Mayagüez PR San Juan: Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores Postdata
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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126 p, Género e historiografía (los relatos y las vidas) / Blanca Silvestrini -- Los discursos autobiográficos de mujeres en Cuba y Puerto Rico / Aileen Schmidt -- Sin hombre en la casa o el mito del matriarcado en el Caribe angloparlante / María I. Quiñonez Arocho -- Teosofía y modernización : el caso de Olivia Paoli de Braschi / Mario R. Cancel -- Las primarias de la alcaldesa : apoderamiento femenino en Guayama (1952) / Mary Frances Gallart -- Las mujeres y la higiene : la construcción de "lo social" en San Juan, 1880-1929 / Ivette Rodríguez Santana -- Angeles de la Caridad : mujer y beneficencia en Ponce, 1855-1885 / Thamar Lebrón Fernández -- Vienen tumbando caña (todavía) / Janis Palma; Includes bibliographical references.
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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168 p., Provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Translation of: The pearl of the Antilles; or, An artist in Cuba.
Originally published: London, H.S. King, 1873., 308 P., "Cuba having lately become a prominent object of attention, both to Europe and America, I venture to think that any trustworthy information that can be given respecting it, may prove acceptable to the reader. I approach my task with no great pretensions, but yet with an experience acquired by many years' residence in the Island, and an intimate intercourse with its inhabitants. I arrived there in 1864, when Cuba was enjoying uninterrupted peace and prosperity, and my departure took place in the first year of her adversity. Having thus viewed society in the Island under the most opposite conditions, I have had various and ample opportunities of studying its institutions, its races and its government; and in availing myself of these opportunities I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to avoid those matters which are alike common to life in Spain and in Cuba." --The Author
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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296 p, This book was originally published in 1959 in Cuba which includes the rituals of the Society Abakua narrated according to the author. The secret society fraternal, religious , cultural and mutual Abakua , created in 1836 and then built by African slaves for the purpose of dealing with the abuses of slavery. Because of their unquestionable contribution to the racial and cultural integration of the Cuban nation, the Abakua Society was eventually legally recognized.
La Habana, Cuba: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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477 p, Examines the musical traditions of the African population in Cuba, including rhythmic and melodic features, instrumentation, and vocal characteristics.
