Explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Drawing on interviews with managers and with women employees, the study demonstrates the complexity and unevenness in the way inequality regimes are produced, reproduced and rationalized.
An investigation of relationship violence within 35 gay male couples living in Santiago, Cuba. Informants narrated how violence was enacted within their relationship. Men's construction of masculinity and economic hardships were primary contributors to relationship abuse.
Discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the association of legal reform challenges with public discourse on homosexuality and heteronormativity, sexual expression in the dancing of Caribbean women, skin bleaching for dark-skinned women.
The Afro-Uruguayan candombe exemplifies a creative processes reacting to the 'whitening' of its practice in the context of the national appropriation of music created by Afro-Uruguayans and long despised in this very eurocentric country. The group Afrogama which describes itself as traditional and militant, taking its inspiration from Africa and the African-American religions, is 'blackening' these musical features and choreographical gestures. The dynamics and the content of these games of color in the candombe should be understood in the national and transnational context of the definition of Afrodescendance in Latin America. The category 'Black music' acquires meaning if it is seen as an ethnomusicological category which articulates musical, social, and political dynamics, bearing in mind the specific nature of music and dance in the processes of identity building., unedited non–English abstract received by RILM] À partir de l’exemple du candombe afro-uruguayen, je propose d’analyser comment, dans un contexte d’appropriation nationale d’une musique créée par les Afro-Uruguayens et longtemps méprisée dans un pays très eurocentriste, on assiste à des processus de création en réaction à ce « blanchiment » de la pratique. Le groupe Afrogama, qui se définit comme traditionnel et militant, « noircit » le trait musical et le geste chorégraphique en s’inspirant de l’Afrique et des religions afro-américaines. Les dynamiques et le contenu de ces jeux de couleurs dans le candombe doivent être compris dans un contexte national et transnational de définition de l’afrodescendance en Amérique Latine. La catégorie « musique noire » prend son sens si on l’envisage comme une catégorie ethnomusicologique qui articule dynamiques musicales, sociales et politiques, tout en considérant la nature particulière de la musique et de la danse dans les processus de construction identitaire.
With Joe Arroyo's passing on 26 July 2011, the world has lost a superstar and true innovator of modern Latin music. His work combined lyrics of protest, romance, and spirituality with a joyful music that was at once fresh and accessible. The sixth album Arroyo put out with La Verdad marked a transition from a less adventurous to a more radical approach, where the diverse mix heard on later records is fully embraced for the first time. With Me le fugué a la candela (I escaped the fire) his players gelled, and the pan-Caribbean sound they became famous for came into its own, especially on side two.
In 1979 a Black theatre group from London toured the north island of Aotearoa New Zealand, visiting community centres and marae (traditional Maori meeting places).1 The troupe was named after a small Guyanese bird renowned for its resilience - the Keskidee - and consisted of Black British, African-Caribbean, African-American and African performers including a group of Rasta musicians, the Ras Messengers. The New Zealand organizers of the tour called their collective Keskidee Aroha, aroha being the Maori word for compassion and empathy. This article explores the colonial stage upon which Keskidee played and assesses the type of inter-cultural translations that are prompted when (post-)colonized subjects speak to each-other rather than address the colonizer.
Batiston,A. P. (Author), Tamaki,E. M. (Author), Souza,L. A. de (Author), Santos,M. L. de M. dos (Author), de M. dos Santos,M. L. (Author), de Souza,L. A. (Author), and dos Santos,M. L. de M. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2011
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Objectives: To investigate knowledge of and practices regarding risk factors for breast cancer among users of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 393 women aged between 40 and 69 years using the FHS in the city of Dourados, in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul. An interview was conducted using a semi-structured questionnaire to investigate socio-demographic variables, family history and awareness/practices regarding the risk factors for breast cancer. The variables were described using simple frequency and a percentage. The association between awareness of the risk factors and the variables was confirmed using Fisher's exact test and the chisquare with a level of significance of 5%. Results: The mean age was 52.58.1 years, the mean years of schooling was 4.43.6 years, 52.4% of the women were black/colored and 66.6% had a partner. Of the women, 86.5% had received some information on breast cancer. The risk factors for the disease are known by 54.2% of the women. Awareness of the risk factors was associated with family history (p=0.004) and years of schooling (p=0.01). Where the risk factors were known, 52.2% of the women took preventive measures. Conclusions: The identification of variables related to greater awareness of the disease may facilitate the adoption of strategies aimed at the most vulnerable groups.
Focuses on calls by the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) for the full exercise of human rights regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Highlights the discrimination facing lesbian women in the field of healthcare services.
