Format: Book, Whole / Subject Term: Politics and government and Civilization

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

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Taylor,Patrick (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1989
Published:: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 251 p, Taylor uses the works of Frantz Fanon to examine the expressive culture of the Afro-Caribbean. Focuses on the narrative of the colonized people and makes a distinction between mythic narrative and the narrative of liberation. (JSTOR)

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Foote,Nicola (Author) and ÉDiteur Scientifique (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2013
Published:: New York, NY: Routledge
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 433 p, Provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of Caribbean history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. It brings together a range of classic and innovative articles and primary sources, to create an introduction to Caribbean political, economic, social and cultural currents, providing an important first reference point to scholars and students alike.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Smith,Michael Garfield (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1965
Published:: Berkeley: University of California Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 359 p

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dixon,Kwame (Author) and Burdick,John (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2012
Published:: Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 365 p, Discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Athey,Lois Edwards (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1987
Published:: New York: Globe Book Co.
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 250 p., Studies the history, society, and culture of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

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.

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