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    1. "We are the planet": incipient solidarities in Russell Banks's Continental Drift

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Entin,Joseph (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2012
    Published:
    Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    WorkingUSA
    Journal Title Details:
    15(1) : 51-66
    Notes:
    Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.

    3. <Beyond the Limbo Silence>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hathaway,Heather (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall, 2000
    Published:
    Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    34(3) : 552-553
    Notes:
    Hathaway describes the characters and plot of this novel, which is set in the Civil Rights era and focuses on the experiences of a Trinidadian immigrant who has come to the U. S. on a scholarship to a small, Catholic college in the Midwest

    7. Correcting "a Touch of the Brush": Afro-Caribbean Racial Identity and Shame in Francisco Arrivi's Los vejigantes and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Chombo

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Edison,Thomas Wayne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2004
    Published:
    United States: Venderbilt University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    23(2) : 45-53
    Notes:
    Within sectors of North America's African-American community, the colloquial expression "being touched by the brush" describes a multi-ethnic individual that possesses subtle Negroid physical features which are only detectable by close inspection by a "trained eye." Here, Edison discusses the historical factors in Puerto Rico and Panama that make up the foundation upon which Francisco Arrivi's "Los Vejigantes" and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's "Chombo" were constructed.;

    8. Domestic Blast (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kaplan,Erin Aubry (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter2013
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Ms. (Ms.)
    Journal Title Details:
    23(1) : 57-59
    Notes:
    Reviews the book "See Now Then," by Jamaica Kincaid.

    9. From 'Griffonne'

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hopkinson,Nalo (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter, 2003
    Published:
    Baton Rouge: Callaloo
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    26(1) : 170-181
    Notes:
    An excerpt from Hopkinson's novel 'Griffonne' is presented