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    2. <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. Volume 2: Latin America and the Caribbean (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Allatson,Paul (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012-03-02
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
    Journal Title Details:
    16 : S15-S22
    Notes:
    Reviews the book "Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion," volume 2, entitled "Latin America and the Caribbean," edited by Margot Blum Schevill, Blenda Femenías, and Lynn Meisch.

    5. Black women against the land grab: the fight for racial justice in Brazil (book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Almeida,Juliana Barbosa Lins de (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2015-01-01
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    38 (8): 1425-1427
    Notes:
    Blacks; Women; Brazil; South America; Book reviews; PERRY, Keisha-Kkan Y; BLACK Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (Book)

    6. <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.

    9. Affect and Gendered Creolisation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Anim-Addo,Joan (Author) and Scafe,Suzanne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-06
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Feminist Review
    Journal Title Details:
    104 : 1-4
    Notes:
    Discusses various reports including an analysis of the writings of African-Caribbean writer Anne Hart Gilbert, the plantation as a crucial source of difficult affective memory, and sexuality in fiction by Caribbean authors Opal Palmer Adisa and Erna Brodber.

    10. Lies! Lies! Lies!

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ankomah,Baffour (Author)
    Format:
    Magazine Article
    Publication Date:
    2007-10-01
    Published:
    United Kingdom: IC Publications Ltd.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    New African
    Journal Title Details:
    466 : 12-19
    Notes:
    The article focuses on the criticisms made by reviewers on Marika Sherwood's book After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade. Richard Drayton, Imperial History senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge in England, pointed out the book questions the triumphalist narrative of British abolition. Stephen Small of the University of California, Berkeley and University of Lagos, Nigeria's history professor Ayodeji Olukoju were among the other reviewers of the work.