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    1. Celebrating culture: Space, Symbols and Tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hull,Darlene (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Language:
    English, Portuguese, and Spanish
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    Austin, TX: SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, the General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Papers of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Cartagena de Indias, May 23-27, 2003., 272 p.

    2. Latin American identities after 1980

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Yovanovich,Gordana (Editor) and Huras,Amy (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    316 p., Takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, this book focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Includes Jessica Franklin's "Afro-Brazilian women's identities and activism : national and transnational discourse," Adrian Smith's "Legal creolization, 'permanent exceptionalism,' and Caribbean sojourners truths" and Janelle Joseph's "The transculturation of capoeira : Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian martial art."

    3. 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."