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    43. La Mama Negra en Latacunga

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Carvalho,Paulo (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Abril, 1981
    Published:
    Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    33(4)
    Notes:
    La exuberancia espiritual, pagana y religiosa, da vida a una celebración en el Valle de los Volcanes en el Ecuador.;

    44. Latin America and the inversion of United States stereotypes in the 1920s and 1930s: the case of culture and nature

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Pike,Fredrick B. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 1985
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    42(2) : 131-162
    Notes:
    "A change in attitudes toward nature and "natural persons" during the 1920's-30's in the United States led in part to a revision in North American attitudes toward Latin Americans. Insofar as the peoples of Latin America, including Indians, blacks, women, children, and the poor, symbolized natural folk - that is, those individuals not participating in mainstream capitalist culture - they became the substance of a stereotype made popular by a countercultural revolution in the 1920's-30's." (author)

    46. Martinique: Gardens of Bounty and Tears

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Wyels,Joyce Gregory (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov/Dec 2001
    Published:
    Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    53(6) : 16-23 : 16-23
    Notes:
    Describes the botanical gardens of Martinique. Geographical history; Plant species found in the gardens; Details of the country's progress and development.;

    49. On the Importance of Being Honorable: Masculinity, Survival, and Conflict in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, Ceará, 1840s 1890*

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Santos,Martha S. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July 2007
    Published:
    Philadelphia, PA: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    64(1) : 35-58
    Notes:
    Article about honor, masculinity, and conflict in Northeast Brazil;

    50. Portrayals of Female Power

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Martínez,Elizabeth Coonrod (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Sep/Oct 2007
    Published:
    Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    59(5) : 60-63
    Notes:
    The article reviews several books including The Potbellied Virgin, by Alicia Yáñez Cossío, A Taco Testimony, by Denise Chávez and Dancing to Almendra, by Mayra Montero.;

    51. Puerto Rico's African Roots

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Murphy-Larronde,Suzanne (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Sep/Oct 2007
    Published:
    Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    59(5) : 4-5
    Notes:
    The article focuses on the African words included in Puerto Rico's version of the Spanish language. Prominently inscribed on a first-floor wall of the Museum of Our African Roots in Old San Juan, these words illustrate the pivotal role that African immigrants have played over the last five centuries in the social and cultural development of this onetime Spanish colony in the Greater Antilles. First-floor rooms are dedicated, in part, to African geography and social history and culture;

    52. Remaking a Lost Harmony: Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Mujica,Barbara (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    May/Jun 1996
    Published:
    Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    48(3) : 62-63
    Notes:
    Reviews the book Remaking of a Lost Harmony: Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean,'edited by Margarite Fernandez Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; Review title is From Caribbean Harmony to Chilean Taboos

    53. Rescued From Their Invisibility: The Afro-Puerto Ricans of Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Stark,David M. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Apr 2007
    Published:
    Philadelphia, PA: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    63(4) : 551-587
    Notes:
    Article explores the national identity of Puerto Rico emphasizing its black roots;

    55. Slave Confraternities in Brazil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Mulvey,Patricia A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1982
    Published:
    Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    39 : 39-68

    57. The Maroon Culture of Endurance

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Reidell,Heidi (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1990
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Organization of American States
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    42(1) : 46-50

    59. The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Altman,Ida (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    April 2007
    Published:
    Philadelphia, PA: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    63(4) : 587-615
    Notes:
    Author explores the revolt of Enrique, an Indian chief of the island Hispaniola.;