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    1. Caribbean Winds: Threats to National Security

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Antoine,Denis G. (Author), Layne,Kingsley C. A. (Author), and King,Michael I. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    53(3) : 52
    Notes:
    "For the governments of the small, English-speaking island nations of the Caribbean, the traditional concept of national security has less meaning in light of post-Cold War realities. These are countries set in the Caribbean Sea, with minimal defense forces, and no boundary disputes. For them, currents assessments of national security demonstrate clearly and forcefully that the threats they face 'are nontraditional, multidimensional, and international in nature'."

    5. <Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society, by Hilary Beckles>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Karasch,Mary C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 2001
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(2) : 333
    Notes:
    Centering Women consists of somewhat altered versions of the author's previously published articles, with an introduction and "summation" that argue for a post-nationalist history of gender in the Caribbean

    6. <Espejos de la guerra fria: Mexico, America Central y el Caribe, by Daniela Spenser>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    McPherson,Alan L. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2006
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    62(3) : 510-511
    Notes:
    According to McPherson, Spenser has gathered a remarkable international ensemble of scholars who collectively ask what the East-West Cold War meant in Latin America

    7. <States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940, by Stuart George McCook>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Palmer,Steven Paul (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    April, 2003
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    59(4) : 594
    Notes:
    According to the reviewer, McCook writes in a clear and effective style. His approach to the subject is neither overly theoretical nor oversimplified

    8. <Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, by Margarite Fernández Olmos; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Payne-Jackson,Arvilla (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2002
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(3) : 484
    Notes:
    "The Spanish expression--la cultura cura (culture heals)--is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people"

    11. A Lab for Troubled Waters

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Steif,William (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    52(4) : 3
    Notes:
    The St. Croix-based West Indies Laboratory will be rejuvenated as the site of a new Caribbean-wide research program. The laboratory was the primary source of scientific data on the Caribbean Sea for 20 years before its destruction by Hurricane Hugo

    13. <A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean, by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Turits,Richard Lee (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July, 2004
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    61(1) : 110-112

    15. Black Carib Bastion of Freedom

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Muilenburg,Peter T. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Organization of American States
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    51(3) : 16-21
    Notes:
    Traces the history of the Black Caribs of Saint Vincent. Origin of the Black Carib population; Description of the Carib culture; Details on their fight for freedom in the 1700s.