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2. Brazilian popular music and citizenship
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Avelar,Idelber, (Ed.And Intro.) and Dunn,Christopher, (Ed.And Intro.)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 376 p, Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has served as an effective resource for communities to stake claims to political, social, and cultural rights in Brazil, it has also been appropriated by the state in its efforts to manage and control a socially, racially, and geographically diverse nation. The question of citizenship has also been a recurrent theme in the work of many of Brazil's most important musicians. These essays explore popular music in relation to national identity, social class, racial formations, community organizing, political protest, and emergent forms of distribution and consumption.
3. CARICOM : policy options for international engagement
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hall,Kenneth O. (Author) and Chuck-A-Sang,Myrtle (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Georgetown, Guyana: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 503 p, pt. 1. Globalization and CARICOM external policy options -- pt. 2. South-South cooperation -- pt. 3. External trade negotiations: concerns and convergence -- pt. 4. Caribbean imperatives and concluding reflections.
4. The purposes of paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in Cuba and Hawaiʻi
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Skwiot, Christine (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010-01-01
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 283 p., Using travel and tourism as sites where the pleasures of imperialism met the politics of empire, Christine Skwiot untangles the histories of Cuba and Hawai'i as integral parts of the Union and keys to U.S. global power, as occupied territories with violent pasts, and as fantasy islands ripe with seduction and reward. Grounded in a wide array of primary materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and travel narratives, The Purposes of Paradise explores the ways travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i.
5. The sovereign colony : Olympic sport, national identity, and international politics in Puerto Rico
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sotomayor, Antonio (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-01
- Published:
- Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 302 p, Illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that developed within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. Significantly, it was precisely in the Olympic arena that Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures--and the United States' claim to democratic values--to their advantage. Drawing on extensive archival research, both on the island and in the United States, Sotomayor uncovers a story of a people struggling to escape the colonial periphery through sport and nationhood yet balancing the benefits and restraints of that same colonial status.