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    1. Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Whitten,Norman E., Jr. (Editor) and Torres,Arlene (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    Bloomington.: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    2 vols., If we are to understand the meanings of "blackness" in the African diaspora and elsewhere, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emerged over the past five centuries out of Euro-American racism and black liberation. So argue the editors of these seminal volumes that add immeasurably to our understanding of black experiences in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean while establishing new research directions.

    2. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Knight,Franklin W. (Editor) and Gates,Henry Louis, Jr. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2016-01-01
    Published:
    New York, NY: Oxford University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    6 vols., Provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant. Covers the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Individuals are drawn from all walks of life including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to the history of the Caribbean and Latin America.

    3. Embrace the wide African Diaspora and all its faces

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Swain,Jeffrey (Author)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 13-Mar 19, 2014
    Published:
    Coral Springs, FL
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    South Florida Times
    Journal Title Details:
    11 : 4A
    Notes:
    Blacks and Latinos have numerous historical connections. The moors of North Africa occupied Spain from about 700-1400 A.D., about the time of the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Additionally, the slave trade which began with [Henry Louis Gates] the Navigator flourished from the 1440s, taking Africans into Portugal and Spain as servants. Many conquistadors of the New World brought with them free men of African ancestry. Finally, the Transatlantic Slave Trade sealed Afro-Hispanic connections as slaves intermingled voluntarily and involuntarily with their captors, creating variations in our color palate. Thus, our connections are longstanding. My point is that the African Diaspora experience, as was evidenced on Oscar night, is diverse and includes influences of blacks in Europe, Africa and all the Americas and the Caribbean. There are strands of the Diaspora in the Middle East, including Arab nations, and in places as unlikely as Mexico and China. So, blacks in America must begin to embrace our global heritage and we must also learn that our experiences are not superior but mere pieces of a wider tapestry of "colors." All are worth celebrating, researching and understanding. We are one great people cast to the winds by emigration and immigration, historical slavery, war, racial mixing and chance.

    5. Spirited things : the work of "possession" in Afro-Atlantic religions

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Johnson,Paul C. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2014
    Published:
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    344 p., Essays that reopen the concept of possession in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped--and continue to shape--the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things--including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph--as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.