African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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191 p, "[E]xplores the articulation of diasporic consciousness in two domains of post-colonial diaspora discourse: cultural critical theory and literature. Examined in the domain of cultural critical theory is a corpus of writings produced by Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer and Homi Bhabha. The literary texts examined are Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen, Joan Riley's The Unbelonging, Marlene Nourbese Philip's Harriet's Daughter, and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine." (author)
2 vols, 602 p., Draws from a variety of fields and methodologies to study the art and ritual of Afro-Cuban religion in New Jersey and New York, as practiced by white and black Cubans from four periods of immigration/exile. It begins, however, by tracing the history of defining Lucumi (Cuban Yoruba) images, symbols, and institutions from the colonial period (ends 1898) through the first half of the 20th century. The balance of the dissertation focuses on the New York Metropolitan Area of the 1980s. The work explores how Afro-Cuban religion has evolved and flourished in relation to particular U.S. urban settings: how it has shaped and has been shaped by those settings, e.g., Union City, New Jersey and Manhattan.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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256 p, Examines the situational determinants which influenced migration from the West Indies and the adaptation process and identification of two groups of immigrants from Jamaica who arrived in the United States (a) between 1920 and 1940 (early immigrants) and (b) between 1960 and 1975 (recent immigrants).
