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317 p, Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas, underscoring the fact that much of the movement of people of African descent took place in Old World contexts. This broader view allows for a more comprehensive approach to the study of the African diaspora. The volume provides an overview of African diaspora studies and features as a major concern a rigorous interrogation of "identity." Other primary themes include contributions to western civilization, from religion, music, and sports to agricultural production and medicine, as well as the way in which our understanding of the African diaspora fits into larger studies of transnational phenomena; Includes articles on Brazil and Jamaica
Gossai,Hemchand (Author) and Murrell,Nathaniel Samuel (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
New York: St. Martins Press
Location:
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320 p, The Bible is the most widely read and influential book in the Caribbean. It seems to be everywhere and in every thing. The Bible has been used to name, claim, oppress, and exploit natives and the diaspora populations in the Caribbean, and it continues to define Caribbean reality and morality in the 21st century. In this anthology, scholars analyze the most fundamental assumptions and practices derived from different readings of the Bible at different epochs in Caribbean history. It tells a gripping tale of the struggle of ethnic peoples to find meaning, “existence,” and reality in a world they did not create; Includes a chapter that analyzes the songs of reggae singers Bob Marley and the Wailers for theological content, and another that examines the poetry of Ras Benjamin Zephaniah for biblical allusions
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151 p, Includes index; "Harris argues that society is approaching a new horizon of sensibility with the ability to transform claustrophobic ritual through the use of cross-cultural imagination. The Womb of Space he is referring to is to the creative imagination." (Amazon.com)
Haslip-Viera,Gabriel (Author) and Dávila,Arlene M. (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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162 p, "Examines the Ta¡no revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture & pedigree of the pre-Columbian Ta¡no Indian population of Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean." (Amazon)
Hillman,Richard S. (Author) and D'Agostino,Thomas J. (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Boulder, CO: L. Rienner
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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393 p, "Designed to enhance readers' comprehension of the traditions, influences, and common themes underlying the many differences with in this complex region." (Publisher)
Hornung,Alfred (Author) and Ruhe,Ernstpeter (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Atlanta, GA: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
263 p, Revised manuscripts of the Anglophone workshops at the symposium on "Postcolonialism & Autobiography" which took place at Wurzburg, June 19-22, 1996
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201 p, Focuses on the literature of Caribbean women writers in the 1980s and 1990s particularly the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Merle Hodge. (Amazon.com)
James,Conrad (Author) and Perivolaris,John (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
280 p., "While difficult to define--and sometimes even to locate—the Hispanic Caribbean is fraught with tension. The region includes nations that have common histories yet very different contemporary political characteristics. This collection maps out the reasons behind the tensions and looks specifically at the distinctive causes and founding concepts of the area." (Google) Includes: Ian Isidore Smart's "Discovering Nicolás Guillén through Afrocentric Literary Analysis"; Efraín Barradas' "Nancy Morejón: Nation, Negritude, and Marginality"; Manuel Granados' "Notes on the History of Blacks in Cuba . . . and May Elegguá Be with Me"; Jorge Marbán's "Transculturation and Integration of the Afro-Venezuelan World in the Contemporary Venezuelan Novel";
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51 p, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Forging the Plural Society in Latin America and the Caribbean addresses race, ethnicity, and class in Latin America and the Caribbean, and argues that the Caribbean can be distinguished from the Latin American mainland in that race, class, and ethnicity do not form the basis for "mutually reinforcing social cleavages." Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Major previous works include The Caribbean: The Genesis of Fragmented Nationalism. (Baylor University Press website);
Knight,Franklin W. (Author) and Palmer,Colin A. (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
382 p, "Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, & environment that mark the region, the authors offer readers a thorough understanding of the Caribbean's history & culture." (Amazon.com)
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214 p, "Examines the historical novel that has emerged in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean since the late 1930s and includes such writers as Edouard Glissant of Martinique and Paul Hazoumé of Benin." (Amazon.com)
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352 p, Study of identity formation and transformation, focusing on literature written by Americans of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican descent. Includes "Dominican American poetry : culture in the midwest."
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137 p, Seven essays by Professor of the Department of African Studies of Temple University, Philadelphia. (Libros Latinos); Cérol, Marie-Josée (pseud Ama Mazama)
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281 p, This book challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists, it proposes that the "limited access model" of Creole genesis is seriously flawed. (Amazon.com)
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210 p, Comparative study of the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Grenadian revolutions, that despite the unfulfilled promise of all three revolutions, they do suggest that people have the potential to make history and affect positive changes (Biblio.com);
Mintz,Sidney W. (Author) and Price,Richard (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
Boston: Beacon Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
121 p, This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past; Originally published: An anthropological approach to the Afro-American past. Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1976. (ISHI occasional papers in social change ; no. 2)
Mohanty,Chandra Talpade (Author), Russo,Ann (Author), and Torres,Lourdes (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
338 p, Includes M. Jacqui Alexander's "Redrafting morality : the post colonial state and the Sexual Offences Bill of Trinidad and Tobago; and Faye V. Harrison's "Women in Jamaica?s urban informal economy: insights from a Kingston slum."
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380 p, Mr. Naipaul’s book consists of essays that explore his heritage and indirectly describes how history shapes personality; "A narrative on the subject of history and the people who made it. One follows the expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh before he was sent to the Tower. Another chronicles Francisco de Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America." (Publisher)
Newson,Adele S. (Author) and Strong-Leek,Linda (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York: Lang
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
237 p, Contents: De language reflect dem ethos : some issues with nation language / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Language and identity : the use of different codes in Jamaican poetry / Velma Pollard -- Orality and writing : a revisitation / Merle Collins -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Merle Hodge -- Francophone Caribbean women writers and the diasporic quest for identity : Marie Chauvet's Amour and Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon / Régine Altagrâce Latortue -- Unheard voice : Suzanne Césaire and the construct of a Caribbean identity / Maryse Condé --The silent game / Sybil Seaforth -- The politics of literature : Dominican women and the suffrage movement case study : Delia Weber / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Children in Haitian popular migration as seen by Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat / Marie-José N'Zengo-Tayo -- I'll fly away : reflections on life and the death penalty / Marion Bethel -- Of popular balladeers : narrative, gender, and popular culture / Lourdes Vázquez -- Between the milkman and the fax machine : challenges to women writers in the Caribbean / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso ; translated by Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Frangipani House : Beryl Gilroy's praise song for grandmothers / Australia Tarver -- Anguish and the absurd : "key moments," recreated lives, and the emergence of new figures of Black womanhood in the narrative works of Beryl Gilroy / Joan Anim-Addo -- Women of color at the barricades / Beryl A. Gilroy -- Women against the grain : the pitfalls of theorizing Caribbean women's writing / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Ex/isle : separation, memory, and desire in Caribbean women's writing / Elaine Savory -- Dangerous liaison : western literary values, political engagements, and my own esthetics / Astrid H. Roemer -- The dynamics of power and desire in The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- Voices of the Black feminine corpus in contemporary Brazilian literature / Leda Maria Martins
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173 p, Focuses on two motifs in Marshall's fiction: the "fractired psyche" a consequence of slavery and dispersion, and the journey towards spiritual wholeness whose end is healing within African based community. (JSTOR);
Shepherd,Verene A. (Author) and Beckles,Hilary (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
1120 p, "Revised/ expanded version of the text 'Caribbean Slave Society and Economy.' Comprehensive, made up of 17 sections (each with its own introduction) of more than 70 articles." (Publisher)
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206 p, Product Description This book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of postcoloniality. Through readings of Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Conde, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, Jeannie Suk illuminates how debates about negritude, antillanite, and creolite contribute to paradoxes at the heart of postcolonial modes. (Amazon);
Washington, DC: Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
33 p, One of several essays published in a series of pamphlets entitled "Focus:
Caribbean." Three other essays dealing with particular Caribbean nations and with migrations to the United States are available from the Wilson Center. These are: Washington. Wayne S. Smith, former U.S. ambassador to Cuba, "Castro's Cuba: Soviet Power or Nonaligned?"; Michel-Rolph Trouillet on "Nation, State, and Society in Haiti, 1804—1984"; and Evelyne Hubert Stephens and John D. Stephens on "Jamaica's Democratic Socialist Experience."
Young,Alma H. (Author) and Phillips,Dion E. (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
178 p, Contents: Toward an understanding of militarization in the Third World and the Caribbean / Dion E. Phillips and Alma H. Young -- Imperialism, national security, and state power in the Commonwealth Caribbean : issues in the development of the authoritarian state / Hilbourne A. Watson -- The increasing emphasis on security and defense in the Eastern Caribbean / Dion E. Phillips -- Violence and militarization in the Eastern Caribbean : the case of Grenada / Ken I. Boodhoo -- Interest groups and the military regime in Suriname / Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg -- The role of the military in the National Security of Guyana / George K. Danns -- The Central American crisis and its impact on Belize / Alma H. Young
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92 p, "This lecture surveys the impact that African people have made on world history. Dr. Clarke guides the reader along a narrative journey that spans from antiquity through present times." (Black Classic Press)
