Fischer reviews the two-volume work Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: social dynamics and cultural transformations, by Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Arlene Torres>
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally published: London : Latin American Bureau, 2006., 205 p., Relates the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, an organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that employs music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of shantytowns to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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224 p, Contents; SPEAR : SPEAR on target? / by Dylan Vernon -- Red Thread : the Red Thread story / by Andaiye -- SAC : the Social Action Centre story, 1958-1998 / by Horace Levy -- NGO networking : ring around the roses / by Regina Dumas-Sanchez
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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239 p, Contents: Globalization, the "new world order imperialism," and Haiti -- Before Aristide : class power, state power, and the Duvalier dictatorships, 1957-1990 -- The prophet armed : the popular movement for democracy and the rise of Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- The prophet disarmed : the first Lavalas government and its overthrow -- The prophet checkmated : the political opposition and the low-intensity war against Aristide -- The prophet banished : the second overthrow of Aristide and the pacification of Haiti