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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Publication Year 2012 Subject Term Banks and banking Subject Term Social conditions

    1. "We are the planet": incipient solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Entin,Joseph (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2012
    Published:
    Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    WorkingUSA
    Journal Title Details:
    15(1) : 51-66
    Notes:
    Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.

    2. Aspects of Cuba's Strategy to Revive Socialist Development

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ludlam,Steve (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Jan 2012
    Published:
    New York, NY: Guilford Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Science & Society
    Journal Title Details:
    76(1) : 41-65
    Notes:
    With stark income inequalities rooted in its dual currency economy, Cuba is taxing down high and unearned incomes, while trying to raise national productivity and official salaries through performance-related pay and labor restructuring. Such measures are portrayed as an abandonment of socialism, but in Cuba are discussed in terms of historic socialist debates about distribution and the balance of moral and material incentives at work, in a society still characterized by common ownership, social protection, and collective debate.

    3. Displacement and Disaster Recovery: Transnational Governance and Socio-legal Issues Following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sapat,Alka (Author) and Esnard,Ann-Margaret (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    United States: Berkeley Electronic Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Risks, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    3(1)
    Notes:
    The 2010 earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath have highlighted inherent but understudied transnational governance and socio-legal complexities of disaster recovery and displacement. This paper examines the key transnational governance and socio-legal issues that have arisen in the South Florida region for four distinct groups: (i) displacees and their related legal, social, cultural, and economic issues; (ii) host communities and governance, legal, and monetary complexities associated with compensation payments (e.g., to hospitals for their services to earthquake survivors); (iii) immigrants within the United States and related legalization and citizenship issues; and (iv) diaspora communities and socio-legal issues related to dual citizenship and their ongoing struggles to have a louder voice in the future of Haiti.