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102. Madam Zajj and US Steel: Blackness, Bioperformance, and Duke Ellington's Calypso Theater
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vogel,Shane (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Text
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(4) : 1-24
- Notes:
- Develops a theoretical framework of biopolitical performance with which to approach the 1957 televised broadcast of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's A Drum Is a Woman. Presented on the drama anthology program The United States Steel Hour, this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Argues that through their experimentation Ellington and Strayhorn created a hybrid performance in the mode of "calypso theater": a formal and thematic engagement with an Afro-Caribbean performance history.
103. Situating Black, Situating Queer: Black Queer Diaspora Studies and the Art of Embodied Listening
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gill,Lyndon K. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2012
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Transforming Anthropology
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 32-34
- Notes:
- Elaborates one Black queer subject's sense of self and gestures toward the potential theoretical intervention this subjectivity poses. It approaches a wider geo-conceptual metaphor for the transdisciplinarity required in order to speculate Black and queer at once.
104. Union Decline and Voice among Minority Ethnic Workers: Do Community-based Social Networks Help to Fill the Gap
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Holgate,Jane (Author), Pollert,Anna (Author), Keles,Janroj (Author), and Kumarappan,Leena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Urban Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(3) : 613-630
- Notes:
- Reports on a study of the experiences of minority ethnic workers in seeking advice and support for workplace problems. Focuses on three minority ethnic groups (Kurdish, Black Caribbean and South Asian) in three specific localities of London. The study is unique in that it provides new micro-level qualitative data on whether or not local social networks are utilized to assist with employment problems.
105. Land and power: an ethnography of Maroon heritage policies in the Brazilian Northeast
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Loloum,Tristan (Author) and Lins,Cyro (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 02/29; 2012/05
- Published:
- Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Heritage Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 1-18
- Notes:
- The present article explores Brazilian ethnic heritage policies in the light of land ownership. While focusing on former Maroon communities ? known as the ?remnants of the Quilombos? ? we analyse how and why the general consensus regarding cultural heritage can fall apart in the course of implementing these policies, especially when they appear to interfere with land tenure. In Brazil, most ethnic policies are accompanied by land restitution procedures. Cultural heritage is no longer just a question of identity and memory: it affects the very sensitive question of land reform. By superimposing ethnic claims and land ownership in a country where land distribution remains dramatically unequal, legislators have opened up a Pandora?s Box full of promises, frustrations and conflicts.; The present article explores Brazilian ethnic heritage policies in the light of land ownership. While focusing on former Maroon communities ? known as the ?remnants of the Quilombos? ? we analyse how and why the general consensus regarding cultural heritage can fall apart in the course of implementing these policies, especially when they appear to interfere with land tenure. In Brazil, most ethnic policies are accompanied by land restitution procedures. Cultural heritage is no longer just a question of identity and memory: it affects the very sensitive question of land reform. By superimposing ethnic claims and land ownership in a country where land distribution remains dramatically unequal, legislators have opened up a Pandora?s Box full of promises, frustrations and conflicts.
106. Material Culture, Slavery, And Governability In Colonial Cuba: The Humorous Lessons Of The Cigarette Marquillas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lugo-Ortiz,Agnes (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2012
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(1) : 61-85
- Notes:
- Discusses how ephemeral artifacts of daily material culture, such as marquillas -- the colorful lithographed papers that were used to wrap bundles of cigarettes during the second half of the nineteenth century in Cuba -- partook of the symbolization of emergent forms of racialized governability towards the end of slavery on the island.
107. Who? What? Where? When? And with What Consequences? An Analysis of Criminal Cases of HIV Non-disclosure in Canada
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mykhalovskiy,Eric (Author) and Betteridge,Glenn (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Canada: University of Toronto Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue canadienne droit et societe
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(1) : 31-53
- Notes:
- In the Canadian context, reform efforts that address the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure have been hampered by the absence of data on the contours, scale, and outcomes of criminalization. This article pays particular attention to the following key findings: a sharp increase in criminal cases that began in 2004; the large proportion of recent criminal cases involving defendants who are heterosexual Black, African, and Caribbean men; and the high proportion of criminal cases resulting in conviction.
108. Bristol, slavery and the politics of representation: the Slave Trade Gallery in the Bristol Museum
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Otele,Olivette (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2012
- Published:
- Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Semiotics
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(2) : 155-172
- Notes:
- In 1996 the city of Bristol celebrated its maritime past by focusing on key explorers while forgetting to mention their involvement in transatlantic conquests, and in particular in the slave trade. This partial amnesia led to a local controversy and, as a result, Black and White liberals together with the local authority organised an exhibition in 1999 on Bristol and the Slave Trade. A year later, the exhibition was transferred from the Bristol Museum to a different site and became a permanent part of the display in the Bristol Industrial Museum. This article analyses the ways in which the period of the transatlantic slave trade was officially represented and perceived by visitors to the Slave Trade Gallery. The paper examines the politics of memory by trying to answer key questions concerning Bristol's commemoration of the past in a context in which multiculturalism was a hotly debated issue.
109. Ethnic population projections for the UK, 2001-2051
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rees,Philip (Author), Wohland,Pia (Author), Norman,Paul (Author), and Boden,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Population Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(1) : 45-89
- Notes:
- This paper reports on projections of the United Kingdom's ethnic group populations for 2001-2051. For the years 2001-2007 estimated fertility rates, survival probabilities, internal migration probabilities and international migration flows for 16 ethnic groups continue to change: the White British, White Irish and Black Caribbean groups experience the slowest growth and lose population share; the Other White and Mixed groups to experience relative increases in share; South Asian groups grow strongly as do the Chinese and Other Ethnic groups.
110. Civilization and the poetics of slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shilliam,Robbie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Thesis Eleven
- Journal Title Details:
- 108(1) : 99-117
- Notes:
- Proposes that civilizational analysis has yet to fully address the colonial legacy and, to clarify the stakes at play, compares and contrasts the historical sociology of CLR James with the mytho-poetics of Derek Walcott. Both authors, in different ways, have attempted to endow that quintessentially un-civilizable body -- the New World slave -- with subjecthood.
111. Satisfaction with inpatient treatment for first-episode psychosis among different ethnic groups: a report from the UK AESOP study
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boydell,Jane (Author), Morgan,Craig (Author), Dutta,Rina (Author), Jones,Barry (Author), Alemseged,Fana (Author), Dazzan,Paola (Author), Morgan,Kevin (Author), Doody,Gillian (Author), Harrison,Glynn (Author), Leff,Julian (Author), Jones,Peter (Author), Murray,Robin (Author), and Fearon,Paul (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International journal of social psychiatry
- Journal Title Details:
- 58(1) : 98-105
- Notes:
- Journal Article, To determine and compare levels of satisfaction with mental healthcare between patients from different ethnic groups in a three-centre study of first-onset psychosis. Logistic regression modelling (adjusting for age, gender, social class, diagnostic category and compulsion) showed that black Caribbean patients did not believe that they were receiving the right treatment and were less satisfied with medication than white patients. Black African patients were less satisfied with non-pharmacological treatments than white patients. These findings were not explained by lack of insight or compulsory treatment.
112. Union Decline and Voice among Minority Ethnic Workers: Do Community-based Social Networks Help to Fill the Gap?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Holgate,Jane (Author), Pollert,Anna (Author), Keles,Janroj (Author), and Kumarappan,Leena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Urban Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(3) : 613-630
- Notes:
- This paper reports on a study of the experiences of minority ethnic workers in seeking advice and support for workplace problems. Our focus on three minority ethnic groups (Kurdish, Black Caribbean and South Asian) in three specific localities of London is unique in that it provides new micro-level qualitative data on whether or not local social networks are utilised to assist with employment problems. The research explores workers' knowledge of what employment advice is available in their localities and their experiences of seeking advice. Interviewees included community advice workers, trade unionists, lawyers and funding bodies about the extent of local employment provision. The findings show that there are few places to turn and a dearth of individual employment advice.
113. Breast cancer and age in Black and White women in South East England
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jack,Ruth H. (Author), Davies,Elizabeth A. (Author), and Moller,Henrik (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Cancer
- Journal Title Details:
- 130(5) : 1227-1229
- Notes:
- Black women have lower age-standardized breast cancer incidence rates than White women in the United Kingdom. However, little is known about such differences in risk in separate age groups. Records on female residents of South East England diagnosed with breast cancer between 1998 and 2003 were extracted from the Thames Cancer Registry database. Age-specific incidence rates were calculated for each 5-year age group using 2001 Census population data for White, Black Caribbean and Black African women. Black Caribbean and Black African breast cancer patients were younger than both the White patients and those with no ethnicity recorded. Black Caribbean and Black African women in the population also had a younger age profile than White women. The computed age-specific incidence rates in women aged under 50 were similar in the different ethnic groups, whereas in women aged 50 and over White women had higher rates. The younger age of Black Caribbean and Black African breast cancer patients in South East England reflects the younger age of these populations, rather than an increased risk of disease at younger ages.
114. Ethnic Inequality in Choice-driven Education Systems: A Longitudinal Study of Performance and Choice in England and Sweden
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Michelle (Author), Jonsson,Jan O. (Author), and Rudolphi,Frida (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sociology of Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 85(2) : 158-178
- Notes:
- The authors ask whether choice-driven education systems, with comprehensive schools and mass education at the secondary and tertiary level, represented in this article by England and Sweden, provide educational opportunities for ethnic minorities. In studying educational attainment, the authors make a theoretical distinction between mechanisms connected with school performance on the one hand (primary effects) and educational choice, given performance, on the other (secondary effects). Using large national data sets and recently developed methods, they show that performance effects tend to depress the educational attainment of most, although not all, ethnic minorities, whereas choice effects increase the transition rates of these students. This pattern is repeated at the transition to university education. These results are true for many immigrant categories in both England and Sweden, although immigrant students are a heterogeneous group. Black Caribbean students in England and children of Turkish and South American descent in Sweden fare worst, while several Asian groups do extremely well. The authors conclude that it may be a generic feature of choice-driven school systems in Western societies to benefit non-European immigrants, and they discuss some possible explanations for this.
115. An analysis of the interrelationship between maternal age, body mass index and racial origin in the development of gestational diabetes mellitus
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Makgoba,M. (Author), Savvidou,M. D. (Author), and Steer,P. J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Bjog-an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Journal Title Details:
- 119(3) : 276-282
- Notes:
- Objective To examine the individual association between advancing maternal age, body mass index (BMI) and racial origin with the development of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and the interaction between these factors. Design Retrospective study. Setting Fifteen maternity units in northwest London between 1988 and 2000. Population The study included 1688 women who developed GDM and 172 632 who did not. All women were nulliparous. BMI was calculated at first antenatal visit and maternal age and racial origin (White European, Black African, Black Caribbean or South Asian) were self-reported. Methods Binary logistic regression analysis. Main outcome measures Development of GDM within each racial group. Results There was a strong positive association between advancing maternal age and increasing BMI, individually, and the development of GDM (P < 0.01 for both). Compared with White Europeans aged 20-24 years, the odds ratios for GDM development were significantly higher in women older than 30 years if they were White Europeans (P < 0.001), older than 25 years if they were Black Africans (P < 0.001) and older than 20 years if they were South Asians (P < 0.001). The odds ratios for GDM development were significantly higher in Black Africans and South Asians (P < 0.001 for both) irrespective of BMI, compared with White Europeans with normal BMI. Conclusion Maternal age and BMI interact with racial group in relation to the prevalence of GDM. Both factors are important in the development of GDM, particularly so in Black African and South Asian women.
116. Frailty syndrome and associated factors in community-dwelling elderly in Northeast Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Patricio de Albuquerque Sousa, Ana Carolina (Author), Dias,Rosangela Correa (Author), Cavalcanti Maciel,Alvaro Campos (Author), and Guerra,Ricardo Oliveira (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
- Journal Title Details:
- 54(2) : E95-E101
- Notes:
- Introduction: Frailty syndrome in the elderly, characterized by decreased physiological reserves, is associated with increased risk of disability and high vulnerability tomorbidity and mortality. This study is part of a multicenter project on Frailty in Elderly Brazilians (REDE FIBRA). Aims: To investigate characteristics, prevalence and associated factors related to frailty. Methodology: A total of 391 randomly selected elderly patients aged 65 years were interviewed. Data collection was performed using a multidimensional questionnaire containing information about sociodemographic and clinical variables. Fried's phenotype was used to characterize the frail elderly. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, bivariate analysis (chi(2)) and binary logistic regression. Results: The prevalence of frailty was 17.1%. In the final multivariate analysis model, the following factors associated with frailty were obtained: advanced chronological age (p < 0.001), presence of comorbidity (p < 0.035), dependence in basic (p < 0.010) and instrumental (p < 0.003) activities of daily living and negative perception of health status (p < 0030). Conclusion: The factors associated with frailty suggest a predictive model that helps in understanding the syndrome, guiding actions that minimize adverse effects in the aging process. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
117. Patient access to healthcare services and optimisation of self-management for ethnic minority populations living with diabetes: a systematic review
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wilson,Charlotte (Author), Alam,Rahul (Author), Latif,Saima (Author), Knighting,Katherine (Author), Williamson,Susan (Author), and Beaver,Kinta (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Health & Social Care in the Community
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 1-19
- Notes:
- A higher risk of diabetes mellitus in South Asian and Black African populations combined with lower reported access and self-management-related health outcomes informed the aims of this study. Our aims were to synthesise and evaluate evidence relating to patient self-management and access to healthcare services for ethnic minority groups living with diabetes. A comprehensive search strategy was developed capturing a full range of study types from 19952010, including relevant hand-searched literature pre-dating 1995. Systematic database searches of MEDLINE, Cochrane, DARE, HTA and NHSEED, the British Nursing Index, CAB abstracts, EMBASE, Global Health, Health Management Information Consortium and PsychInfo were conducted, yielding 21 288 abstracts. Following search strategy refinement and the application of review eligibility criteria; 11 randomised controlled trials (RCTs), 18 qualitative studies and 18 quantitative studies were evaluated and principal results extracted. Results suggest that self-management practices are in need of targeted intervention in terms of patients knowledge and understanding of their illness, inadequacy of information and language and communication difficulties arising from cultural differences. Access to health-care is similarly hindered by a lack of cultural sensitivity in service provision and under use of clinic-based interpreters and community-based services. Recommendations for practice and subsequent intervention primarily rest at the service level but key barriers at patient and provider levels are also identified.
118. Green multiculturalism: articulations of ethnic and environmental politics in a Colombian ‘black community’
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cárdenas,Roosbelinda (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Peasant Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 39(2) : 309-333
- Notes:
- This paper analyzes the intersection of two parallel developments that have had a curious impact on agrarian politics in Colombia: on the one hand, attempts to appropriate land for ‘green’ ends such as biofuel production, which have become ubiquitous all across Latin America, and on the other, the implementation of multicultural reforms, which in Colombia resulted in the collective titling of more than five million hectares of land for ‘black communities’.
119. Airlines of the Caribbean : sit back and relax with your Sundowner in hand!
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Doak-Dunelly,Tom (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Winter, 2012/2013
- Published:
- Erlanger, KY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Captain's log
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(3): 6-10
120. The archaeology of not being governed : a counterpoint to a history of settlement of two colonies in the eastern Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hauser,Mark W. (Author) and Armstrong,Douglas V. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of social archaeology
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 (3): 310-333
121. Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- MacPherson,Anne S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Historical Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 117(1) : 252-253
- Notes:
- The article reviews the book "Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place," edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe.
122. 'Chango 'ta vein'/chango has come': Spiritual embodiment in the Afro-Cuban ceremony, bembé
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Murphy,Joseph M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black music research journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1) : 69
123. Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place - edited by Gudmundson, Lowell and Wolfe, Justin
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Olsen,Margaret M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Bulletin of Latin American Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(2) : 241-242
- Notes:
- A review of the book "Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place," edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe is presented.
124. Facing with Courage Racial and Linguistic Discrimination: The Narrative of an ELL Caribbean Immigrant Living in the U.S. Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Orelus,Pierre Wilbert (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(1) : 19-33
- Notes:
- Traces the author's journey as a Black Caribbean immigrant from Haiti to the United States. Describes the underlying factors that led to the author's relocation in the U.S. diaspora while at the same time examining the ways in which the author has been racially and linguistically positioned. The author further explains the negotiation of this position. The author's immigrant story is situated in the larger U.S. sociopolitical, linguistic, and racial context where immigrants, particularly immigrants of color, have faced many challenges.
125. Racial/ethnic disparities, social support, and depression: examining a social determinant of mental health
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shim,R. S. (Author), Ye,J. L. (Author), Baltrus,P. (Author), Fry-Johnson,Y. (Author), Daniels,E. (Author), and Rust,G. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnicity & disease
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(1) : 15-20
- Notes:
- Objective: We examined the risk of depression as it relates to social support among individuals from African American, Caribbean Black, and non-Hispanic White backgrounds. Methods: 6,082 individuals participated in the National Survey of American Life (NSAL), a nationally representative, psychiatric epidemiological, cross-sectional survey of household populations. The survey is designed to explore racial and ethnic differences in mental disorders. NSAL survey questions were used as a proxy for social support. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the correlates between having a DSM-IV diagnosis of major depressive disorder in the past year, demographic variables, and social support. Results: African American race/ethnicity was associated with decreased odds of depression when compared to non-Hispanic Whites, even when controlling for social support variables and demographics (OR=0.51, 95% CI=0.43-0.60). We found a three-fold increase in risk of depression among individuals who reported feeling "not very close at all" with family members compared to those who reported feeling "very close" to family (OR=3.35, 95% CI=1.81-6.19). Conclusions: These findings reinforce previous research documenting the important relationship between social support and depression, and perhaps should lead us to reexamine the individualistic models of treatment that are most evaluated in United States. The lack of evidence-based data on support groups, peer counseling, family therapy, or other social support interventions may reflect a majority-culture bias toward individualism, which belies the extensive body of research on social support deficits as a major risk factor for depression.
126. Shifting the Parameters of Black Women's Work
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Solomon,Nassisse (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 1-4
- Notes:
- The article reviews the book "Moving Beyond Borders: A history of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora" by Karen Flynn.
127. Between Public Policy and Private Morality: A Bioethical Analysis of Abortion and Legislative Reform
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Aarons,Derrick (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(3) : 187-197
- Notes:
- This article elaborates on some important concepts in the matter of abortion, the issue of revelant legislation, and ends with pertinent recommendations. Adopting a bioethical perspective, the paper addresses the relevant issues and perspectives on abortion and argues for clarity of concepts and understanding of the context in which a woman is pregnant and considers abortion.
128. Volume 2: Latin America and the Caribbean (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Allatson,Paul (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-03-02
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 : S15-S22
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion," volume 2, entitled "Latin America and the Caribbean," edited by Margot Blum Schevill, Blenda Femenías, and Lynn Meisch.
129. African and Black Caribbean origin cancer survivors: a qualitative study of the narratives of causes, coping and care experiences
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bache,Richard A. (Author), Bhui,Kamaldeep S. (Author), Dein,Simon (Author), and Korszun,Ania (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnicity & health (Ethn.Health)
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(1-2) : 187-201
- Notes:
- Objectives. Although there is evidence in the USA and UK to suggest that ethnic minority groups have an inferior experience of cancer care, few studies investigate ethnic disparities in satisfaction and care experiences among survivors. Patients' illness perceptions (lay explanations for illness) and coping styles (emotional and behavioural) are influenced by ethnicity-related cultural beliefs and expectations. Depressive illness or fears of recurrence of cancer may also lead to poorer recovery and function. This paper investigates whether ethnic influences explain different coping behaviours, care experiences and help-seeking behaviours. Design. Eight participants of African or Black Caribbean origin were recruited from a London support group for a series of qualitative in-depth interviews. The interviews were recorded and transcribed, and the transcripts analysed using a framework method of qualitative data analysis. The emergent themes were tested and documented to reflect the issues of importance to patients. Results. Lay explanations of causes of cancer were complex and diverse reflecting cultural influences and the impact of contact with health professionals. Generally, positive views about cancer care were found, especially at the secondary care level. Primary care attracted mixed views. In contrast to American studies, no acknowledgement of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity was reported. The need to be resilient and think positively were widely acknowledged as coping strategies. Some coped by avoiding contemplation of their condition or diagnosis. Religious beliefs and practices provided coping mechanisms for some, and a means to improve confidence and avoid distressing contemplation about their condition. Family, friends and charitable groups also provided emotional and practical support. Conclusions. Subjects were generally satisfied with their care; different coping styles included positive attitudes, minimisation of difficulties or more realistic consideration of the impact of cancer.
130. Ethnicity and its influence on suicide rates and risk
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bhui,Kamaldeep S. (Author), Dinos,Sokratis (Author), and McKenzie,Kwame (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnicity & health (Ethn.Health)
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(1-2) : 141-148
- Notes:
- Objectives. To investigate the influence of ethnicity on suicide, and related risk indicators including psychiatric symptoms, among patients committing suicide whilst admitted to psychiatric hospitals. Design. The suicide rates and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) for inpatient suicides between 1996 and 2001 were calculated from national suicide data on the four largest ethnic groups in England and Wales: Black Caribbean, Black African, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi), and a White British comparison group. The symptoms and risk indicators at the time of the suicide were retrospectively reported by the lead clinician who was responsible for the hospital care of the patient. Results. Classical suicide risk indicators such as suicidal ideas, depressive symptoms, emotional distress, and hopelessness were significantly more common among White British inpatients than other ethnic groups. Male inpatients from Black African backgrounds were significantly more likely to have committed suicide than White British men (SMR 2.05, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.12-3.43). Women committing suicide as inpatients were significantly less likely to be of South Asian (SMR 0.4, 95% CI: 0.17-0.78) and Black Caribbean (SMR 0.26, 95% CI: 0.09-0.62) backgrounds than White British women. Conclusions. Suicide rates and classical indicators of suicide risk among inpatients committing suicide vary by ethnic group. Black African men have the highest rates of suicide compared to the White British group.
131. Capturing the Moment: The Barbados Experience of Abortion Law Reform -- An Interview with Dame Billie Miller
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Billie Miller,Dame (Author) and Parris,Nicole (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(3) : 39-58
- Notes:
- Looks at Barbados's experience of abortion law reform undertaken in the 1980s. The movement was led by then Cabinet Minister and lawyer Billie Miller. Documents the nuances, important moments, key strategies and major players in the reform movement, and highlights the critical role that Miller played in getting the Medical Termination Act passed in 1983. Background information on the situation of Barbadian women and the nature of parliamentary governance at that time is also addressed in order to give context to the politics surrounding the issue.
132. Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bonner,Claudine (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 NOV
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Histoire Sociale-Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 45(90) : 436-438
133. ACT UP, Haitian Migrants, and Alternative Memories of HIV/AIDS
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chávez,Karma R. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-02
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Journal Title Details:
- 98(1) : 63-68
- Notes:
- Discusses the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) protests in 1992 against detaining HIV-positive Haitian refugees on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Suggests that the issue received national attention in the U.S. in 1992 with the help of Damned Interfering Video Activists (DIVA TV).
134. Querying Top-Down, Bottom-Up Implementation Guidelines: Education Policy Implementation in Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chunnu-Brayda,Winsome (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2012
- Published:
- Bridgetown, Barbados: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(2) : 24-46
- Notes:
- This study was conducted in two Jamaican parishes: Kingston and St. Thomas. Designed as a case study, the research explores top-down and bottom-up implementation approaches, as well as political model theory. What efforts make programs succeed, and what problems make them fail? The study concludes by highlighting five major findings and suggestions for policy implementation.
135. White cruelty or Republican sins? Competing frames of stigma reversal in French commemorations of slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fleming,Crystal M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(3) : 488-505
- Notes:
- This paper explores how French activists use claims about the history and legacies of slavery to combat stigmas associated with their group membership. Using a case study of a French Caribbean association (CM98) and a pan-African association (COFFAD), I examine how two organizations produce competing models for challenging and reversing the stigma of slavery. Through a process of normative inversion, activists assert the moral inferiority of dominant groups. CM98 rejects both a racial and an African identity, and seeks recognition for 'French descendants of slaves', using the language of citizenship to criticize the French government. COFFAD, by contrast, asserts an Afro-centric black identity and stigmatizes white Europeans. I argue that both destigmatization strategies unwittingly reinforce the stigma of historical enslavement.
136. Shall we Overcome? (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gantz,Lauren J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-10
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(4) : 621-623
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba," by Jafari S. Allen.
137. Chatting Back an Epidemic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gill,Lyndon K. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-04
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2) : 277-295
- Notes:
- Discusses critical discourse dealing with the lack of acceptance of homosexuality in the Caribbean. Comments on the lack of public health services for men who openly identify as homosexual. Other topics include hidden homosexual groups and erotic subjectivity.
138. 'You got a pass, so what more do you want?': race, class and gender intersections in the educational experiences of the Black middle class
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gillborn,David (Author), Rollock,Nicola (Author), Vincent,Carol (Author), and Ball,Stephen J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race Ethnicity and Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(1) : 121-139
- Notes:
- The article discusses the findings of an ESRC funded project (RES-062-23-1880) which used in-depth interviews to explore the educational experiences and strategies of 62 Black Caribbean parents; the biggest qualitative study of education and the Black middle class yet conducted in the UK. The article focuses on the parents' interactions with their children's teachers and, in particular, their experience that teachers tend to have systematically lower academic expectations for Black children (alongside a regime of heightened disciplinary scrutiny and criticism) regardless of the students' social class background. The parents' accounts highlight the significance of a cumulative process where a series of low level misdemeanours sometimes build into a pattern of seemingly incessant and unfair criticism that can have an enormously damaging impact on their children. Although our data suggest that these processes can involve children of both sexes and of any age, the parents report a particular concern for Black young men, whom they perceive to be especially at risk. Our findings demonstrate the continued significance of race inequality and illuminate the intersectional relationship between race and social class inequalities in education. This is particularly important at a time when English education policy assumes that social class is the overwhelming driver of achievement and where race inequity has virtually disappeared from the policy agenda. Our findings reveal that despite their material and cultural capital, many middle-class Black Caribbean parents find their high expectations and support for education thwarted by racist stereotyping and exclusion.
139. China, Global Governance and the Future of Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hearn,Adrian H. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Germany, Republic of: Institute of Asian Studies/GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg Germany
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China Aktuell
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(1) : 155-179
- Notes:
- Argues that China has gained influence in multilateral institutions, prompting them toward greater acceptance of public spending in developing countries and that recent developments in Cuba show that China is actively encouraging the Western hemisphere's only communist country to liberalize its economy. China sits at the crossroads of these local and global developments, prompting Cuba toward rapprochement with international norms even as it works to reform them.
140. Reggae, Rasta and the Role of the Deejay in the Black British Experience
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Henry,William 'Lez' (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Contemporary British History
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(3) : 355-373
- Notes:
- This article explores the role of Reggae music and Rastafari in the creation of alternative public arenas that served as spaces of resistance and sites of transcendental edification in post-war Britain. The approach suggests that wherever there were significant African Caribbean communities in the UK, Sound System deejays used the Reggae dancehall arena as an alternate site of learning. Significantly it was the practised use of 'oral skills' in Creolised languages, couched in Rastafarian and Garveyite sensibilities, that underpinned and ensured the perpetuation of these politically driven, vernacular cultures. It is argued that expressive musical cultures opened access to an alternative world view which, in turn, provided a space where the African diaspora thought themselves into being in a more conscious manner than has been previously recognised. The suggestion is that black music often spoke to the lived experiences of the disenfranchised in a racist society, and thus furnished a site for various types of inter/intra-cultural exchanges to take place, enabling them to debate and discuss their own 'problem' status in a language owned and controlled by them. At no point was this more apparent than during the perceived collapse of the post-war 'consensus' in the 1970s and early 1980s.
141. Resource and Technology: A beacon for change in the reform of Jamaica's secondary education system -- or a "pipedream"
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jennings,Zellynne (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2012
- Published:
- Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 58(2) : 247-269
- Notes:
- Central to the Reform of Secondary Education (ROSE) in Jamaica in the 1990s was the achievement of goals of access, equity and quality through the implementation of a common curriculum in all schools. Within this reform, Resource and Technology (R&T) was an innovation designed to develop the creative potential in technology and to transform pedagogical practices from being teacher-centred to being student-centred. This paper examines how teachers and principals involved in the implementation of R&T perceive its attributes, such as need and relevance and observability.
142. Jamaican Mothers' Influences of Adolescent Girls' Sexual Beliefs and Behaviors
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Katherine Hutchinson,M. (Author), Kahwa,Eulalia (Author), Waldron,Norman (Author), Hepburn Brown,Cerese (Author), Hamilton,Pansy I. (Author), Hewitt,Hermi H. (Author), Aiken,Joyette (Author), Cederbaum,Julie (Author), Alter,Emily (Author), and Sweet Jemmott,Loretta (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(1) : 27-35
- Notes:
- The purpose of this study was to identify the ways in which urban Jamaican mothers influence their adolescent daughters' sexual beliefs and behaviors in order to incorporate them into the design of a family-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction intervention program.
143. Latin American/caribbean Women (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kunkel,Lilith R. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(2) : 20-21
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean," by Kathryn A. Sloan.
144. Access to information legislation as a means to achieve transparency in Ghanaian governance: Lessons from the Jamaican experience
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kuunifaa,Cletus D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2012
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- IFLA Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(2) : 175-186
- Notes:
- Probes the anticipated implementation challenges of the freedom-of-information (FOI) law in Jamaica, and the lessons Ghana stands to learn to improve on its FOI bill, currently at a deliberative stage. The lack of transparency in government or the public sector as a result of lack of access to governmental or public information will be tackled in this study.
145. Single Mothers, Absentee Fathers, and Gun Violence in Toronto: A Contextual Interpretation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lawson,Erica (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 Oct
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(7) : 805-828
- Notes:
- Examines debates over the role of absentee fathers in gun violence among Black youth in Toronto, Ontario. Particular focus is given to the historical, cultural, economic, and social conditions that affect Caribbean-Canadian men and women's parenting.
146. Fighting a Losing Battle? Defending Women's Reproductive Rights in Twenty-First Century Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maxwell,Shakira (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(3) : 95-115
- Notes:
- Examines recent aspects of the debate on the legalisation of abortion in Jamaica. Highlights the recommendations of the Abortion Policy Review Group which reviewed health implications in Jamaica and assessed existing laws in the wider Caribbean on abortion. Using feminist analysis the paper also explores the challenges faced by those arguing for legislative reform on abortion services in Jamaica within the larger framework of reproductive health and rights.
147. The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Merrill,Dennis (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 45(3) : 850-853
- Notes:
- Review of the book "Purposes of Paradise: US Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i," by Christine Skwiot.
148. Rio Tries Counterinsurgency
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Muggah,Robert (Author) and Mulli,Albert Souza (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2012
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Current History, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Current History
- Journal Title Details:
- 111(742) : 62-66
- Notes:
- Brazil's tourist-jammed cities are some of the most violent on the planet. A considerable number of the country's 43,000 annual murders occur on the streets of Sao Paulo, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro. And Brazilian cities are not alone in what might be called a bad neighborhood. The fact is that most major Latin American and Caribbean cities are today plagued by an epidemic of violence. With more than 20 murders per 100,000 people, the regional homicide rate is roughly three times the global average. Many of the larger urban centers -- from Caracas and Ciudad Juarez to Kingston and Port-of-Spain -- register the highest rates of lethal violence in the world.
149. Governmentality, Diaspora Assemblages and the Ongoing Challenge of 'Development'
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mullings,Beverley (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-03
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Antipode (Antipode)
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(2) : 406-427
- Notes:
- Argues that skilled members of the Jamaican diaspora are becoming important actors in an ongoing development strategy to extend the rationality of the market into everyday social relations and institutions. Diaspora members are imagined by states and development institutions to be ideal development partners because of their access to potentially lucrative business, knowledge and capital networks, and their desire to direct them towards socially transformative ends.
150. Legal but Inaccessible: Abortion In Guyana
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nunes,Fred (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(3) : 59-94
- Notes:
- Seventeen years after Guyana introduced a positive, liberal abortion law, the government, professional bodies and civil society together have failed to give any leadership in implementing that law. How can one explain that after an outstanding campaign of extensive ministerial and parliamentary consultation, as well as widespread engagement from religious organisations and the media, so little has been done by way of implementing the law? This paper seeks to trace some aspects of the campaign for law reform and to learn from the difficulties of providing services over the last seventeen years.