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2. Black Cubans take issue with Cornel West
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wickham,DeWayne (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 16-Jun 22, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 1A-1A,5A
- Notes:
- "I don't want to look arrogant, especially with [Cornel West]. But I believe he sat on the side of something he doesn't actually know," [Nancy Morejon] said of the open letter West and 59 other African Americans sent to Cuban President Raul Castro late last year. In it, they accused his government of mistreating civil rights activists and a "callous disregard" for its Black population. "Yes, there is racism in Cuba," Tomas Fernandez Robaina, a prolific writer about the social condition of Black Cubans, told me. The country "engaged in romanticism" when Castro ordered an end to racial discrimination nearly a half-century ago, Fernandez said. "Now we understand it will take more than goodwill to get rid of it, something Americans should know better than Cubans."
3. Brazil's new racial politics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Reiter,Bernd (Editor) and Mitchell,Gladys L. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 251 p., Tackles issues ranging from white privilege to black power, from government policy to popular advocacy, and from historical injustices to recent victories. Includes Gladys L. Mitchell's "Politicizing blackness : Afro-Brazilian color identification and candidate preference," Angela Figueiredo's "Out of place : the experience of the black middle class," Mónica Treviño González's "Opportunities and challenges for the Afro-Brazilian movement," Keisha-Khan Y. Perry's "Racialized history and urban politics : black women's wisdom in grassroots struggles," Sales Augusto dos Santos' "Black NGOs and 'conscious' rap : new agents of the antiracism struggle in Brazil," Fernando Conceição's "Power and black organizing in Brazil," and Renato Emerson dos Santos' "New social activism : university entry courses for black and poor students."
4. Incremental art: negotiating the route of London's Notting Hill Carnival
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ferris,Lesley (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 519-536
- Notes:
- A brief overview of London's carnival and its beginnings in the late 1950s. Claudia Jones committed herself to both the culture and political underpinning of Caribbean carnival when she founded the event. London's West Indian community embraced carnival as an important source of celebration and cultural identity in the face of racist intimidation in Britain. The essay explores various difficulties that black British artists face gaining recognition, particularly those who work in carnival.
5. La guerre d'indépendance cubaine
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ferrer,Ada (Author) and Thomas Van Ruymbeke (Translator)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Bécherel: Les Perséides
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 318 p.
6. Lest we forget
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- White,Bob (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-03-11
- Published:
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Montreal Community Contact
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 : 19-19,21
- Notes:
- Just Chillin' continued, "That's one of the reasons why everyone's going to Anancy Restaurant for those tasty fish dishes." Money said, "Alex who is a close friend of Richie, AKA Mr. Music (part of LAB NOISE), has a favourite expression: "That's your opinion..." Da Professor said, "Children should be grateful they even have a school; many children don't. In many parts of the world education is a luxury. Look at what just happened in Haiti. [Don]'t forget what happened there. People have short memories; they're still in dire need. Whatever you have to donate bring it to Montreal North and have the Brothers and the Sisters send it to their relatives in Haiti, bypassing the sticky fingers... Don't forget we arc our brothers' keeper, so we have to show some love to our neighbours (not THE SYSTEM). After all WE are the world."
7. Orlando Zapata's death shows Cuba's racism and brutality
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moore,Carlos (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 3-Mar 9, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 : 9A
- Notes:
- Cuba's rulers, say activists, see the growing dark face of the opposition as "ingratitude" that requires harsher punishment. They point to the case of Black Communist leader Juan Carlos Robinson, sentenced in 2006 to 12 years in jail for "corruption," an offense for which former foreign minister, Roberto Robaina, who's white, was arrested in 2002 but placed under house arrest. [Orlando Zapata Tamayo]'s ordeal is being spun from the other side of the coin, too - the predominantly white and U.S.-based, right-wing anti-Castro opposition who clearly stand to score political points from the case of a Black martyr. Righteous declarations can be expected from organizations such as Democracy Movement, the Cuban American National Foundation, the Cuban Liberty Council and, especially, the Cuban Democratic Directorate. Many Cuban civil-rights activists accuse these groups of working to corral and control the new internal opposition forces on behalf of interests linked to Cuba's former Jim Crow oligarchy. That's why they see U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's "indignation" over Zapata's death, as much as president Raul Castro's "regrets," as a double farce. A staunch supporter of the tiny; white elite of wealth that was overthrown in 1959, Diaz-Balart can cry crocodile tears, but during his time in Congress his right-wing, proembargo agenda has only hindered the ability of Black Cubans to improve their lot.
8. Review of Race, gender and educational desire: Why Black women succeed and fail (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dimitriadis,Greg (Author), Fine,Michelle (Author), and Lavia,Jennifer (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(1) : 99-110
- Notes:
- Reviews the book, Race, gender and educational desire: Why black women succeed and fail by Heidi Safia Mirza (2009). The author looks to understand and unpack the complex intersectionalities that mark contemporary black British feminism, teasing out their particular implications for education and educational debates today.
9. The 'Other' Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-racist Comedy
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Weaver,Simon (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2010
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(1) : 31-48
- Notes:
- Outlines the 'reverse discourses' of black, African-American and Afro-Caribbean comedians in the UK and USA. These reverse discourses appear in comic acts that employ the sign-systems of embodied and cultural racism but develop, or seek to develop, a reverse semantic effect.
10. The impact of 'racism' on the Dissociative Experiences Scale
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- De Maynard,V. A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Culture and Mental Health
- Journal Title Details:
- 3(2) : 77-95
- Notes:
- Despite the difficulty differentiating between the symptomology of dissociative disorders and schizophrenia, Black people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK continue to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and over-represented within the mental health care system. The reasons why remain illusive; however, some researchers have begun asking whether racism plays an integral part. Given that Black people often given racism as a contributing factor to their mental state, and the difficulty differentiating between the symptomology of dissociative disorders and schizophrenia, this study examined the relation between mental representations that might be indicative of the subjective experience of racism and dissociative experiences as evidence of a trauma-related response.