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    1. Biomedical ambiguity: race, asthma, and the contested meaning of genetic research in the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Whitmarsh,Ian (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    225 p., Whitmarsh describes how he followed a team of genetic researchers to Barbados, where he did fieldwork among not only the researchers but also government officials, medical professionals, and the families being tested. Whitmarsh reveals how state officials and medical professionals make the international biomedical research part of state care, bundling together categories of disease populations, biological race, and asthma. He points to state and industry perceptions of mothers as medical caretakers in genetic research that proves to be inextricable from contested practices around nation, race, and family.

    3. Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gooden,Amoaba (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Black Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    38(3) : 413-426
    Notes:
    "This article investigates the efficacy of community organizing by African Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Ontario. The author argues that community organizing was an instinctive initiative of African Caribbean people. Historically, Black community organizational agenda, although owing much to its own resourcefulness and fortitude, was intimately connected to the influence and strength of the larger White population. Racism and social exclusions were the major external factors influencing the majority of African Caribbean institutional building." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];

    4. Friends I Have Lost; Heroes I Have Found

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lee,Nicole C. (Author)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    2008-05-08
    Published:
    San Bernardino, CA
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Precinct Reporter
    Journal Title Details:
    41 : A4
    Notes:
    Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, is a Haitian activist and leader of Fondasyon Trant Septanm (September 30 organization), named in commemoration of the coup against democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide in 1991. His organization worked with victims of torture, rape and extrajudicial executions by the Haitian military and paramilitary. I met Lovinsky when I lived in Haiti. I admire his fervent commitment to educate Americans about the negative impacts of US policies towards Haiti. In 2004, under threat by the former military whose human rights abuses he had vehemently denounced, Lovinsky left Haiti for the US. But two years later, after democratic elections, Lovinsky returned to Haiti. Like many of his friends, I was concerned for his safety, but Lovinsky was unwavering. Last August, while working with a human rights delegation, Lovinsky received a telephone call and left his home. His car was found the next morning, but he has not been seen since. He is "disappeared", a term used to describe someone who is kidnapped out of a political motivation.