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.
After independence, many of the newly formed nations struggle to maintain their hard fought freedom, though there were many lingering colonial attachments; hostilities; and the difficulties that came with growing pains. Around 1789, the French Revolution was raging in France; two years later, a rebellion swept the northern part of the island like a massive tidal wave.
-, ON TUESDAY August 6 Karen Stokes, deputy director in the office of Tom Corbett, governor of Pennsylvania, will make by proclamation "Jamaica Independence Week" from August 5 to August 10 each year. Jamaicans and Philadelphians will also have the opportunity to see Miss Jamaica World 2013. Gina Hargitay on Saturday August 10 at Fairmount Park, from 10 a.m to 8p.m.
Princeton University Library Latin American microfilm collection (Author)
Format:
Microfilm
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Woodbridge, CT: GALE, Cengage Learning
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
From the holdings of the Firestone Library, Princeton University, based on the original inventory prepared by the library staff., 2 microfilm reels., Collection of Peruvian ephemera contains flyers, pamphlets, and reports, as well as magazines and serials. The publications reflect the cultural reality of Peru's ethnic minority groups in the years between 1982 and 2008 and address a variety of subjects from indigenous rights movements and local handicrafts to everyday discriminatory practices. Contents include: Part 1. Afro-Peruvian peoples -- pt. 2. Amazonian peoples -- pt. 3. Andean peoples -- pt. 4. Arts and crafts -- pt. 5. Legal rights and reforms -- pt. 6. Pan-ethnic and indigenista issues -- pt. 7. Racism and discrimination.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
311 p, "Consists of research notes and transcriptions of sources on indigenous peoples - focusing especially on caciques and communes - and on black slaves in the corregimiento of Loja. Drawn from notarial records, the Enrique Vacas Galindo collection, and the Archivo Nacional de Historia. Incorporates author's 'La trata de los negros en Loja.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Antigua, Guatemala; South Woodstock, Vt.: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica; Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
612 p., Carol F. Jopling [compiladora ; traducción de la introducción de Margarita Cruz de Drake]; 0252-9971; Errata sheet tipped in; Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii) and indexes; Serie monográfica (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica) ; 7.
Watching Caryl Phillips' excellent The Final Passage was a difficult process. Not just because it was a brilliant exploration of the last 30 years or so, showing the achievements and limitations of the Windrush generation, but, more importantly, because it exposed how we have been starved of intelligent, well-made Black programmes which offer us the possibility of serious reflection on our condition in this country. Phillips achieves a wonderful thing in his drama - he converts all our individual stories of moving to Britain and setting up home into a mass celebration of common history. The Final Passage thus becomes a template of sorts of the recent beginnings of Black Britain. Whether we are from an African or Caribbean background, there were scenes and emotions which we all recognised from our own histories. Control Many people didn't like The Final Passage because they felt that it yet again reinforced the negative view of Black men. But they need to be reminded that this is a work of fiction, not reality. And Caryl Phillips' main achievement in the series is to give us, in [Michael], the first truly great tragic-heroic Black character on British television. The lessons of his life should resonate in our time - a sort of angled mirror. He will remain a constant reminder of the need to bury the `colonial creation' - the Black man who is only able to manifest himself through his dreams rather than through the reality of day-to-day action.
