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2. Black identities: West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Waters,Mary C. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New York Cambridge Mass.: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 413 p, The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children. She finds that when the immigrants first arrive, their knowledge of English, their skills and contacts, their self-respect, and their optimistic assessment of American race relations facilitate their integration into the American economic structure
3. Congotay! Congotay! : a global history of Caribbean food
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Goucher,Candice Lee (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 239 p., Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the converging cultural elements. This book traces the pathways of migrants and travelers and the mixing of their cultures in the Caribbean from the Atlantic slave trade to the modern tourism economy.
4. La isla que se repite: el Caribe y la perspectiva posmoderna
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benitez-Rojo,Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Published:
- [Hanover N.H. U.S.A.]: Ediciones del Norte
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p., In this second edition of "The Repeating Island," Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean--the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics--there emerges an "island" of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia.
5. The Caribbean history reader
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foote,Nicola (Author) and ÉDiteur Scientifique (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York, NY: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 433 p, Provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of Caribbean history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. It brings together a range of classic and innovative articles and primary sources, to create an introduction to Caribbean political, economic, social and cultural currents, providing an important first reference point to scholars and students alike.