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    2. <"New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean by Rosanne Marion Adderley> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bethel,Nicolette (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
    Journal Title Details:
    84(3) : 285-287
    Notes:
    The article reviews the book “'New Negroes from Africa': Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean," by Rosanne Marion Adderley.

    3. <A Small Gathering of Bones, by Patricia Powell> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Adisa,Opal Palmer (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 1996
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    30(2) : 322-324
    Notes:
    A novel about how the plight of gays in Jamaica is linked to an international community through the interjection of the AIDS epidemic

    4. <A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean, by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Turits,Richard Lee (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July, 2004
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    61(1) : 110-112

    12. <Beyond the Limbo Silence>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 2000
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    34(3) : 552-553
    Notes:
    Hathaway describes the characters and plot of this novel, which is set in the Civil Rights era and focuses on the experiences of a Trinidadian immigrant who has come to the U. S. on a scholarship to a small, Catholic college in the Midwest

    14. <Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times by Ben Vinson and Matthew> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Althouse,Aron (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    67(1) : 141-142
    Notes:
    The article reviews the book "Black Mexico: Race and Society From Colonial to Modern Times," edited by Ben Vinson III and Matthew Restall.

    20. <Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later: Eric Eustace Williams - A Reassessment of the Man and His Work, by Heather Cateau and S. H. H. Carrington> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Satchell,Veront M. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Caribbean History
    Journal Title Details:
    36(1) : 189

    22. <Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity, by Kathleen M. Balutansky and Marie-Agnès Sourieau>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Smith,Faith (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1999
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    22(4) : 1091-1094
    Notes:
    Reviews an anthology focused on the specificity of the Caribbean with essays addressing how the term 'creolization' is understood in the region

    23. <Caribbean Mass Communications: A Comprehensive Bibliography, by John A. Lent>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Vaughan,Robert (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July-September, 1981
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    27(2-3) : 108-109

    27. <Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society, by Hilary Beckles>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Karasch,Mary C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 2001
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(2) : 333
    Notes:
    Centering Women consists of somewhat altered versions of the author's previously published articles, with an introduction and "summation" that argue for a post-nationalist history of gender in the Caribbean

    29. <Congo to Cuba>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    June, 2002
    Published:
    New York: Black Diaspora Communications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Diaspora
    Journal Title Details:
    23(4) : 64
    Notes:
    Reviews Congo to Cuba (New York: Putumayo World Music, 2002, 1990) compact disc. Putumayo World Music; P-200-2.

    33. <Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823, by Emilia Viotti da Costa>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cox,Edward L. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring, 1997
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    31(1) : 138-140

    34. <Cultural Duality in the Caribbean>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sutton,Constance R. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July 1974
    Published:
    Rio Piedras, P.R: Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    14(2) : 96-101
    Notes:
    Review of Peter J. Wilson's Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of English-Speaking Negro Societies of the Caribbean (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973)

    36. <Dear Future, by Fred D'Aguiar>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1998
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    32(3) : 506-508
    Notes:
    Hathaway discusses how this novel records the human toll of Guyanese politics as it chronicles the activities of one extended family suffering under the reign of a corrupt government

    39. <Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, by Nathaniel Mackey> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring, 1996
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    30(1) : 133-135

    40. <Ecology of Development Administration in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Garcia-Zamor,Jean-Claude (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    September, 1980
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    26(3) : 53-56

    42. <Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana, by Roderick A McDonald.> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Harris,Robert L., Jr. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 1995
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    29(3) : 510-512

    47. <Espejos de la guerra fria: Mexico, America Central y el Caribe, by Daniela Spenser>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    McPherson,Alan L. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2006
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    62(3) : 510-511
    Notes:
    According to McPherson, Spenser has gathered a remarkable international ensemble of scholars who collectively ask what the East-West Cold War meant in Latin America