African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 501
Notes:
This book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Leading scholars of archaeology, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology draw upon extensive field experiences and archival investigations of black communities in North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa to challenge received paradigms in Afro-American anthropology; Yelvington, K.A. (chapter) 'The Invention of Africa in Latin America and the Caribbean: Political Discourse and Anthropological Praxis, 1920-1940.'
Blouin,Francis X. (Author) and Rosenberg,William G. (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
502 p, Essays exploring the importance of archives as artifacts of culture As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, archives help define for individuals, communities, and states what is both knowable and known about their pasts. Includes Laurent Dubois' "Maroons in the archives: the uses of the past in the French Caribbean."
Austin, TX: SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, the General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Cartagena de Indias, May 23-27, 2003., 272 p.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 456
Notes:
Includes Jerome Teelucksingh's "Black thorns and the Black cross: Catholic loyalties in the British West Indies during the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
374 p., This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Includes "É a senzala: slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé" by Rachel Elizabeth Harding, "'I smoothed the way; I opened doors': women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad' by Tracey E. Hucks, and "Joining the African diaspora: migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York" by Paul Christopher Johnson.
