Universitat de Barcelona. Grupo de Estudios Afroamericanos (Author)
Format:
Journal, Electronic
Language:
Spanish and Portuguese
Publication Date:
2004-2005
Published:
Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
A free online publication and interdisciplinary studies in the subject area of Afro-America. Part of the need to open spaces plural debate about the social , cultural , economic and political aspects of societies in which African Americans develop their experiences.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
521 p., Considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States— including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade— are common to most of the Americas. Contents include: Jane Landers' "Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier: fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution"; J. Michael Dash's "Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and relational insularity"; and Leigh Anne Duck's "Travel and transference: V.S. Naipaul and the plantation past."
United Nations. High Commissioner on Human Rights (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Geneva: United Nations
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Held in Montevideo from 7 to 9 May 2003., 27 p., Includes concrete conclusions and recommendations on poverty reduction, development, land ownership, access to employment, participation in public life, discrimination and the law, torture and the excessive use of force, health, education, cultural identity, religion and housing.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
329 p, Contents: Introduction -- transamerican renaissance -- Scattered traditions : the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal -- A francophone view of comparative American literature : Revue des colonies and the translations of abolition -- Cuban stories -- Hawthorne's Mexican genealogies -- Transamerican theatre : Pierre Faubert and L'Oncle Tom.
