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2. Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Literature, and Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Genova,Thomas (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- California: University of California, Santa Cruz
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- Examines in the transnational conversation on the place of Afro-descendants in the republican nation-state that occurred in New-World historical literature during the 19th century. Tracing the evolution of republican thought in the Americas from the classical liberalism of the independence period to the more democratic forms of government that took hold in the late 1800s, the pages that follow will chart the circulation of ideas regarding race and republican citizenship in the Atlantic World during the long nineteenth century, the changes that those ideas undergo as they circulate, and the racialized tensions that surface as they move between and among Europe and various locations throughout the Americas. Focusing on a diverse group of writers--including the anonymous Cuban author of Jicoténcal; the North Americans Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mary Mann; the Argentines Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Eduarda Mansilla de García; the Dominican Manuel de Jesús Galván; the Haitian Émile Nau; and the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha.
3. Poverty during crisis time -- A Look Back and an Outlook
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Crocoll,Sophie (Author) and Steiner,Susan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- German
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Hamburg, Germany: Institut fur Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Leibniz-Institut fur Globale und Regionale Studien
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- GIGA Focus Lateinamerika
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : 1-8
- Notes:
- Analyzes the growing problem of poverty and international efforts during various financial crises in Latin America and the Caribbean regions. The authors focus primarily on Honduras, Mexico and Argentina, examining each nations separate crises over two decades through data collected by the United Nations (UNDP) and Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
4. Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rahier,Jean Muteba (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey,
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- xxvi, 264 : ill., map ; 24 cm, Festive rituals, religious associations, and ethnic reaffirmation of Black Andalusians / Isidoro Moreno -- Presence of Blackness and representation of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian celebrations of the Semana Santa (Eduador).