African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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233 p., Examines China's rise, its role in the greater China region, and its influence in other regions of the world. Includes William Vlcek's "Development--great and small: "Greater China," small Caribbean islands and offshore finance."
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
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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."
Anderson,Jaynie (Editor) and Comité international d'histoire de l'art (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Carlton, Vic: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
International Congress of the History of Art (32nd :; 2008 :; Melbourne, Vic.); Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA, The University of Melbourne, 13-18 January 2008., 1108 p., Presents an examination of the effect of globalism on art and art history. Covering different aspects of art, this title explores the themes of conflict, migration and convergence in the visual, symbolic and artistic exchanges between cultures throughout history. Includes Roberto Conduru's "From silence to multiple incorporation: art and Afro-Brazilian religions."
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'."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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263 p., Brings together adult education theorists and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean (and diaspora from these regions) in an attempt to foreground issues, concepts, theories, and practices of adult education in Southern locations. Includes Jean Walrond's "Adult education and development in the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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263 p., Demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change. Includes Jean Walrond's "Adult education and development in the Caribbean."
