Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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204 p., Examines cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, to challenge the selective and Euro-centric view of Mexican identity in the discourse about racial and ethnic homogeneity and the existence of black people in the country, as well as assumptions and stereotypes about gender and sexuality.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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196 p., Explores how Quilombo recognition has significantly affected the everyday lives of those who experience the often-complicated political process. Questions of identity, race, and entitlement play out against a community’s struggle to prove its historical authenticity—and to gain the land and rights they need to survive.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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359 p., Rather than hewing to labor uprisings in the 1930s as the generative moment for West Indian nationhood, the author begins with political and social conflicts from the late nineteenth century to argue that efforts to create a federation in the British Caribbean were much more than merely an imperial or regional nation-building project. This manuscript highlights the significant connections between Caribbean federation and other anticolonial struggles of the black diaspora.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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194p., Highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger historical framework.
