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2. Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton,Charles V. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 627 p, This study explores issues of race, racism, and strategies to improve the status of people of African descent in Brazil, South Africa and the USA. The authors provide in-depth information about each country, together with analyses of cross-cutting themes;
3. Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Abrahams,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 409 p
4. Old, Black, and Poor: Reports from Five Countries
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chappell,Neena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- December, 1995
- Published:
- Washington, DC: International Federation on Ageing
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ageing International
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(4) : 15-40
- Notes:
- Provides international comparisons of black seniors in South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Bermuda, and the United States, focusing on policy and program issues
5. President Fidel Castro Received Hero's Welcome To Harlem
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bragg,Joe (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1995-11-01
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 90 : 2
- Notes:
- President [Fidel Castro] lashed out at Mayor [Giuliani] for excluding him from the posh city parties. "The Mayor says I was a demon, and a demon couldn't be invited to dinner. So I said I'll go hungry the first day in New York" and then Castro laughed and said he wasn't upset by the Mayor's snub because his social calendar was full anyway. He said a friendly and rich family and a group of businessmen including David Rockefeller had invited him to dinner. President Castro says the U.N. don't speak of it. People applauded the independence of the African Countries, Namibia and South Africa. You would have thought the United Nations worked a miracle. There was no mention of Cuba and no mention of the many Cuban soldiers who lost their lives in the war. Yet they spoke of the end of apart-heid in a glorious manner. Castro says when people begin to write history, they forget reality. That is the historical truth, says Mr. Castro and a lot of research should be done on this because they have these nuclear weapons under their control right now. Mr. Castro says Cuba was the only outside country to shed its blood against apartheid and against racism in Africa. He says he agrees all nuclear weapons should be removed. But what is a blockade? "As we were saying today at the United Nations that blockade is like a noiseless atom bomb. It kills people and children. There is no justification for a blockade."
6. Reinventing epistolarity: Contemporary Africana women's fiction, citizenship, and human rights
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Walker,Carrie J. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Nebraska: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 232 p., Calls attention to the renewed popularity of the epistolary novel among Africana contemporary women writers. This work investigates why, since the late nineteen-seventies, there has been a resurgence of this classic form among women writers across the Black Atlantic. The adoption of this genre among women writers in post-colonial contexts is especially significant because the classic epistolary novel was a medium that often endorsed notions of female submission and imperialist ambition. At the same time, the epistolary tradition connotes a revolutionary history. With this idea in mind, the author argues that an examination of how contemporary women revise the epistolary novel offers a crucial perspective regarding the struggles of women throughout various geographic locations and social strata in relation to nation, citizenship, and selfhood. This project focuses on how Sindiwe Magona, Nozipo Maraire, and Paulette Ramsay "reinvent epistolarity," using the epistolary genre to make interventions in the public sphere by depicting Africana women's experiences of education, marriage, inheritance, and health.