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Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Abrahams,Roger D. (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 1999
Published:: New York: Pantheon Books
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: Originally published: Afro-American folktales. c1985., 327 p, These tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early nineteenth century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Liddell,Janice (Editor) and Kemp, Yakini Belinda
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 1999
Published:: Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 268 p., In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. Includes Carolyn Cooper's "Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting," Paula C. Barnes "Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition," and Erna Brodber's "Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols."

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Vaughn,Leroy (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 1999-01-13
Published:: Los Angeles, CA
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Sentinel
Journal Title Details:: 41 : A4
Notes:: Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Harlem in 1918. By 1924 there were over 700 branches in 38 states and over 200 branches throughout the world as far away as South Africa at a time when there was no e-mail, television, or even radio to advertise. Those who could not hear Garvey directly received his views through his newspaper called the Negro World, which boasted a circulation as high as 200,000 by 1924. In 1919, the UNIA and Negro World were blamed for the numerous violent colonial uprisings in Jamaica, Grenada, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago. British and French authorities deported all UNIA organizers and banned the Negro World from all their colonies, but seamen continued to smuggle the paper throughout the world.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 1999-08-05
Published:: New York, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: New York Amsterdam News
Journal Title Details:: pp. 22-22:1
Notes:: The Peace Corps and the Mickey Leland Center on World Hunger and Peace at Texas Southern University partnered to send 10 students to live with current Peace Corps volunteers in Haiti, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Panama and Bolivia. The program, which was started last year, aims to increase minority student interest in global service centers. To honor this year's interns, a reception was held in July at the Houston Urban League.

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