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    1. Black identities: West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Waters,Mary C. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    New York Cambridge Mass.: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    413 p, The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children. She finds that when the immigrants first arrive, their knowledge of English, their skills and contacts, their self-respect, and their optimistic assessment of American race relations facilitate their integration into the American economic structure

    2. Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Edmondson,Belinda J. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan