Reiter,Bernd (Author) and Simmons,Kimberly Eison (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
314 p, By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi-faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas. Includes Faye V. Harrison's "Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
396 p., In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. Before Haiti explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they created their own New World identity from 1760 to 1804.
México, D.F.: Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Históricos
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
227 p., Contents: Consideraciones preliminares -- Conflictos entre normas y prácticas -- Pequeños roces cotidiannos -- Imágenes construidas en la frontera de las normas -- La literatura y la iconografía : comicidad, exotismo, devoción -- Consideraciones finales.
