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    1. "A Comparison of the Mobilization and Use of Saving Across Types of Financial Intermediaries in the Jamaican Economy"

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Tennant,David (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2007-12-06
    Published:
    Milan: Finafrica
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Savings and Development
    Journal Title Details:
    31 (1): 45-68
    Notes:
    Argues that even in an era of technological innovation and financial sophistication, the basic mobilization and use of society's savings remains the paramount role of the financial sector. In fulfilling this role, different types of financial institutions, with diverse areas of specialization and operational modalities, have distinct relative advantages. The performance of Jamaican financial institutions in fulfilling the basic facets of intermediation is compared, and areas in which particular types of financial institutions have exhibited higher standards of performance relative to the rest of the sector are highlighted.

    2. "A Conversation With Nicolás Guillén."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Guillen,Nicolas (Author) and Prescott,Laurence E. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1987
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    10(2) : 352-356

    3. "A Lascivious Climate": Representations of Colonial Subjectivity in the Causes Celèbres of Eighteenth-Century France

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Rizzo,Tracey (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Caribbean History
    Journal Title Details:
    34(1/2) : 157-178
    Notes:
    Rizzo examines how lawyers represent their clients in the twilight years of the Old Regime France. During this period, lawyers always depict their clients as more metropolitan than their opponent in order to render colonial "others" both more exotic and more accessible to readers and judges.;

    13. "Americans in Samaná."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hoetink,Germannus (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1962-1963
    Published:
    Rio Piedras, P.R: Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    2(1) : 3-22

    14. "An Introductory Note to the Study of Race Relations in Great Britain."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lewis,Gordon K. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1971
    Published:
    Rio Piedras, P.R: Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    11(1) : 5-29
    Notes:
    Most immigrants remain in the exploited lower working class, suffering discrimination and poverty. Race relations have worsened as the number of blacks has increased, prompting the most important social debate of post-war English society

    15. "Any time is Trinidad time": social meanings and temporal consciousness

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Birth,Kevin K. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    190 p., Contributes to the understanding of ethnic, class, and gender relationships in the Caribbean, and it is notable for its emphasis on how individuals manipulate and manage social differences on a day-to-day basis. Using ideas of time as a lens through which to watch these divisions evolve, explores the implications of the existence of multiple models of time on social organization.

    20. "Black Skin, Blue Eyes": Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922-1944

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Thompson,Krista A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Sep 2004
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
    Journal Title Details:
    8(2) : 1-31
    Notes:
    Presents an article on Jamaican art and the early artistic production of Edna Manley and Albert Huie, two artists that are commonly identified in art historical accounts as pioneers in the development of a national Jamaican art. Problem of race and representation in Jamaica as perceived by Huie and Manley; Character which held a particular representational significance for Huie and Manley; Role of Ethiopianism, Rastafarianism, Garveyism, and cultural nationalism in Jamaica.;