Subject Term: Virgin Islands of the United States

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1. 1816 Freedman Petition in the Danish West Indies: Its Background and Consequences

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hall,Neville A. T. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: December, 1980
Published:: Amsterdam: Centro de Estudios y Documentacion Latinoamericanos
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Boletin de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe
Journal Title Details:: 29 : 55-73
Notes:: This article also included in the Papers presented at the Eleventh Conference of Caribbean Historians, held in Curaçao 5-10 April, 1979 (s.l.: Association of Caribbean Historians; 5 vols.)

2. A Historical Account of St. Thomas, V.I

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Knox,John P. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1970
Published:: New York: Negro Universities Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 271 p

3. A Political History of the United States Virgin Islands: 1917 to 1967

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Walters,John Willis (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1979
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 219 p

4. A Proposal for Regulating the Situation of Negroes in the West Indies

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hall,Neville A. T. (Author) and Hall,Neville A. T. (Editor)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1979
Published:: Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas: Bureau of Libraries
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 24 p

5. A Study of Professional Development Activities for the Staff at the University of the Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Battiste,Doris C. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1991
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 136 p

6. Alien Labor Problems in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: United States. Congress. House (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1976
Published:: Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 111 p

7. America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human Rights and Wrongs

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Boyer,William W. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1983
Published:: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 418 p

8. An Examination of Induction Practices for Beginning Teachers in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sewpershad,Lionel (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 118 p

9. An Investigation of the Relationship Between Virgin Islands English Creole Usage and Reading Achievement Among Third, Fifth, and Seventh Graders in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Richards,Heraldo Victor (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1993
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 124 p

10. Anna Heegaard / Enigma

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hall,Neville A. T. (Author) and Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies (Compiler)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: July-September, 1976
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Quarterly
Journal Title Details:: 22(2-3) : 62-73
Notes:: "The story of Peter Von Scholten, Governor of the Danish West Indies who freed the slaves ca. 1848, and Anna Heegaard; also, daughter of the Dane Jacob Heegaard, is legend in the folklore and written history of the Danish West Indies. Some Danish historians have called the Von Scholten-Heegaard twenty-five year relationship the greatest love story of the Danish West Indies." (Louise Daniel Hutchinson, Ancestry.com message board,

11. Black Carib household structure; a study of migration and modernization

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gonzalez,Nancie L. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1969
Published:: Seattle: University of Washington Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 163 p.

12. Black Women/White Men: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Slaves in the Danish West Indies

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Donoghue,Eddie (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2002
Published:: Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 191 p

13. British West Indian Alien Labor Problem in the Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Green,James W. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: January, 1973
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:: 12(4) : 56-75

14. Colonial Coinage of the U.S. Virgin Islands: An Illustrated History and Guide to the Coins, Tokens and Paper Money Issued for the U.S. Virgin Islands Under Danish and United States Administration

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Higgie,Lincoln W. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1962
Published:: Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 61 p

15. Cross-Cultural Influences Upon Virgin Islanders' Alcohol Consumption Practices and Perceptions

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Walters,Helen Rosalia (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 281 p

16. Cultural Identity of the Free Colored in Christiansted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1800-1848

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rezende,Elizabeth (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 455 p

17. Cultural adaptation and resistance on St. John: three centuries of Afro-Caribbean life

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Olwig,Karen Fog (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1985
Published:: Gainesville: University of Florida Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 226 p

18. Defining Custody: The Impact of Archival Custody on the Relationship Between Communities and Their Historical Records in the Information Age, a Case Study of the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Bastian,Jeannette (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1999
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 301 p

19. Disability Lore in the United States Virgin Islands: 'She was Sorry for Someone who Was Killing a Goat.'

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Schrader,Claudia Veronica (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2002
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 152 p

20. Documents relating to the Danish West Indies

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: July, 1917
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Negro History
Journal Title Details:: 2 : 289-324

21. Eastern Caribbean Family Psychology with Conduct-Disordered Adolescents from the Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dudley-Grant,G. Rita (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: January, 2001
Published:: Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: American Psychologist
Journal Title Details:: 56(1) : 47-57

22. Effect of Head Start Programs on Social Adjustment of United States Virgin Islands Kindergarten Students From Low Socioeconomic Status

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Clyne-Belle,Adelle Victoria (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 81 p

23. Effects of Inservice Training on the Attitudes of Elementary Teachers toward Teaching Science on St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lewis,Prospero Earl A. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1994
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 120 p

24. Emancipation in the U.S. Virgin Islands 150 years of freedom 1848-1998

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Highfield,Arnold R. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1999
Published:: St. Croix, V.I.: Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 80 p, Contents: Editor's preface / Arnold R. Highfield -- Freedom in Frederiksted / Richard A. Schrader -- A chronology of slavery and emancipation in the history of the Danish West Indies / Svend E. Holsoe -- Emancipation and the new social order: views from the upper class / Marilyn F. Krigger -- Emancipation in hemispheric perspective / Lauren Larsen -- Political and economic aspects of emancipation / Malik Sekou -- A selection of historical documents relating to emancipation in the Danish West Indies / George F. Tyson -- An annotated bibliography / Arnold R. Highfield

25. Emancipation: The Virgin Islands of the United States Celebrates its 150 Year Anniversary 1848, July 3, 1998

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lawaetz,Erik J. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 285 p

26. Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies: Also Graphic Tales of Other Slave Happenings on Ships and Plantations

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Paiewonsky,Isidor (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1989
Published:: New York: Fordham University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 166 p

27. Foreign Workers in the USVI: History of a Dilemma

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Miller,Mark J. (Author) and Boyer,William W. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Winter, 1982
Published:: Miami: Caribbean Review, Inc
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Review
Journal Title Details:: 11(1) : 48-51

28. Governance of the Public Education System in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Joseph,Marine Henry (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2001
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 184 p

29. Historic Period Foodways in the Danish West Indies (1718--1917): The Zooarchaeological Evidence from Cinnamon Bay and the East End, St. John, Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sichler,Judith A. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2003
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 317 p

30. History and song in the Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cuney-Hare,Maud (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: April, 1933
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Crisis
Journal Title Details:: 40(4) : 83-84, 108, 118
Notes:: Includes an account of the 1848 slave insurrection of Saint Croix, when more than five thousand slaves “stormed the fort and demanded freedom,” later burning the town down." (Lynda Koolish, "Maud Cuney-Hare," Oxford Companion to African American Literature)

31. History of Social Welfare and Foreign Labor in the United States Virgin Islands: A Policy Analysis

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Francis,E. Aracelis (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1981
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 376 p

32. Households, Exchange and Social Reproduction: The Development of a Caribbean Society

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Olwig,Karen Fog (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1978
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 465 p

33. Identification and Analysis of Goals for a Community College by Key Leaders in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Wallace,Phyllis Lucinda (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 179 p

34. Impact of Immigration on St. Croix's Public Schools With Emphasis on Administrative and Curricular Policies: 1964-1994

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Jackson,Anastasie V. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1997
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 213 p

35. Impact of Judicial Intervention on Public Education in the United States Virgin Islands, 1970--1992

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Navarrete,Sofronio Naranjo (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 222 p

36. Jamesie King of Scratch

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Leland,Andrea E. (Author) and Brewster,James (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2006
Published:: Evanston, IL: Nine Morning Production
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videodisc (70 min.) col

37. Karen Theresa Curtis: on the cusp of social change for the Free Colored of Christiansted St. Croix, former Danish West Indies 1880-1816

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rezende,Elizabeth (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2008
Published:: San Juan, PR: Universidad de Puerto Rico
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: La Torre
Journal Title Details:: Año XII(46) : 667-680
Notes:: Examines the lifestyles and entrepreneurial skills of Karen Theresa Curtis as a businesswoman managing her own huskers. While the free colored men were protesting their lack of civil rights, the women engaged in commerce were protected by no rights and were experiencing their own problems in defending their property.

38. Leaflets from the Danish West Indies: Descriptive of the Social, Political, and Commercial Condition of These Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Taylor,Charles Edwin (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1970
Published:: Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 208 p

39. Mocko Jumbie of the U.S. Virgin Islands: History and Antecedents

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Nicholls,Robert W. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Autumn, 1999
Published:: Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: African Arts
Journal Title Details:: 32(3) : 48-61+
Notes:: Examines how the Mocko Jumbie stilt-dancing masquerade evolved in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Contends that an upper Guinea coast provenance appears more likely than origins in southeastern Nigeria

40. Needs Assessment: An Examination of Approaches for Assessing the Service Needs of Adult Part-Time Learners and a Proposed Program for the University of the Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Harrigan,Ronald E., Sr. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1989
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 114 p

41. Nurses Speak Out on Mandatory Continuing Education in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sewer,Doris Elida (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1997
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 144 p

42. Peer, Home, and School Achievement: A Study in Achievement Motivation

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Benjamin,Linda White (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1985
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 110 p

43. Perceptions of Catholic Education in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Griffith,Denis (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1995
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 218 p

44. Postal History of the United States Virgin Islands (Formerly the Danish West Indies)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Birch,J. Alfred (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1966
Published:: Boston: American Philatelic Society
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 40 p

45. Queen of the Virgins: Queen Shows, the Popular Women's Theatre of the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Oliver,M. Cynthia (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2003
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 300 p

46. Relations Between Teacher Perceptions of Shool Climate and Student Disruptive Behavior in Middle Schools in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Esquerdo,Dora Susanna (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2001
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 544 p

47. Saint Thomas Public School Teachers' Attitudes Towards Inclusion

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Salas-Lindquist,Gloria Luverna (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1997
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 48 p

48. School Effectiveness Characteristics in Moderate and Low Performing Elementary Schools

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Christopher,Sebulita (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1997
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 78 p

49. Sediments and Shadows: Identity and Colonialism in the United States Virgin Islands

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: James Gonzalez,Gertrude Maria (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 2000
Published:: Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 201 p

50. Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hall,Neville A. T. (Author) and Higman,B. W. (Author)
Format:: Monograph
Publication Date:: 1992
Published:: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 287 p

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