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2. Alternative Cultures in the Caribbean: First International Conference of the Society of Caribbean Research, Berlin 1988
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bremer,Thomas (Author) and Fleischmann,Ulrich (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 299 p., Thomas and Ulrich speak of Caribbean literature and the social aspects in the Caribbean Area.
3. Black and green: Afro-Colombians, development, and nature in the Pacific lowlands
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Asher,Kiran (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Durham: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 247 p, Argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s.
4. 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
5. Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Edmondson,Belinda J. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
6. Caribbean cultural thought : from plantation to diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hume,Yanique (Editor) and Kamugisha,Aaron (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- English; Some texts translated from French and Spanish.
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 623 p., Places classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The result is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond.
7. 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.
8. Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brathwaite,Edward Kamau (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1974
- Published:
- Mona, Jamaica: Savacou Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 80 p., Contents: Part One. Creolization: Definitions -- Patterns of Creolization: The whites ; The slaves ; Socialization ; Imitation; Creative ambivalence ; cultural censors ; Submerged mothers ; speech ; Style ; Sex and amorous influences -- The Plural Continuum: Whole and partial societies ; Effects ; The plural society model ; The orientation model ; Alternatives -- Part Two. Cultural Diversity: Overview: The legacy of slavery ; The song and dance of emancipation ; Maroonage -- Europeans -- An analytical diversion -- Afro-Caribbeans: The Afro-Caribbean tradition ; Birth customs ; Markets and food ; Social life and activity -- Post-emancipation complications -- The Chinese -- East Indians -- Inter-culturation: The Indo-creole ; New cultural signals -- Contradictory omens -- Contradictory models.
9. Desde la Orilla: hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Torres-Saillant,Silvio (Editor), Hernandez,Ramona (Editor), and Jimenez,Blas R. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Spanish or English
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Santo Domingo: Manatí: Librería La Trinitaria
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Proceedings from two conferences held in New York and Santo Domingo in 2001., 540 p, Contents: Prefacio / Silvio Torres-Saillant ... [et al.] -- Introducción / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Memoria de la diversidad perdida: Reflexiones iniciales -- PARTE I. MIGRACIÓN E IDENTIDAD CAMBIANTE -- Los cocolos: la identidad labrada / Norberto James Rawlings -- La herencia china: una meditación / Mu-Kien Adriana Sang -- Fobias nacionalistas y los domínico-haitianos / Sonia Pierre -- La herencia árabe / Orlando Inoa -- Domínico-puertorriqueños en el "país de cinco pisos" / Miguel Cordero Ortiz -- La migración dominicana en España / Bernarda Jiménez Clemente -- La dominicanidad itinerante / Anthony R. Stevens-Acevedo -- Being Dominican in Holland / Lisa Boersen -- Antelación I: el drama escolar / Milagros Ortiz Bosch -- PARTE II. RAZA, CLASE E INSTITUCIONES -- Evolución reciente de la protesta social / Roberto Cassá -- Cultura popular y discurso sobre la dominicanidad / Diógenes Céspedes -- La diversidad en la educaión superior / Rafael Toribio -- Second-generation Dominicans in New York City high schools / Nancy López -- Poemas / Blas R. Jiménez -- Religión y diversidad / Marcos Villamán -- La iglesia patriarcal dominicana / Sara Pérez -- Antelación II: el mundo de los libros / Virtudes Uribe -- PARTE III. SEXUALIDAD, GÉNERO Y NACIÓN -- Las mujeres en el ensayo del Caribe hispano / Daisy Cocco de Filippis -- Tres imágenes de lo femenino en el siglo XIX y el feminismo pionero / Ramonina Brea -- Las mujeres y otros subordinados en el espacio público nacional / Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco -- Modelo familiar y cuerpo femenino / Denise Paiewonsky -- Continuidad y cambios sociopolíticos de la mujer dominicana / Isis Duarte -- Homogeneidad, proyecto de nación y homofobia / Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso -- Primero Puta que Pájara: sexuality and Dominicanness / Dulce Reyes Bonilla -- Proyección I: conocimiento, confianza y convivencia / Tomas Ybarra Frausto -- PARTE IV. LA DIFERENCIA Y EL RECLAMO CIUDADANO -- Race, nation, and Dominican Nationalist discourse / Elka Scheker Mendoza -- Emigración, politíca pública y gobierno en Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- Diasporic lobbying in American politics / Michel S. Laguerre -- The perspective of African diaspora studies / James de Jongh -- Between the nation and the diaspora: migration to and from Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany -- La "otra isla" de New York y la caribeñidad a la intemperie / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- Lista de Washington Hieghts / Josefina Báez -- Proyección II: entre lo homogéneo y lo heterogéneo / Franklin Franco Pichardo -- Epílogo: Dominicanos de afuera, aquí y allá / Ramona Hernández.
10. Dust Tracks on a Road
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hurston,Zora Neale (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1969
- Published:
- New York: Arno Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 294 P., First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity, this is Zora Neale Hurston's unrestrained account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to prominence among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.