United States. Department of the Interior. National Park Service (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
152 p, Includes "Gardening, yard decoration, and agriculture among peoples of African descent in the rural South and in the Cayman Islands" and "Por la encendida calle antillana : African influence on Puerto Rican architecture."
México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
292 p, Contents: La población negra en el istmo centroamericano / Francisco Lizcano -- Las culturas afroamericanas de Belice : criollos y garífunas en la identidad pluriétnica de su país / Francesca Gargallo -- Presencia y ausencia de la población negra en El Salvador / Francisco Lizcano -- Presencia negra en Honduras / Rafael Leiva Vivas -- La población de origen africano en Nicaragua / Germán J. Romero V. -- Presencia y aportes de la africanía en Costa Rica / Quince Duncan -- El negro en Panamá / Manuel de la Rosa
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
423 p., Focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. Includes Judith M. Williams' "Néritude as performance practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black experimental theatre," Richard Follett's "The spirit of Brazil: football and the politics of Afro-Brazilian cultural identity," Dorothea Fischer-Hornung's "Transbodied/transcultured : moving spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean," Elvira Pulitano's "Re-mapping Caribbean land(sea)scapes: aquatic metaphors and transatlantic homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound," and Antoinette Tidjani Alou's "Marine origins and anti-marine tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart."
Ball,Erica (Editor), Pappademos,Melina (Editor), and Stephens,Michelle Ann (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Special journal issue; Issue 103 of Radical history review, Winter 2009., 246 p., Addresses transnational discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in African diaspora politics, African diaspora experiences on the African continent, the politics of African-descended peoples in Europe, and creative uses of the discourses of memory and diaspora to support political organizing and local struggles. Essays on Venezuelans, Bolivians, and Mexicans address the status of race in the study of African-descended populations and cultures in Latin America.
