African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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517 p., Focuses on the period after the Second World War, when a significant number of Caribbean countries gained their independence, and the character of the region's post-colonial politics had become clear. The survey of political thought in this collection is divided into four sections: theories of the post-colonial state, theorizing post-colonial citizenship, Caribbean regionalism and political culture.
Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies Arizona State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Papers presented at a conference, October 31, 1986, Arizona State University; sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona Council for the Social Studies, Arizona Humanities Council., 133 p., Contents: Caribbean and Central American literature and art / Emil Volek -- Caribbean alternatives, Cuba and Puerto Rico / Juan M. Garcia Passalacqua -- The novel of the Cuban revolution, phase five, 1975-1986 / Seymor Menton -- The role of women in Cuba / K. Lynn Stoner -- Central American alternatives, Nicaragua and Costa Rica / Jennie K. Lincoln -- United States relations with Central America and the Caribbean / Thomas L. Karnes.
Lansford,Jennifer (Editor), Deater-Deckard (Editor), and Kirby D. Bornstein, Marc H. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
New York: Guilford Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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236 p, How do some families successfully negotiate the linguistic, cultural, and psychological challenges of immigration, while others struggle to acculturate? This timely volume explores the complexities of immigrant family life in North America and analyzes the individual and contextual factors that influence health and well-being. Synthesizing cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, the book addresses such key topics as child development, school achievement, and the cultural and religious contexts of parenting. It examines the interface between families and broader systems, including schools, social services, and intervention programs, and discusses how practices and policies might be improved to produce optimal outcomes for this large and diverse population; Includes bibliographical references and index
Lavou,Victorien (Editor) and Marty,Marlène (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Contributions in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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445 p., Discussions that took place during the conference organized from 9 to 11 May 2007 by the Group for Research and Studies on Blacks Latin America (GRENAL -CRILAUP) around issues of race. Highlights various forms of racial bias, whether assumed or openly transfigured, conscious or unconscious.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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268 p., In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. Includes Carolyn Cooper's
"Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting," Paula C. Barnes "Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition," and Erna Brodber's "Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols."
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.
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335 p., An anthology of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features selections of work by 14 poets, with interviews, photographs and essays. Authors: Louise Bennett (b. 1919) -- Martin Carter (b. 1927) -- Derek Walcott (b. 1930) -- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) -- Dennis Scott (b. 1939) -- Mervyn Morris (b. 1937) -- James Berry (b. 1924) -- E.A. Markham (b. 1939) -- Olive Senior (b. 1943) -- Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) -- Linton Kwesi Johnson (b. 1952) -- Michael Smith (1954-83) -- Grach Nichols (b. 1950) -- Fred D'Aguiar.
