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273 p, Born of the union between African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St. Vincent, and later exiled to Honduras, the Garifuna way of life combines elements of African, Island Carib, and colonial European culture. Beginning in the 1940s, this cultural matrix became even more complex as Garifuna began migrating to the United States, forming communities in the cities of New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Moving between a village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras and the New York City neighborhoods of the South Bronx and Harlem, England traces the daily lives, experiences, and grassroots organizing of the Garifuna.
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239 p., Combines historical elements on the formation of Brazil in their ethnic identity and cultural character and shows the reader the contributions of Bantus in this process. Moreover, Nei Lopes sets new parameters on the relationship between Islam and negritude. By way of its involvement with the black cultural resistance in Brazil and Africa, presents the reader with a face of history unknown to most Brazilians.
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342 p., Analyzes how imperial control met with resistance and how Africans, Indians, and Spaniards, and their descendants interacted with one another. Her study uncovers an intersection and cross-fertilization of sociocultural measurements identifiable in the workplace, courts, church, and private lives. Brockington innovatively uses Spanish colonial documentary sources, including serial financial accounts of wealthy orphans, court cases, parish records, and census information of hacienda workers to elucidate race, ethnic, class, and gender issues within the colonial reality of contradiction and ambiguity.
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1 microfiche, Winston Farrell is a performing poet and theatre practioner from the island of Barbados. This work has been created out of a series of interactions with senior citizens focusing on their life experiences and their environment. Some of them are very performance-oriented and stand out as an exercise in storytelling.
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202 p, "Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena? How are Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in the Caribbean? This book answers these questions by relating the 1998 controversy surrounding the 150th anniversary of France's abolition of slavery to the period of the slave regime spanning the late Enligtenment and the French Revolution. By comparing a diversity of documents - including letters by slaves, free people of color, and planters, as well as writings by the philosophes, royal decrees, and court cases - the author untangles the complex forces of the slave regime that have shaped collective memory. The current nationalization of the memory of slavery in France has turned these once peripheral claims into passionate political and cultural debates." --Jacket.
Miles,Tiya (Author) and Holland,Sharon Patricia (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
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364 p, "These essays explore the complex cultures, identities, and politics that arise in the space where black and native experiences converge." (Google)
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403 p, A historical dictionary compiling information on The Haitian Revolution, spanning from 1789-1804. With entries on events, acts, places and figures of importance.
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177 p, "Una de las paradojas reclacitrantes del Código Negro francés (1685) es que hasta hoy no ha sido traducido íntegramente a la lengua castellana.En tiempos de depreciación y agravio de los derechos humanos elementales (orientados ahora hacia las minorías étnicas y los migrantes),parece oportuno y hasta necesario dar a conocer algunos comentariosy apreciaciones críticas sobre este "¡sobervio ejemplar de perversidad!",donde los esclavos negros son considerados -con increíble cinismo- poco menos que bestias." (libreria.mora.edu.mx);
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2 vols (962 p)., Accessible to students and general readers, this encyclopedia overviews the lives and works of Caribbean authors. Because Caribbean literature is so much a reflection of regional concerns, the encyclopedia gives special attention to the political, cultural, and historical contexts in which Caribbean authors have lived and worked.
