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2. Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pamphile,Leon D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 238 p., Study of the relations between Haiti and black America from the colonial period to the present, the author shows how historical ties between these two communities of the African diaspora have affected their respective histories, cultures and community lives. R
3. Los Raperos Rap, Race, and Social Transformation in Contemporary Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Perry,Marc David (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 335 p.
4. Crossroads of the World - Transatlantic Interrelations in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Timm,Birte (Author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2012-11
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 1-4
- Notes:
- The article reports on a conference on the history of the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean regions, held in Berlin, Germany, from July 2-3, 2012. Topics of discussion included creole and African diasporic identities, racism, nationalism, and ethnic relations in Caribbean states such as Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, and migration.
5. The Cuban Monetary and Financial Jigsaw Puzzle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alejandro,Pavel Vidal (Author)
- Format:
- Internet resource
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2010
- Published:
- Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos
- Notes:
- 7 p., The 2008-09 balance of payments crisis and a succession of errors in economic policies have resulted in new monetary and financial complications in the Cuban economy, to be added to the costs and distortions of currency duality.
6. Cuba: Routine Repression: Political Short-term Detentions and Harassment in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Amnesty International (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2012
- Published:
- Amnesty International Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Amnesty International Publications
- Notes:
- Index number: AMR 25/007/2012, 18 p., Criticism of the government is not tolerated in Cuba, and it is routinely punished with arbitrary and short-term detentions, intimidation, harassment, and politically motivated criminal prosecutions. Amnesty International makes recommendations to the Cuban government aimed at ensuring greater respect for the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, and movement.
7. Restrictions on Freedom of Expression in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Amnesty International (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2010
- Published:
- Amnesty International Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Amnesty International Publications
- Notes:
- Index number: AMR 25/005/2010, 35 p., In Cuba the state has a virtual monopoly of press and broadcast media and tight restrictions apply to the internet. Anyone who expresses views critical of the government runs the risk of harassment, arbitrary detention, and criminal prosecution. With dozens of prisoners of conscience continuing to serve long prison sentences in Cuba for exercising freedom of expression, Amnesty International calls on the authorities to stop the harassment and intimidation of dissidents, release prisoners of conscience, amend repressive legislation, and enable greater exchange of information through the internet and other media. Tables.
8. Legislative Background on U.S.-Cuba Policy: Recent Action by Congress on Trade and Travel to Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anon.,Anon (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2013
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Congressional Digest Corporation
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Congressional Digest
- Journal Title Details:
- 92(7)
- Notes:
- In Apr 2009, shortly after taking office, Pres Barack Obama signaled that he was open to a new dialogue with Cuba. At remarks delivered at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, the President said that the US seeks a new beginning with Cuba. Earlier that year, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had welcomed an offer for talks from Cuban President Raul Castro, who took over duties from his ailing brother Fidel Castro in 2006 and subsequently was elected president by the Cuban National Assembly in 2008. Castro reportedly said that he was willing "discuss anything" with the US Government. Here, the US-Cuba policy is discussed. Adapted from the source document.
9. Environmental justice in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bell,Karen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2011
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Critical Social Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(2) : 241-265
- Notes:
- 'Environmental justice' refers to the human right to a healthy and safe environment, a fair share of natural resources, access to environmental information and participation in environmental decision-making. Some analysts have argued that environmental justice is undermined by the political economy of capitalism. This paper builds on this analysis by evaluating the environmental justice situation in Cuba, a country where there is little capitalist influence. Evidence is based on participant observation and interviews in Cuba, as well as secondary quantitative data. The research findings suggest that Cuba fares relatively well in terms of environmental justice, but still faces a number of challenges regarding the quality of its environment and some aspects of the environmental decision-making process. However, many of its ongoing problems can be attributed to global capitalist pressures.
10. Seizing the Opportunity to Expand People to People Contacts
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Beszterczey,Dora (Author), Fernandez,Damian J. (Author), and Gomez,Andy S. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Aug 2010
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Latin America Initiative at Brookings
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 5 p., Last year, President Obama delivered the first step in his promise to reach out to the Cuban people and support their desire for freedom and self-determination. Premised on the belief that Cuban Americans are the best ambassadors for freedom in Cuba, the Obama administration lifted restrictions on travel and remittances by Cuban Americans; however, if US policy is to be truly forward looking it must further expand its focus from the Castro government to the well-being of the Cuban people. Tables.
11. Turf Wars: Local Context and Latino Political Development
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bishin,Benjamin G. (Author), Kaufmann,Karen M. (Author), and Stevens,Daniel (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Urban Affairs Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(1) : 111-137
- Notes:
- Examines the voting behavior of Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics in two Florida counties. The group position thesis holds that status inequalities and perceived discrimination yield out-group hostilities that can influence political behavior. In Miami, where Cubans are dominant, we expect non-Cuban Latinos to report greater pan-Latino competition and that anti-Cuban attitudes will influence non-Cuban Hispanic voting. In Tampa, where non-Cuban Latinos live in communities where Cubans are not dominant, we expect lower levels of perceived competition and Cuban-related attitudes to be inconsequential to the vote. The results confirm that power relations in the local arena constitute an important influence on the political behavior of Latino immigrants.
12. The Political Incorporation of Cuban Americans: Why Won't Little Havana Turn Blue?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bishin,Benjamin G. (Author) and Klofstad,Casey A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Political Research Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 65(3) : 586-599
- Notes:
- This article examines the political implications of the changing demographics of the Cuban American community. Over the past decade, pundits have predicted a massive shift in Cuban American voting behavior owing to demographic changes in the community. The authors find evidence that the attitudes of Cuban Americans have undergone significant changes, driven largely by the increased number of post-Mariel (1980) immigrants. The authors also find, however, that these dramatic changes have not yet been reflected at the ballot box, nor are they likely to be soon, owing to the slow process of immigrant political incorporation.
13. 'Hay que seguir luchando': struggles that shaped English language learning of four Cuban immigrant women
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Butcher,John S. (Author) and Townsend,Jane S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2011
- Published:
- Abingdon UK: Routledge Journals/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(7) : 829-856
- Notes:
- Newly arrived from Cuba, Angelica, Dora, Marina, and Damaris attempted to negotiate new surroundings and immigrant identities, building a sense of home for themselves and their families. Data from qualitative interviews, classroom observations, and focus group conversations revealed hopes that by acquiring English language skills, they would improve their quality of life in their new country. Struggles included personal factors situated in their pasts in Cuba and their new surrounds in the Miami Cuban exile enclave, contexts that were further complicated by uncertain expectations of new lives in Miami and the overwhelming task of learning a new language at a local adult education center.
14. Polished Hoe: A Novel
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clarke,Austin (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 462 p., On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.
15. Cuba: Education and Revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- De Quesada,Ricardo Alarcon (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2011
- Published:
- New York, NY: Monthly Review Foundation
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Monthly Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 63(6) : 136-142
- Notes:
- In 1795, Father Jose Agustin Caballero presented the first project for the creation of a system of public education for all the inhabitants of the island of Cuba. It was a visionary idea, but impossible to carry out at that time. The island was a colonial possession of the Spanish Crown, and most of the population was subjected to slavery or made up of Mestizos and freed blacks, the victims of segregation and racial discrimination.
16. Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dubinsky,Karen (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 204 p., International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, the author considers the political symbolism of children in an examination of adoption and migration controversies in North America, Cuba, and Guatemala. The book tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose 'disappearance' today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from extensive research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, the author aims to move adoption debates beyond the current dichotomy of 'imperialist kidnap' versus 'humanitarian rescue.'.
17. This spot of ground : Spiritual Baptists in Toronto
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Duncan,Carol B. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 275 p, Research Setting -- Study as a "Talking Book" -- Travessao -- Book Overview -- 1. "A Passport to Heaven's Gate" -- "Heaven's Gate": Canada in the North American and Caribbean Black Imaginary -- Church-Ship: Spiritual Voyaging -- Spiritual Baptists in Multicultural Canada: Considering Religious and National Identities in Migration -- Countercultures of Modernity and the Problem of Multiculturalism -- Historical Overview of Multiculturalism in Canada -- Multiculturalism in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Spiritual Baptist Perceptions and Experiences of Multiculturalism in Canada -- 2. "This Spot of Ground": The Emergence of Spiritual Baptists in Toronto -- Origins of the Spiritual Baptist Church in the Caribbean -- "This Spot of Ground": The Spiritual Baptist Church as "Homeplace" in Toronto -- Founding of the First Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto (1975-1980) -- Toronto Spiritual Baptist Church Organization -- 3. "So Spiritually, So Carnally": Spiritual Baptist Ritual, Theology, and the Everyday World in Toronto -- "So Carnally, So Spiritually" -- Ritual as Performance and Social Commentary -- Joining the Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto -- Coming to Canada -- Work Experiences -- "It Hurt Me Feelings": Naming Racism -- "I Say You Can Call Me 'Damn Bitch' ... Just Don't Call Me 'Madam'!": Challenging Sexist Racism -- Church as Community: Support Networks in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- 4. "Africaland": "Africa" In Toronto Spiritual Baptist Experience -- Africaland -- Sacred Space and Place in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Sacred Time in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Travelling to Africaland -- Africa as Eden -- Africaland and the African Diaspora -- 5. "Dey Give Me a House to Gather in Di Chil'ren": Mothers and Daughters in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Overview of Domestic Service in Canada -- Mothers of the Church -- Family in the Spirit: Extended Family in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- "If You Don't Come to Me, I'm Coming to You": Ancestral Mother -- "Dey Give Me a House to Gather in di Chil'ren": Spiritual Mother/Carnal Mother -- "God Has Work for You to Do": Nation Mother -- "It Makes You Feel Like Home": Spiritual Daughter -- 6. Aunt(Y) Jemima in Toronto Spiritual Baptist Experiences: Spiritual Mother Or Servile Woman? -- "Seeing" Aunt Jemima -- (Re)Turning the Gaze on Aunt(y) Jemima -- Re-reading Aunt(y) Jemima and the Creole Woman -- Tie-head Woman -- Head-ties and the Social Construction of Identity -- "To Pick It Up and Take It Forward''.
18. Remittances and Their Unintended Consequences in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Eckstein,Susan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2010
- Published:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- World Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(7) : 1047-1055
- Notes:
- After Soviet aid and trade ended Cuba was forced to reintegrate into the capitalist world economy. Needing hard currency, the government transformed the diaspora into a dollar attaining strategy, by facilitating and tacitly encouraging remittance-sending. Ordinary Cubans themselves wanted remittances to finance a lifestyle they could not otherwise afford. Despite their shared interest in remittances, the government increasingly appropriated remittances at recipients' expense.
19. A Cuban Policy Approach to Sex Education
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Espin,Mariela Castro (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Cuban Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 23-34
- Notes:
- Initiatives in the field of sexology and sex education in prerevolutionary Cuba are barely known, as continuity between those experiences and the work carried out during the years following the 1959 revolution have not been researched. The founding of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), however, must be considered the product of a long process of political maturity on the part of Cuban women during the first half of the twentieth century, and in the broader context of the FMC, the developments in the fields of sexology and sex education over the past fifty years also must be considered. Drawing on FMC archival holdings, this article sets out a periodization of the four main stages of the revolutionary period of institutionalizing sex education in Cuba, as well as its main challenges.
20. Changes in the Economic Model and Social Policies in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Espina Prieto,Mayra (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2011
- Published:
- New York, NY: North American Congress on Latin America, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- NACLA Report on the Americas
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(4) : 13-15
- Notes:
- Reforms proposed at the Sixth Communist Party Congress represent a new, third phase of social policy in post-revolutionary Cuba. This new stage has the potential to strengthen social equity in Cuba, improve the socio-economic situation of disparate social groups, and overcome the old limitations of social policy. Yet it could also increase inequality, and at least in the short term, its predicted impacts will be contradictory and ambivalent.