Evaluates the economic and social impact of the large migrations which took place in Central America during the 1980s, especially from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, to Costa Rica, Mexico, and Belize
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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475 p, "This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the grounds, yards and stadiums used for organized baseball from the invention of the sport in the 1840s to the present. Each entry gives the location of the park, who played there and when, home run dimensions, seating capacity, architectural comments, attendance records, and anecdotes." (Google)
Reyes appreciation of nature and the wonders of the New World helps to understand the beauty of new frontier opened to humanity upon the discovery of the Americas. Also see author's "Alfonso Reyes, Critic and Artist," Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, 1973.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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221 p, Uses documents in the area to trace the history of the black population in Central America. Identifies four different black cultures, each serving as a control to a stage of historical development of the isthmus. The Maroons of Panama, fugitive slaves of the Spanish colony; Blacks in Nicaragua and Belize, accompanying English pirates in the seventeenth century; Caribbean blacks deported from their native island to Honduras during European settlement in the Lesser Antilles; and Jamaican blacks attracted by job prospects offered by big yards and banana plantations in Panama and Costa Rica at the turn of the century.
