting challenge than finding a way to give hope to the ethnically disparate and virtually universally despised sons and daughters of Africa. Never one to be discouraged by the difficulty of the task, Garvey boldly declared that he would give Black people a vision of a "government," men of "big affairs and a "flag!"

44. Civilization and the poetics of slavery

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Shilliam,Robbie (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: London, UK: Sage Publications
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Thesis Eleven
Journal Title Details:: 108(1) : 99-117
Notes:: Proposes that civilizational analysis has yet to fully address the colonial legacy and, to clarify the stakes at play, compares and contrasts the historical sociology of CLR James with the mytho-poetics of Derek Walcott. Both authors, in different ways, have attempted to endow that quintessentially un-civilizable body -- the New World slave -- with subjecthood.

45. Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dixon,Kwame (Author) and Burdick,John (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 365 p, Discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.

46. Conjuring freedom: Reconstructions and revisions of neo-slave narratives

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Montgomery,Christine Lupo (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: California: University of California, Santa Cruz
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 391 p., Argues for a revisionist periodization of neo-slave literature as well as a reorientation away from a US-based literary history that has been dominated by the mode of realism and toward a more comparative view defined by the geography, history, and aesthetics of the Caribbean. The canon of slave narratives was first dominated by the assumption both of narrative as the major and sometimes only genre of slave writing and of a linear temporality emplotting the journey from slavery to an attenuated freedom. In contrast, most twentieth-century neo-slave narratives rethink the genre from the twin standpoints of temporality and narratology: how both the "neo" and "narrative" descriptors have produced an entrenched and unnecessarily restrictive view of this evolving archive.

47. Creolizing Carmen: Reading Performance in María Antonia, Cuba's Overlooked Carmen Adaptation

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sanko,Nadia Sophia (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012-01
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Camera Obscura
Journal Title Details:: 27(79) : 157-191
Notes:: The story of Carmen (Mérimée 1845, Bizet 1875), the (in)famous Gypsy from Spain, is the second most adapted narrative in the history of world cinema with more than eighty global versions officially recognized to date; however, one significant and critical version has been overlooked, the controversial 1991 film María Antonia (Cuba), by Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sergio Giral.

48. Critical perspectives on Afro-Latin American literature

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Tillis,Antonio D. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: New York: Routledge
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 257 p, Part One: Engaging the Transnational, Cosmopolitan and Postcolonial in Afro-Hispanic Texts. Introduction to Part One / Antonio D. Tillis ; Roots and Routes: Transnational Blackness in Afro-Costa Rican Literature / Dorothy E. Mosby ; Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores (The Grandchildren of Felicidad Dolores) and the Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Historical Novel: A Postcolonial Reading / Sonja Stephenson Watson ; Cultural Transnationality and Cosmopolitanism in the Poetic Journeys of Nancy Morejón / Antonio D. Tillis. -- Part Two: Africa and African Cosmology and Literary Tradition in Hispanic (Con) Texts. Introduction to Part Two / Antonio D. Tillis ; Yoruba Cosmology as Technique in Malambo by Lucía Charún-Illescas / Aida L. Heredia ; Myth, Legend & Reality: Redesigning the Narrative Style in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Hemingway, the Death Stalker / Cristina Cabral ; Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Clarion for Black Cultural Traditions in Peru / Martha Ojeda ; Bridging Literary Traditions in the Hispanic World: Equatorial Guinean Drama and the Dictatorial Cultural-Political Order / Elisa Rizo. -- Part Three: Defining and Redefining Identities in Latin American Literature. Introduction to Part Three / Antonio D. Tillis ; Black, Woman, Poor: The Many Identities of Conceição Evaristo / Ana Beatriz Rodrigues Gonçalves ; The Triumph Within: Carolina Maria de Jesus and Strategies for Black Female Empowerment in Brazil / Dawn Duke ; Talking Back with Ana Lydia Vega: Identity, Gender and the Subversive Portrayal of Mestizaje / Emmanuel Harris, III ; Dialogically Redefining the Nation: Hip-hop and the Collective Identity / Lesley Feracho.; "After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America, Brazil, and uniquely, Equatorial Guinea, thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization. The importance of Latin America literature to the discipline of African Diaspora studies is immeasurable, and this edited collection provides a ripe cultural context for critical comparative analysis among the vast geographies that encompass African and African Diaspora studies. Scholars in the area of African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and American literature will be able to utilize the eleven essays in this edition to enhance classroom instruction and further academic research."--Publisher's website.

49. Current crop of players excites Burrell

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Jones,Ryon (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Apr 12-Apr 18, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 27
Notes:: "The team that Jamaica currently has, I am confident will make us all very proud," [Horace I Burrell]- said, while speaking at a sponsorship announcement cere^ mony for the local coaching school held at the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF) head office, Wednesday, April 4. "I was speaking with the President of the United States Football' Federation and he tells me that the US are now trembling because they know that Jamaica has a strong front line and of all the teams in CONCACAF, they are afraid of two teams. Jamaica and Mexico." Burrell said.

50. Decolonizing transnational subaltern women: The case of Kurasolenas and New York Dominicanas

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cornet,Florencia V. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: South Carolina: University of South Carolina
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 351 p., Explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra Römer's Het Geheim van Gracia [The Secret of Gracia] (2008). The Curaçaoan painters are: Jean Girigori (1948), Minerva Lauffer (1957) and Viviana (1972). The New York novels and performance text are: Black Artemis' Picture Me Rollin' (2005), Angie Cruz's Soledad (2003) and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Josefina Báez's Dominicanish (2000). The ways the women characters, figures, images and voices align to subvert gendered delineations as well as the stifling cultural and colonial imprints on their bodies and their selves in Curaçao and New York are central to the decolonizing project explored here.

51. Denmark Vesey: Forgotten hero and architect of insurrection

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Williams,Jasmin K. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: May 24-May 30, 2012
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: 21 : 28
Notes:: Vesey knew the horrors of slavery first hand. Since he had lived in St. Dominique as a youth, he followed the events there with particular interest. Men from the area and surrounding plantations would attack the city, take control of the guardhouse and block the bridges and roads, killing every white person in sight.

52. Diaspora: The Links That Bind Caribbean Immigrants

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Best,Tony (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jun 14-Jun 20, 2012
Published:: Washington, DC
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Washington Informer
Journal Title Details:: 35 : 17
Notes:: In recent weeks and months, Jamaica's Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, Guyana's new President, Donald Ramotar, Grenada's head of government Tillman Thomas, and a few days ago, Mia Mottley, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados came to New York at the helm of a six member delegation of the Barbados Labor Party to meet the Diaspora. What they all did was deliver an interesting message: nationals of their respective countries must continue to play an invaluable role in the further economic and social development of America's third border. What a pity, then, that Caribbean states haven't done more to integrate their respective Diasporas into national development back home, much like Israel, Ireland and to lesser extent some African states.

53. El Gallo Pinto: Afro-Caribbean Rice And Beans Conquer The Costa Rican National Cuisine

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Vega Jimenez,Patricia (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Jun 2012
Published:: Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Food, Culture & Society
Journal Title Details:: 15(2) : 223-240
Notes:: The combination of rice and beans was introduced in the nineteenth century by Afro-Caribbean migrant railroad workers. Notwithstanding elite self-perception of Costa Rica as a white, European nation, economic necessity during the Great Depression helped gallo pinto gain middle class acceptance. This case illustrates both the importance of social and economic history in shaping cultural symbols and also the ways that lower-class foods can become central to national identities.

54. Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Literature, and Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Genova,Thomas (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: California: University of California, Santa Cruz
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: Examines in the transnational conversation on the place of Afro-descendants in the republican nation-state that occurred in New-World historical literature during the 19th century. Tracing the evolution of republican thought in the Americas from the classical liberalism of the independence period to the more democratic forms of government that took hold in the late 1800s, the pages that follow will chart the circulation of ideas regarding race and republican citizenship in the Atlantic World during the long nineteenth century, the changes that those ideas undergo as they circulate, and the racialized tensions that surface as they move between and among Europe and various locations throughout the Americas. Focusing on a diverse group of writers--including the anonymous Cuban author of Jicoténcal; the North Americans Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mary Mann; the Argentines Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Eduarda Mansilla de García; the Dominican Manuel de Jesús Galván; the Haitian Émile Nau; and the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha.

55. Ethnic Differences in Family Stress Processes Among African-Americans and Black Caribbeans

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Goosby,Bridget J. (Author), Caldwell,Cleopatra Howard (Author), Bellatorre,Anna (Author), and Jackson,James S. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Sep 2012
Published:: New York, NY: Springer
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of African American Studies
Journal Title Details:: 16(3) : 406-422
Notes:: Several theories of stress exposure, including the stress process and the family stress model for economically disadvantaged families, suggest that family processes work similarly across race/ethnic groups. Much of this research, however, treats African-Americans as a monolithic group and ignores potential differences in family stress processes within race that may emerge across ethnic groups. This study examines whether family stress processes differ intraracially in African-American and Black Caribbean families.

56. Ethnic population projections for the UK, 2001-2051

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rees,Philip (Author), Wohland,Pia (Author), Norman,Paul (Author), and Boden,Peter (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: New York, NY: Springer
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Population Research
Journal Title Details:: 29(1) : 45-89
Notes:: This paper reports on projections of the United Kingdom's ethnic group populations for 2001-2051. For the years 2001-2007 estimated fertility rates, survival probabilities, internal migration probabilities and international migration flows for 16 ethnic groups continue to change: the White British, White Irish and Black Caribbean groups experience the slowest growth and lose population share; the Other White and Mixed groups to experience relative increases in share; South Asian groups grow strongly as do the Chinese and Other Ethnic groups.

57. Exhibits celebrate black history

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Armstrong,Neil (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Mar 1-Mar 7, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E1
Notes:: An exhibit, curated by well-known photographer Michael Chambers, entitled "Bathurst Stripped" is celebrating the history of a street in Toronto that was home to many immigrants from the Caribbean. Chambers has produced a photo-based installation of a barrel. This piece recognizes the contributions and sacrifices of the new immigrants and "The Barrel Children." A recent photo of Linda Carter who was the first black model in Canada to achieve prominence in the 1970s wraps the barrel which is filled with items such as corned beef, books and toys - things sent back to families in the Caribbean.

58. Exploring the health perceptions and health experiences of first generation black Caribbean immigrant women in the U.S

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Francis,Daphene (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: California: University of California, Davis
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 43 p., A retrospective exploration of the health perceptions and health experiences of first generation black Caribbean immigrant women during their transition from the Caribbean to the United States. This study utilized a cross-sectional qualitative method. Eight female study participants born in Grenada were recruited from New York, Houston, Washington D.C. and Columbus, Ohio. Interviews were analyzed thematically per standard qualitative analysis techniques.

59. Extended Family Support and Relationship Satisfaction Among Married, Cohabiting, and Romantically Involved African Americans and Black Caribbeans

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Taylor,Robert Joseph (Author), Brown,Edna (Author), Chatters,Linda M. (Author), and Lincoln,Karen D. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Sep 2012
Published:: New York, NY: Springer
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of African American Studies
Journal Title Details:: 16(3) : 373-389
Notes:: Data from the National Survey of American Life are used to investigate relationship satisfaction and their relation to extended family relations (i.e., emotional support and negative interaction) among nationally representative samples of African American and Black Caribbean adults. The study contributes to the literature by focusing on two groups of unmarried persons -- those who are cohabiting and persons who are unmarried/non-cohabiting -- in addition to married persons.

60. Extract From "Water, Shoulders, Into The Black Pacific"

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Tinsley,Omise'eke Natasha (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: GLQ
Journal Title Details:: 18(2-3) : 263-276
Notes:: If Africans' forced Atlantic passage ushered in a colonial era that violently connected Africa and the Americas to Europe, Africans' travel to and on the Pacific as sailors, soldiers, dockworkers, and curious voyagers traced other kinds of crossings: linkages between black Atlantic subjects and Mexico, Native America, Polynesia, Micronesia, the Philippines, and other sites of flow through the global South. "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific" looks to innovate discussions of the African diaspora by tracing one possible route of this less-explored oceanography. Where does the black Atlantic meet the black Pacific? What would it mean to chart a story of the African diaspora not through the triangle trade crisscrossing that first ocean but as a continual navigation of many bodies of water -- Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, Pacific -- and many waves of migration?

61. Facing with Courage Racial and Linguistic Discrimination: The Narrative of an ELL Caribbean Immigrant Living in the U.S. Diaspora

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Orelus,Pierre Wilbert (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
Journal Title Details:: 6(1) : 19-33
Notes:: Traces the author's journey as a Black Caribbean immigrant from Haiti to the United States. Describes the underlying factors that led to the author's relocation in the U.S. diaspora while at the same time examining the ways in which the author has been racially and linguistically positioned. The author further explains the negotiation of this position. The author's immigrant story is situated in the larger U.S. sociopolitical, linguistic, and racial context where immigrants, particularly immigrants of color, have faced many challenges.

62. Factors Influencing Depression Among Afro-Caribbean Women

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dover,Venetia A. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: District of Columbia: Howard University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 208 p., Recent prevalence rates of clinical depression in African Americans seeking services from primary care facilities reveal that African Americans are presenting with more depression symptoms than any other group. Although there is research on depression among women in general, the research among women of African descent is very limited while research on subsets of this population (Afro-Caribbean) is even more limited. Women of African descent residing in the United States are treated as a homogeneous population. Although some Afro-Caribbean women may share similar experiences with their African American counterparts, their immigration status may create unique concerns. Thus, categorizing all women of African descent as African American may provide a biased and inaccurate description of the problem.

63. Feminismo negro: raça, identidade e saúde reprodutiva no Brasil (1975-1993)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Damasco,Mariana Santos (Author), Maio,Marcos Chor (Author), and Monteiro,Simone (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Language:: Portuguese
Publication Date:: 2012 jan
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Revista Estudos Feministas
Journal Title Details:: 20(1) : 133-151
Notes:: Investigates the interface between gender, color/race and public health in Brazil, focusing on the importance of reproductive health for the formation of a black feminism in the country, between the years 1975 to 1993.

64. Flight as improvisational solo in jazz and blues fiction

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Kosse,Jeffrey P. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 204 p., This dissertation examines the roles played by jazz and blues in African American fiction of the post-World War II era. The author contends that scholars of jazz and blues fiction generally discuss the authors' treatment of the music in terms of how it shows up, is alluded to, or is played; however, few address performative elements that are central to much African American literature. Their performances, whether as narratives or geosocial movements, often draw upon forms of flight as defining actions that send them into new territories and necessitate acts of improvisation. Forms of flight manifest themselves as improvised solos in numerous ways, including in this dissertation the path of Ellison's narrator going north and ultimately underground in Invisible Man , brothers leaving their Harlem pasts and coming together while on ever-divergent paths in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," Milkman Dead discovering the secret of literal flight by improvising through a journey to his familial past in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon , or the members of Macon Street's "flesh-and-blood triangle" choosing the expatriate route of Paris instead of America in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King.

65. Foot tracks in the ocean: Zora Neale Hurston and the creation of an African-American transcultural identity

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Coloma Penate,Patricia (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Georgia: Georgia State University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: Focuses on African American and Afro-Hispanic literature and folklore. Employs Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation. Ortiz makes the case that a new Afro-Cuban identity is created with the intermingling of African, Spanish and native inhabitants of Cuba. Using Ortiz's critical framework as the foundation of this study, critiques of Zora Neale Hurston's portrayal of African American identity. Examines the parallel between her work and that of Lydia Cabrera, a Cuban ethnographer whose work represents Afro-Cuban identity as a transcultural one.

66. Fraser-Pryce hungrier than ever

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jun 7-Jun 13, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 18
Notes:: [Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce] burst on to the scene as a fresh-faced youngster in 2008, winning the local national trials before going on to shock the nation and the crown by claiming the title at the Beijing Olympic Games. Fraser-Pryce clocked an impressive 10.78 seconds to lead a Jamaican sweep of the event finishing ahead of compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart.

67. From Africa to Jamaica: the making of an Atlantic slave society, 1775-1807

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Diptee,Audra A. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 208 p., Illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade. Audra Diptee's in-depth investigations reveal unexpected insights into the demographics of those captured in Africa and legally transported on British slave ships.

68. Great days Pon Di River

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Henry,Davina (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: May 10-May 16, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 10
Notes:: "We do it in the rural areas more than we do it in Kingston and I think events such as Kingston Pon Di River really need to happen more. It's a way of giving people a voice. I really congratulate the organisers, and it's one of those events that people should put on their calendar," she said. "I thought the audience reception was very positive. It's encouraging me to write some more stories. Kingston Pon Di River buss me as a creative writer, so mi haffi go through," she told The Gleaner.

69. Green multiculturalism: articulations of ethnic and environmental politics in a Colombian ‘black community’

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cárdenas,Roosbelinda (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Peasant Studies
Journal Title Details:: 39(2) : 309-333
Notes:: This paper analyzes the intersection of two parallel developments that have had a curious impact on agrarian politics in Colombia: on the one hand, attempts to appropriate land for ‘green’ ends such as biofuel production, which have become ubiquitous all across Latin America, and on the other, the implementation of multicultural reforms, which in Colombia resulted in the collective titling of more than five million hectares of land for ‘black communities’.

70. IACHR releases 'Report on the Situation of People of African Descent in the Americas 2011'

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Carrillo,Karen Juanita (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 16-Aug 22, 2012
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: 33 : 2
Notes:: The IACHR's report found that there are some 150 million people of African descent in the Americas- we make up some 30 percent of the total population in the hemisphere. However, studies by the World Bank show that a person's racial background continues to determine the social and economic stations they can obtain in the Americas. One long-lasting problem has been the tact that many Afro -Latinos in particular live in nations that perpetuate the myth that they are the citizens of racial democracies, "The idea," read the report, "according to which ... there is no racism because ... all races and cultures melted into a happy combination."

71. Interrogating Grenadian Masculinities and Violence Against Women: An Evaluation of the United Nations Partnership for Peace Program

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Jeremiah,Rohan Dexter (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Florida: University of South Florida
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 448 p., This applied anthropology study, guided by a feminist perspective and in particular, Black Feminist Thought is an outgrowth of an evaluation study of the Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) in Grenada, West Indies. The PFP is a Caribbean-specific model that was built into a sixteen-week cycle program by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UNWomen). Since 2005, the PFP has been geared towards Grenadian men, who have used violence against women to express their masculine identities. PFP focuses exclusively on rehabilitating male perpetrators with a goal to protect the human rights of women. This research evaluated the PFP program, using qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the program's impact based on the behavioral changes that male participants adopted to avoid violence against women.

72. Intersectional work and precarious positionings: Black middle-class parents and their encounters with schools in England

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Vincent,Carol (Author), Rollock,Nicola (Author), Ball,Stephen (Author), and Gillborn,David (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Sep 2012
Published:: Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: International Studies in Sociology of Education
Journal Title Details:: 22(3) : 259-276
Notes:: Reports on data drawn from a study exploring the educational strategies of 62 Black Caribbean heritage middle-class parents. Considers the roles of race and class in the shaping of parents' educational strategies.

73. Interstitial voices: The poetics of difference in Afrodiasporic women's literature

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sullivan,Mecca J. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 320 p., Examines the place of difference in black women's writing of the African diaspora. The works of well-known and canonical writers Toni Morrison, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and Audre Lorde illustrate key functions of the poetics of difference. The author reads these writers alongside important but underexplored figures, including Ghanaian-born poet Ama Ata Aidoo, Cuban-born novelist Achy Obejas, Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand, and South African/Botswanan writer Bessie Head, as well as younger writers such as U.S.-born playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, Nigerian-born fiction writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and St. Thomas-born writer Tiphanie Yanique. These writers reframe identity around radical models of difference by: (1) developing and naming hybrid genres; and (2) destabilizing formal conventions of recognizable genres through multiplicities of voice. By highlighting difference as a core component of black female identity, these writers make crucial interventions in several areas, including Afrodiasporic cultural, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories of identity, as well as feminist, Afrodiasporic cultural, formalist, and narratological conceptions of voice.

74. Jamaica Celebrates 50 Years of Independence

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 16-Aug 22, 2012
Published:: Washington, DC
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Washington Informer
Journal Title Details:: 44 : 32
Notes:: Amidst the shrill of excitement, Olympic athleticism, and national pride, Jamaica, recently celebrated fifty years of independence. Stringers for the Informer, on the ground in London , have eagerly shared photos of the simultaneous celebrations - Independence and medals for superior athleticism won by Jamaican nationals around the globe. Here, we gladly share those photos with our readers, as well as a message prepared especially for the Informer from the Ambassador of Jamaica to the United States, [Stephen C. Vasciannie]. Congratulations!

75. Jamaica Kincaid: A multi-dimensional resistance to colonialism

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Stennis,Leon E. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Pennsylvania: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 274 p., Argues that colonialism, or its impact, as a relation of power is threaded through the related themes of gender/sexuality, the environment, and global capitalism in Jamaica Kincaid's work. The author is interested in how the intersection of these themes enhance Kincaid's critique of the impact of colonialism on the people of Antigua and the Anglophone African Caribbean.

76. Jean Jacques Dessalines

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 19-Jul 26, 2012
Published:: Los Angeles, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sentinel
Journal Title Details:: 29 : A10-A.10
Notes:: Dessalines became a lieutenant in Papillon's army and followed him to Santo Domingo, where at first he enlisted to serve Spain's military forces against the French then he joined the "real" slave rebellion that was inspired by Dutty Boukman, a voodoo priest, and led by Toussaint.

77. Listening for geographies: Music as sonic compass pointing toward African and Christian diasporic horizons in the Caribbean

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: McAlister,Elizabeth, (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Fall, 2012
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Black music research journal
Journal Title Details:: 32(2) : 25-50
Notes:: Can musical sounds reveal history, or collective identity, or new notions of geography, in different ways than texts or migrating people themselves? This essay offers the idea that the sounds of music, with their capacity to index memories and associations, become sonic points on a cognitive compass that orients diasporic people in time and space. Explores grassroots religious musical productions to show that Afro-Caribbean groups can stake out multiple diasporic identities in overlapping diasporic spaces through the various political registers of tribe, kingdom, and nation.

78. Madam Zajj and US Steel: Blackness, Bioperformance, and Duke Ellington's Calypso Theater

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Vogel,Shane (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Jan 2012
Published:: Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Social Text
Journal Title Details:: 30(4) : 1-24
Notes:: Develops a theoretical framework of biopolitical performance with which to approach the 1957 televised broadcast of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's A Drum Is a Woman. Presented on the drama anthology program The United States Steel Hour, this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Argues that through their experimentation Ellington and Strayhorn created a hybrid performance in the mode of "calypso theater": a formal and thematic engagement with an Afro-Caribbean performance history.

79. Making dead and barren: Black women writers on the Civil Rights Movement and the problem of the American dream

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Bolton,Philathia R. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Indiana: Purdue University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: Examines death and barrenness images prevalent in literature produced by black women during the 1970s and 1980s, taking for study the novels Bluest Eye (1970), Praisesong for the Widow (1983), Corregidora (1975), and Mama Day (1988). Argues that images in these narratives represent contemporary manifestations of social death that directly relate to what belief in the American dream, and that these images symbolize the ways in which decisions made had a deadening effect on black communities, primarily experienced as a loss of social sensibility and vitality of relationships.

80. Messianism in French Caribbean Literature: Cesaire, Roumain, Glissant, and Schwarz-Bart

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Grantham,Awendela Oni (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Connecticut: Yale University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 301 p., In many of the francophone Caribbean's most influential texts, a black messiah conquers his enemies and takes over the land. This man is a superman, who hears the cry of his people and delivers them from slavery and the Code Noir (a black code). He draws strength from Voodoo and Roman Catholicism to set his people free or die trying. Argues that scholars have not studied the extent to which the messiah figure dominates French Caribbean fiction and how this trend colors our perceptions of black leadership. After presenting messianism in the history of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti, the author considers key messianic passages in francophone literature and highlight where rhetorical devices and figurative language transcribe metaphysical beliefs. These close readings correct the misconception that the French Caribbean and its religions are not messianic.

81. Metamorphic literatures: Voicing a new movement

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Bidell,Heather Naori (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: New York: State University of New York at Buffalo
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 159 p., Metamorphic literatures is both the identification of a cohesive group of texts, as well as the assertion that these particular texts are part of a global literary movement. The literatures coming out of this movement fundamentally seek to (1) resist colonization and enslavement, (2) re-vision history and resurface figures of redress, and (3) reimagine gender, sexualities, and the queer diasporic body. The tropes of this new literary movement that are expanded upon in the following work will organize the language, characteristics, and outlines of this movement of contemporary diasporic writers.

82. 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:: 2012
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

83. Model Blacks or "Ras the Exhorter": A Quantitative Content Analysis of Black Newspapers' Coverage of the First Wave of Afro-Caribbean Immigration to the United States

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Tillery,Alvin Bernard (Author) and Chresfield,Michell (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: July, 2012
Published:: Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications Ltd.
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Black Studies
Journal Title Details:: 43(5) : 545-570
Notes:: Examines the depiction of first-wave West Indian immigrants to the United States in Black print culture in the early 20th century. The authors conduct a series of content analyses of four newspapers that had wide circulation in the Black community between 1910 and 1940. Each content analysis serves as an empirical test one of four common hypotheses about ethnic differentiation between West Indians and African Americans: (a) the group consciousness hypothesis, (b) the racial nationalism hypothesis, (c) the radical politics hypothesis, and (d) the model minority hypothesis. The authors find very little empirical support for either the group consciousness hypothesis or the racial nationalism hypothesis and find only a modicum of support for the radical politics hypothesis. Finally, the authors find evidence confirming the model minority hypothesis. They also find that the Black press presented an accurate portrayal of the West Indian immigrants' socioeconomic advantages to native-born Blacks.

84. Morgan eyes Olympic gold medal

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Levy,Leigton (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Apr 12-Apr 18, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 28
Notes:: [Jason Morgan], who finished 10th in qualifying at the IAAF World Athletic Championships in Daegu, South Korea, last year with a throw of 61.75m, well below his best, has been improving each week so far this outdoor season. He opened up with a 62.07m throw to win at the McNeese University Cowboy Relays at Lake Charles, Louisiana, in early March. Then, on March 17, he hurled the implement 63.82m for another win at the Louisiana Classics. That throw ranked him seventh in the world this season.

85. NDTC begins celebration of its 50th

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rowe,Marcia (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 16-Feb 22, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 12
Notes:: "The LTM and NDTC relationship speaks for itself, we need each other," she said, before continuing to creatively embroider her personal experiences with the NDTC into her speech. With the dance floor of the NDTC studio as the stage, the delightful evening's programme flowed with a message from the chairman of the Rex Nettleford Foundation, Carlton Davis, a vote of thanks from NDTC Musical Director, Marjorie Whylie, and excerpts from the company's' repertoire. The dances were performed by the now generation of dancers.

86. New approaches to resistance in Brazil and Mexico

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gledhill,John (Editor) and Schell,Patience A. (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Durham: Duke University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 398 p., Re-examines the concepts of resistance and the effect of neoliberalism from the 1980s to the present day comparing Brazil and Mexico, two of the largest countries in Latin America. Includes Marcus J. M. de Carvalho's "The 'commander of all forests' against the 'Jacobins' of Brazil : the Cabanada, 1832-1835," and Robert W. Slenes' "A 'great arch' descending : manumission rates, subaltern social mobility, and the identities of enslaved, freeborn, and freed Blacks in southeastern Brazil, 1791-1888.

87. Obeah and other powers : the politics of Caribbean religion and healing

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Paton,Diana (Editor) and Forde,Maarit (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 353 p, Historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed.

88. Our national identity in limbo

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sylvain,Patrick (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jan 2012
Published:: Dorchester, MA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Boston Haitian Reporter
Journal Title Details:: 1 : 7
Notes:: While at its inception, the revolutionary ideals of the newly formed nation called Haiti held great promise, the reality as understood today detracts from this plesant image . Still , our rituals and their symbolic associations mirror these revolutionary ideals. For example, soup joummou, the New Year's and Independence Day celebratory pumpkin soup, signifies the communion of equals through the consumption of the once forbidden delicacy reserved for the colonial masters. Today, as family and friends gather around the dinner table, we are clearly proud of our freedom and accomplishments, yet know that there are countless Haitians who are hungry, sleeping under tents. Two hundred and eight years after independence, many Haitians live in abject poverty and have no rights as humans.

89. Panel delays decisions on Blake, Cunningham

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,André (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Oct 25-Oct 31, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 18
Notes:: Cases brought by the Jamaica AntiDoping Commission (JADCo) Disciplinary Panel against track athletes [Dominique Blake] Blake and Ricardo Cunningham have been adjourned until December 3-5 and November 1, respectively, because of the absence of adequate documentation and witnesses. Blake and Dixon were clearly not in favour of an adjournment at the outset, with Dixon pointing out·' "My client is here now, she does not reside in Jamaica and we are here now and believe we can present a good rebuttal. We are prepared to present a case to you." Blake in turn is to file with the JADCo Secretariat a comprehensive brief no later than November 7, 2012.

90. Passages to (Be) Longing: Contemporary Black Novels of Diaspora and Dislocation

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Valkeakari,Tuire Maritta (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Connecticut: Yale University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 369 p., Looks at contemporary novels of the anglophone African diaspora through the lens of movement, migration, and dislocation, with particular attention to how the selected authors depict black diasporic identity formation, and how they contribute to it through their writings. Thematically, this dissertation examines literary representations of the social, cultural, and psychological consequences that involuntary and voluntary migrations have had for black communities and individuals in North America, the Caribbean, and Britain. It explores the juncture of history, memory, geography, and diasporic identity, as represented by eight contemporary novelists of African and African-Caribbean descent: Charles Johnson ( Middle Passage ), Lawrence Hill ( The Book of Negroes ), Toni Morrison (Sula and Tar Baby ), George Lamming (The Emigrants ), Caryl Phillips (The Final Passage, A State of Independence, and Crossing the River ), Andrea Levy (Small Island ), Cecil Foster (Sleep on, Beloved ), and Edwidge Danticat ( Breath, Eyes, Memory ).

91. Play finds Caribbean links

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Armstrong,Neil (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 16-Feb 22, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: pp. E4-E4,E6
Notes:: [Nicole Brooks] says part of her mission as an artist, whether in film or theatre, is to really uphold looking at stories about her roots. "And so when I discovered that the catalyst of the witch trials was because a slave named Tituba from Barbados was accused of teaching obeah to young white women in the town, I sat back and reflected on how did these Puritans knew the word 'obeah'," says Brooks. Brooks says she is not breaking any rules or being untraditional because the definition of an opera is "a play that's sung." 'It doesn't have any attachment to say it has to be in classical form or that a particular genre of music makes it an opera," says Brooks who is giving a voice to these women. When she held a workshop of Obeah Opera she had to deal with some people who thought she was critical of the Puritan's Christianity and others, including her mother, who were concerned about her exploration of obeah. She answered them by noting that in the contact between captured Africans and white Puritans, there was a connotation that everything African was bad.

92. Possible Republics: Tracing the 'Entanglements' of Race and Nation in Afro-Latina/o Caribbean Thought and Activism, 1870--1930

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Fuste,Jose I. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: California: University of California, San Diego
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 282 p., Challenges how critical scholarship on race and racism in Latin America has traditionally understood racial subalterns in Cuba and Puerto Rico as people who are prevented from acting as black political subjects because of the hegemonic power of discourses of nationhood premised on ideas of mestizaje and racial fraternity. By providing an intellectual history of several important yet largely ignored Cuban and Puerto Rican activists intellectuals of color who lived and worked between the Caribbean and the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, the author shows that instead of being tricked by creole elite national narratives, they attempted to redefine ideas of nationhood to challenge racism, colonialism, and imperialism at local, national, and transnational levels.

93. Public performance: Free people of color fashioning identities in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Grant,Jacqueline (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Florida: University of Miami
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 237 p., Free people of color held an ambiguous place in Caribbean slave societies. On the one hand they were nominally free, but the reality of their daily lives was often something less than free. This work examines how free people of color, or libres de color , in nineteenth-century Cuba attempted to carve out lives for themselves in the face of social, economic, and political constraints imposed on them by white Cubans and Spaniards living in the island. It focuses on how through different Afro-Cuban associations some libres de color used public music and dance performances to self-fashion identities on their own terms.

94. Queerly straight, racially queer: Constructions of masculinity in Samuel Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners"

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Catalan,Linnea Maureen (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Canada: Trent University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 116 p., Using Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon's 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners as a textual example, argues that Selvon's presentation of the experiences of migrant working-class Afro-Caribbean men in post-war London opens up space for an unconventional reading of "queer masculinity" as shaped by the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality under the influence of the socio-political ideology of the period both in the Caribbean and in Britain. The resulting form of masculine identification for these Afro-Caribbean migrants is constructed through an expression of hypersexuality where the pursuit of pleasure becomes an act of resistance to social marginalization.

95. Racers, MVP set for monster clash

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Jones,Ryon (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Apr 12-Apr 18, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 25
Notes:: "The thing that stands out most, because it is something that people have been asking for, is the opportunity to see the top MVP - remembering that MVP has Asafa [Asafa Powell], Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, among others, versus the top Racers track club team, remembering they have Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake," [Paul Francis] disclosed. MVP fastmen Powell, Carter and Frater are already confirmed for their 4x100m team, and comeet organiser and MVP president, Bruce James, is anticipating Racers team comprising of and Olympic champion Bolt World champion Blake.

96. Racial Group Identity, Psychosocial Resources, and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Ethnic Heterogeneity among Black Americans

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Ida,Aya Kimura (Author) and André Christie-Mizell,C. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2012 Jan
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sociological Focus
Journal Title Details:: 45(1) : 41-62
Notes:: Uses data from the National Survey of American Life to investigate explore ethnic heterogeneity among black Americans, with a sample of 2,953 African Americans and 1,140 Caribbean Blacks. For African Americans black group evaluation, self-esteem, and mastery reduce depressive symptomatology. For Caribbean Blacks racial identity and psychosocial resources were all directly and inversely related to depressive symptoms.

97. Re-configuring paternal legacies through ritualistic art: Daughters and fathers in contemporary fiction by women of African descent

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Pierre-Louis,Barbara Gina (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Minnesota: University of Minnesota
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 233 p., Analyzes three contemporary novels by Black women authors to argue that their daughter-protagonists gain a sense of their own subjectivities as women of African descent through their imaginative and creative responses to their respective muted paternal histories and legacies. These responses motivate the creation of ritualistic art forms rooted in communal practices such as storytelling, sculpting, music, dance-drama, folk medicine, and traditional cuisine. Maps the centrality of family, community, rituals, and art to the development of female subjectivity as represented in Marilene Felinto's As mulheres de Tijucopapo / The Women of Tijucopapo , Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker , and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.

98. Reinventing epistolarity: Contemporary Africana women's fiction, citizenship, and human rights

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Walker,Carrie J. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Nebraska: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 232 p., Calls attention to the renewed popularity of the epistolary novel among Africana contemporary women writers. This work investigates why, since the late nineteen-seventies, there has been a resurgence of this classic form among women writers across the Black Atlantic. The adoption of this genre among women writers in post-colonial contexts is especially significant because the classic epistolary novel was a medium that often endorsed notions of female submission and imperialist ambition. At the same time, the epistolary tradition connotes a revolutionary history. With this idea in mind, the author argues that an examination of how contemporary women revise the epistolary novel offers a crucial perspective regarding the struggles of women throughout various geographic locations and social strata in relation to nation, citizenship, and selfhood. This project focuses on how Sindiwe Magona, Nozipo Maraire, and Paulette Ramsay "reinvent epistolarity," using the epistolary genre to make interventions in the public sphere by depicting Africana women's experiences of education, marriage, inheritance, and health.

99. Richards-Ross donates to Vaz Prep

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,André (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Oct 25-Oct 31, 2012
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 18
Notes:: Olympic 400m champion Sanya Richards-Ross presents cheque worth US$10,000 (J$900,000) to her alma mater on Wednesday, October 17. "I expect it to help in a big way. You hear of the parents who have very talented kids but sometimes just can't afford it, and it really breaks my heart because I am very thankful that my parents made the sacrifice to keep me in school. So if I can help the next Sanya Richards -Ross then it's all worth it," Richards-Ross noted.

100. SAK PASE?

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Thomas,Novel (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2012-01-12
Published:: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Montreal Community Contact
Journal Title Details:: 1 : 18
Notes:: It's against this backdrop that filmmaker Roger Boisrond will screen SAK PASE? In the heart of the Haitian community, me grande premiere of his latest unedited documentary on the Haitian community. A Centre Mandela-King Production, the film will give viewers a better understanding of the Haitian presence in Quebec society, and the longtime solidarity that exists between Quebec and Haiti. A discussion will follow the screening.

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