African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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251 p., Reviews the conditions endured by the slaves during their passage and in the plantations and how these conditions may have affected their own health and that of their descendants. Providing an evolutionary framework for understanding the epidemiology of common modern-day diseases such as obesity, hypertension and diabetes, it also looks at infectious diseases and their effect on the genetic make-up of Afro-Caribbean populations. Also covered are population genetics studies that have been used to understand the microevolutionary pathways for various populations, and demographic characteristics including the relationships between migration, family type and fertility.
Bigelow,John (Author) and Scholnick, Robert J. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally published: New York & London : Putnam, 1851., 214 p, After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate inferiority of the black race and bolstered by this apparently disastrous Jamaican example, Americans who defended slavery convinced many that emancipation at home would lead to economic and social chaos. Collecting John Bigelow's vivid firsthand reporting, Jamaica in 1850 challenges that widely held view and demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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182 p., Explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. Beckford highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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200 p., This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions and their effects on post-Independence Caribbean literature.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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210 p., From the days of slavery, the Negro from Martinique has never stopped "marronner", that is to say, to try to escape his condition, winning the great woods, the plebeians districts boroughs or even the neighboring islands. Simon, principal figure of the book, was one of them. He knew in the 17th century the arrival of the first slaves from Africa Guinea, the eighteenth hell of sugar plantations in the nineteenth fever abolition, in the early twentieth that of marching strikes and, at the dawn of XXI, the mare desperadoes of false modernity.
Kabengele,Munanga (Author) and Gomes,Nilma Lino (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Potuguese
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
São Paulo: Global Editora Ação Educativa
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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224 p, Contents: Homens e mulheres negros: notas de vida e de sucesso. Abdias do Nascimento. Adhemar Ferreira da Silva. Alzira Rufino. André Rebouças. Benedita da Silva. Carolina de Jesus. Cartola. Castro Alves. Chica da Silva. Clementina de Jesus. Domingas Maria do Nascimento. Dom Silvério Gomes Pimenta. Elisa Lucinda. Emanoel Araújo. Fátima de Oliveira. Francisca. Geni Guimarães. Gilberto Gil. Grande Otelo. João Cruz e Sousa. Joel Rufino dos Santos. Jorge dos Anjos. José do Patrocínio. Léa Garcia. Lélia Gonzáles. Lima Barreto. Luís Gama. Luísa Mahim. Machado de Assis. Mãe Stella. Manuel Querino. Mestre Didi. Milton Gonçalves. Milton Santos. Paulo Paim. Pixinguinha. Raquel Trindade. Ruth de Souza. Teodoro Sampaio. Toni Tornado. Zezé Mota
