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2. Black Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alan,John (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- News & Letters
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(8) : 1; 5
3. Cavaliers Made Us ‘United’: Local Football, Identity Politics and Second-generation African-Caribbean Youth in the East Midlands c .1970–9
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Campbell,Paul Ian (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-06
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sport in History
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(2) : 169-194
- Notes:
- The concept of a unified African-Caribbean community or identity is a modern construction in that it emerged in its present guise during the second half of the twentieth century. Prior to this, the identity politics of the ‘black’ people from this region were largely polarized. They were frequently divided along lines of island identities (Jamaica, Barbados, St Kitts etc.). Focusing on the period between 1970 and 1979, this article sketches out the ways in which the black experience within local-level football also contributed to identity change among a particular group of young sportsmen in Leicester.
4. Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gooden,Amoaba (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(3) : 413-426
- Notes:
- "This article investigates the efficacy of community organizing by African Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Ontario. The author argues that community organizing was an instinctive initiative of African Caribbean people. Historically, Black community organizational agenda, although owing much to its own resourcefulness and fortitude, was intimately connected to the influence and strength of the larger White population. Racism and social exclusions were the major external factors influencing the majority of African Caribbean institutional building." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
5. Feminismo negro: raça, identidade e saúde reprodutiva no Brasil (1975-1993)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Damasco,Mariana Santos (Author), Maio,Marcos Chor (Author), and Monteiro,Simone (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2012 jan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Revista Estudos Feministas
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 133-151
- Notes:
- Investigates the interface between gender, color/race and public health in Brazil, focusing on the importance of reproductive health for the formation of a black feminism in the country, between the years 1975 to 1993.
6. Incremental art: negotiating the route of London's Notting Hill Carnival
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ferris,Lesley (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 519-536
- Notes:
- A brief overview of London's carnival and its beginnings in the late 1950s. Claudia Jones committed herself to both the culture and political underpinning of Caribbean carnival when she founded the event. London's West Indian community embraced carnival as an important source of celebration and cultural identity in the face of racist intimidation in Britain. The essay explores various difficulties that black British artists face gaining recognition, particularly those who work in carnival.
7. Making White Ladies: Race, Gender and the Production of Identities in Late Colonial Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ford-Smith,Honor Maria (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1994-1995
- Published:
- Toronto: University of Toronto
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Resources for Feminist Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(5) : 55-67
- Notes:
- Drawing on Jessica Benjamin's (1988) work on gender and relationships of domination and submission and on [Franz Fanon]'s work (1963; 1967) on the effect of colonial racism on ego integrity,(f.1) I will trace the racialization of power and domination in one mixed race family and the impact of this on the structure of the self. Turning to the colonial boarding school and drawing on [Michel Foucault]'s work on punishment (1979), I will trace the way that the disciplinary techniques of these boarding schools operate as the specific rituals for producing women who themselves become instruments for the exercise of power. I will also sketch a portrait of the family I studied in the context of Jamaica prior to the landmark 1938 uprising(f.2) and the relationship between the education of different classes and colours of women and the production of subjects who embrace the colonizer's values and culture. The costs borne by colonial subjects in this process will be demonstrated in discussions of the formal and informal educational histories of [Kathleen Fields] and June. Lilly's three surviving children were educated to secondary level in state-subsidized, church-run, colonial high schools intended for the middle classes who could not afford to send their children to school in England. Kathleen won a parish scholarship to one of these schools and was the first child in either Son's or Lilly's families to enter university when she won the only island scholarship for girls to university in Britain. She studied medicine and later specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology, becoming one of a handful of women doctors of colour at the time. She returned to Jamaica where she worked in the Government Health Service, the University College Hospital of the West Indies and built a large and successful private practice. She married twice, first to a white Englishman, a veteran of World War II and the RAF and then to a (brown) Jamaican doctor. Both marriages ended in divorce. She had one daughter by her first marriage. In 1994 she died in Kingston, having retired from medicine in 1990 as a result of poor health. Over three generations, Son, Lilly and their children and grandchildren and some of their nieces and nephews moved up the social pyramid, changing both their racial and class position. Many of the youngest members of the family appear either very light-skinned or white. In the 1920s Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), challenged white racial domination by building a huge movement in the Americas and in the Caribbean. Beginning in the United States, Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1927. Garvey's term "Race first" was an effective way to name a critique of domination which blasted away the contradictions underlying so-called ideals of equality and justice. But even Garvey in his naming of the problem and in his principles and philosophies is limited by the discursive terrain of colonial conservatism. In conceptualizing race and the elements of the values of liberal democracy, his views reinscribe racial essentialism and the familiar disapproval of interracial sex and those who resulted from it. Garvey's vision of women's role was based on the dominant ideology of women as housewives and mothers. For him there was one monolithic "black woman" who he argued needed to be treated like a queen, uplifted, to be given a weapon against the inferiority enforced by white colonial standards of beauty. She was to be chaste, to participate in voluntary service to the race, to be the culture bearer while the black man was to be the head of the household. Such anti-colonial options were highly significant in conceptualizing the importance of Africa as an economic power, and particularly in developing a movement which redressed the old violence of inferiorization, exploitation and marginalization. But they barely ruptured the complexity of the class and gender limitations women experienced in colonialism and, perhaps more important, they underestimated how deeply internalized are colonialism's lessons of culture and education.;
8. Racism, the Military, and Abolitionism in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Robertson,Claire (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-04
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Military History
- Journal Title Details:
- 77(2) : 433-461
- Notes:
- Suggests that racism was a strategic military liability in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century wars between Britain and France in the Caribbean. The French Revolution provoked slave uprisings on many of the Caribbean islands. Both the British and French underestimated the black rebels' capabilities and routinely executed black prisoners of war rather than ransoming or imprisoning them. These tendencies made Caribbean campaigns longer and bloodier than they might otherwise have been.