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    72. Haiti's Earthquake's Nickname and Some Women's Trauma

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ulysse,Gina Athena (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-04
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
    Journal Title Details:
    11(1) : 141-143
    Notes:
    Discusses the January 2010 earthquake that struck in Haiti, focusing on the name of Goudougoudou which Haitians have given the natural disaster. Topics include the onomatopoeic nature of the name which resembles the destruction of buildings, the psychological impact the earthquake has had on Haitian women, and Haiti's efforts to relieve the psychological trauma of the event for children.

    76. Hegelian Tales in the Caribbean: Production, Expression, and History in the Articulation of the Atlantic Subject

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Legras,Horacio (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Tucson, AZ: Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    5 : 133-148
    Notes:
    "In this essay I discuss the thwarted cultural translation of modernity across the Atlantic and how this process affected the cultural self-understanding of the Caribbean. I will frame my argument by referring to the Hegelian theme of the Subject insofar as this particular concept condenses and articulates the ideology of modernity as a Eurocentric drive for world domination." (author)

    78. Identity, and Cultural Bias in Fieldwork

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Whitehead,Tony L. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    September-October, 1980
    Published:
    Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Scholar
    Journal Title Details:
    11(7) : 40-44, 83
    Notes:
    A case study of anthropological field work in Jamaica to illustrate difficulties in carrying out this type of research