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    1. Beyond slavery: the multilayered legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Davis,Darien J. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    289 p, explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, this innovative work also highlights places such as Rio de La Plata and Central America, where the African legacy has been important but little studied.

    2. Recharting the Black Atlantic: modern cultures, local communities, global connections

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Oboe,Annalisa (Editor) and Scacchi,Anna (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    New York: Routledge
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    423 p., Focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. Includes Judith M. Williams' "Néritude as performance practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black experimental theatre," Richard Follett's "The spirit of Brazil: football and the politics of Afro-Brazilian cultural identity," Dorothea Fischer-Hornung's "Transbodied/transcultured : moving spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean," Elvira Pulitano's "Re-mapping Caribbean land(sea)scapes: aquatic metaphors and transatlantic homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound," and Antoinette Tidjani Alou's "Marine origins and anti-marine tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart."

    3. Reconceptualizations of the African diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ball,Erica (Editor), Pappademos,Melina (Editor), and Stephens,Michelle Ann (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Special journal issue; Issue 103 of Radical history review, Winter 2009., 246 p., Addresses transnational discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in African diaspora politics, African diaspora experiences on the African continent, the politics of African-descended peoples in Europe, and creative uses of the discourses of memory and diaspora to support political organizing and local struggles. Essays on Venezuelans, Bolivians, and Mexicans address the status of race in the study of African-descended populations and cultures in Latin America.