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2. Military struggle and identity formation in Latin America : race, nation, and community during the liberal period
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foote,Nicola (Author) and Horst,René Harder (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p, Introduction: Decentering war : military struggle, nationalism, and Black and indigenous populations in Latin America, 1850-1950 / Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst -- pt. 1. Soldiering and citizenship. Subaltern strategies of citizenship and soldiering in Colombia's civil wars : Afro- and indigenous Colombians' experiences in the Cauca, 1851-1877 / James E. Sanders -- Soldiers and statesmen : race, liberalism, and the paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan military service, 1844-1863 / Justin Wolfe -- Afro-Cubans in Cuba's War for Independence, 1895-1898 / Aline Helg -- Monteneros and macheteros : Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous experiences of military struggle in liberal Ecuador, 1895-1930 / Nicola Foote -- Race and ethnicity in the Guatemalan army, 1914 / Richard N. Adams -- Mayan soldier-citizens : ethnic pride in the Guatemalan military, 1925-1945 / David Carey, Jr. -- pt. 2. War and the racing of national boundaries and imaginaries. Indigenous peoples of Brazil and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Maria de Fátima Costa -- Illustrating race and nation in the Paraguayan War era : exploring the decline of the Tupi Guarani warrior as the embodiment of Brazil / Peter M. Beattie -- The conquest of the desert and the free indigenous communities of the Argentine plains / Carlos Martínez Sarasola -- "The slayer of Victorio bears his honors quietly" : Tarahumaras and the Apache wars in nineteenth-century Mexico / Julia O'Hara -- Embattled identities in postcolonial Chile : race, region, and nation during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Joanna Crow -- Racial conflict and identity crisis in wartime Peru : revisiting the Cañete Massacre of 1881 / Vincent C. Peloso -- Crossfire, cactus, and racial constructions : the Chaco War and indigenous people in Paraguay / René D. Harder Horst.; Time: 1800 - 1999
3. Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hallward,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- London: Verso
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 442 p., Once the lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has become one of the divided and impoverished countries in the world. This title analyzes how and why President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the US and France instigated a second coup in 2004 to remove Aristide and a mobilization known as Lavalas for good.
4. Building a More Resilient Haitian State
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Crane,Keith (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 179 p., This report supports the development of a Haitian state-building strategy by identifying the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluating existing plans for strengthening government institutions and improving the delivery of public services, and proposing a realistic and carefully limited set of critical actions. The recommended priorities, in the areas of public administration, justice, security, economic policy, infrastructure, education, and health care, merit the greatest degree of Haiti's and international donors' policy attention and financial commitment.
5. La guerre d'indépendance cubaine
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ferrer,Ada (Author) and Thomas Van Ruymbeke (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Bécherel: Les Perséides
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 318 p.
6. Brazil's living museum: race, reform, and tradition in Bahia
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Romo,Anadelia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.