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2. African American folktales: stories from Black traditions in the New World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Abrahams,Roger D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New York: Pantheon Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Originally published: Afro-American folktales. c1985., 327 p, These tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early nineteenth century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.
3. Another Angle: Human Football - The Cuban/American Battle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Culvert,Edward R. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-12-15
- Published:
- Jamaica, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New Voice of New York, Inc.
- Journal Title Details:
- 37 : 11
- Notes:
- The news media showed pictures of the immediate family and family friends. What I found amazing is that it appears that only light-skinned Cubans are trying to escape from their homeland. I saw the Cuban basketball team in the late Olympics. I have also seen pictures of Cubans in a television special one by Harry Belafonte. What I saw were dark-skinned Cubans having the time of their lives. It made me wonder, in light of what I have been told by African people living in Florida, that the light-skinned Cubans are more racist that some southerners. What is really going on in Cuba, and what is this Elian Gonzales issue about? The more I got into thinking this way, the more questions were raised. Why are most of the people trying to escape from Cuba light-skinned? Why are the majority of the athletics in the Olympics dark-skinned? The women's basketball team and the volleyballs teams were the bomb. They were some big, pretty sisters. I also thought of the Haitians. Why are Haitians sent back to Haiti and Cubans allowed to stay in America? They are both supposedly oppressed people. The Haitians are dark and the Cubans, who are trying to escape, light. Is there something more than meets the eye?
4. Black identities: West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Waters,Mary C. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New York Cambridge Mass.: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 413 p, The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children. She finds that when the immigrants first arrive, their knowledge of English, their skills and contacts, their self-respect, and their optimistic assessment of American race relations facilitate their integration into the American economic structure
5. Black women writers: Revolutionaries of the word
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McClean,Marva (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-02-28
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 3 : 14
- Notes:
- Works like Wheatley's and [Harriet Jacobs]' remind us how important it is to document our history with authenticity. History tells us of the need to write our own stories in our own words, for accuracy, for validation. And this is exactly why writers like Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Alice Walker and Louise Bennett Coverly (Jamaica) have revolutionized the written word and established themselves as role models for all of us. Positive images. Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker uses the word "womanist" in her works to refer to the liberation of black women. Through her famous novel "The Color Purple" and other works, she has revolutionized literature in the New World and given great insights into the traditions, beliefs, history, and values of people of African ancestry. The central theme in all of her work becomes the flower of hope that grows out of all despair. Black women writers have created for us a window to the world through which we can make real-life connections. From them we have received portraits in courage and a validation of ourselves. Their words constantly remind us that hope is eternal and that beauty can rise from adversity, as is so aptly expressed in the poignant declaration by Maya Angelou, the first female to read at a U.S. presidential inauguration, "And still I rise."
6. Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Schwab,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New York: St. Martins Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 226 p
7. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Persons,Georgia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 7
- Notes:
- 313 p, Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyse manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists; "A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists"
8. Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Scott-Childress,Reynolds J. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1999.
- Published:
- New York.: Garland Press.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 391
- Notes:
- Santiago-Valles, Kelvin. (chapter) "The Sexual Appeal of Racial Differences: US Travel Writing and Anxious American-ness in Tuirn of the Century Puerto Rico."
9. Reflections of U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Knutson,April Ane (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Nature, Society & Thought
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(1) : 115-124
- Notes:
- The history of Haiti began with the historic defeat of French imperialism and the establishment of the first Black republic in world history but has degenerated into tragic maldevelopment under U.S. imperialism, including two periods of military occupation. Haitian literature, especially in novels written by women, reflects the racist and sexist oppression of the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean.
10. Still Longing for de Old Plantation': The Visual Parodies and Racial National Imaginary of US Overseas Expansionism, 1898-1903
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Santiago-Valles,Kelvin (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- October, 1999
- Published:
- Washington, DC: George Washington University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Studies International
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(3) : 18-41