Fischer reviews the two-volume work Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: social dynamics and cultural transformations, by Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Arlene Torres>
A review of a Dash's book, which is compared favorably to Edouard Glissant's 'Caribbean Discourse' (1989) and Antonio Bentez-Rojo's 'Repeating Island' (1992)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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415 p, This comprehensive volume takes the reader through more than 500 years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. This revised and updated edition, with new chapters that reflect the islands' most recent social, economic, and political developments, features maps, charts, tables, and photographs.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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371 p, This handbook features a concise and authoritative history of the entire region, covering the large islands such as Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas as well as the smaller islands in the Netherlands Antilles, the islands of the Eastern Caribbean and the French and British dependencies.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
