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    1. Perceptions of Cuba: Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Wylie,Lana (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    178 p., By acknowledging that competing national identities, perceptions, and ideas play a major role in foreign policies, Perceptions of Cuba makes a significant contribution to our understanding of international relations. Contents: The exceptionalist and the Cuban other -- The independent international citizen and the other Cuba -- Exploring Cuba policy in tandem.

    2. Representation of people of color in the nineteenth century slavery novel in Cuba and Brazil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Moore,Kendal (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Florida: Florida International University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    211 p., Explores the similarities and differences which characterize the depiction of people of color in certain representative 19th century Cuban and Brazilian slavery novels as a function of the authorial approach of each territory's literary tradition toward the issues of slavery, racial prejudice, and people of color. The selected texts, derived from the peak periods in slavery literature of each territory, include Francisco , by Anselmo Snárez y Romero; Sab , by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda; Cecilia Valdés , by Cirilo Villaverde; A escrava Isaura , by Bernardo Guimarães; O mulato , by Aluísio Azevedo; and Bom-Crioulo , by Adolfo Caminha. While the present study explores the enslavement, abuse, and discrimination of people of color as a consequence of a deep-seated discourse of power, privilege and racial superiority, it focuses more extensively on the representation of people of color, particularly in their capacity to constructively appropriate the cultural values of the white dominant group and recognize their identity as ambiguous.