Solow,Barbara L. (Editor) and Engerman,Stanley L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 345 p.
Notes:
Includes Dunn, "Dreadful Idlers' in the Cane Fields: The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831," pp. 163-90, 173, 179, 188; Craton and Walvin, "Jamaican Plantation," pp. 134-41; and Long, "History of Jamaica," pp. 2:437-40.
Hall,Kenneth O. (Editor) and Chuck-A-Sang,Myrtle (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Trafford Publishing
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers presented at a Conference on The Caribbean and the Commonwealth: Collective Responsibility for the 21st Century, hosted by the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, February 16-18, 2011., 560 p, Examining the challenges faced by the Region in moving the Integration process forward, a number of papers assess what needs to be done to avert the crisis which threatened the Caribbean as they advocate for a rethinking of the strategies currently employed by the Caribbean Community.
Special journal issue., 211 p., During the colonial era, after abolition of slavery in 1833, the British faced extreme shortage of labor for sugar plantation in their sugar producing colonies of the Caribbean. To overcome this problem, over half a million Indians were transported to the region as indentured workers (often called as Indian coolies) with false hopes and promises.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
207 p., Includes S. Reid's "An Introductory Approach to the Concentration of Power in the Jamaican Corporate Economy and Notes on its Origin." (chapter: pp. 15-44); D. Robotham's "Agrarian Relations in Jamaica." (chapter: pp. 45-57); and Ralph Gonsalves' "The Trade Union Movement in Jamaica: Its Growth and Resultant Problems." (chapter: pp. 89-105).
Mohammed,Patricia (Editor) and Shepherd,Catherine (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
360 p, Contents: I. WOMEN'S STUDIES: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- II. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: MODELS AND THEORIES -- III. FEMINISM: HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL -- IV. DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -- V. IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE -- VI. WOMEN'S LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM -- VII. ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY -- VIII. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AND WOMEN WHO ORGANIZE.
Cobas,José A. (Editor), Duany,Jorge (Editor), and Feagin,Joe R. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Boulder: Paradigm
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
254 p., Includes Jorge Duany's "Racializing ethnicity in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean : a comparison of Haitians in the Dominican Republic and Dominicans in Puerto Rico."
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."
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
516 p., Explores the theme of power to expose the disruptions and dangers lurking in Caribbean discourses on gender and love when these are approached from interrogating the currencies of power continuously circulating in their operations. The chapters are grounded in the complex realities of the contemporary Caribbean even as they challenge canonical thought. The authors simultaneously critique and create knowledge about the lives of women and men within the Caribbean and its diaspora.
