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    1. Black Movement Militancy in Panama: SAMAAP's Reliance on an Identity of West Indianness

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Duke,Dawn (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2010
    Published:
    Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    5(1) : 75-83
    Notes:
    The community of Caribbean people in Panama represents the presence of another identity within Hispanic space, one contrasting with the mestizo national identity of that space. Over time these Caribbean migrants built their own entities and structures to ensure their livelihood and wellbeing. This article examines on the one major Caribbean Panamanian organization that is most prominent today, the Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afroantillano de Panama (Society of Friends of the Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama) or SAMAAP.

    2. So far from Miami: Afro-Cuban Encounters with Mexicans in the US Southwest

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Dowling,Julie A. (Author) and Newby,C. Alison (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010 summer
    Published:
    United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latino Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    8(2) : 176-194
    Notes:
    Journal Article, Examines the experiences of Afro-Cuban immigrants in non-traditional settlement sites in the Southwest. Drawing on 45 interviews with Afro-Cubans in Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico, the authors explore how respondents position themselves relative to the local Mexican-origin population. Specifically focuses on the implications of 'Hispanic' identity in these cities as a category that is heavily tied to Mexican origin, 'brownness,' and the suspicion of illegality. As Afro-Cubans, respondents face a different racialization process than many non-black Latino immigrants, in that their blackness marks them as outside the bounds of regional constructions of Hispanic identity.