African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
359 p., Examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. Includes Lewin L. Williams' "A theological perspective on the effects of globalization on poverty in Pan-African Contexts" and Noel Leo Erskine's "Caribbean issues : the Caribbean and African American Churches' response."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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301 p., Brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Includes Sabine Wilke's "South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics : Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing" and Bonnie Roos' "Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros : a sea change of stories in visible silence."
Santo,Charles Andrew (Editor) and Mildner,Gerard C. S. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
267 p, Chapter 12, American Baseball and the Global Labor Market, includes Charles A. Santo's "Resistance and Hegemony in the Caribbean," "Shared History and Parallel Development of Caribbean Baseball," "Dominican Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Exploitation," "Cuban Nationalism and Resistance."
University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras Campus). Centro de Investigaciones Históricas. (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Río Piedras, P.R.: Departamento de Historia, Centro de Investigaciónes Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Outgrowth of a seminar held at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, in June 2006., 50 p., Contents: Presentación / Sharon Meléndez Ortiz y Rafael Díaz Díaz -- Del machete al hechizo : formas de resistencia entre los esclavos y esclavas de origen africano y afro-caribeño durante el periodo colonial / Sharon Meléndez Ortiz -- Sometiéndose para ser libres : el caso de la libertad pedida por los negros de los palenques de la Sierra de María, Cartagena, 1691 / César Augusto Salcedo Chirinos -- Mujer negra : resistir para construir : Nueva Granada siglo XVIII / Yanelba Mota Maldonado -- Las juntas como resistencia al sistema esclavista, Cartagena de Indias, siglo XVI / Frank Cosme Arroyo -- La magia negra, resistencia y seducción / Rubén Lasanta -- Los caminos a la manumisión : ley de 21 de julio de 1821 / Damaris J. Marrero Villali.
Wetherell,Margaret (Editor) and Mohanty,Chandra Talpade (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
544 p., Overviews the major themes in contemporary research while still acknowledging the historical and philosophical significance of the concept of identity. Includes Harry J. Elam, Jr and Michele Elam's "Race and racial formations" and Carole Boyce Davies and Monica Jardine's "Migrations, diasporas, nations: the re-making of Caribbean identities."
Wiggan,Greg A. (Editor) and Hutchison,Charles B. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
339 p., Includes Alicia Trotman and Greg Wiggan's "Inclusive education in the global context : the impact on the government and teachers in a developing country : Trinidad and Tobago" and Jean Walrond's "In the diaspora, black Caribbean Canadian culture matters : perspectives on education 'back home'."
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."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
394 p., Covers the period between August 1921 and August 1922. During this particularly tumultuous time, Garvey suffered legal, political, and financial trouble, while the UNIA struggled to grow throughout the Caribbean.
Henry,Paget (Author) and Gordon,Jane Anna (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2016
Published:
New York: Rowman & Littlefield
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
357 p., Beginning and ending with his most recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry’s early consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and democratic socialism.
Knight,Franklin W. (Editor) and Gates,Henry Louis, Jr. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2016-01-01
Published:
New York, NY: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
6 vols., Provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant. Covers the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Individuals are drawn from all walks of life including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to the history of the Caribbean and Latin America.
