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2. New Impetus for the September 28 Campaign
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-10
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Health Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(3) : 8-9
- Notes:
- About the Colectiva Mujer y Salud or Women and Health Collective from the Dominican Republic leadership in coordinating efforts to decriminalize abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean through the September 28 Campaign. Notes that the Campaign's action is driven by factors including restrictive abortion laws, persecution of women who engage in the practice despite the risks, institutional obstacles, and interference from organized religion.
3. Still Trembling: State Obligation Under International Law to End Post-Earthquake Rape in Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Davis,Lisa (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2011
- Published:
- Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- University of Miami Law Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 65(3) : 867-892
- Notes:
- Examines how post-earthquake conditions in Haiti have left women and girls in a heightened state of vulnerability as well as the ineffectiveness of the U.N. and government to uphold obligations under international law to include grassroots women's leadership in the planning and implementation sessions to address sexual violence in displacement camps.
4. The world of Stephanie St. Clair
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Stewart,Shirley Pamela (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Sarah Lawrence College
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 107 p., Stephanie St Clair was born in 1897 on the island of Guadeloupe. In 1923 she created and ran a highly-lucrative policy bank in Harlem. By 1926, the operation earned a quarter of a million dollars To this day, she remains the only black female gangster to run a numbers bank of that size St Clair also contributed generously to the community and advocated for racial uplift. This thesis explores some of the factors that influenced her decision to become an entrepreneur who would create and run her own enterprise; and, paradoxically, become an activist within her community. Also implicit, and therefore a component of the inquiry, was St. Clair's decision to describe herself as a lady when the definition would not have applied to her in that era.