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12. Black music research journal
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dudley,Shannon (Editor)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring, 2012
- Published:
- Champaign, IL: Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago and University of Illinois Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black music research journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(1): 1-191
- Notes:
- Special Religion issue, Includes Martha Ellen Davis, "Diasporal dimensions of Dominican folk religion and music"; Loren Y. Kajikawa, D'Angelo's voodoo technology: African cultural memory and the ritual of popular music consumption"; Joseph M. Murphy, "'Chango 'ta vein'/chango has come': Spiritual embodiment in the Afro-Cuban ceremony, bembé"; Teresa L. Reed, "Shared possessions: Black Pentecostals, Afro-Caribbeans, and sacred music"; and Rebecca Sager, "Transcendence through aesthetic experience: Divining a common wellspring under conflicting Caribbean and African American religious value systems."
13. Bones cry out: Palo Monte/Mayombe in Santiago de Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Sonya Maria (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Michigan: Michigan State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 196 p., Argues that practitioners of Palo Monte/Mayombe in the city of Santiago de Cuba construct a religious genealogy inclusive of spirits to affirm their sense of an "African" identity in contemporary Cuba. Demonstrates that these practitioners' sense of being African includes an understanding that they are the ritual descendants and stewards of the blended spiritual knowledge created by sixteenth and seventeenth century AmerIndian Taíno and Kongolese inhabitants of eastern/Oriente, Cuba.
14. Boston Haitians unite in prayer for Haiti's deliverance
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Auguste,Wilner (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2005
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 : 1
- Notes:
- Boston First Baptist Church and Mattapan's Saint Angela's Catholic Church choirs uplifted the service with songs. Rev. Father Charles Gabriel of Dorchester's St Matthew Catholic Church gave thanks to God for the country's blessings. Rev. Gary Theodat of Golgotha Seventh Day Adventist of Roslindale asked for deliverance for Haiti, while Reverend Nicholas Homicile of the Baptist Tabernacle of the Evangelical Voice prayed for unity. The President of the Association-of Haitian Pastors of New England, Rev. Pastor Paul Daniel of Evangelical Baptist Church of the North Coast, closed the worship with a prayer of consecration and the final blessings. The reflection part of the gathering ended with a series of short and precise messages.
15. Caribbean Espiritismo (Spiritist) altars : the Indian and the Congo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bettelheim,Judith (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- June 2005
- Published:
- New York
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Art bulletin
- Journal Title Details:
- 87 (2): 312-330
- Notes:
- Explores the association of altars with religious practice known as Espiritismo or Spiritism in the Caribbean culture, particularly the Indians and Congo. Attributes of Espiritismo; Distinction of an Espiritismo altar from other non-Christian altars assembled in observance of the Caribbean religions; Relation of Espiritismo with the religion Palo Monte Mayombe in Cuba.
16. Carne Vale (Goodbye to Flesh?): Caribbean Carnival, Notions of the Flesh and Christian Ambivalence about the Body
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Perkins,Anna (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-12
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sexuality & Culture
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(4) : 361-374
- Notes:
- Discusses the popular notions of sexuality that lay behind the women's bodily displays during Trinidad Carnival, the iconic Carnival experience in the region, and contrasts these to some Christian notions of the body and sexuality, which see the body ('the flesh') and sexuality, as problematic even sinful.
17. Christianity in the Caribbean: essays on church history
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lampe,Armando (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Kingston Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- A collection of essays on the history of Christianity and the role of the Church in the processes of colonization and decolonization in the Caribbean. The work is a cross-cultural study of the Church and society in the Dutch, Spanish, French and English Caribbean. It looks at the relationships that existed among slavery, colonialism and Catholicism, Christianity and decolonization, and the church and military dictatorships. Contents: The beginnings of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean / Johannes Meier -- Protestantism and slavery in the British Caribbean / Keith Hunte -- Christianity and slavery in the Dutch Caribbean / Armando Lampe -- The Catholic Church and the state in Haiti, 1804-1915 / Laënnec Hurbon -- The Catholic Church and the state in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1960 / William Wipfler -- Protestantism in Cuba, 1868-1968 / Theo Tschuy
18. Citizenship, religion and revolution in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Watson,Carolyn E. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- New Mexico: The University of New Mexico
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 301 p., Throughout the 20th century, various Cuban regimes have tried to eliminate the practice of religions of African origin by combining repressive legislation and coercive social practices that stigmatized practitioners as culturally backward, socially deviant, and mentally deficient. Religious practitioners, however, used the state apparatus to continue worshipping their African deities, sometimes challenging government officials' excessive application of the law or devising ways to evade their scrutiny. Through an analysis of archival documents, newspapers, works produced by practitioners, oral history interviews and published ethnographies, this dissertation examines the strategies practitioners of Ocha-Ifá - also known as Santería - employed as they continued practicing the religion of their ancestors and participating in the national projects of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period after the 1959 revolution, this dissertation argues that revolutionary policies that were designed to discourage the practice of religions of African origin actually facilitated its continued practice and development in unintended ways.
19. Ernest Hemingway
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Goodheart,Eugene (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 369 p., This title includes discussions of Ernest Hemingway's life and works. Includes Philip Melling's "Cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban religion, and Santiago's failure in Hemingway's The old man and the sea."
20. Following Eshu-Eleggua's codes: A comparative approach to the literatures of the African diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dyer-Spiegel,Jacob A. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 330 p., Explores the impact of the great Orishas (Yoruba: "deities") of the crossroads, Eshu-Elegguá , on the thriving literary and visual arts of the African diaspora. Eshu-Elegguá are multiple figures who work between physical and spiritual realms, open possibilities, and embody unpredictability and chance. Analyzes the texts Mumbo Jumbo (Ismael Reed, 1972), Sortilégio: Mistério Negro (Abdias do Nasicmento, 1951), Chago de Guisa (Gerardo Fulleda León, 1988), Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson, 1998), Midnight Robber (Nalo Hopkinson, 2000), and Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966). The objective is to explore the aesthetic codes and philosophies that the figures of Eshu-Elegguá carry into the texts; trace their voices across multiple forms of cultural expression; and navigate the dialogues that these intermediary figures open between a group of literary texts that have not yet been studied together.