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3002. Latin American/caribbean Women (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kunkel,Lilith R. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(2) : 20-21
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean," by Kathryn A. Sloan.
3003. Access to information legislation as a means to achieve transparency in Ghanaian governance: Lessons from the Jamaican experience
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kuunifaa,Cletus D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2012
- Published:
- London, UK: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- IFLA Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(2) : 175-186
- Notes:
- Probes the anticipated implementation challenges of the freedom-of-information (FOI) law in Jamaica, and the lessons Ghana stands to learn to improve on its FOI bill, currently at a deliberative stage. The lack of transparency in government or the public sector as a result of lack of access to governmental or public information will be tackled in this study.
3004. Single Mothers, Absentee Fathers, and Gun Violence in Toronto: A Contextual Interpretation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lawson,Erica (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 Oct
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(7) : 805-828
- Notes:
- Examines debates over the role of absentee fathers in gun violence among Black youth in Toronto, Ontario. Particular focus is given to the historical, cultural, economic, and social conditions that affect Caribbean-Canadian men and women's parenting.
3005. Fighting a Losing Battle? Defending Women's Reproductive Rights in Twenty-First Century Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maxwell,Shakira (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(3) : 95-115
- Notes:
- Examines recent aspects of the debate on the legalisation of abortion in Jamaica. Highlights the recommendations of the Abortion Policy Review Group which reviewed health implications in Jamaica and assessed existing laws in the wider Caribbean on abortion. Using feminist analysis the paper also explores the challenges faced by those arguing for legislative reform on abortion services in Jamaica within the larger framework of reproductive health and rights.
3006. The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Merrill,Dennis (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 45(3) : 850-853
- Notes:
- Review of the book "Purposes of Paradise: US Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i," by Christine Skwiot.
3007. Rio Tries Counterinsurgency
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Muggah,Robert (Author) and Mulli,Albert Souza (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2012
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Current History, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Current History
- Journal Title Details:
- 111(742) : 62-66
- Notes:
- Brazil's tourist-jammed cities are some of the most violent on the planet. A considerable number of the country's 43,000 annual murders occur on the streets of Sao Paulo, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro. And Brazilian cities are not alone in what might be called a bad neighborhood. The fact is that most major Latin American and Caribbean cities are today plagued by an epidemic of violence. With more than 20 murders per 100,000 people, the regional homicide rate is roughly three times the global average. Many of the larger urban centers -- from Caracas and Ciudad Juarez to Kingston and Port-of-Spain -- register the highest rates of lethal violence in the world.
3008. Governmentality, Diaspora Assemblages and the Ongoing Challenge of 'Development'
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mullings,Beverley (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-03
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Antipode (Antipode)
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(2) : 406-427
- Notes:
- Argues that skilled members of the Jamaican diaspora are becoming important actors in an ongoing development strategy to extend the rationality of the market into everyday social relations and institutions. Diaspora members are imagined by states and development institutions to be ideal development partners because of their access to potentially lucrative business, knowledge and capital networks, and their desire to direct them towards socially transformative ends.
3009. New century, old disparities: gender and ethnic earnings gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nopo,Hugo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 323 p., Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain population groups. Women, people of African ancestry, and indigenous peoples are often at the bottom of the income distribution. The share of female-headed households rose in the past 20 years. By the beginning of the 1990s, women headed 1.2 percent of complete households (households in which both husband and wife are present) and 79.8 percent of single- head households. This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. Latin America and the Caribbean provide a rich environment for studying social inequality, because historical inequalities along gender and ethnic lines persist, despite positive indicators of economic development.
3010. Legal but Inaccessible: Abortion In Guyana
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nunes,Fred (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(3) : 59-94
- Notes:
- Seventeen years after Guyana introduced a positive, liberal abortion law, the government, professional bodies and civil society together have failed to give any leadership in implementing that law. How can one explain that after an outstanding campaign of extensive ministerial and parliamentary consultation, as well as widespread engagement from religious organisations and the media, so little has been done by way of implementing the law? This paper seeks to trace some aspects of the campaign for law reform and to learn from the difficulties of providing services over the last seventeen years.
3011. Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- OECD Development Centre (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2012
- Published:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Organisation de Cooperation et de Developpement Economiques
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 164 p., Even in the midst of a global financial crisis, Latin American and Caribbean economies find themselves in better condition than in years past. Latin America must seize this opportunity to design and implement good public policies. The greatest of the long-term objectives of Latin American states remains development: economic growth and structural change that is rapid, sustainable and inclusive. In particular, governments must reduce inequalities in income, public-service delivery and opportunities, as well as promote the diversification of economies, often concentrated on a few primary-product exports. Improved efficiency of public administration is crucial to address both the short-term and long-term dimensions of these challenges. The real change, however, will come if Latin American and Caribbean states carry out meaningful fiscal reforms, making them not only more efficient but also more effective.
3012. Tourism and the Hispanicization of Race in Jim Crow Miami, 1945-1965
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rose,Chanelle N. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 SPR
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 45(3) : 735-+
- Notes:
- This article examines how Miami's significant presence of Anglo Caribbean blacks and Spanish-speaking tourists critically influenced the evolution of race relations before and after the watershed 1959 Cuban Revolution. The convergence of people from the American South and North, the Caribbean, and Latin America created a border culture in a city where the influx of Bahamian blacks and Spanish-speakers, especially tourists, had begun to alter the racial landscape. To be sure, Miami had many parallels with other parts of the South in regard to how blackness was understood and enforced by whites during the first half of the twentieth century. However, I argue that the city's post-WWII meteoric tourist growth, along with its emergence as a burgeoning Pan-American metropolis, complicated the traditional southern black-white dichotomy. The purchasing power of Spanish-speaking visitors during the postwar era transformed a tourist economy that had traditionally catered to primarily wealthy white transplanted Northerners. This significant change to the city's tourist industry significantly influenced white civic leaders' decision to occasionally modify Jim Crow practices for Latin American vacationers. In effect, Miami's early Latinization had a profound impact on the established racial order as speaking Spanish became a form of currency that benefited Spanish-speaking tourists even those of African descent. Paradoxically, this ostensibly peculiar racial climate aided the local struggle by highlighting the idiosyncrasies of Jim Crow while perpetuating the second-class status of native-born blacks.
3013. Unsafe abortion differentials in 2008 by age and developing country region: high burden among young women
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shah,Iqbal H. (Author) and Åhman,Elisabeth (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-06
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Reproductive health matters
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(39) : 169-173
- Notes:
- Among the 3.2 million unsafe abortions in young women 15–19 years old, almost 50% are in the Africa region. 22% of all unsafe abortions in Africa compared to 11% of those in Asia (excluding Eastern Asia) and 16% of those in Latin America and the Caribbean are among adolescents aged 15–19 years.
3014. Book Review: Women’s Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shayne,Julie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-02
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Gender & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 26(1) : 157-158
- Notes:
- Reviews the book "Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship," edited by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon.
3015. The Role of Blacks in Establishing Cattle Ranching in Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sluyter,Andrew (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 SPR
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural History (Agric.Hist.)
- Journal Title Details:
- 86(2) : 41-67
- Notes:
- A longstanding assumption posits that white ranchers from the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, provided the knowledge to establish the first cattle ranches in Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, that blacks merely provided the labor, and that the herding ecology involved was the same as that of the Acadian ranchers who followed. Reconstruction of the locations of the first major ranches and the backgrounds of their owners and slaves, however, reveals that none of them came to Louisiana from Saint-Domingue and that the ranches occupied the western margin of the Atchafalaya basin, an environment quite different than the prairies of southwestern Louisiana later inhabited by Acadian ranchers. While the sources cannot yield a complete account of the process through which cattle ranching became established, they do suggest that none of the white ranchers brought relevant experience from the Caribbean or France, that some of the blacks might have brought such experience from Africa, and that people of African, European, native, and mixed origins all contributed knowledge and creativity, as well as labor, in founding a distinctive herding ecology that differed substantially from that of the subsequent Acadian ranches.
3016. Storm Hazard and Slavery: The Impact of the 1831 Great Caribbean Hurricane on St Vincent
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,S. D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 FEB
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Environment and History
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(1) : 97-123
- Notes:
- On 11 August 1831, St Vincent was struck by the Great Caribbean Hurricane. Ninety-two out of 96 sugar estates on the island experienced damage to buildings and crops. Destruction varied, however, according to location and the type of structure at risk. Worst affected were the northerly regions of St David and Charlotte's parishes, while slave villages suffered more than mill works or great houses. As a result of the storm the colony's exports fell by nearly 50 per cent, reflecting disruption to the infrastructure supporting overseas trade as well as a sugar crop shortfall of more than 25 per cent. In contrast to the hazard's large impact on plantation agriculture, relatively few casualties occurred. St Vincent also suffered less acutely than Barbados, a similar sized island, equally dependent on sugar and slavery. A plausible explanation for the hurricane's differential impact between the two colonies lies in localised vulnerability of place. While the enslaved population did not take advantage of the disaster to mount a challenge to white authority, shortages of provisions and timber strained relations on some estates. St Vincent's plantation economy, however, recovered relatively quickly, demonstrating considerable disaster resilience. Although slaves and the free black and mixed-race population received little direct government support, grant-in-aid was allocated to agents primarily responsible for coordinating supplies of food, clothing and shelter. The speed of recovery questions whether natural disasters weakened planter resistance to emancipation across the British West Indies. Conceptualisation of the Great Caribbean Hurricane as an existential threat to British colonies also obscures the extent to which responses to climatic hazard were shaped by the imperial relationship and the interests of largely absentee owners.
3017. African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Hispanic White Feelings of Closeness Toward Other Racial and Ethnic Groups
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Thornton,Michael C. (Author), Taylor,Robert Joseph (Author), and Chatters,Linda M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 OCT
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies (J.Black Stud.)
- Journal Title Details:
- 43(7) : 749-772
- Notes:
- This study examines African Americans', Black Caribbeans', and non-Hispanic Whites' perceptions of closeness to other racial and ethnic groups. The study uses data from a national probability sample, the National Survey of American Life (N = 6,082), and provides the first investigation of this topic among Black Caribbeans. Study findings reveal both similarities and significant differences between African Americans and Black Caribbeans in their levels of closeness to other groups. African Americans and Black Caribbeans were similar in their levels of closeness to Whites, American Indians, and Asian Americans. African Americans felt significantly closer to Black people in the United States than did Black Caribbeans. Conversely, Black Caribbeans felt significantly closer than African Americans to Black people from the Caribbean, Spanish-speaking people, and Black people in Africa. Non-Hispanic Whites felt significantly closer to Asian Americans than did either African Americans or Black Caribbeans. These and other findings are discussed in detail and reaffirm the continued importance of race in American life and intergroup relations.
3018. A case study of exclusion on the basis of behaviour (and experiences of migration and racialisation)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Underwood,Kathryn (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2012
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Inclusive Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(3) : 313-329
- Notes:
- Dwayne is a Grade 6 student who came to Canada from Jamaica at the age of seven. Upon arrival in a new school Dwayne had to adapt to a new culture. In addition, Dwayne was identified as having severe behavioral problems and learning difficulties, and it was recommended within the first month of school that the boy be medicated in order for him to cope. His mother refused. Through interviewing Dwayne's mother and his teacher, a case study details Dwayne's experiences of schooling. The story of Dwayne illustrates how experiences of disablement are interrelated with experiences of migration and racialization.
3019. Jamaica: National Urban Profile
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 32 p., The Jamaica Urban Profiling consists of an accelerated, action-oriented assessment of urban conditions, focusing on priority needs, capacity gaps, and existing institutional responses at local and national levels. The purpose of the study is to develop urban poverty reduction policies at local, national, and regional levels, through an assessment of needs and response mechanisms, and as a contribution to the wider-ranging implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The study is based on analysis of existing data and a series of interviews with all relevant urban stakeholders, including local communities and institutions, civil society, the private sector, development partners, academics, and others.
3020. Perceived discrimination and psychological well-being in the USA and South Africa
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Williams,David R. (Author), Haile,Rahwa (Author), Mohammed,Selina A. (Author), Herman,Allen (Author), Sonnega,John (Author), Jackson,James S. (Author), and Stein,Dan J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnicity & health (Ethn.Health)
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(1-2) : 111-133
- Notes:
- Objective. To explore levels of perceived racial and non-racial discrimination and their associations with self-esteem and mastery in the USA and South Africa. Design. We used ordinary least square regressions to test the cross-sectional associations between discrimination and psychological resources using two national probability samples of adults: the National Survey of American Life and the South African Stress and Health Study. Results. Levels of perceived racial discrimination were higher in the USA than in South Africa. In the USA, both African-Americans and Caribbean Blacks have comparable or higher levels of self-esteem and mastery than Whites. In contrast, South African Whites have higher levels of both self-esteem and mastery than Africans, Coloureds, and Indians. Perceived discrimination, especially chronic everyday discrimination, is inversely related to self-esteem and mastery in both societies. In South Africa, stress and socioeconomic status (SES) but not discrimination are important determinants of racial differences in self-esteem and mastery. Conclusions. In two racialized societies, perceived discrimination acts independent of demographic factors, general stressors, social desirability bias, racial identity, and SES, to negatively affect the psychological resources of self-esteem and mastery.