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201. Greater China in an era of globalization

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Guo,Sujian (Editor) and Guo,Baogang (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 233 p., Examines China's rise, its role in the greater China region, and its influence in other regions of the world. Includes William Vlcek's "Development--great and small: "Greater China," small Caribbean islands and offshore finance."

202. Green Reconstruction: Laying a Firm Foundation for Haiti's Recovery

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hendricks,Bracken (Author), Christensen,Aimee (Author), and Toussaint,Ronald (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Oct 2010
Published:: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Innovations (Innovations)
Journal Title Details:: 5(4) : 129-141
Notes:: Part of a special journal issue dedicated to strategies for societal renewal in Haiti., The global community has an obligation to ensure that the reconstruction of Haiti's infrastructure increases economic resilience by adding value to existing assets and reducing vulnerability to external shocks, whether from natural disasters like earthquakes or man-made crises like spiking energy prices. This paper highlights a strategy for coordination across the development process, identifying the roles different partner groups can play, and identifying several priorities for that coordinated effort as the rebuilding process gets underway.

203. Haiti Earthquake: Crisis and Response

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Margesson,Rhoda (Author) and Taft-Morales,Maureen (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-02-02
Published:: Congressional Research Reports for the People
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 56 p., The largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti devastated parts of the country, including the capital, on January 12, 2010; and an estimated 3 million people, approximately one third of the overall population, have been affected by the earth quake, leaving an estimated 112,000 deaths and 194,000 injured. President Barack Obama assembled heads of US agencies to establish a coordinated response to the disaster; and Congressional concerns include budget priorities and oversight, burden-sharing, immigration, tax incentives for charitable donations, trade preferences for Haiti, and helping constituents find missing persons, speed pending adoptions, and contribute to relief efforts.

204. Haiti Relief: An International Effort Enabled through Air, Space, and Cyberspace

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Fraser,Douglas M. (Author) and Hertzelle,Wendell S. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Jan 2010
Published:: Maxwell AFB, AL: CADRE/ARJ
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Air & Space Power Journal
Journal Title Details:: 24(4) : 5-12
Notes:: On 12 January 2010, Haiti experienced a 7.0-magnitude earthquake centered 10 miles west-southwest of Port-au-Prince. United Nations estimates indicate that more than 222,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured, and 2.3 million displaced by the earthquake and its 59 aftershocks. At dawn on 13 January, under the direction of United States Southern Command, elements of the Department of Defense arrived to support the Government of Haiti and the US Embassy. The command established Headquarters Joint Task Force-Haiti, with the mission of carrying out humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief operations in support of the United States Agency for International Development, the principal federal agency for the US effort.

205. Haiti Six Months On

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Ferris,Elizabeth (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-07-12
Published:: Brookings Institution
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 7 p., Six months after the devastating Haitian earthquake left more than 200,000 people dead, more than a million homeless, and a massive reconstruction task ahead, this short article comments on one particular aspect of response to the Haitian earthquake which has received little attention in the media and which bridges the immediate relief and long-term reconstruction efforts: the question of temporary shelter and permanent housing.

206. Haiti and the Historical Construction of Disasters

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Oliver-Smith,Anthony (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Jul 2010
Published:: New York, NY: North American Congress on Latin America, Inc.
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: NACLA Report on the Americas
Journal Title Details:: 43(4) : 32-36
Notes:: Disasters are not accidents or acts of God. They are deeply rooted in the histories of the societies in which they occur. Haiti's earthquake may be thought of as a disaster 500 years in the making.

207. Haiti's Excluded: How the Earthquake Aid Regime Sidelines Those It Is Supposed to Help

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lindsay,Reed (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010-03-29
Published:: New York, NY: The Nation Company
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Nation
Journal Title Details:: 290(12) : 18-22
Notes:: The problems associated with disaster relief assistance following the Haitian earthquake are described. International aid groups have been ineffective in reaching victims of the earthquake, as the poor administration of relief money has inadequately helped feed the population.

208. Haiti: After the Earthquake -- Initial Mission Findings, March 2010

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Amnesty International (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: Mar 2010
Published:: Amnesty International Publications
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 16 p., An Amnesty International delegation visited Haiti to assess ongoing human rights concerns stemming from the humanitarian crisis caused by the earthquake of 12 January 2010. In particular, the delegation investigated human rights issues relating to the protection of groups at risk, mostly women and children, in and outside makeshift camps of displaced people. Tables.

209. Haiti: Aftershocks

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Heymann,David L. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Feb 2010
Published:: London, UK: Royal Institute of International Affairs
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The World Today
Journal Title Details:: 66(2) : 4-6
Notes:: Hundreds of thousands are likely to have died, millions are in need, their homes having been lost. Many wait for medical care. Safe water is in short supply and the rainy season starts in May. Could it have been different in Haiti? Would good planning have eased the pain of the shocks?

210. Haiti: Geopolitical Turmoil in the Wake of the Earthquake

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gauthier,Amelie (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: Apr 2010
Published:: Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 6 p., As well as being one of the worst natural disasters in history, the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010 exposed the developmental shortcomings of the poorest country in America and had repercussions on its foreign relations and internal policy. As the damage is still being assessed and the debates carry on regarding the reconstruction agenda, this report looks at the international response to the humanitarian catastrophe and its effects on the country's domestic political agenda.

211. Haiti: Stabilisation and Reconstruction after the Quake

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: International Crisis Group (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-03-31
Published:: International Crisis Group
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 23 p., Argues that now is the moment to lift Haiti from under the dust and rubble and transform it into a less vulnerable and more equitable nation. The opportunity must not be lost.

212. Haiti: The Stakes of the Post-Quake Elections

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: International Crisis Group (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-10-27
Published:: International Crisis Group
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 26 p., Argues that if the electoral process is to be as transparent, non-violent and widely participated in as it needs to be, the Haitian government must meet a higher standard than ever before, and the UN, regional organizations and donors like the U.S., Canada, the EU and Brazil must urgently press for this and expand support.

213. Haiti: the US and Military Aid in Times of Natural Disaster

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Garcia Encina,Carlota (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: May 2010
Published:: Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 6 p., This paper analyses the US military deployment in Haiti after the earthquake of 12 January, which caused catastrophic damage in the poorest country in the Americas. Haiti's request, the US took the lead in directing rescue operations and coordinating an aid campaign with the United Nations and the international community. The US also had its own reasons for coming to the rescue of the Haitian people. However, its military deployment has not been without criticism inside and outside the region.

214. Haitian bookstore claims its place in history

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Scott,Shantrell (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 14-Jul 20, 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Miami Times
Journal Title Details:: 46 : 15B
Notes:: "There was a real need for a facility like this back in the 1990's," [Jan Mapou] said. "Young people needed to be more aware of their Haitian heritage . . . their real heritage." The bookstore is best known for its excellent collection of Haitian literature much of which is written by Mapou and his advocate group, Sosyete Koukouy, which means "Society of Fire Flies." There are also learning booklets, Bibles translated in French and Creole, folklore novels, paintings, Haitian periodicals, maps and figurines that make up the store's inventory. In addition, the store also offers tasty treats including Kremas Mapou - a Haitian syrupy drink made from a secret family recipe.

215. Haitian diaspora sees an opening

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: De Córdoba,José (Author) and Forelle,Charles (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 24-Mar 2, 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Miami Times
Journal Title Details:: 26 : 13B-13B,14B
Notes:: "I'm from the United States," said Dr. [Claire-Marie Cyprien], a 43-year-old anesthesiologist who three days earlier had dropped her practice in Orlando, Fla., to rush to Haiti, the land of her birth. "And I'm a doctor." For generations, Haiti's chaos, corruption and poverty pushed out many of its most talented people. Haiti has a population of about nine million, but as many as two million more Haitians live abroad, about half a million of them in the U.S. The diaspora-Haitians refer to the émigrés as Haiti's "Tenth Province"-sends about $2 billion a year home, a sum equal to about 30% of the country's gross domestic product. Despite the money, émigrés have often been regarded warily by those who stayed behind. Emigration may offer a way to climb up or break out of Haiti's rigid class structure. But new wealth inspires jealousy, while distance from the motherland opens émigrés to accusations that they aren't as "authentic" as those who never left.

216. Haitian history not many of us know (Part I)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Calloway,Al (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 12-Feb 18, 2010
Published:: Coral Springs, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: South Florida Times
Journal Title Details:: 7 : 4A
Notes:: The French called the Island St. Domingue, and began importing thousands of African slaves to clear much of the land and build plantations. By the late 1700s, there were over half a million African slaves in St. Domingue, and dose to 40,000 whites, as well as almost as many "mulattos." (The word "mulatto" derives from the Spanish term meaning a young mule.) They were the "free people of color," the result of white men taking many slave women. [Adam Hochchild] goes on to tell us how very rich France became through its plantocracy on St. Domingue alone: "The colony's eight thousand plantations accounted for more than one third of France's foreign trade, and its own foreign trade equaled that of the newly born United States." White planters and merchants on the island lived a life of luxury unrivaled in "the New World." Hochchild tells us that on that fateful August night "a large group of slaves representing many plantations met under the night sky in a remote spot called Alligator Woods..." and these are the words reportedly shouted to the throng by a revolt leader: '"Throw away the image of the god of the whites who thirsts for our tears, and listen to the voice of liberty which speaks in the hearts of all of us."

217. Haitian history not many of us know (Part II)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Calloway,Al (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 19-Feb 25, 2010
Published:: Coral Springs, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: South Florida Times
Journal Title Details:: 8 : 4A
Notes:: First, the two armies all but destroyed the French plantocracy on the island then they defeated a Spanish force and huge English and French armies. In Adam Hochchild's book Bury the Chains, we learn that then-U. S. President George Washington and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, both slave owners, sent "a thousand muskets, other military supplies, and eventually some $400,000" of U. S. aid to quell the revolt now known as "the Haitian Revolution." Randall Robinson reveals more in his book, An Unbroken Agony: "Some . . . had been brought to Haiti [St. Domingue] from other Caribbean slave colonies men like the storied Boukman from Jamaica and the legendary Makandal from Trinidad, and the great general, Henri Christophe, who was born in Grenada." Blacks who escaped plantations in the United States also joined L'Ouverture's armies. Robinson reports that L'Ouverture had been the intellectual, "the African humanist, the military strategist, the administrator and, not insignificantly, the conciliator." Robinson also writes that [Jean-Jacques Dessalines] "had been, first and last, the hard-nosed soldier who believed that an enemy as manifestly unsalvageable as the French had to be, wherever possible, obliterated."

218. Haitian professionals assist with TPS application

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Mar 3-Mar 9, 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Miami Times
Journal Title Details:: 27 : 5D
Notes:: While helping applicants take their place on the line, Richard Champagne, current President of the Haitian Lawyers Association (HLA)stated, "This is an opportunity for the HLA and participating attorneys to give back to our community. Haitian immigrants have been suffering for a long time, and after the Obama administration granted TPS, it was our duty to assist. It has been a great opportunity to partner with the city of North Miami, given the concentration of Haitian nationals in the city.

219. Haitians can't get past freedom legacy

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Harris,Barbra (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 15-Jul 21, 2010
Published:: Jackson, MI
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Jackson Advocate
Journal Title Details:: 39 : 7A
Notes:: At [Henry Christophe]'s death, Haiti was taken over by General Boyer and civil war ceased. It was Boyer who obtained Haiti's official independence from France for 150 million francs. Unfortunately, Haiti's employment is less than 30 percent and its illiteracy rate is above 50 percent. Though its official language is French, Haiti's most widely spoken language is kreyol. Ninety percent of Haitians are Catholic although 99 percent worship their native religion of voodoo. Despite its tropical resort geography, living conditions in Haiti are comparative to those of many Third World nations. The Haitian economy is almost entirely dependent upon U.S. companies who horde the country's resources and only pay slave wages.

220. Haitians watch televised presidential debate

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Charite,Sandra J. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Sep 22-Sep 28, 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Miami Times
Journal Title Details:: 4 : 11A
Notes:: "I could not believe it," she said. "All I could think about was my mother and two sisters who were in Haiti." Hosted by Koze Ayiti (Conversations in Haiti) and Konbit for Haiti, Pierre and several Haitians gathered in Little Haiti on Saturday to watch the televised Haitian presidential debate at the Konbit for Haiti. The debate was streamed from a restaurant in Petionville, Haiti but was interrupted by multiple power blackouts. Haiti's first-ever publicly broadcast presidential debates were organized in Haiti by KozeAyiti collaborators: Interuniversity Institute of Research and Development (INURED), which is led by Louis Herns Marcelin, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Miami and Haiti Aid Watchdog.

221. Happy Kwanzaa!

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 23-Dec 29, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: pp. 12-13

222. Harnessing Human Potential in Haiti

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cabrera,Angel (Author), Neville,Frank (Author), and Novick,Samantha (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Oct 2010
Published:: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Innovations (Innovations)
Journal Title Details:: 5(4) : 143-149
Notes:: Part of a special journal issue dedicated to strategies for societal renewal in Haiti., Building back a better Haiti will require a radically different approach to education. A combination of improved funding, smart allocation of resources, and use of low-cost modern technology may allow Haiti to leapfrog to significantly higher performance levels.

223. Haunting witnesses: Diasporic consciousness in African American and Caribbean writing

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Kellett,Brandi Bingham (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Florida: University of Miami
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 210 p., This project examines the ways in which several texts written in the late 20th century by African American and Caribbean writers appropriate history and witness trauma. Analyzes the writings of Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, Paule Marshall, and Fred D'Aguiar as they offer distinct approaches to history and the resulting effects such reconstituted, discovered, or, in some cases, imagined histories can have on the affirmation of the self as a subject. Explores the values of the African diaspora cross-culturally as manifested in the representational practices of these writers.

224. Health in Haiti and the US Government Involvement

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Kaiser Family Foundation (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: Feb 2010
Published:: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 2 p., This fact sheet profiles the health status of Haiti prior to the devastating earthquake that hit the island nation on January 12, 2010. It reviews the major US government global health and development programs operating in Haiti and examines the US response to the quake and the future health challenges as the nation rebuilds.

225. Heat's Haslem to join 'Hooping for Hope'

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Today
Journal Title Details:: 9 : 29
Notes:: American professional basketball player Udonis Haslem will be visiting Jamaica August 11th for the 2nd year to host a Basketball camp (Hoop For Hope) for 500 youths in Ocho Rios Jamaica and in the Mountains of Nine Mile (Home of Bob Marley). Udonis will make major donations to schools and girls home in the island of Jamaica which includes over 300 pairs of shoes, 100 computers, uniforms, basketballs and feminine products for Windsor Girls Home. The trip is organized by Jamaican, Wesley Frater who is based in South Florida and the founder of Tournament of Champions, INC a Scholarship Negotiations, Sports Event Planning & Management, Athletic Training, School Consulting, and Caribbean Basketball Scouting Services company.

226. Helping Haitians to work

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Mar 24-Mar 30, 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Miami Times
Journal Title Details:: 30 : 2A
Notes:: The head of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Alejandro Mayorkas, says his agency can't eliminate its fees, but it has the power to waive them for people who can prove they are poor. He has promised that his employees will treat applicants with a "generosity of spirit." This would be a refreshing change for an agency notorious for bureaucrats expert in finding a way to say no.

227. Henri Christophe

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 18-Feb 24, 2010
Published:: Los Angeles, Calif., United States, Los Angeles, Calif.
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sentinel
Journal Title Details:: 7 : A12-A.12
Notes:: According to historical records and stories passed down by the griots in Haiti, Christophe was born around October 6, 1767 in Grenada and brought to Haiti (then Saint Domingue) as a slave.

228. Here's how to spoil a parade

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gaye,Egbert (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2010-06-30
Published:: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Montreal Community Contact
Journal Title Details:: 12 : 5
Notes:: On Saturday, July 3, certain sections of downtown Montreal should have been teeming with the music and vibrations of the Caribbean on what was supposed to be the 35th or 36th staging (depending on who is counting) of the annual Carifiesta parade. Instead, not a drum will be heard and the soca, calypso, reggae and zouk rythmns that should have been fueling the fire in the tens of thousands of participants and spectators along Rene Levesques Blv'd. will be replaced by the usual humdrum of Saturday commerce on the thoroughfare. So when it's all said and done as the cliché goes... it's our fault that we'll not be palancing in downtown Montreal.

229. Hip-Hop 4 Haiti: A national day of observance on Saturday

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jan 28-Feb 3, 2010
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: 5 : 4
Notes:: HH4H has been developed as a national fundraising event throughout the hip-hop community set for Saturday, January 30, when the youth and hip-hop communities of 32 major cities will host events to raise money, relief and awareness for the loss and suffering in Haiti.

230. Hispanic Caribbean literature of migration : narratives of displacement

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Pérez Rosario,Vanessa (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 247 p., Explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations. The essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsides to critique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneously interrogating national discourses in their home countries.

231. Hostos Community College presents Haiti relief concert

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 18-Feb 24, 2010
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: 8 : 23
Notes:: The Hostos Community College Foundation, with support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Hostos Student Government Association, the Black Student Union, the Black Studies Unit/Humanities Department, and the Black Male Initiative are proud to present a Black revival event with a special performance by Katia Cadet on Thursday, February 18 at 7 p.m. The concert will be held at Hostos Repertory Theater, located at 450 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York.

232. How You Look is How You Look: An Interview with Fred Wilson

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Huey Copeland (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Callaloo
Journal Title Details:: 33(4) : 1016-1040

233. How eastern Afro-Caribbean women report about their intimate relationships: A descriptive and correlational study

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Brathwaite,Migdalia G. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 101 p., Little published research describes views of intimate heterosexual relationships among non-Western samples of women. This study represents a first attempt to document Afro-Caribbean women's views about their intimate relationships. A small sample of 53 Afro-Caribbean women from the island of Barbados were interviewed in their homes for a larger study of body image. Included in the measures were questionnaires about the extent to which women's expectations were or were not met in their current heterosexual relationships and if symptoms of depression were experienced. The women in this study generally reported, like Western women, that their relationships met their expectations (whatever those expectations may have been), that they contributed more positive than negative behaviors to the relationship, and that they experienced mostly mild or infrequent depressive symptoms. Unlike findings for Western samples, however, neither relationship duration, women's level of education, nor the extent to which they reported depressive symptoms covaried with whether they reported that their expectations were met or not. In summary, this study did not shed light on possible sources of Afro-Caribbean women's relationship satisfaction, although it potentially ruled out a few.

234. Howard honors one of its own, an outstanding banker

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 9-Dec 15, 2010
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Beacon
Journal Title Details:: 49 : 15
Notes:: Howard University's School of Business in Washington DC recently recognized St. Lucia-born Cecil St. Jules as one of its 40 most distinguished and accomplished graduates at the School's 40th anniversary celebration. "I am humbled to receive such a lofty recognition by my alma mater," said St. Jules, a managing director of BNY Mellon Broker Dealer Services.

235. Human Rights Assessment in Parc Jean Marie Vincent, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cullen,Kimberly A. (Author) and Ivers,Louise C. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Boston, MA: Harvard School of Public Health
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Health and human rights
Journal Title Details:: 12(2)
Notes:: The Sphere Project, "Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response," identifies the minimum standards to be attained in disaster response. From a human rights perspective and utilizing key indicators from the Sphere Project as benchmarks, this article reports on an assessment of the living conditions approximately 12 weeks after the earthquake in Parc Jean Marie Vincent, a spontaneous IDP camp in Port-au-Prince.

236. Human-Inhabited Protected Areas (HIPAs) and the Law: Integration of Local Communities and Protected Areas in Brazilian Law

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Santilli,Juliana (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010 05/28; 2012/05
Published:: Taylor & Francis
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Sustainable Forestry
Journal Title Details:: 29(2-4) : 390-402
Notes:: One of the key factors enabling integration and participation of local communities in conservation policies is the legal foundation for this relationship. Brazilian law has developed novel solutions to reconcile the presence of local communities and traditional populations with environmental conservation in protected areas. The logic underlying the law that created the National System of Conservation Units (Law 9985/2000) rests on the valuation of both biodiversity and of the cultural diversity associated with that biodiversity.; One of the key factors enabling integration and participation of local communities in conservation policies is the legal foundation for this relationship. Brazilian law has developed novel solutions to reconcile the presence of local communities and traditional populations with environmental conservation in protected areas. The logic underlying the law that created the National System of Conservation Units (Law 9985/2000) rests on the valuation of both biodiversity and of the cultural diversity associated with that biodiversity.

237. IMF Chief Calls for 'Marshall Plan' for Shattered Haiti

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: [Unknown] (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010-01-20
Published:: Washington, DC: IMF Publications Services
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: IMF Survey
Notes:: The head of the IMF has called for a major multilateral aid plan to rebuild Haiti where the fight is still on to save lives after a devastating earthquake. The IMF has promised initial $100 million as emergency funding and urges donors to grant additional debt relief.

238. Imaginarios ambiguos, realidades contradictorias. Conductas y representaciones de los negros y mulatos novohispanos, siglos XVI y XVII. (Spanish)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Saldarriaga,Gregorio (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Historia Mexicana
Journal Title Details:: 59(4) : 1447-1451
Notes:: The book "Imaginarios ambiguos, realidades contradictorias. Conductas y representaciones de los negros y mulatos novohispanos, siglos XVI y XVII" by Úrsula Camba Ludlow is reviewed.

239. Immigrants beware

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Persaud,Felicia (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Today
Journal Title Details:: 8 : 9-10
Notes:: According to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, several companies in Brooklyn, New York, including Chay Pa Lou Community Center, Inc., Delegue Tax Consultant, Inc., and their owner and operator Jean Michel; as well as Rinchef s Multi-Service, a/k/a Rincher Bookstore, a/k/a Rincher Associates, a/k/a Haitian American Entrepreneur's Group, LLC, and their owners and operators Deslande Seixas-Rincher and Sharlene Seixas-Rincher, targeted the Haitian community with fraudulent immigration services. "In light of the recent devastating earthquake in Port-auPrince, New York's Haitian residents have sadly been a target for immigration scams, bringing further pain to a community that has already suffered so much," said Cuomo. "These cases are a part of my office's ongoing crackdown on immigration scams throughout New York and I urge anyone who has been affected by this type of fraud to contact my office."

240. Impact of a parenting program in a high-risk, multi-ethnic community: the PALS trial

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Scott,Stephen (Author), O'Connor,Thomas G. (Author), Futh,Annabel (Author), Matias,Carla (Author), Price,Jenny (Author), and Doolan,Moira (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Journal Title Details:: 51(12) : 1331-1341
Notes:: Background: Parenting programs have been shown to work when delivered to motivated ethnic majority parents in demonstration projects, but comparatively little is known about their impact when delivered to high-risk, multi-ethnic populations by routine local services. Methods: The Primary Age Learning Skills (PALS) trial was a randomized controlled trial of an evidence-based parenting-group program that targeted the parent-child relationship and child literacy. Parents of 174 children were selected from a population of 672 5- and 6-year-olds attending four primary schools in a high-risk, ethnically diverse, inner-city area. Eighty-eight children were allocated to the Incredible Years preventive program plus a shortened six-week version of the SPOKES literacy program, delivered by local services; 86 to usual community services; 152/174 (87%) of families were successfully followed up. Parent-child relationship quality and child behavior were measured using direct observation and parent interview; child reading was assessed psychometrically. Results: Two-thirds (58/89) of those offered the parenting program attended at least one session, with similar enrolment rates across the Black African, African-Caribbean, White-British and Other ethnic groups. Mean attendance was four relationship-building sessions and one literacy-development session. Satisfaction questionnaires were completed by 43/58 starters; 93% said they were well or extremely satisfied, with equally high rates across ethnic groups. At follow-up after one year, those allocated to the intervention showed significant improvements in the parent-child relationship on observation and at interview compared to controls; effects were similar across all ethnic groups. However, child behavior problems and reading did not improve. The cost was 1,343 pound ($2,100) per child. Conclusions: Programs can be organized to be engaging and effective in improving parenting among high-risk, multi-ethnic communities, which is of considerable value. To also be cost-effective in achieving child changes may require a set-up that enables parents to attend more sessions and/or an exclusive focus on children with clinically significant behavior problems.

241. Imperial designs: the Royal Bank of Canada in the Caribbean

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hudson,Peter James (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Jul 2010
Published:: London, UK: Sage Publications
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Race and Class
Journal Title Details:: 52(1) : 33-48
Notes:: At the beginning of the twentieth century there was a brief period of imperialist rhetoric among the Canadian business elite, the bankers of Toronto and Montreal in particular, who argued the benefits of an annexationist policy for the British West Indies to complement their deepening financial links to the Caribbean region.

242. Improving parental involvement and reading achievement of Caribbean immigrant adolescents through differentiated instruction

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Robert,Joshua (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Florida: Nova Southeastern University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 96 p., The purpose of this applied dissertation study was to determine the relative impact of parental involvement, parental school perception, student generation status, and Caribbean adolescents' own attitudes and behavior towards academic achievement and reading comprehension skills. For this study, 45 Caribbean parents from Grenadian, Guyanese, Haitian, Jamaican, and Trinidadian backgrounds reported in survey form on their involvement, volunteerism, school perception, student behavior and educational achievements of students at the school of study. Students' course grades were obtained from their official school records and were broken down by generational status.

243. Incremental art: negotiating the route of London's Notting Hill Carnival

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Ferris,Lesley (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Social identities
Journal Title Details:: 16(4) : 519-536
Notes:: A brief overview of London's carnival and its beginnings in the late 1950s. Claudia Jones committed herself to both the culture and political underpinning of Caribbean carnival when she founded the event. London's West Indian community embraced carnival as an important source of celebration and cultural identity in the face of racist intimidation in Britain. The essay explores various difficulties that black British artists face gaining recognition, particularly those who work in carnival.

244. Indigestible Recipe: Rice, Chicken Wings, and International Financial Institutions: Or Hunger Politics in Haiti

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gros,Jean-Germain (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: May 2010
Published:: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of Black Studies
Journal Title Details:: 40(5) : 974-986
Notes:: Policies imposed on Haiti by international financial institutions (i.e., the World Bank and International Monetary Fund) since the 1980s, such as currency devaluation and trade liberalization, negated Haitian agricultural performance and the capacity of the Haitian state to manage the economy, thus exacerbating the current food crisis.

245. Influence of Air Pollution and Humidity on Limestone Materials Degradation in Historical Buildings Located in Cities Under Tropical Coastal Climates

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Corvo,F. (Author), Reyes,J. (Author), Valdes,C. (Author), Villasenor,F. (Author), Cuesta,O. (Author), Aguilar,D. (Author), and Quintana,P. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: JAN 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Water Air and Soil Pollution
Journal Title Details:: 205(1-4) : 359-375
Notes:: Climatic changes and the increased air pollution intensify the atmospheric degradation of stone, affecting the aspect and integrity of valuable historical buildings constructed using limestone and located in tropical coastal sites. This paper analyzes limestone degradation process due to air pollution and humidity in tropical humid conditions in historical buildings located in the cities of Havana, Cuba and San Francisco de Campeche, Mexico. Havana shows higher pollution level than San Francisco de Campeche, which presents pollution levels as a consequence of a multipollutant situation along with the presence of airborne salinity. Temperature and humidity data were recorded from the walls of historical buildings in the city of Havana: the Minor Basilica and the convent of San Francisco. Changes in dry/wet cycles due to the absence of direct sun radiation as well as a high level of SO(2) allow the formation of a black crust (mainly composed of gypsum) in the lower part of the surface of the facade of the Basilica Minor in Havana; however, crusts formed in historical buildings located in San Francisco de Campeche City are mainly composed of calcium carbonate, indicating the importance of natural degradation mechanisms mainly due to dissolution in water. In the last case, the influence of water plays an important role in the development of biodegradation, which induces the formation of calcium oxalates. Caves and cracks were found in the walls of military buildings caused by water infiltration. The influence of air contamination, humidity, and construction materials determine the type of degradation that historical buildings undergo.

246. Inscribing African descendant identity in nineteenth century Cuba: The transculturated literature of Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Pettway,Matthew Joseph (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 251 p., Explores how Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdés (also known as Plácido) appropriated Hispanic literature to inscribe an African descendant subjectivity in 19th century proto-nationalist Cuban discourse. Revises Mary Louise Pratt's notion of "intercultural texts" and Angel Rama's "literary transculturation", proposing "transculturated colonial literature" to trace the contradictions, re-significations, silences and shifts in the aesthetic and ideological function of Manzano and Plácido's texts. As such, 19th century Afro-Cuban literature is analyzed as an active space of negotiation and exchange disputing racial and religious hierarchies to inscribe an Afro-Cuban religio-cultural subject. The author concludes that both Manzano and Plácido disrupted the aesthetic and ideological norms of the colonial status quo by producing the first instance of literary transculturation in Cuba.

247. Inter- and Intra-Ethnic Group Comparison of Metabolic Syndrome Components Among Morbidly Obese Adolescents

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Messiah,Sarah E. (Author), Carrillo-Iregui,Adriana (Author), Garibay-Nieto,Guadalupe (Author), Lopez-Mitnik,Gabriela (Author), Cossio,Sissi (Author), and Arheart,Kristopher L. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of clinical hypertension
Journal Title Details:: 12(8) : 645-652
Notes:: This study explored inter- (between) and intra- (within) ethnic group differences in metabolic syndrome components among a clinical sample of morbidly obese (body mass index [BMI] >= 97th percentile for age and sex) 12- to 18-year-olds originating from Latin America and the Caribbean Basin and a matched (age/ethnicity/sex/BMI percentile) national sample (N=208, both samples) of Mexican American and non-Hispanic blacks from the 1999 to 2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Mexican American and non-Hispanic black boys from the NHANES/national sample had significantly higher mean fasting glucose levels compared with Latin and Caribbean blacks (98.50 vs 85.42 mg/dL, 97.34 vs 86.44 mg/dL, respectively, (P <.001 for both comparisons). Conversely, both diastolic/systolic blood pressure was consistently higher among Latin/Caribbean adolescents vs Mexican American and non-Hispanic blacks for all age/sex/ethnic groups. These results indicate that morbidly obese adolescents from both major ethnic groups and subgroups within these groups show health-related comorbidities in both clinic- and population-based settings.

248. International Trade: Exporters' Use of the Earned Import Allowance Program for Haiti Is Negligible because They Favor Other Trade Provisions

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Yager,Loren (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: Jun 2010
Published:: United States Government Accountability Office
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 30 p., The Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act of 2010 amended the Earned Import Allowance Program (EIAP), reducing the qualifying fabric requirement from three to two; and the amended Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act (now HOPE II) also mandated GAO to review the effectiveness of the EIAP and to look for potential improvements. GAO examined (1) the extent to which the program has been used, (2) how US government agencies implemented it, and (3) how the program could be improved.

249. International migration and adverse birth outcomes: role of ethnicity, region of origin and destination

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Urquia,Marcelo Luis (Author), Glazier,Richard Henry (Author), Blondel,Beatrice (Author), Zeitlin,Jennifer (Author), Gissler,Mika (Author), Macfarlane,Alison (Author), Ng,Edward (Author), Heaman,Maureen (Author), Stray-Pedersen,Babill (Author), Gagnon,Anita J. (Author), and ROAM Collaboration (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of epidemiology and community health
Journal Title Details:: 64(3) : 243-251
Notes:: Background The literature on international migration and birth outcomes shows mixed results. This study examined whether low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth differed between non-migrants and migrant subgroups, defined by race/ethnicity and world region of origin and destination. Methods A systematic review and meta-regression analyses were conducted using three-level logistic models to account for the heterogeneity between studies and between subgroups within studies. Results Twenty-four studies, involving more than 30 million singleton births, met the inclusion criteria. Compared with US-born black women, black migrant women were at lower odds of delivering LBW and preterm birth babies. Hispanic migrants also exhibited lower odds for these outcomes, but Asian and white migrants did not. Sub-Saharan African and Latin-American and Caribbean women were at higher odds of delivering LBW babies in Europe but not in the USA and south-central Asians were at higher odds in both continents, compared with the native-born populations. Conclusions The association between migration and adverse birth outcomes varies by migrant subgroup and it is sensitive to the definition of the migrant and reference groups.

250. Is reggae rum? : Caribbean sounds and the American music trade

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dreisinger,Baz (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Kingston, Jamaica
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Jamaica journal
Journal Title Details:: 32 (3): 38-45

251. Island beneath the sea: a novel

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Allende,Isabel (Author) and Peden,Margaret Sayers (Translator)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: New York: Harper
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 457 p, The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible

252. It took a piece of me: initial responses to a positive HIV diagnosis by Caribbean people in the UK

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Anderson,Moji (Author), Elam,Gillian (Author), Gerver,Sarah (Author), Solarin,Ijeoma (Author), Fenton,Kevin (Author), and Easterbrook,Philippa (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: AIDS Care
Journal Title Details:: 22(12) : 1493-1498
Notes:: How do people respond to the news that they are HIV positive? To date, there have been few published qualitative studies of HIV diagnosis experiences, and none focusing on Caribbean people. Twenty-five HIV-positive Caribbean people in London, UK, related their diagnosis experience and its immediate aftermath in semi-structured interviews. Diagnosis with HIV caused profound shock and distress to participants, as they associated the disease with immediate death and stigmatisation. The respondents struggled with biographical disruption, the radical disjuncture between life before and after diagnosis, which led them into a state of liminality, as they found themselves betwixt and between established structural and social identities. Respondents were faced with multifaceted loss: of their known self, their present life, their envisioned future and the partner they had expected to play a role in each of these. A minority of accounts suggest that the way in which healthcare practitioners delivered the diagnosis intensified the participants' distress

253. Ja end CAC with 3 medals

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 29-Aug 4, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 39
Notes:: Sunday, the quartet of Brandon Tomlinson, Bernado Brady, Odane Skeen and Dexter Lee, produced a season best 39.55 seconds to pick up the silver medal in the boy's 4x100, finishing second behind the US, who won in a world-leading time of 38.93 seconds, the second fastest ever at these championships. Trinidad and Tobago picked up their second medal of the Championships as they finished third for the bronze in a season best 39.72 seconds.

254. Ja filmmakers still seek help

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Walters,Hasani (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 9-Dec 15, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 11
Notes:: "Employment opportunities arise as actors, directors, production crews, electricians, drivers and props people, among many other persons, are needed. Add up those and the many other jobs on set, and you'll see how many persons are needed. Think about how many stories we have to tell in Jamaica. It would create employment for a lot of young people. It also provides international exposure for local actors and exposes Jamaican culture and heritage - that means more tourism exposure," said [Joan Edwards].

255. Jamaica basketballers net historic bronze medal

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,Andre (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 29-Aug 4, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 38
Notes:: Vanessa Gidden and Simone Edwards were in impressive form as Jamaica's female basketbailers romped to a historic 69-58 victory over the Virgin Islands, to claim the team's first ever medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

256. Jamaica no longer leading list of deportees sent home from U.S

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Persaud,Felicia (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Sep 2010
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Caribbean Today
Journal Title Details:: 10 : 7-8
Notes:: Jamaica is doing so well that it was not even in the top 14 nations receiving the most deportees in 2009. Instead, for the Caribbean region, the top three nations receiving the most deportees last year, were the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti. Mexico continued to lead the deportees statistics table. Mexican nationals accounted for 86 percent of the 613,003 aliens apprehended in 2009. The next leading countries were Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, China, and Brazil. A total of 393,000 foreign nationals were removed from the United States last year, the seventh consecutive record high. Of that number, 128,000 were known criminal aliens.

257. Jamaica on Broadway: The Popular Caribbean and Mock Transnational Performance

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Vogel,Shane (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: MAR 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Theatre Journal
Journal Title Details:: 62(1) : 1-+
Notes:: The 1957 black-cast Broadway musical Jamaica achieved enormous commercial success, presenting a spectacle of a mid-century popular Caribbeana. Returning to this musical and its production history in the light of recent theorizations of the transnational, this essay identifies a tradition of "mock transnational performance" that has been significant within African American commercial theatre and that shapes Jamaica's staging of the Caribbean. Mock transnational is meant to describe a theatrical mode and performative stance that takes up the misuse of diasporic cultural indices to critique and refigure the politics of the nation-state and racialized national formations. The essay locates Jamaica's mock transnational strategies in the leftist poetry of lyricist Yip Harburg; in the auditory maneuvers and performance strategies of its star, Lena Horne; and in the networks of professional support and social activism cultivated in the musical's backstage relations. These surplus moments made use of diasporic imaginative geographies, sounds, and gestures often in tension with the musical's book-to explore and complicate the relationship between African American racial consciousness and theatrical form, on the one hand, and African diasporic histories and fantasies on the other.

258. Jamaica: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review; Ninth Session of the UPR Working Group of the Human Rights Council, November-December 2010

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Amnesty International (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-04-19
Published:: London: Amnesty International Publications
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 10 p., In analyzing Jamaica's Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review, Amnesty International raises concerns about the new Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, a series of "anti-crime" bills, the death penalty, the restrictive definition of "rape" in the new Sexual Offences Act, legislation which criminalizes sexual acts in private between consenting male adults, and outstanding ratifications. The organization also describes concerns in relation to human rights violations by the police; violence against women and girls; attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons; children in custody; and violence in inner-city communities.

259. Jean Jacques Dessalines

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 11-Feb 17, 2010
Published:: Los Angeles, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sentinel
Journal Title Details:: 6 : A12-A.12
Notes:: Dessalines became a lieutenant in Papillon's army and followed him to Santo Domingo, where at first he enlisted to serve Spain's military forces against the French then he joined the "real" slave rebellion that was inspired by Dutty Boukman, a voodoo priest, and led by Toussaint.

260. Joe Mccarthy's Afro-cuban Big Band Play-along

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: McCarthy,Joe (Author)
Format:: Video/DVD
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Pub Co.
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 DVD (63 min), The Afro-Cuban Big Band Play-Along DVD gives the drummer/percussionist an opportunity to play contemporary Afro-Cuban music in a big band setting. The DVD features play-along tracks (minus the drums), an E-book containing the complete charts and examples demonstrated on the DVD, and bonus tracks of additional tunes from Afro-Bop Alliance.

261. Johnnel Smith cops Festival Queen 2010

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Rowe,Marcia (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 29-Aug 4, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E22
Notes:: Guided by the theme 'Jamaican Women Shaping Our Culture' the occasion was marked by a display of colourful and lively performances from guest performers and the 13 parish queens. The contestants, all queens in their own right, made the first of three appearances in long dresses, depicting aspects of their individual parishes. Before they made their entrance, a moat door was lowered unto the recreated courtyard of one of Jamaica's premier historical sites, Fort Charles.' and through the door they emerged, to tumultuous applause from a partisan audience.

262. Jolie-laide Sexual Poetics in the Fiction of Gayl Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jackie Kay

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Taylor,Andrene M. (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Washington, DC: Howard University
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 191 p., Conceptualizes the idea of jolie-laide ("the beautiful ugly") as a fully elaborated sexual poetics by three women writers of the African diaspora: Gayl Jones (USA), Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua, Caribbean), and Jackie Kay (Scotland, UK). The introductory chapter situates the study in a critical and cultural context and defines key terms. The chapters that follow analyze the thematic preoccupations and narrative strategies of the three writers' respective novels ( Corregidora and Eva's Man, The Autobiography of My Mother , and Trumpet ) and historicize the novels' explicit and implicit ideologies. With their jolie-laide portrayals of gender, the body and sex and sexuality, these three writers fashion complex representations of black female sexual subjectivity and critique the biased images, exaggerations, distortions, and silences of earlier representations. Recognizing that jolie-laide can be used to problematize racial, gender, and sexual binaries, these novelists exploit the structural possibilities of a jolie-laide sexual poetics to address culturally taboo topics in explicit, graphic, and imaginative language and with inventive jolie-laide tropes. They challenge white supremacist stereotypes of black sexuality as well as the sanitized characterizations of black sex found within the literary traditions of black respectability.

263. Justice for Haiti: Beyond Aid and Debt Forgiveness

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Katz,Ethan (Author) and Boscov-Ellen,Daniel (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-04-14
Published:: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 12 p., Over the last few months there has been a surfeit of talk in the international community over what should be done for Haiti. However, in almost all of these discussions Haiti's historical context is completely excised -- It is almost as if the country had only come into being as a result of January's earthquake. This collective amnesia is damning since the devastating nature of these natural disasters cannot be understood apart from over two centuries of Haiti's colonial and postcolonial subjugation, foreign occupation, economic exploitation, and the degrading conditions faced by most of its population.

264. Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Kanika Batra (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Callaloo
Journal Title Details:: 33(4) : 1079-1092

265. La bruja de las minas

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sánchez Gómez,Gregorio (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 180 p.

266. La guerre d'indépendance cubaine

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Ferrer,Ada (Author) and Thomas Van Ruymbeke (Translator)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: French
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Bécherel: Les Perséides
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 318 p.

267. La libertad inconclusa: entorno a la esclavitud, su abolición y los derechos civiles

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Arrelucea,Maribel (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Lima: CEDET, Centro de Desarrollo Étnico
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Papers presented at the Primer Seminario Internacional "La Abolición de la Esclavitud y los Procesos de Manumisión en el Perú, América Latina y El Caribe" held in 2004 in Lima., 224 p., Los ensayos reunidos aquí se proponen discutir, analizar y examinar desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, las representaciones de la transafricanía en América Latina y la situación de los transafrícanos a 150 años de la abolición de la esclavitud en el Perú.

268. La paranda garifuna en Amérique centrale: De sa redécouverte à son internationalisation grâce au studio d'enregistrement

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Barnat,Ons (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: MUSICultures: Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music
Journal Title Details:: 37 : 94-108

269. Las Tropas Auxiliares del rey en Centroamérica. Historia de los negros súbditos de la monarquía española. (Spanish)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cunin,Elisabeth (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Secuencia: Revista de Historia y Ciencias Sociales
Journal Title Details:: 78 : 199-203
Notes:: This article reviews the book "Las Tropas Auxiliares del rey en Centroamérica. Historia de los negros súbditos de la monarquía española," by Jorge Victoria Ojeda.

270. Las estrellas son negras

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Palacios,Arnoldo (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 170 p.

271. Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic and regional survey

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Blouet,Brian W. (Editor) and Blouet,Olwyn M. (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 466 p., This 6th edition enables geographers to explore the changes and major issues facing this dynamic region today. Olwyn M. Blouet's chapter "Caribbean contrasts" includes Physical environments and hazards -- The making of the island Caribbean -- The Greater Antilles -- The Lesser Antilles -- Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (Guyane).

272. Latin American identities after 1980

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Yovanovich,Gordana (Editor) and Huras,Amy (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 316 p., Takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, this book focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Includes Jessica Franklin's "Afro-Brazilian women's identities and activism : national and transnational discourse," Adrian Smith's "Legal creolization, 'permanent exceptionalism,' and Caribbean sojourners truths" and Janelle Joseph's "The transculturation of capoeira : Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian martial art."

273. Latino baseball legends : an encyclopedia

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Freedman,Lew (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 361 p., Told through profiles of the men who have made it a reality, this is the complex story of the triumphs achieved by-and challenges faced by-Latinos who have risen to the heights of Major League Baseball.

274. Learning to Live With Ghosts: Postcolonial Haunting and Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen's "Turner" and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Stef Craps (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Callaloo
Journal Title Details:: 33(2) : 467-475

275. Legal Review on Trafficking in Persons in the Caribbean: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, The Netherlands Antilles, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Collett,Elizabeth (Author), Goździak,Elżbieta M. (Author), and Schoenholtz,Andrew Ian (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: International Organization for Migration
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: International Organization for Migration
Notes:: 190 p., Reviews legislation and government policy related to combating human trafficking in eight Caribbean countries: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles, St Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.NBThis review has assessed the applicability of existing statute law for the prosecution of human traffickers, the protection of trafficking victims and the prevention of trafficking activities. This includes criminal provisions that constitute one or more elements of the trafficking process such as procurement, forced detention, prostitution, sexual offences, kidnapping, abduction and other offences against the person. These elements can then be used in combination as a "patchwork" replacement for a trafficking law.

276. Les noirs à Cuba au début du XXe siècle, 1898-1933: marginalisation et lutte pour l'égalité

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Séfil,Marc (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: French
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Paris: L'Harmattan
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 276 p.

277. Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake: Protecting Small States

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Chong,Alan (Author)
Format:: Pamphlet
Publication Date:: 2010-01-21
Published:: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 3 p., The earthquake tragedy in Haiti offers lessons in how the world should prepare well in advance for such non-traditional security threats. Small states should focus on good governance while the international community should exercise rehabilitative soft power.

278. Lest we forget

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: White,Bob (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2010-03-11
Published:: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Montreal Community Contact
Journal Title Details:: 4 : 19-19,21
Notes:: Just Chillin' continued, "That's one of the reasons why everyone's going to Anancy Restaurant for those tasty fish dishes." Money said, "Alex who is a close friend of Richie, AKA Mr. Music (part of LAB NOISE), has a favourite expression: "That's your opinion..." Da Professor said, "Children should be grateful they even have a school; many children don't. In many parts of the world education is a luxury. Look at what just happened in Haiti. [Don]'t forget what happened there. People have short memories; they're still in dire need. Whatever you have to donate bring it to Montreal North and have the Brothers and the Sisters send it to their relatives in Haiti, bypassing the sticky fingers... Don't forget we arc our brothers' keeper, so we have to show some love to our neighbours (not THE SYSTEM). After all WE are the world."

279. Let's fix Haiti once and for all

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Alford,Harry C. (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jun 17-Jun 23, 2010
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Beacon
Journal Title Details:: 24 : 6
Notes:: Yes, we owe Haiti. Unfortunately, we have shown little appreciation. My generation has witnessed Haiti in a multi-decades long downward spiral. There have been the dirty Papa Doc regime; the dirty Baby Doc regime; the dirty Aristide regime and dirty everyone else who supposedly had the trust of the people. The United States has sent troops there on various occasions but it was not to strengthened or liberate the people. Preference should be given to Haitian owned businesses in this rebuilding. Partnerships with Haitian and African Americans should be allowed. The money generated from these contracts should stay in Haiti and be taxed by the Haitian government. All, I mean ALL jobs, should be offered first to Haitians with the first right of refusal. It is noble for the world to come to the aid of Haiti but there must be a strategy that will empower the people of Haiti during and afterwards. For the first time in history, we have a chance to make Haiti independent, self sustaining and free.

280. Let's take back our Carfiesta

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gaye,Egbert (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2010-09-09
Published:: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Montreal Community Contact
Journal Title Details:: 17 : 5
Notes:: Two years of quibbling by 'wanna be' organizers, the Caribbean Cultural Festivities Association (CCFA), and the Montreal Carnival Development Foundation (MCDF), led to a mediocre and divided parade last year and a deadlock this year that made the community exasperated and provided municipal politicians with a reason to call off the parade. We should be worried, very worried by that cancellation. Because it shows that City officials do not value Carifiesta's place in Montreal's cultural tapestry nor do they appreciate the true meaning and relevance of the festival to our community. If they did, they would have resorted to any of the other available options, like giving the permit to the legally constituted CCFA or to an interim group of organizers. Let's start denying them by taking back our signature festival Carifiesta. It's part of our legacy in Montreal and that shouldn't be compromised because of the behaviour of illinformed men and bad minded politicians.

281. Let's think a bit

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Language:: French
Publication Date:: May 26-Jun 2, 2010
Published:: Brooklyn, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Haiti Observateur
Journal Title Details:: 21 : 5
Notes:: For the last three weeks, the readers of this column have been able to follow Dr. [Anthony P. Maingot]'s speech about Haiti's history of war of liberation and internicine struggles which have been such a burden for the First Black Republic. He began with "the issue of the moment," namely the reparation from France for 200 years of slavery. Haiti's political culture, its "developed legacy of behavior, " is not conducive to development. The second issue studied by Dr. Maingot is the U.S. occupation of Haiti, which "rested on the idea of the White Man's burden" - its Manifest Destiny. But, on balance, the occupation was not entirely negative. The very racism of the White invaders was a reality check for Haitian society. Yes, by treating all Haitians (whether dark skinned or light skinned Mulattoes) as "Niggers," no more no less, the foreign invaders reconciled the subjective ideas of superiority and/or inferiority of the Haitians with their own, i.e., their more objective, non involved, opinions as powerful occupying forces. Thirdly, Dr. Maingot analysed a cultural element that had, and continues to have, a great impact on Haitian society. That major cultural factor, of course, is the syncretic religion called vodoo.

282. Liberty City 7 defendant faces deportation

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: McNeir,D. Kevin (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Dec 29, 2010-Jan 4, 2011
Published:: Miami, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Miami Times
Journal Title Details:: 18 : 1A-1A,4A
Notes:: "It's a complete tragedy, a complete disregard for human life," said Lemorin's lawyer, Charles Kuck. "Haiti is still an unmitigated disaster.'' In January, the moratorium not in effect will be lifted and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will resume the deportation of Haitian nationals convicted of crimes in the U.S. Lemorin's lawyers says that while his client has no conviction, he is being included with those who do. However, his deportation under the specific circumstances of his case would be highly unusual, according to legal experts. But his ability to remain in the U.S. is not the only issue at hand. He would be forced to leave his wife and their three children who reside in North Miami Beach. His wife, Charlene Mingo Lemorin, 31, is being treated for kidney failure and her medical condition precludes her from moving the family to Haiti. "Without letting us know they'll resume deportation to Haiti, at a time when Haiti is living under its gravest crisis, it's so unfair," said Marliene Bastien, who heads the Haitian Women of Miami. "It's supposed to be a progressive government. We're gravely disappointed."

283. Local Governance Structures in Trinidad and Tobago: Muddling Through

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Marie Bissessar,Ann (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Dec 2010
Published:: Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Social and Economic Studies
Journal Title Details:: 59(4) : 127-144
Notes:: Argues that the current proposal to reform the local government sector in Trinidad and Tobago stems from an eclectic application of various strands of thought that are in no way in keeping with the realities of the social and political environment of the country.

284. Local park dedicated to C'bean born legislator

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Sep 2-Sep 8, 2010
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. E1
Notes:: Last Wednesday (August 25) politicians, friends and family came out to Toronto's west end to celebrate the official unveiling of the 'Jean Augustine Park'. In paying tribute to Dr Augustine, deputy mayor, Joe Pantalone, and councillor, Mark Grimes, reminded the audience that during her tenure in the House of Commons, Dr Augustine was instrumental in getting funding from the Federal Government and making a reality the Toronto Linear Park System, in particular the Mimico Linear Trail, which is adjacent to the new Jean Augustine Park. This year Augustine became the first Grenada-born person to receive Canada's highest national honour. She was among the 57 Canadians named by Governor General Michaelle Jean to receive the Order of Canada - the country's highest civilian award.

285. Local union pledges support for Haitian-Americans

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Heard,Kaila (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: May 21-May 27, 2010
Published:: Coral Springs, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: South Florida Times
Journal Title Details:: 21 : 1B-1B,2B
Notes:: While Local 355 will continue to accept support from organizations and the community at large for the new initiative in the upcoming months, one of its first actions will be to formally request that Broward County commissioners implement a "worker retention policy" to ensure that concession workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport do not lose their jobs, even as their employers' contracts are being evaluated, [Jay Mehta] said. "The survey shows us that the best way to express our solidarity is to...continue to fight," said UNITE HERE Local 355 organizer Romane Petit Joseph, referring to the union's original purpose, which includes working toward quality jobs, workers' rights, immigration reform and living wages.

286. Locating cultures, constructing identities: The Caribbean diaspora, Black Britain, and the theatre of Mustapha Matura

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lantz,Victoria Pettersen (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 330 p., This dissertation examines the major works of Trinidad-born playwright Mustapha Matura, dealing with plays written from 1970 to the present. By considering the relation of Matura's work to Britain and Trinidad, it explores the complexity of identity performance in postcolonial theatre and the ongoing need for agency among diasporic communities. Postcolonial scholarship fully recognizes the significance of writing in the development of postcolonial identities, yet dominant postcolonial theory largely excludes theatre from discussions of that development. Given its aural and visual presentation and its immediate interaction with an audience, theatre provides a unique postcolonial moment through which audience members can survey issues of race and place in their lives.

287. Locating slavery in the modern national imaginary: The legacy of Haiti

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Puente,Lindsay Rae (Author)
Format:: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: California: University of California, Irvine
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Notes:: 227 p., Considers the often-silenced, tangible traces that the Haitian Revolution and radical anti-slavery have left in the greater Caribbean as they emerge in contemporary cultural productions. The author looks at national trends in the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica in order to formulate an understanding of the uses of gendered images of slavery and blackness in modern nation-building campaigns. Critically assesses what is left out of these narratives and how these gaps serve specific purposes. Argues for the centrality of the Caribbean in any true understanding of the history of modernity and the contemporary nation-state by investigating the after-shocks of the Haitian Revolution and of radical anti-slavery.

288. Los caminos de la escritura negra en el Río de la Plata

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Ventura de Molina, Jacinto, b.1766 (Author), Acree,William G. (Editor), and Borucki,Alex (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Madrid: Iberoamericana
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 285 p., Contents: Mapa del Río de la Plata hacia 1800 -- Cronología sobre Molina -- El Río de la Plata en los años de Jacinto Ventura de Molina / Alex Borucki -- Un sueño realizado : un letrado negro y el poder de la escritura / William G. Akree, Jr. -- [Notas] -- Escritos de Jacinto Ventura de Molina, c. 1817-1837. Escritos históricos y autobiográficos. Los afrodescendientes en los escritos de Molina. Peticiones al poder. Molina en los escritos de sus contemporáneos / [various authors]. Defensor de los pobres. Escritos políticos y literarios.; Collection consists chiefly of works by Ventura de Molina: political, historical, literary, and legal.

289. Love among the Ruins

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Labash,Matt (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010-03-01
Published:: New York, NY: News America Incorporated
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Standard
Journal Title Details:: 15(23) : 18-32
Notes:: Some efforts by the Catholic Church to provide disaster relief following the earthquake in Haiti are discussed.

290. Maçonaria, anti-racismo e cidadania : uma história de lutas e debates transnacionais

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Azevedo, Celia Maria Marinho de (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: Portuguese
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Annablume
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 286 p.

291. Making Caribbean dance: Continuity and creativity in island cultures

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Sloat,Susanna, (Ed.And Intro.)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Gainesville: University Press of Florida Gainesville, FL
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Isaac Nii AKRONG, Ghanaian Gome and Jamaican Kumina: West African influences (RILM [ref]2010-06100[/ref]); Celia Weiss BAMBARA, Chimin Kwaze: Crossing paths, or Haitian dancemaking in Port-au-Prince (RILM [ref]2010-06101[/ref]); Graciela Chao CARBONERO, Melba NÚÑEZ ISALBE, trans., The Africanness of dance in Cuba (RILM [ref]2010-06095[/ref]); Jill Flanders CROSBY, Susan MATTHEWS, asst., Melba NÚÑEZ ISALBE, asst., Roberto PEDROSO GARCÍA, asst., Secrets under the skin: They brought the essence of Africa (RILM [ref]2010-06096[/ref]); Martha Ellen DAVIS, Dance of the Dominican misterios (RILM [ref]2010-06102[/ref]); Nicolás DUMIT ESTÉVEZ, The drums are calling my name (RILM [ref]2010-06104[/ref]); Hazel FRANCO, Tradition reaffirming itself in new forms: An overview of Trinidad and Tobago folk dances (RILM [ref]2010-06110[/ref]); Julian GERSTIN, Tangled roots: Kalenda and other neo-African dances in the circum-Caribbean (RILM [ref]2010-06091[/ref]); Ramiro GUERRA, Melinda MOUSOURIS, trans., My experience and experiments in Caribbean dance (RILM [ref]2010-06094[/ref]); Susan HAREWOOD, John HUNTE, Dance in Barbados: Reclaiming, preserving, and creating national identities (RILM [ref]2010-06108[/ref]); Susan HOMAR, Contemporary dance in Puerto Rico, or How to speak of these times (RILM [ref]2010-06105[/ref]); Tania ISAAC, Helen, heaven, and I: In search of a dialogue (RILM [ref]2010-06107[/ref]); Ravindra Nath 'Raviji' MAHARAJ, A narrative on the framework of the presence, change, and continuity of Indian dance in Trinidad (RILM [ref]2010-06111[/ref]); Annette C. MCDONALD, Big drum dance of Carriacou (RILM [ref]2010-06109[/ref]); Juliet E. MCMAINS, Rumba encounters: Transculturation of Cuban rumba in American and European ballrooms (RILM [ref]2010-06093[/ref]); Sonjah Stanley NIAAH, Dance, divas, queens, and kings: Dance and culture in Jamaican dancehall (RILM [ref]2010-06099[/ref]); Cynthia OLIVER, Rigidigidim De Bamba De: A calypso journey from start to. . . (RILM [ref]2010-06090[/ref]); Xiomarita PÉREZ, Maria Lara SOTO, trans., How to dance son and the style of a Dominican sonero (RILM [ref]2010-06103[/ref]); Cheryl RYMAN, When Jamaica dances: Context and content (RILM [ref]2010-06098[/ref]); Grete VIDDAL, Haitian migration and danced identity in Eastern Cuba (RILM [ref]2010-06097[/ref]); Janet WASON, Bele and quadrille: African and European dimensions in the traditional dances of Dominica, West Indies (RILM [ref]2010-06106[/ref]).

292. Making Music and Masculinity in Vagrancy's Shadow: Race, Wealth, and "Malandragem" in Post-abolition Rio de Janeiro

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Marc A.,Hertzman (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010 Nov
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Hispanic American Historical Review
Journal Title Details:: 90(4) : 591-625

293. Making the Most of Their Time: Seasonality of Slave Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: David M.,Stark (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Colonial Latin American Review
Journal Title Details:: 19(2) : 323-349

294. Male teacher shortage: black teachers' perspectives

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Martino,Wayne (Author) and Rezai-Rashti,Goli M. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2010
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Gender and Education
Journal Title Details:: 22(3) : 247-262
Notes:: In this paper the authors draw on the perspectives of black teachers to provide a more nuanced analysis of male teacher shortage. Interviews with two Caribbean teachers in Toronto, Canada, are employed to illuminate the limits of an explanatory framework that foregrounds the singularity of gender as a basis for advocating male teachers as role models. The study concludes that educational policy attempting to address male teacher shortage would benefit from engaging with both analytic frameworks and empirical research that is capable of unravelling the politics of representation and intersectionality as they relate to addressing questions of male teacher shortage in elementary schools.

295. Mama Africa: reinventing blackness in Bahia

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Pinho,Patricia de Santana (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Durham NC: Duke University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Original edition translated from Portuguese by Elena Langdon., 266 p., An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.

296. Man vibes : masculinities in the Jamaican dancehall

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Hope,Donna P. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2010-01-01
Published:: Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 188 p., Explores Jamaican masculinity through the male-dominated dancehall space that is at once a celebration of the marginalized poor and also a challenge to social inequality. Using the major masculine debates that are articulated in dancehall music and culture, Donna Hope explores the transition of Jamaican masculinity in the 21st century.

297. Manual introductorio y guía de animación a la lectura: biblioteca de literatura afrocolombiana

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Guerrero,Arturo (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 141 p., Contents: Haciendo visibles a los invisibles / Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata -- Breve introducción sobre los aportes literarios y culturales afrocolombianos -- Catálogo de la Biblioteca de Literatura Afrocolombiana -- Guía de animación a la lectura : Biblioteca de Literatura Afrocolombiana / Beatriz Helena Robledo y José Ignacio Caro.

298. Many African Americans want to help

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Harris,Barbara (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Jul 15-Jul 21, 2010
Published:: Jackson, MS
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Jackson Advocate
Journal Title Details:: 39 : 7A
Notes:: "They don't want any more 'niggers' in this country," stated Cora McAlpin, a 57-year-old Carpenter, Miss. resident who takes particular issue with U.S. policy on Haitian migrants. "Did you see the people putting the little girl over the side of the boat and little sister knew to swim when she hit the water swim darling, swim to shore and you'll be free. I cried when I saw that, but I soon realized they are going to send the child back to that hell hole." "That didn't materialize because they didn't want us to do it," [Kenneth Stokes] said. Calling Haitian refugee holding facilities in Miami "jails," Stokes explained that conditions in "those camps rival anything you'd find at Parchman.

299. Mental Health Needs of Sexual Minorities in Jamaica

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: White,Yohann R. G. (Author), Barnaby,Loraine (Author), Swaby,Antoneal (Author), and Sandfort,Theo (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Apr 2010
Published:: Philadelphia, PA: Taylor & Francis
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: International Journal of Sexual Health
Journal Title Details:: 22(2) : 91-102
Notes:: Examines the prevalence of disorders and associated risk factors in a sample of sexual minority men and women in Jamaica, a country that is widely known for its high societal rejection of homosexuality. Poor relationships with family, negative or abusive experiences related to one's sexual orientation, and greater openness about one's sexual orientation were independent risk factors.

300. Mestizaje, diferencia y nación: lo "negro" en América Central y el Caribe

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cunin,Elisabeth (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Language:: Spanish
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe : Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos : Institut de recherche pour le développement
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 336 p.

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