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2. Beyond slavery: the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Davis,Darien J. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 289 p, explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, this innovative work also highlights places such as Rio de La Plata and Central America, where the African legacy has been important but little studied.
3. Migrations and creative expressions in Africa and the African diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- 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."
4. Recharting the Black Atlantic: modern cultures, local communities, global connections
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Oboe,Annalisa (Editor) and Scacchi,Anna (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 423 p., Focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. Includes Judith M. Williams' "Néritude as performance practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black experimental theatre," Richard Follett's "The spirit of Brazil: football and the politics of Afro-Brazilian cultural identity," Dorothea Fischer-Hornung's "Transbodied/transcultured : moving spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean," Elvira Pulitano's "Re-mapping Caribbean land(sea)scapes: aquatic metaphors and transatlantic homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound," and Antoinette Tidjani Alou's "Marine origins and anti-marine tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart."
5. Reconceptualizations of the African diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ball,Erica (Editor), Pappademos,Melina (Editor), and Stephens,Michelle Ann (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Special journal issue; Issue 103 of Radical history review, Winter 2009., 246 p., Addresses transnational discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in African diaspora politics, African diaspora experiences on the African continent, the politics of African-descended peoples in Europe, and creative uses of the discourses of memory and diaspora to support political organizing and local struggles. Essays on Venezuelans, Bolivians, and Mexicans address the status of race in the study of African-descended populations and cultures in Latin America.