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2. Caribbean issues in the Indian Dispora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mahabir,Noor Kumar (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- January-March, 2013
- Published:
- New Delhi: Serials Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Man in India
- Journal Title Details:
- 93 (1)
- Notes:
- Special journal issue., 211 p., During the colonial era, after abolition of slavery in 1833, the British faced extreme shortage of labor for sugar plantation in their sugar producing colonies of the Caribbean. To overcome this problem, over half a million Indians were transported to the region as indentured workers (often called as Indian coolies) with false hopes and promises.
3. Caribbean issues in the Indian diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mahabir,Kumar (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Delhi: Serials Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held in 2011., 270 p., Illustrates the neglect of emotions and feelings in the historiography of the people of the Bhojpuri areas in India who migrated to the plantation colonies in the Caribbean; analyses assimilation, mainly in the form of Christian conversion of Hindu and Muslim migrants, which resulted in the absence of mandirs and mosques, and the virtual lack of traditional Indian festivals and ceremonies in Belize, Venezuela and St. Lucia; deals with the plurality of ethnic identities, which is in fact the opposite of assimilation; and discusses the social adaptations and reproductions in forms such as Islamic spaces in politics as well as Bollywood movies.
4. Caribbean spaces : escapes from twilight zones
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boyce Davies,Carole (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 250 p, Illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. From her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, Carole Boyce Davies portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences.
5. The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Parés,Luis Nicolau (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006., 398 p., Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.