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2. Black labor migration in caribbean guatemala, 1882-1923
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Opie,Frederick Douglass (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Pr Of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 145 p, The Guatemalan government sought to build an extensive railroad system in the 1880s, and actively recruited foreign labor. For poor workers of African descent, immigrating to Guatemala was seen as an opportunity to improve their lives and escape from the racism of the Jim Crow U.S. South and the French and British colonial Caribbean. Using primary and secondary sources as well as ethnographic data, Opie details the struggles of these workers who were ultimately inspired to organize by the ideas of Marcus Garvey. Regularly suffering class- and race-based attacks and persecution, black laborers frequently met such attacks with resistance. Their leverage--being able to shut down the railroad--was crucially important to the revolutionary movements in 1897 and 1920.
3. Black social movements in Latin America : from monocultural mestizaje to multiculturalism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rahier,Jean Muteba (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 250 p, Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades.
4. Caribbean history : from pre-colonial origins to the present
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Martin,Tony (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Boston: Pearson
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 366 p, Contents: Original peoples -- The coming of Columbus -- The Northern European challenge to Spain -- The Africans : long night of enslavement -- The enslaved and the manumitted : Human strivings in savage surroundings -- The big fight back : Resistance, marronage, proto-states -- The big fight back : Suriname and Jamaica -- The big fight back : from rebellion to Haitian revolution -- Emancipation : help from Europe, final push from the enslaved -- After emancipation : obstacles and progress -- Immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries -- The Caribbean and Africa through the early 20th century -- The United States and the Caribbean to World War II -- Twentieth century to World War II : turbulent times -- World War II to century's end -- Prognosis.
5. Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dixon,Kwame (Author) and Burdick,John (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 365 p, Discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.
6. Creole indigeneity : between myth and nation in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Shona N. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 310 p., Explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for Creoles' new identities.
7. 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.
8. Military struggle and identity formation in Latin America: race, nation, and community during the liberal period
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foote,Nicola (Author) and Horst,René Harder (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p, Introduction: Decentering war : military struggle, nationalism, and Black and indigenous populations in Latin America, 1850-1950 / Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst -- pt. 1. Soldiering and citizenship. Subaltern strategies of citizenship and soldiering in Colombia's civil wars : Afro- and indigenous Colombians' experiences in the Cauca, 1851-1877 / James E. Sanders -- Soldiers and statesmen : race, liberalism, and the paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan military service, 1844-1863 / Justin Wolfe -- Afro-Cubans in Cuba's War for Independence, 1895-1898 / Aline Helg -- Monteneros and macheteros : Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous experiences of military struggle in liberal Ecuador, 1895-1930 / Nicola Foote -- Race and ethnicity in the Guatemalan army, 1914 / Richard N. Adams -- Mayan soldier-citizens : ethnic pride in the Guatemalan military, 1925-1945 / David Carey, Jr. -- pt. 2. War and the racing of national boundaries and imaginaries. Indigenous peoples of Brazil and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Maria de Fátima Costa -- Illustrating race and nation in the Paraguayan War era : exploring the decline of the Tupi Guarani warrior as the embodiment of Brazil / Peter M. Beattie -- The conquest of the desert and the free indigenous communities of the Argentine plains / Carlos Martínez Sarasola -- "The slayer of Victorio bears his honors quietly" : Tarahumaras and the Apache wars in nineteenth-century Mexico / Julia O'Hara -- Embattled identities in postcolonial Chile : race, region, and nation during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Joanna Crow -- Racial conflict and identity crisis in wartime Peru : revisiting the Cañete Massacre of 1881 / Vincent C. Peloso -- Crossfire, cactus, and racial constructions : the Chaco War and indigenous people in Paraguay / René D. Harder Horst.; Time: 1800 - 1999
9. Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Block,Kristen (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Athens: University of Georgia Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 309 p, Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor of Jamaica before his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Henry Whistler was an English sailor sent to the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell's plan for holy war against Catholic Spain. Yaff and Nell were slaves who served a Quaker plantation owner, Lewis Morris, in Barbados. Seen from their on-the-ground perspective, the development of modern capitalism, race, and Christianity emerges as a story of negotiation, contingency, humanity, and the quest for community.