An examination of the characteristics and evolution of both Home Economics (HE) and women in development focuses on pivotal issues at the intersection of these two fields. Data obtained from Denmark, the Caribbean, Africa, and the US show that HE was only for girls and focused on domestic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Africa and the Caribbean HE was aimed at training girls as domestic servants. In the last half of the 20th century HE welcomed, and sometimes even required, males to attend classes and the criteria was broadened to include health and consumer education. In many areas HE has improved standards of living and helped to address such important issues as teenage pregnancy, school dropout, and domestic violence.
Olaniyan,Tejumola (Author) and Sweet,James H. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
363 p., "Most of the book's chapters derive from a two-day international symposium held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March 2006." Includes Paget Henry's "Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora" and Carolyn Cooper's "African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
Christie,Pauline (Author) and Alleyne,Mervyn C. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Barbados: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
224p, Focuses on Caribbean language and pays attention to issues of phonology, syntax, discourse, Creole genesis, and language problems in education. (back cover)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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213 p, Examines the teaching and learning of writing in the first college-level English course students are required to take at the College of the Bahamas
"First let me congratulate UNESCO, UNICA and UWI for taking the initiative to host this Conference, and let me say how much I have enjoyed the enthusiastic advocacy for this field by Ms. Helene-Marie Gosselin of UNESCO. Her quarterly reports on Education and HIV/AIDS are a joy to read, both for substance and method of presentation. I also wish to congratulate Professor Kochhar and PVC Hamilton of the University of the West Indies for their work in organizing the conference...."
Sudarkasa,Niara (Author) and Nwachuku,Levi A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
288 p, Includes Maghan Keita's "Linking precolonial Africa and Pre-Columbian America: the implications and their impact on Old World/New World scholarship," Janice- Marie McDonaldand's "An afrocentric approach to Afro-Latino literature" and Richard Allsopp's "African systems in Caribbean communication."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Internet Resource, Computer File, Serial Publication. "IIBP full text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 25 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward) ... Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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521 p., Considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States— including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade— are common to most of the Americas. Contents include: Jane Landers' "Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier: fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution"; J. Michael Dash's "Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and relational insularity"; and Leigh Anne Duck's "Travel and transference: V.S. Naipaul and the plantation past."
North Carolina: African & African American Studies Program, Duke University; Consortium in Latin American Studies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
1 microfiche, This publication provides an introduction to the historical trajectory of African-descended people in Brazil. Section I provides sample undergraduate syllabi for an interdisciplinary survey of the Afro-Brazilian experience using various media. The handouts in section II and the collection of maps and statistical tables in section IV work together to lay a foundation of basic knowledge needed by students who are approaching the Brazilian case for the first time. Section III contains a systematic comparative schema designed to illuminate the U.S./Brazilian juxtaposition that stands at the heart of so much of the transnational bewilderment in our teaching here in the United States. And finally, the graduate syllabi in sections V and VI provide clear bibliographical guidance on the development of the English-language interdisciplinary historiography for Brazilian race relations and Afro-Brazilian culture. In addition to familiarizing themselves with seventy years of stimulating scholarly discussion, the reader will also encounter an up-to-the-date point of entry into the remarkable renaissance of literature on race, culture, nation, and power in Brazil during the 1990's.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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157 p, This research proposal incorporates Afro-Venezuelan studies into basic education programs. It synthesizes a series of concepts on race, racism, discrimination, multiculturalism, inclusion and globalization, among others.
