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2. America's First Slave Revolt: Indians and African Slaves in Espanola, 1500-1534
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Stone,Erin Woodruff (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2013
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnohistory
- Journal Title Details:
- 60(2) : 195-217
- Notes:
- On Christmas Day 1521, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, the first recorded slave revolt in the Americas occurred. A group of African, likely Wolof, slaves came together with native Indians led by the Taino cacique Enriquillo to assert their independence. Beyond being the first slave revolt in the Americas, it was also one of the most important moments in Colonial American history because it was the first known instance when Africans and Indians united against their Spanish overlords in the Americas.
3. Export assembly operations in Mexico and the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Schoepfle,Gregory K. (Author) and Pérez-López,Jorge F. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
- Journal Title Details:
- 31 : 131-161
- Notes:
- Includes discussion of the beneficial impact on host countries in terms of employment creation, contribution to export earnings, and economic diversification.
4. Extract From "Water, Shoulders, Into The Black Pacific"
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Tinsley,Omise'eke Natasha (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- GLQ
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2-3) : 263-276
- Notes:
- If Africans' forced Atlantic passage ushered in a colonial era that violently connected Africa and the Americas to Europe, Africans' travel to and on the Pacific as sailors, soldiers, dockworkers, and curious voyagers traced other kinds of crossings: linkages between black Atlantic subjects and Mexico, Native America, Polynesia, Micronesia, the Philippines, and other sites of flow through the global South. "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific" looks to innovate discussions of the African diaspora by tracing one possible route of this less-explored oceanography. Where does the black Atlantic meet the black Pacific? What would it mean to chart a story of the African diaspora not through the triangle trade crisscrossing that first ocean but as a continual navigation of many bodies of water -- Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, Pacific -- and many waves of migration?
5. More than 'A Hidden Race': The Complexities of Blackness in Mexico and Peru
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sue,Christina A. (Author) and Golash-Boza,Tanya (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2013
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(1) : 76-82
- Notes:
- A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. The authors examine Gates' presentation of blackness in Mexico and Peru. Their critique of the film focuses on the themes of national ideology, racial categorization, and portrayals of the 'black' experience.
6. Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sue,Christina A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2010
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(3) : 273-299
- Notes:
- Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness in Afro-Latin American countries, much less attention has been paid to how blackness functions in mestizo American countries. Furthermore, in mestizo America, the theoretical emphasis has oftentimes been placed on the mestizo/Indian divide, leaving no conceptual room to explore the issue of blackness.
7. So far from Miami: Afro-Cuban Encounters with Mexicans in the US Southwest
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dowling,Julie A. (Author) and Newby,C. Alison (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010 summer
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latino Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(2) : 176-194
- Notes:
- Journal Article, Examines the experiences of Afro-Cuban immigrants in non-traditional settlement sites in the Southwest. Drawing on 45 interviews with Afro-Cubans in Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico, the authors explore how respondents position themselves relative to the local Mexican-origin population. Specifically focuses on the implications of 'Hispanic' identity in these cities as a category that is heavily tied to Mexican origin, 'brownness,' and the suspicion of illegality. As Afro-Cubans, respondents face a different racialization process than many non-black Latino immigrants, in that their blackness marks them as outside the bounds of regional constructions of Hispanic identity.
8. Stratification by Skin Color in Contemporary Mexico
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Villarreal,Andres (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- United States: American Sociological Association, Washington DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Sociological Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 75(5) : 652-678
- Notes:
- Journal Article, Uses data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican adults to examine the extent of skin color based social stratification in contemporary Mexico. Despite extreme ambiguity in skin color classification, the author finds considerable agreement among survey interviewers about who belongs to three skin color categories. The results also provide evidence of profound social stratification by skin color. Individuals with darker skin tone have significantly lower levels of educational attainment and occupational status, and they are more likely to live in poverty and less likely to be affluent, even after controlling for other individual characteristics.