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    1. "Strangers in a new land": Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban religious tradition in the diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nodal,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations
    Notes:
    247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”

    5. <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"

    7. <The Colonial Caribbean in Transition. Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History, by Bridget Brereton and Kelving A. Yelvington> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Emmer,Pieter C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Oct 2002
    Published:
    The Netherlands: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    73 : 140-141

    8. A So Di Ting Set: Conceptions of Male and Female in Jamaica and Barbados

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Carpenter,Karen (Author) and Walters,Gavin (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-12
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sexuality & Culture
    Journal Title Details:
    15(4) : 345-360
    Notes:
    Develops data from interviews about stereotypes of Jamaican and Barbadian men and women.&nbsp;The popular music from Jamaica and Barbados&nbsp;is used as a lens for understanding the cultures within which the respondents develop their gender stereotypes. The stereotype data is then compared with the music that is popular during the interviews.

    10. Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hoving,Isabel (Author), Korsten,Frans-Willem (Author), and Alphen,Ernst van (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    Amsterdam: Rodopi
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    208 p, Includes Kathleen Gyssels' "Tristes Tropiques et 'Racial Healing' : Ellen Ombre et Caryl Phillips Rentrent an Pays," p.163-179