In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's "middle passages," Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. The term 'middle passage' is more recently used to describe multiple crossings that transform the meaning of Diaspora into a vital and ongoing process.
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669 p., Essays cover the experiences of black women in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States in politics, business, the community, the arts, the family, and social change.
The use and abuse of alcohol is prevalent in many nations across the globe, but few studies have examined within-group differences found in people of African descent in the United States, in Africa, and in the Caribbean. A review of current research about alcohol use, abuse, and treatment in people of African descent is presented, including information about risk factors and contributors to alcohol use.
Beneficiaries thus far include: West Yorkshire's Cosmos, assigned L30,000 to stage a year-long exhibition for local ethnic communities; Liverpool's Nigerian Community Development Project, given L90,000 to refurbish its Grade II listed building; Wales's Gateway historic parks and gardens access project, granted L113,000; Brixton's National Museum and Archive of Black History, handed L302,000; and central London's Coram's Fields play area for children, awarded £1m for a complete restoration. [Helen Jackson] says there are many ways in which HLF can benefit the black community and that it is particularly keen to address issues such as social exclusion, depravation and young people's concerns. "We want to ensure lottery funding goes to all groups," she says. "We are aware we have more to do in really promoting equality of access to our funding.
It's only after Jean-Bertrand was airborne - on a U.S government aircraft - and the genocide had just about run its course, that Mr. Global Panacea himself, George Bush, announced that he was sending marines "...to help bring order to Haiti." He's the same person who, early in the crisis stated that any Haitian refugees who attempted to enter the US would be returned to Haiti. Here in North America it's `tribalism' of another kind; the police call the players "gangs," their issues... "gang violence." [Ooops! I would be remiss if I didn't thank the Bush-Blair tandem, but especially President George Bush, on the first anniversary of that stupendous victory over Iraq - what with it's ominous repertoire of weapons of mass destruction and all. It brought an end to Saddam Hussein's decades-old reign of terror and, more importantly, the "liberation of the Iraqi people..."
Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Harlem in 1918. By 1924 there were over 700 branches in 38 states and over 200 branches throughout the world as far away as South Africa at a time when there was no e-mail, television, or even radio to advertise. Those who could not hear Garvey directly received his views through his newspaper called the Negro World, which boasted a circulation as high as 200,000 by 1924. In 1919, the UNIA and Negro World were blamed for the numerous violent colonial uprisings in Jamaica, Grenada, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago. British and French authorities deported all UNIA organizers and banned the Negro World from all their colonies, but seamen continued to smuggle the paper throughout the world.
Over half a century later, it would be Marcus Garvey, the goer, against WEB Dubois, the stayer. Although, even Du Bois himself was to get so fed up with American racism that in the `60s at the time of the great new possibilities promised by the Dr King's Civil Rights Movement, he left America to go to Nkrumah's Ghana where he was to die on the eve of Dr King's, `I Have a Dream Speech'. Following Du Bois and Garvey, the Rastafarian movement-which was founded in the 1930's in Jamaica, were to be the next manifestation of goers even though its real impact was not to be felt for another forty years. They were followed by the next great two goers and stayers - Malcolm X (and the Nation of Islam) and Martin Luther King. Luther King's `I Have a Dream' speech was in the tradition of frederick [Frederick Douglass], and was perhaps the most eloquent statement yet of the need to sit tight, fight and make manifest the dream of the brotherhood of man. Dream So [Bernie Grant]'s latest call is in the tradition of many others before him - [Martin Delany], Garvey, the later Du Bois, and Malcolm X. Many of those who denounce Bernie at the movement, would turn around and cite some of those whose tradition Bernie embraces as heroes.
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This diverse and challenging collection of critical appraisals of Caribbean women fiction writers meets the urgent need for detailed critical analysis in this rapidly expanding field of interest. It includes an extensive bibliography both of relevant criticism and of Caribbean women writers and their fiction list by area.
Curto,Jose C. (Editor) and Soulodre-LaFrance,Renée (Editor)
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Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2005
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Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
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Collection of essays from a conference held at York University, October 12-15th, 2000., 338 p, A collection of scholarly works addressing pertinent themes and using innovative approaches and methodologies to advance research on the "Atlantic World" by demonstrating how the slave trade facilitated the creation of one world where before there had been many. The volume includes several of the leading scholars from Brazil, North America and Africa. The organization of this collection of essays reflects an important structural feature of the slave trade itself. That is its circular nature, departing from Africa, coming to America, and then returning to Africa.
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89 p, The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade.
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951 p., A story of an African elderly who is blind, and on the verge of death, travels to from African to Brazil in a hunt for the lost child for decades.
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Originally issued as a motion picture in 2001., 1 videodisc (60 min.), Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris travels to Africa and Brazil in search of his spiritual ancestors.
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206 p, Synopsis Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English features a series of original and comprehensive interviews with major Caribbean writers both male and female from different generations. Among these are Derek Walcott, George Lamming, Caryl Phillips and Jamaica Kincaid. Using informal interview techniques enables this history to appear both natural and informal. The extensive footnotes, however, supply details of extensive academic research showing how Caribbean literature reflects the varied experience of a region of diverse creed, race and culture. Among the highlights of the book are George Lamming's crucial lecture 'Concepts of the Caribbean' and the full text of Derek Walcott's 'The Sea is History' together with his comments on the poems. Frontiers in Caribbean Literature in English focuses on the critical issues of colonialism, and its affect on colour, class and sexuality. It provides a readable, lasting reference point for the study of Caribbean literature. (Amazon,UK);
Reviews books on Latin American slavery. Includes Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru, by Peter Blanchard; Slave Women in Caribbean Society, ,1650-1838, by Barbara Bush; Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System, edited by Barbara L. Solow.;
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360 p, "Traces the ways in which negative attitudes toward blacks became deeply embedded in French culture. Reveals the persistent inequality of French interactions with blacks in Africa, in the slave colonies of the West Indies, and in France." (Powells.com)
Fanon,Frantz (Author) and Chevalier,Haakon (Translator)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1967
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New York: Monthly Review Press
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Translation of Pour la revolution africaine., 197 p., A collection of articles, essays, and letters spanning the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. Section IV, number 20 is entitled "Blood flows in the Antilles under French domination," pp. 167-170.
Fox discusses Lydia Cabrera, a novelist and short story writer many consider the mother of Afro-Cuban studies. Examined are her contributions to Cuba's Africanized popular culture, as well as her bridging the cultures of France, Africa and Cuba.;
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15.0 Boxes
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"The collection is rich with documentation on languages, folklore, and music from the Caribbean and West Africa. Research materials regarding African American dialects and language are also extensively covered in the collection. Slides from her trips to Ghana and the Caribbean (West Indies) can be found in box 6. Course materials and research notes are found throughout the collection. Audiocassettes and reels containing over 92 hours of dialect, folklore and folk song recordings from Africa and the Caribbean are located in box 2 and 7. Lastly, an extensive book collection is included in the donation." (Amistad Research Center)
Wageningen, the Netherlands: CTA, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU S&T Strategies
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This website supports the policy dialogue on S&T for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It enables the ACP scientific community - primarily agricultural research and development scientists and technologists, policy makers, farmers and other stakeholders and actors - to share and review results of national and regional efforts and collaborate to harness science and technology for the development of agriculture in their countries.
Tests for the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth among some developing countries distributed between three geographic areas, over the period 1990-2005. Findings show that foreign direct investment do positively affect economic growth in Africa and Latin America/the Caribbean.
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189 p., Contents: A África, a diáspora, o Brasil africano e os quilombos - algumas referências historiográficas -- O contexto geográfico das comunidades e dos territórios quilombolas contemporâneos -- Mapeamento dos registros municipais dos territórios quilombolas do Brasil.
Rodríguez,Jaime Arocha (Editor) and Quintero Barrera,Rosa Patricia (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
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Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Centro de Estudios Sociales, Grupo de Estudios Afrocolombianos
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Papers from a seminar held Oct. 28-29, 2004, at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia., 293 p., A collection of personal tributes to the life and work of Nina S. de Friedemann, as well as writings related to her research on the black population in Colombia.
Despite efforts towards greater poverty relief and neoliberalism, countries with hundreds of millions of inhabitants are not simply falling behind in a global march toward ever-greater prosperity: they are heading in the wrong direction, spiraling down on their own paths of retrogression. The cases of Haiti and sub-Saharan Africa are highlighted.
Greenfield,Sidney M. (Author) and Droogers,A. F. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2001
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Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
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232 p, Contents: Recovering and reconstructing syncretism / André Droogers, Sidney M. Greenfield -- A Yoruba healer as syncretic specialist: herbalism, rosicrucianism and the Babalawo / Frank A. Salamon -- Population growth, industrialization and the proliferation of syncretized religions in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Ethnicity, purity, the market and syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cults / Roberto Motta -- Religious syncretism in an Afro-Brazilian cult house / Sergio F. Ferretti -- The presence of non-African spirits in an Afro-Brazilian religion: a case of Afro-Amerindian syncretism? / Mundicarmo M.R. Ferretti -- The reinterpretation of Africa: convergence and syncretism in Brazilian Candomblé / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Possession and syncretism: spirits as mediators in modernity / Inger Sjørslev -- Joana's story: syncretism at the actor's level / André Droogers -- Ragga cowboys: country and western themes in Rastafarian-inspired Reggae music / Werner Zips -- Polyvocality and constructions of syncretism in Winti / Ineke van Wetering -- Seeking syncretism: the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Morton Klass
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259 p., Explores the many aspects of Negritude - both as a concept and as a movement. Provides an account of its historical origins and examines the sociological and ideological background of themes that have preoccupied French-speaking black writers and intellectuals.
Korieh,Chima J. (Editor) and Okeke-Ihejirika,Philomina E. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
New York: Routledge
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Most of the papers in this volume were initially presented at the second international conference of the Transatlantic Research Group ... from July 28-30, 2006 at the Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria., 291 p., Probes the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. Includes Faye V. Harrison's "Building solidarities for human rights: diasporic women as agents of transformation," Jerome Teelucksingh's "The United States media and Caribbean gender relations" and Kelly E. Hayes' "The dark side of the feminine: Pomba Gira spirits in Brazil."
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1 videocassette (52 min.)
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Describes the religion of voodooism and gives an account of its history in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Filmed in New York, the work contains interviews with participants and depictions of ceremonies;
Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
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248 p., Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.
Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
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531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."
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359 p., Examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. Includes Lewin L. Williams' "A theological perspective on the effects of globalization on poverty in Pan-African Contexts" and Noel Leo Erskine's "Caribbean issues : the Caribbean and African American Churches' response."
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Based on a conference which took place in Sandton, Johannesburg from 14-15 July 2008., 346 p., This conference is the first of three conferences on the African diaspora with respect to the returnee phenomenon of 'Back to Africa'. Contents: volume 1. Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities -- volume 2. The ideology and practice of the African returnee phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa.
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"This book was also printed as a special edition in Accra, Ghana for the Brazilian Embassy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil/Itamaraty. A bilingual edition (Portuguese-English) was launched during the inauguration of the Brazil House (15.11.2007) with ISBN 978-184799-013-6"., 146 p., Description of a community of freed slaves who came from Brazil in the mid 19th century and settled in Accra.
