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.
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).
Benjamin,Russell (Editor) and Hall,Gregory Otha (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Lanham, MD: University Press of America
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
211 p., Argues that the colonialism beginning in the 15th century never ended, but rather developed different forms over time. The scope of their work examines eternal colonialism in both American and international contexts. Includes Brad Bullock and Sabita Manian's "Globalization's gendered consequences for the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Pre-congress papers for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences., 456 p, Section two includes C. S. Holzberg's "Societal Segmentation and Jewish Ethnicity: Ethnographic Illustrations from Latin America and the Caribbean," Selwyn D. Ryan's "Politics in an Artificial Society: The Case of Bermuda," Marilyn Silverman's "The Role of Factionalism in Political Encapsulation: East Indian Villagers in Guyana," Edward Taylor's "The Social Adjustment of Returned Migrants to Jamaica," C. D. Yawney's "Remnants of All Nations: Rastafarian Attitudes to Race and Nationality," and A. Barrington Chevannes' "The Repairer of the Breach: Reverend Claudius Henry and Jamaican Society."
Glazer,Nathan (Editor), Moynihan,Daniel P. (Editor), and Schelling, Corinne Saposs. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1975
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
531 p, Indicates that minority groups around the world are no longer doing what society for hundreds of years has expected them to doâe"assimilate, disappear, or endure as exotic, troublesome survivors. Instead, their numbers expanded by immigration, their experiences and struggles mirrored to one another by the international mass media, minorities have become vital, highly conscious forces within almost all contemporary societies.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 272
Notes:
Includes Explaining Dutch abolition / Gert Oostindie -- Long goodbye : Dutch capitalism and antislavery in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher -- Dutch case of antislavery : Late abolitions and élitist abolitionism / Maarten Kuitenbrouwer -- Dutch antislavery attitudes in a decline-ridden society, 1750-1815 / Angelie Sens -- Economic explanation of the late abolition of slavery in Suriname / Edwin Horlings -- Suriname and the abolition of slavery / Alex van Stipriaan -- Same old song? : perspectives on slavery and slaves in Suriname and Curac̦ao / Gert Oostindie -- Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British, and the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Slavery and the Dutch in Southeast Asia / Gerrit J. Knaap -- Ideology of free labor and Dutch colonial policy, 1830-1870 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Emancipations in comparative perspective : a long and wide view / Stanley L. Engerman.
West,Michael O. (Editor), Martin,William G. (Editor), and Wilkins,Fanon Che (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
318 p., Focuses on three moments in global black history: the American and Haitian revolutions, the Garvey movement and the Communist International following World War I, and the Black Power movement of the late twentieth century.
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.
Mohammed,Patricia (Editor) and Shepherd,Catherine (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Inagural Seminar of the University of the West Indies, Women and Development Studies Project (1986 : Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago), 372 p, A collection of papers presented at a 2-week conference at the University of the West Indies. The conference came at a crucial time in the development of Women's Studies at the University. An official program of Women's Studies was about to be launched on the University's 3 campuses. The conference was concerned to create a program relevant to the actual needs of the Caribbean region.
