Adekunle,Julius (Editor) and Williams,Hettie V. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
334 p., A volume of 16 essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity of the African Diaspora in global perspective. Focuses on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Animan Akassi,Clément (Editor) and Lavou,Victorien (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Spanish, English, and French
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
358 p., Contents include "The africans and afrodescendants who constructed Veracruz and the jarocho ethos 1521-1778" by Marco Polo Hernàndez-Cuevas; (Re)presentacién afro-panameria en pensamientos del negro cubena: pensamiento afro-panameûo de Carlos Guillermo 'Cubena' Wilson" by Laverne M. Seales-Saley; "Mâs allâ del 'folklore': bunde y bullerengue, ritmos africanos de liberacién en Panamà" by Xiomara Aldeano-Bolton; "Repensando los movimientos sociales afrodescendientes en las Américas y el espacio Caribe" by Jesiis "Chucho" Garcia; "Negrismo and négritude: reflection on two poetics of Caribbean cultural identity" by Mamadou Badiane; "Politicas culturales, la formacién de la identidad hispano-africana y el hombre y la costumbre" by Elisa Rizo; "Movimientos culturales y politicos Afroperuanos entre los arios 1980-2000" by Alexis Rossemond;
Special journal issue., 118 p., Contents: Introduction / Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi -- H(h)istoire et (inter)subjectivité dans les romans de V.Y. Mudimbe / Kasereka Kavwahirehi -- L'histoire et le roman par surprise dans Mes hommes à moi de Ken Bugul / Justin Bisanswa -- La liberté littéraire: Assia Djebr entre roman et histoire / Nicholas Harrison -- Palimpseste et métafiction historiographique: une lecture d'Un dimanche au cachot de Patrick Chamoiseau / Bernadette Cailler -- Durables par-delà leur éphémère sarclage: discontinuité historique et perennité dans Le quatrième siècle d'Édouard Glissant / Samia Kassab-Charfi -- Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique de Abdourahman Waberi: narration dialogique ou dialectique? / Anjali Prabhu -- Comment parler du génocide? Comment ne pas en parler?: Murambi, le livre des ossements de Boubacar Boris Diop / Mildred Mortimer -- Histoire et création littéraire: je suis ne quant j'avais 16 an le 8 Mai 1945 / Amina Azza Bekkat -- Francis Goyet, Les audaces de la prudence: littérature et politique aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles / Ullrich Langer.
Korieh,Chima J. (Editor) and Okeke-Ihejirika,Philomina E. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
New York: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Most of the papers in this volume were initially presented at the second international conference of the Transatlantic Research Group ... from July 28-30, 2006 at the Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria., 291 p., Probes the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. Includes Faye V. Harrison's "Building solidarities for human rights: diasporic women as agents of transformation," Jerome Teelucksingh's "The United States media and Caribbean gender relations" and Kelly E. Hayes' "The dark side of the feminine: Pomba Gira spirits in Brazil."
Falola,Toyin (Editor), Afolabi,Niyi (Editor), and Adesanya,Aderonke A. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
492 p., Includes Akintunde Akinyemi's "Transnational displacement and cultural continuity : the survival of Yorùbá religious poetry in the Americas," Niyi Afolabi's "Milton Nascimento's Missa dos Quilombos: musical invocation, race, and liberation," Christopher Adejumo's "Migration and slavery as paradigms in the aesthetic transformation of Yoruba art in the Americas," Ann Albuyeh's "'Africa speaks in me': how the diaspora shaped the languages of the Caribbean, then and now," Raphael Chijioke Njoku's "Symbols and meanings of Igbo masquerades and carnivals of the Black diaspora," and Ray A. Kea's "Religion, texts, and conversion in the eighteenth-century Danish West Indies : questions of self-identity and self-determination."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
359 p., Examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. Includes Lewin L. Williams' "A theological perspective on the effects of globalization on poverty in Pan-African Contexts" and Noel Leo Erskine's "Caribbean issues : the Caribbean and African American Churches' response."
Ojo,Olatunji (Editor), Lovejoy,Paul E. (Editor), and Hunt,Nadine (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
London: I.B. Tauris
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Most of the chapters in this book derive from conference papers presented at the Canadian Association for African Studies (CAAS) Annual Meeting and Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa in May 2010., 224 p, Based on Jamaican and African archival sources, analysis demonstrates how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European, and Islamic systems of slavery.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
224 p., Analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European, and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources.
Special issue of the journal Daedalus., 205 p., Twelve noted international scholars examine selected significant aspects of the historical and contemporary experience of black peoples in the Americas and Africa.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
248 p., Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.
