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2. Democracy and Race in Brazil, Britain, and the United States: Reaching for Higher Ground
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brown,Walton L. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- Published:
- Lewinston, N. Y.: E. Mellen Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 289 p, Synopsis Examining the relationship between democracy and the politics of race from a cross-national comparative perspective, this study examies specifically how black people fare in the political systems of Britain, Brazil, and the USA. Questions concerning the role of race in the development of democratic ideology, theory and systems of governance, and the levels of difference and commonality in the policitical experiences of people of African descent in the diaspora are addressed. This text uses the traditional tools of comparative political science in order to examine the role of race and race-related issues in each nation. Each of the nation-state chapters traces the historical relationship between the development of democracy and the politics of race. Also discussed are the processes and factors that are the result of the specific national or political differences and those that may be the result of systemic factors that commonly occur in democratic contexts. ; Includes bibliographical references (p.267-281) and index.
3. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Persons,Georgia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 7
- Notes:
- 313 p, Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyse manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists; "A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists"
4. Ship of Death : a Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Billy G. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 306 p., Uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793. From its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic.
5. Tracts on Slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benezet,Anthony (Author), Hodgson,Adam (Author), Cropper,James (Author), Cooper,Thomas (Author), Taylor,John (Author), and Winn,T. S. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- s.l.: s.n.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 vols.
- Notes:
- Set contains materials concerning slavery printed between 1774-1845. Contents include: Abstract of the Acts of Parliament for abolishing slave trade and of the orders in council, 1810; Letter to John Bull : to which is added the sketch of a plan for the safe, speedy, and effectual abolition of slavery, 1823; Immediate, not gradual abolition; or, an inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery, 1824; Thoughts on the abolition of slavery ; humbly submitted in a letter to the King, 1824; Report of the debate in the House of Commons, June the 16th, 1825 on Dr. Lushington's motion respecting the deportation of Messrs. L.C. Lecesne and J. Escoffery, two persons of colour, from Jamaica, 1825; Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly Estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and Island of Jamaica, 1825.
6. West Indian migrants: social and economic facts of migration from the West Indies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Davison,Robert Barry (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1962
- Published:
- London ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 89 p, "First appeared in article form in the West Indian economist, July-October 1961."