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    1. Mapping Social Distance. Ethnic Residential Segregation in a Multiethnic Metro

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    White,Michael J. (Author), Kim,Ann H. (Author), and Glick,Jennifer E. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov 2005
    Published:
    Sage Publications Ltd.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sociological Methods & Research
    Journal Title Details:
    34(2) : 173-203
    Notes:
    The increasing diversity of immigrant-receiving countries calls for measures of residential segregation that extend beyond the conventional two-group approach. The authors represent simultaneously the relative social distance occupied by a wide array of ethnic groups. The authors find that African/Caribbean groups and blacks were highly clustered and shared common patterns of segregation with other groups.

    2. Who is nature?: Yoruba religion and ecology in Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Concha-Holmes,Amanda D. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Florida: University of Florida
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    327 p., "This research is in response to the general academic need to examine how black histories have been conceived and written. Instead of folklore, I look to the Osainistas (healers and herbalists initiated into the secrets of Osain) in Cuba as possible partners in a conversation in collaborative conservation. My study of Lucumí (Yorùbá-derived) religion and Osain (deity of the sacred forests, herbs and healings) reveals an embodied understanding of nature through which the boundaries of subject as well as material and spiritual become collapsed and traversed through specialized communication techniques. Ways of knowing through invocations, praise poetry, music and dance are essential to nearly all Yorùbá ritual in which spiritual forces are actualized-evoking and thus invoking spirit into physical form. Yorùbá employ these embodied techniques to transcend boundaries and open communication among spirit, material, temporal and spatial worlds, particularly to understand and work with natural resources. This embodied knowledge is, as Yvonne Daniel argues in her book Dancing Wisdom , "rich and viable and should be referenced among other kinds of knowledge" (2005:4). This intermittently conducted 2003-06 ethnographic study, relies on what I am calling evocative ethnography, which is organized around ethnography using visual and cognitive techniques along with archival research to explore how Lucumí conceptualize nature and how I can translate these embodied perceptions." --The Author.