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2. Possible Republics: Tracing the 'Entanglements' of Race and Nation in Afro-Latina/o Caribbean Thought and Activism, 1870--1930
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fuste,Jose I. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- California: University of California, San Diego
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 282 p., Challenges how critical scholarship on race and racism in Latin America has traditionally understood racial subalterns in Cuba and Puerto Rico as people who are prevented from acting as black political subjects because of the hegemonic power of discourses of nationhood premised on ideas of mestizaje and racial fraternity. By providing an intellectual history of several important yet largely ignored Cuban and Puerto Rican activists intellectuals of color who lived and worked between the Caribbean and the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, the author shows that instead of being tricked by creole elite national narratives, they attempted to redefine ideas of nationhood to challenge racism, colonialism, and imperialism at local, national, and transnational levels.
3. Public performance: Free people of color fashioning identities in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Grant,Jacqueline (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Florida: University of Miami
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 237 p., Free people of color held an ambiguous place in Caribbean slave societies. On the one hand they were nominally free, but the reality of their daily lives was often something less than free. This work examines how free people of color, or libres de color , in nineteenth-century Cuba attempted to carve out lives for themselves in the face of social, economic, and political constraints imposed on them by white Cubans and Spaniards living in the island. It focuses on how through different Afro-Cuban associations some libres de color used public music and dance performances to self-fashion identities on their own terms.
4. Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dixon,Kwame (Author) and Burdick,John (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 365 p, Discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.
5. Military struggle and identity formation in Latin America: race, nation, and community during the liberal period
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foote,Nicola (Author) and Horst,René Harder (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 350 p, Introduction: Decentering war : military struggle, nationalism, and Black and indigenous populations in Latin America, 1850-1950 / Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst -- pt. 1. Soldiering and citizenship. Subaltern strategies of citizenship and soldiering in Colombia's civil wars : Afro- and indigenous Colombians' experiences in the Cauca, 1851-1877 / James E. Sanders -- Soldiers and statesmen : race, liberalism, and the paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan military service, 1844-1863 / Justin Wolfe -- Afro-Cubans in Cuba's War for Independence, 1895-1898 / Aline Helg -- Monteneros and macheteros : Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous experiences of military struggle in liberal Ecuador, 1895-1930 / Nicola Foote -- Race and ethnicity in the Guatemalan army, 1914 / Richard N. Adams -- Mayan soldier-citizens : ethnic pride in the Guatemalan military, 1925-1945 / David Carey, Jr. -- pt. 2. War and the racing of national boundaries and imaginaries. Indigenous peoples of Brazil and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Maria de Fátima Costa -- Illustrating race and nation in the Paraguayan War era : exploring the decline of the Tupi Guarani warrior as the embodiment of Brazil / Peter M. Beattie -- The conquest of the desert and the free indigenous communities of the Argentine plains / Carlos Martínez Sarasola -- "The slayer of Victorio bears his honors quietly" : Tarahumaras and the Apache wars in nineteenth-century Mexico / Julia O'Hara -- Embattled identities in postcolonial Chile : race, region, and nation during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Joanna Crow -- Racial conflict and identity crisis in wartime Peru : revisiting the Cañete Massacre of 1881 / Vincent C. Peloso -- Crossfire, cactus, and racial constructions : the Chaco War and indigenous people in Paraguay / René D. Harder Horst.; Time: 1800 - 1999
6. Writing the Afro-Hispanic : essays on Africa and Africans in the Spanish Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- James,Conrad (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 223 p., Through complex explorations of narratives of Spanish Blacks in the Caribbean this collection of essays builds critically on mid and late twentieth century Afro-Hispanist scholarship and thereby amplifies the terms in which Africans in the Americas are generally discussed. Each of these essays deals with a pivotal aspect of the African experience in the Spanish speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present day.
7. Black social movements in Latin America : from monocultural mestizaje to multiculturalism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rahier,Jean Muteba (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 250 p, Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades.
8. Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Reiter,Bernd (Author) and Simmons,Kimberly Eison (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- East Lansing: Michigan State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 314 p, By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi-faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas. Includes Faye V. Harrison's "Building black diaspora networks and meshworks for knowledge, justice, peace, and human rights."
9. Critical perspectives on Afro-Latin American literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Tillis,Antonio D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 257 p, Part One: Engaging the Transnational, Cosmopolitan and Postcolonial in Afro-Hispanic Texts. Introduction to Part One / Antonio D. Tillis ; Roots and Routes: Transnational Blackness in Afro-Costa Rican Literature / Dorothy E. Mosby ; Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores (The Grandchildren of Felicidad Dolores) and the Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Historical Novel: A Postcolonial Reading / Sonja Stephenson Watson ; Cultural Transnationality and Cosmopolitanism in the Poetic Journeys of Nancy Morejón / Antonio D. Tillis. -- Part Two: Africa and African Cosmology and Literary Tradition in Hispanic (Con) Texts. Introduction to Part Two / Antonio D. Tillis ; Yoruba Cosmology as Technique in Malambo by Lucía Charún-Illescas / Aida L. Heredia ; Myth, Legend & Reality: Redesigning the Narrative Style in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Hemingway, the Death Stalker / Cristina Cabral ; Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Clarion for Black Cultural Traditions in Peru / Martha Ojeda ; Bridging Literary Traditions in the Hispanic World: Equatorial Guinean Drama and the Dictatorial Cultural-Political Order / Elisa Rizo. -- Part Three: Defining and Redefining Identities in Latin American Literature. Introduction to Part Three / Antonio D. Tillis ; Black, Woman, Poor: The Many Identities of Conceição Evaristo / Ana Beatriz Rodrigues Gonçalves ; The Triumph Within: Carolina Maria de Jesus and Strategies for Black Female Empowerment in Brazil / Dawn Duke ; Talking Back with Ana Lydia Vega: Identity, Gender and the Subversive Portrayal of Mestizaje / Emmanuel Harris, III ; Dialogically Redefining the Nation: Hip-hop and the Collective Identity / Lesley Feracho.; "After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America, Brazil, and uniquely, Equatorial Guinea, thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization. The importance of Latin America literature to the discipline of African Diaspora studies is immeasurable, and this edited collection provides a ripe cultural context for critical comparative analysis among the vast geographies that encompass African and African Diaspora studies. Scholars in the area of African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and American literature will be able to utilize the eleven essays in this edition to enhance classroom instruction and further academic research."--Publisher's website.
10. Women warriors of the Afro-Latina diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vega,Marta Moreno (Editor), Alba,Marinieves (Editor), and Modestin,Yvette (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Houston, TX: Arte Público Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 233 p, Features eleven essays and four poems in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin America and they write about the African diaspora and issues such as colonialism, oppression and disenfranchisement.