Conde,Maryse (Author) and Richard Philcox (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York, NY: Soho
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
348 p, A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
308 p, Contents: Reputation & respectability reconsidered : a new perspective on Afro-Caribbean peasant women / Jean Besson -- Marriage & concubinage among the Sephardic merchant élite of Curaçao / Eva Abraham-Van der Mark -- Changing roles in the life cycles of women in traditional West Indian houseyards / Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher -- Women's place is every place : merging domains and women's roles in Barbuda & Dominica / Riva Berleant-Schiller and William M. Maurer -- Women in Guadeloupe : the paradoxes of reality / Huguette Dagenais -- The development & role of women's political organizations in Guyana / Linda Peake -- Neighbourhood networks & national politics among working-class Afro-Surinamese women / Rosemary Brana-Shute -- The migration experience : Nevisian women at home & abroad / Karen Fog Olwig -- Migration, development & the gender division of labour : Puerto Rico & Margarita Island, Venezuela / Janice Monk with the late Charles S. Alexander -- Small farm food production & gender in Barbados / Christine Barrow -- A profile of Grenadian women small farmers / John S. Brierley -- Women in agriculture in Trinidad : an overview / Indra S. Harry -- Women & Cuban smallholder agriculture in transition / Jean Stubbs -- Development & gender divisions of labour in the rural Eastern Caribbean / Janet H. Momsen -- Transformation in the needle trades : women in garment & textile production in early twentieth-century Trinidad / Rhoda Reddock -- Gender & ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory / Kevin A. Yelvington -- Women's contribution to tourism in Negril, Jamaica / Lesley McKay -- Gender & new technology in the Caribbean : new work for women? / Ruth Pearson
Maier,Elizabeth (Author) and Lebon,Nathalie (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
375 p, Contributors explore the emergence of the area’s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Includes Helen Safa's "Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic ";
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
159 p., Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years. Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families, in particular with relation to attachment issues.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
236 p, Concludes that Peruvians of African descent give meaning to blackness without always referencing Africa, slavery, or black cultural forms. This represents a significant counterpoint to diaspora scholarship that points to the importance of slavery in defining blackness in Latin America as well as studies that place cultural and class differences at the center of racial discourses in the region.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
236 p., Addresses what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this ground breaking study explains how ideas of race, colour, and mestizaje in Peru differ greatly from those held in other Latin American nations.
