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2. Bridging the gaps: faith-based organizations, neoliberalism, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hefferan,Tara (Editor), Adkins,Julie (Editor), and Occhipinti,Laurie (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 238 p.
- Notes:
- Includes /Bretton Alvaré's "Fighting for 'livity': Rastafari politics in a neoliberal state" and Tara L. Hefferan's "Encouraging development 'alternatives': grassroots church partnering in the U.S. and Haiti"
3. Geographies of the Haitian diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Regine O. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 317 p., Includes descriptive ethnographies of Haitians in 19th century Jamaica, eastern Cuba, Detroit, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Paris, and Boston, and innovative scholarly work on non-geographic sites of Haitian community building.
4. Revolution! : the Atlantic world reborn
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bender,Thomas (Editor), Dubois,Laurent (Editor), and Rabinowitz,Richard (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- London; New York: D Giles Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 287 p, A season of revolutions : the United States, France, and Haiti / Thomas Bender -- Insurgents before independence : the revolution of the American people / T.H. Breen -- A port in the storm : Philadelphia's commerce during the Atlantic revolution era / Cathy Matson -- Atlantic revolutions and the age of abolitionism / David Brion Davis and Peter P. Hinks -- The achievement of the Haitian revolution, 1791-1804 / Robin Blackburn -- An African revolutionary in the Atlantic world / Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott -- Liberty in black, white, and color : a trans-Atlantic debate / Jeremy D. Popkin -- A vapor of dread : observations on racial terror and vengeance in the age of revolution / Vincent Brown -- One woman, three revolutions : Rosalie of the Poulard nation / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- The 1804 Haitian revolution / Jean Casimir -- Curating history's silences : the Revolution exhibition / Richard Rabinowitz.; Explores, largely through illustrations, how three globally influential revolutions transformed politics and culture between 1763 and 1816, from the triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.; Time: Geschichte 1763-1815. 1700 - 1804
5. The Haitian potential: research and resources of Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rubin,Vera D. (Editor) and Schaedel,Richard P. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1975
- Published:
- New York, NY: Teachers College Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 284 p, Contents: Creation of a research and documentation center for Haiti / Ernst T. Brea -- Demographic statistics in Haiti / Robert Bazile -- Social anthropology : recent research and recent needs / Rémy Bastien -- Observations on family and kinship organization in Haiti / Caroline J. Legerman -- The concept of community development in Haiti and Venezuela / Richard P. Schaedel -- Africanism in New World Negro music / Alan Lomax -- The language situation in Haiti / Albert Valdman -- Literacy and the question of Creole / Paul Berry -- Primary education in Haiti / Kléber Viélot -- Nutrition research in Haiti / Kendall W. King -- Recent research in public health in Haiti / Pierre Noel -- A research model on trance and possession states in Haitian Vodun / Emerson Douyon -- Research and resources in psychiatry in Haiti / Ari Kiev -- Haiti and its institutions : from colonial times to 1957 / Max H. Dorsinville -- Reflections on the Haitian labor force / François Latortue -- Research problems and perspectives of the Haitian civil service / Serge Vieux
6. Zora in Florida
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Glassman,Steve (Editor) and Seidel,Kathryn Lee (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 197 p, Zora in Florida focuses on the place that nurtured and inspired her work, the frontier wilderness of central Florida and the all-black town of Eatonville. Two chapters are devoted to her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, set almost entirely in Florida. Includes Barbara Speisman's "Voodoo as symbol in Jonah's gourd vine." Also treats Hurston's lesser-known works such as Tell My Horse, her first-person account of fieldwork in Haiti.