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2. Donna Messado; Jovial sociologist leaves big gap; Omar 'Tickerus' Campbell
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 10-Nov 16, 2005
- 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:
- The service for Donna Andrea Messado, sociologist of New York and resident of Hope Pastures, St. Andrew, was held on Saturday, October 15 at St. Stephen's United Church in Cross Roads, St. Andrew, Jamaica. The funeral for the late 'One Order' gang strongman Omar 'Tickerus' Campbell was held on Sunday, November 6, at the Lighthouse Assembly in Ellerslie Pen, St. Catherine.
3. From Necropolis to Blackpolis: Necropolitical Governance and Black Spatial Praxis in São Paulo, Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alves,Jaime Amparo (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-03
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Antipode
- Journal Title Details:
- 46(2) : 323-339
- Notes:
- Analyzes current urban governance policies and the spatial politics of resistance embraced by communities under siege in Brazil. Space matters not only in terms of defining one's access to the polis, but also as a deadly tool through which police killings, economic marginalization, and mass incarceration produce the very geographies (here referred to as 'the black necropolis') that the state aims to counteract in its war against the black urban poor.
4. It took a piece of me: initial responses to a positive HIV diagnosis by Caribbean people in the UK
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anderson,Moji (Author), Elam,Gillian (Author), Gerver,Sarah (Author), Solarin,Ijeoma (Author), Fenton,Kevin (Author), and Easterbrook,Philippa (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- AIDS Care
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(12) : 1493-1498
- Notes:
- How do people respond to the news that they are HIV positive? To date, there have been few published qualitative studies of HIV diagnosis experiences, and none focusing on Caribbean people. Twenty-five HIV-positive Caribbean people in London, UK, related their diagnosis experience and its immediate aftermath in semi-structured interviews. Diagnosis with HIV caused profound shock and distress to participants, as they associated the disease with immediate death and stigmatisation. The respondents struggled with biographical disruption, the radical disjuncture between life before and after diagnosis, which led them into a state of liminality, as they found themselves betwixt and between established structural and social identities. Respondents were faced with multifaceted loss: of their known self, their present life, their envisioned future and the partner they had expected to play a role in each of these. A minority of accounts suggest that the way in which healthcare practitioners delivered the diagnosis intensified the participants' distress
5. Memorialising memory : a material culture approach to older people's responses to the death of a partner
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Richardson,Therese Ann (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK: University of Sheffield
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 1 vol., Investigates experiences of bereavement after the death of a partner. The original research aim was to study the implications of death among older people, including those from ethnic minority groups, a neglected area of study. The research included participant observation at lunch clubs in centers attended by older White British and African Caribbean people, and semi-structured interviews recorded in 2007-2008 with 20 men and women over 60.
6. Professor Nettleford's death echoes around the world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Julal,Beverly (Author) and Davis,Clair (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-02-21
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Philadelphia Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 : 3B
- Notes:
- He was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer and vice-chancellor emeritus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university in the commonwealth of the Caribbean. His contributions to education and the arts are enormous. Jamaica Information Services describes him as a "quintessential Caribbean patriot, whose contributions will forever be etched into the annals of the region's history." According to Jamaica Information Service, [Rex Nettleford] was committed to the exploration of Caribbean cultural identity. One person commented on a blog that "Jamaicans will remember him for his articulation of their craving to be 'smady,' or 'smaddification,' a Jamaican dialect that means to be accepted as somebody with worth and character and not mere hewers of wood and carriers of water in the grand scheme of things." Nettleford co-authored a study of the Rastafarian movement, titled "The Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica," with M.G. Smith and Roy Augie, two noted Caribbean authors. In addition, his compilation of Norman Manley's speeches and writings gave credibility to his ability as a public historian and social critic.
7. Steadily Increasing Control: The Professionalization of Mass Death
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Stoney,Christopher (Author), Scanlon,Joseph (Author), Kramar,Kirsten (Author), Peckmann,Tanya (Author), Brown,Ian (Author), Cormier,Cynthia Lynn (Author), and van Haastert,Coen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (J.Contingencies Crisis Manage.)
- Journal Title Details:
- 19(2) : 66-74
- Notes:
- Recent mass death incidents in Japan and Haiti have again focused attention on the challenge of dealing with large numbers of dead. Focusing on mass death incidents involving large numbers of Canadian victims, including the Titanic, Halifax explosion, Air India bombing and the 2004 Tsunami, the paper researches incidents dating back to the beginning of the 20th Century. By examining each stage of the process including initial response, identification, funerals, communication, religious services and inquests, the paper identifies key changes in the way that mass death incidents are handled.
8. Thousands mourn children's deaths
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Blair,Leonardo (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 17-Feb 23, 2005
- Published:
- Jamaica, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Weekly Gleaner
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 4
- Notes:
- The murder of the three children Dwayne Davidson, 15, Sue-Ann Gordon, 13, both students of St. Mary High School, and Shadece Williams, 4, has torn at Jamaica's 'heart strings'. "I am not really related but hearing about the deaths. It was so horrible I had to come," said Amy Bailey from Portland who broke down in tears when she was unable to "even get a glimpse of the casket," due to the massive crowd at both church services. Bishop Dunn challenged the crowd, stating, "Don't let those children die in vain."