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2. Black townsmen: urban slavery and freedom in eighteenth-century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dantas,Mariana L. R. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 280 p., Compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns.
3. Friends I Have Lost; Heroes I Have Found
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lee,Nicole C. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008-05-08
- Published:
- San Bernardino, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Precinct Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 : A4
- Notes:
- Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, is a Haitian activist and leader of Fondasyon Trant Septanm (September 30 organization), named in commemoration of the coup against democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide in 1991. His organization worked with victims of torture, rape and extrajudicial executions by the Haitian military and paramilitary. I met Lovinsky when I lived in Haiti. I admire his fervent commitment to educate Americans about the negative impacts of US policies towards Haiti. In 2004, under threat by the former military whose human rights abuses he had vehemently denounced, Lovinsky left Haiti for the US. But two years later, after democratic elections, Lovinsky returned to Haiti. Like many of his friends, I was concerned for his safety, but Lovinsky was unwavering. Last August, while working with a human rights delegation, Lovinsky received a telephone call and left his home. His car was found the next morning, but he has not been seen since. He is "disappeared", a term used to describe someone who is kidnapped out of a political motivation.
4. Implementing low-cost landslide risk reduction: a pilot study in unplanned housing areas of the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Anderson,Malcolm (Author), Holcombe,Liz (Author), Flory,Rob (Author), and Renaud,Jean-Philippe (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2008
- Published:
- Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Natural Hazards
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(3) : 297-315
- Notes:
- Landslides pose a serious physical and environmental threat to vulnerable communities living in areas of unplanned housing on steep slopes in the Caribbean. Some of these communities have, in the past, had to be relocated, at costs of millions of dollars, because of major slides triggered by tropical storm rainfall. Even so, evidence shows that: (1) risk reduction is a marginal activity; (2) there has been minimal uptake of hazard maps and vulnerability assessments and (3) there is little on-the-ground delivery of construction for risk reduction. This article directly addresses these issues by developing a low-cost approach to the identification of the potential pore pressure changes that trigger such slides.
5. Micro-Macro Linkages Between Gender, Development, and Growth: Implications for the Caribbean Region
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Seguino,Stephanie (Author) and Vermont,Burlington (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2008
- 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:
- 33(4) : 8-42
- Notes:
- Over the last two decades, scholars have investigated the two-way relationship between gender inequality on the one hand, and economic development and growth on the other. Research in this area offers new ways to address the economic stagnation and crisis developing countries have experienced over the last two decades. , and in important ways, constrains economic development and growth in the Caribbean region. It further explores the endogeneity of gender inequality to the macroeconomic policy environment. The article concludes with a discussion of economic policies that can promote a win-win outcome-greater gender equality and economic development and growth.
6. Never meant to survive: genocide and utopias in black diaspora communities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vargas,João Helion Costa (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 262 p., By examining two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this book identifies a prevailing genocidal force that organizes individuals and groups across society. The 1965 and 1992 riots in Los Angeles, the work of the Black Panther Party and favela activists in Brazil, and police brutality in struggles between black communities and the state in both L.A. and Rio de Janeiro all figure importantly in Costa Vargas's compelling account.
7. Relaunching Alcântara: space, race, technology, and inequality in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mitchell,Sean T. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 272 p., Analyzes the relations between macropolitical changes and the lives of people in Alcantara. Chapters detail: (1) the changing social, economic, and ecological lives of Alcantara's villagers; (2) the contested effects of recent multicultural governance in Brazil--specifically remanescentes das comunidades dos quilombos (escaped-slave descended communities); (3) how state-sanctioned experts in Alcantara help shape people's understanding of the region's deep social inequality; and (4) the circulation of rumors of US plans to undermine Brazil's space program and invade the Amazon forest.
8. The politics of Caribbean cyberculture
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Best,Curwen (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 250 p., This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions.
9. Wider Caribbean Region A Pivotal Time to Strengthen Regional Instruments For Biodiversity Conservation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lausche,Barbara (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2008
- Published:
- Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill Academic Publishers,
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(3) : 499-530
- Notes:
- The countries of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) are linked economically by their trans-boundary living marine resources. The region is facing a continued decline of these resources. Science is improving our understanding of the human contributions to this decline, but national policies and programmes have not kept pace with this understanding. The Caribbean Regional Seas Programme and its Cartagena Convention and Protocols provide the regional legal framework for protection and sustainable management of the WCR's living marine and coastal resources. This article focuses on the Cartagena Convention's Protocol for biodiversity conservation, the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife, arguing that governments and organizations need to significantly increase participation in this regional treaty regime to effectively address transboundary environmental challenges.