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    15. African Mexicans in Spanish Slave Societies in America: A Critical Location of Sources

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Green,Debra D. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010-03-01
    Published:
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Black Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    40(4) : 683-699
    Notes:
    Journal Article, Taking an Afrocentric approach to the study of Africans who were enslaved by the Spanish in Mexico, the author traveled to Mexico on many occasions to study the retention of African cultural forms, concepts, practices, and values. This article provides the reader with a critical literature brief on the issues surrounding the current discourse.

    17. An ethnographic study of Afro-Mexicans in Mexico's Gulf Coast: fishing, festivals, and foodways

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hall,Raymond A. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    129 p., One of only a few studies using ethnographic research to document and analyze the self-identification and retention of African culture by Afro-Mexicans in Tamiahua, Veracruz, Mexico.

    18. Negro culture in Guiana

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hambly,W. D. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1935
    Published:
    Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Field Museum News
    Journal Title Details:
    6 : 3
    Notes:
    Eight objects from Dutch Guiana, South America, recently presented to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Berkson, of High- land Park, Illinois, are of especial interest because they show the survival of Negro crafts that have persisted in the West Indies and Guiana since the importation of slaves from West Africa several centuries ago;