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2. Arrival Cohort, Assimilation, and the Earnings of Caribbean Women in the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton,Tod (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-12
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Review of Black Political Economy
- Journal Title Details:
- 39(4) : 445-460
- Notes:
- Using data on U.S.-born and Caribbean-born black women from the 1980-2000 U.S. Censuses and the 2000-2007 waves of the American Community Survey, documents the impact of cohort of arrival, tenure of U.S. residence, and country/region of birth on the earnings and earnings assimilation of black women born in the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
3. Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dubinsky,Karen (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, Inc.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 204 p., International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, the author considers the political symbolism of children in an examination of adoption and migration controversies in North America, Cuba, and Guatemala. The book tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose 'disappearance' today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from extensive research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, the author aims to move adoption debates beyond the current dichotomy of 'imperialist kidnap' versus 'humanitarian rescue.'.
4. Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Long,Carolyn Morrow (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 314 p
5. 'Strangers in a New Land': Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban Religious Tradition in the Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nodal,Roberto (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 247 p
6. Ile a Vache Colonization Venture, 1862-1864
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boyd,Willis D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1959
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Americas
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(1) : 45-62
7. Old, Black, and Poor: Reports from Five Countries
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chappell,Neena (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- December, 1995
- Published:
- Washington, DC: International Federation on Ageing
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ageing International
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(4) : 15-40
- Notes:
- Provides international comparisons of black seniors in South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Bermuda, and the United States, focusing on policy and program issues
8. <Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History>. (Book review)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hathaway,Heather (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring, 2003
- Published:
- Terre Haute, IN: Dept. of English, Indiana State University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- African American Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(1) : 155-157
9. "If You Don't Move Your Feet Then I Don't Eat": Hip Hop and the Demand for Black Labor
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Birkhold,Matthew (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2011
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(2) : 303-321
- Notes:
- Argues that the emergence of hip hop in the South Bronx can be explained by the way in which several social-political factors dictated by the needs of the world economy converged with the resistance and labor of black people in the United States and the Anglo-Caribbean in the late 1960s and early 1970
10. Immigration and the health of U.S. black adults: Does country of origin matter?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hamilton,Tod G. (Author) and Hummer,Robert A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social science & medicine
- Journal Title Details:
- 73(10) : 1551-1560
- Notes:
- Uses data on both region and country of birth for black immigrants in the United States and methodology that allows for the identification of arrival cohorts to test whether there are sending country differences in the health of black adults in the United States. Results show that African immigrants maintain their health advantage over U.S.-born black adults after more than 20 years in the United States. In contrast, black immigrants from the Caribbean who have been in the United States for more than 20 years appear to experience some downward health assimilation.
11. "Two places can make children:" Ema Brodber's Louisiana
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Page,Kezia Ann (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- April, 2005
- Published:
- Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of West Indian Literature
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(1/2) : 57-80
- Notes:
- In her book Louisiana, Erma Brodber reflects on the alliances that should exist between the African American and Afro Caribbean peoples, symbolically repairing the fissures that exist between the two, while addressing an uncommon subject in Caribbean migrant literature. Brodber's literary themes toward the unification of the relationships shared amongst the black diaspora articulate the legal tensions and national differences that can impede these alliances. Although Brodber's novel approaches this by creating a reconnection of the African diaspora in a borderless and nationless transmigration, and sometimes through a spaceless spirit world, Page argues that in reality this reunification is affected by the rules of the state that simply cannot be ignored.;
12. Social identity in the modern United States Virgin Islands
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Roopnarine,Lomarsh (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2010
- Published:
- Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Identities
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(6) : 791-807
- Notes:
- The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) is a complex society with multiple diverse ethnic groups: Black Virgin Islanders, Eastern Caribbean islanders, Puerto Ricans, Spanish Dominicans, French Islanders, Americans (Continentals), Arabs and Asians. These ethnic differences as well as United States cultural imperialism have stymied any uniform Virgin Islands identity. Nonetheless, social identity in the USVI can be conceptualized into the bi-level structural analysis of national and trans-Caribbean.
13. America's First Slave Revolt: Indians and African Slaves in Espanola, 1500-1534
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Stone,Erin Woodruff (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2013
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnohistory
- Journal Title Details:
- 60(2) : 195-217
- Notes:
- On Christmas Day 1521, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, the first recorded slave revolt in the Americas occurred. A group of African, likely Wolof, slaves came together with native Indians led by the Taino cacique Enriquillo to assert their independence. Beyond being the first slave revolt in the Americas, it was also one of the most important moments in Colonial American history because it was the first known instance when Africans and Indians united against their Spanish overlords in the Americas.
14. Helping Haitians to work
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 24-Mar 30, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 30 : 2A
- Notes:
- The head of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Alejandro Mayorkas, says his agency can't eliminate its fees, but it has the power to waive them for people who can prove they are poor. He has promised that his employees will treat applicants with a "generosity of spirit." This would be a refreshing change for an agency notorious for bureaucrats expert in finding a way to say no.
15. Haitian professionals assist with TPS application
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 3-Mar 9, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 27 : 5D
- Notes:
- While helping applicants take their place on the line, Richard Champagne, current President of the Haitian Lawyers Association (HLA)stated, "This is an opportunity for the HLA and participating attorneys to give back to our community. Haitian immigrants have been suffering for a long time, and after the Obama administration granted TPS, it was our duty to assist. It has been a great opportunity to partner with the city of North Miami, given the concentration of Haitian nationals in the city.
16. Boston theatre to host debut of Haitian-themed show
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2007
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 : 10
- Notes:
- In creating Scourge, a full-length work of hip hop theater, Joseph digs into his ancestral roots to tell the story of Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere with a long and violent history. The piece's main characters are two Haitian-American kids who are torn between their Caribbean roots and urban America where they have grown up.
17. Remembering two journalists, two nations, but one vision
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-05-10
- Published:
- Memphis, TN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Tri - State Defender
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 : 4A
- Notes:
- Bennie G. Rodgers left us recently. Bennie G. Rodgers, 86, longtime executive editor and columnist for the St. Louis American, one of the leading black community newspapers in America. Jean Leopold Dominique (1930-2000) was violently snatched from our lives. Jean Léopold Dominique was a Haitian journalist who spoke out against successive dictatorships. He was one of the first people in Haiti to broadcast in Haitian Creole, the language spoken by most of the populace.
18. Wyclef Jean readies 3rd Haitian Benefit Concert
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-04-24
- Published:
- Highland Park, MI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Michigan Citizen
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 : B1
- Notes:
- This year's Miami concert is a continuation of this ongoing goodwill project, bringing together a host of internationally renowned celebrities, reggae, R&B, and hip-hop artists in an all-day Carnival event with food, arts, crafts, and a vast array of entertainment. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Wyclef Jean Foundation and be donated to charitable organizations. Proceeds from last year's Miami Carnival were given to VHI's "Save The Music" and Oeuvres de Petites Ecoles de P. Bohnen (through Fondation Artistes Creation, a not-for- profit Haitian organization). "Guantanamera," a single from "Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival," featuring Celia Cruz and Jeni Fujita, was nominated for the Best Rap Performance By A Duo or Group. The following year, Wyclef Jean's single, "Gone Till November," was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rap Solo Performance category.
19. Haiti's role in abolition movement all but forgotten
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Concannon,Brian (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Aug 2007
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 6
- Notes:
- Denying Haiti credit where credit is due is an established tradition. In 1893, at the end of the century that started with Haitian Independence and the Slave Trade Act, the orator, statesman and emancipated slave Frederick Douglass told an audience at the Chicago World's Fair how Haiti "taught the world the danger of slavery and the value of liberty." He pointed out that: The world had a chance to recognize Haiti three years ago, during the celebration of Haiti's bicentennial. But once again, Haiti was penalized. On the big day, January 1, 2004, Thabo Mbeki, President of the most powerful African nation, South Africa, came to celebrate. But the former slaveholding nations, led by the United States, boycotted the events, and forced the less powerful countries of Africa and the Caribbean to stay away. Instead of sending congratulations to the Haitian people's elected representatives, the United States sent guns and money to those trying to overthrow the government. When the international spotlight came to Haiti in 2004, it was to witness the return to dictatorship rather than to celebrate freedom from slavery.
20. Decolonizing transnational subaltern women: The case of Kurasolenas and New York Dominicanas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cornet,Florencia V. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- South Carolina: University of South Carolina
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 351 p., Explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra Römer's Het Geheim van Gracia [The Secret of Gracia] (2008). The Curaçaoan painters are: Jean Girigori (1948), Minerva Lauffer (1957) and Viviana (1972). The New York novels and performance text are: Black Artemis' Picture Me Rollin' (2005), Angie Cruz's Soledad (2003) and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Josefina Báez's Dominicanish (2000). The ways the women characters, figures, images and voices align to subvert gendered delineations as well as the stifling cultural and colonial imprints on their bodies and their selves in Curaçao and New York are central to the decolonizing project explored here.
21. 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.
22. (Re) framing the nation the Afro-Cuban challenge to Black and Latino struggles for American identity
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gosin,Monika (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- La Jolla: University of California, San Diego
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 311 p., Focuses on conflict and convergence among African Americans, Cuban exiles, and Afro-Cubans in the United States. Argues that the racializing discourses found in the Miami Times, which painted Cuban immigrants as an economic threat, and discourses in the Herald, which affirmed the presumed inferiority of blackness and superiority of whiteness, reproduce the centrality of ideologies of exclusivity and white supremacy in the construction of the U.S. nation.
23. Baila! : a bibliographic guide to Afro-Latin dance musics from mambo to salsa
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gray,John (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Nyack, NY: African Diaspora Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 661 p., Focuses on the diffusion of Cuban popular musical styles throughout the Americas as well as the creation of new hybrids in places such as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Latin New York. Students, scholars and librarians will find Baila! to be an essential resource on Afro-Latin music and dance, language, literature, aesthetics, and more.
24. "I've been black in two countries": Black Cuban views on race in the US
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hay,Michelle A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- El Paso: LFB Scholarly Pub
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 247 p., Describes how black Cubans experience racism on two levels. Cuban racism might result in less access for black Cubans to their group's resources, including protection within Cuban enclaves from society-wide discrimination. In society at large, black Cubans are below white Cubans on every socioeconomic indicator. Rejected by their white co-ethnics, black Cubans are welcomed by other groups of African descent. Many hold similar political views as African Americans. Identifying with African Americans neither negatively affects social mobility nor leads to a rejection of mainstream values and norms.
25. Douglass's keen observations on Haiti's many firsts, failings
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ibokette,Yolette (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Aug 2007
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 7
- Notes:
- In this issue, we'll see why [Frederick Douglass] believed Haiti not only worried but scared slave-holding Americans. We'll also discuss why he believed Haiti is a country of "firsts" and his answers to critics that the country is doomed due to its roots in voodo. His actual words will be in italics. While slavery existed amongst us, Haiti's example was a sharp thorn in our side and a source of alarm and terror.
26. An invincible summer: female diasporan authors
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Jackson,Tommie (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
27. Black History: Its Meaning, Message and Forward Motion
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- karenga,Maulana, Dr (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-02-13
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 7 : A6-A.6
- Notes:
- To honor our sacred heritage, to bear the burden and glory of our history, we must self-consciously resume our vanguard role in the midst of the liberation struggles of the world.
28. Controversial AIDS report prompts local debate, action
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Louis,Martine (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2007
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 : 7
- Notes:
- "I knew in some quarters that linking the virus to Haiti would potentially raise some concerns, but for the better part often years I have been tracking the virus from Central Africa to elsewhere-which is the roadmap for useful vaccines and other control methods," [Michael Worobey] said. "Whether it be Haitian men and women or homosexual men and women there is no sense in blaming a group of people for a virus we did not know existed. Instead we as a community should be extra sympathetic to those who are infected with the virus."
29. Engendering inequality: Masculinity and racial exclusion in Cuba, 1895--1902
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lucero,Bonnie A. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- North Carolina: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 500 p., Explains the rise of a culture of racial silence in a time of heightening racial exclusion in Cuba at the turn of the twentieth century. Employing a case study of Cienfuegos, a port city on the south-central coast of the island, the author examines gendered articulations of inequality among Cuban separatists between the outbreak of the war of independence in 1895 and the inauguration of the Cuban republic in 1902. It is argued that Cuban struggles for political power in the wake of the American military intervention (1898) and military occupation (1899-1902) fundamentally transformed separatist visions of citizenship, increasingly restricting its boundaries along racial lines.
30. Haiti represented at the 32nd convention of Black Mayors in Memphis, Tennessee
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Magloire,Paul (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Language:
- French
- Publication Date:
- May 3-May 10, 2006
- Published:
- Brooklyn, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Haiti Observateur
- Journal Title Details:
- 18 : 7
- Notes:
- At the 32nd convention of Black Mayors, which was held in Memphis, Tennessee, from April 26 to 30, 2006, Minister of Interior and Territorial Collectivities Paul Magloire led the Haitian delegation. In the name of the interim government of Haiti, here is the speech he pronounced April 28, on the third day.
31. Haiti, Cherie: Celebrating the Haiti Few Acknowledge
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Poisson,Lola (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 28-Mar 6, 2013
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 20 : 22-22,27
- Notes:
- Acc-, After the earthquake, I knew that not much would change in Haiti precisely because of the people's resilience. It was almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy. I knew that people would soon be going about their business as if nothing had happened. That's what scared me most for the future of Haiti. Soon after they could circulate through the rubbles in Haiti, Haitians were walking down the streets to their neighbors, some street merchants, were trying to sell the little bit they had from their businesses, children were still trying to wipe-clean cars for a few half pennies, "tap-taps" were fishing for people, etc. And that was life as they know it. That's life as those who can afford better think the people deserve and that's why not much is being done to make things closer to equality in Haiti.
32. Carlos Cooks and Garveyism: Bridging Two Eras of Black Nationalism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rivera,Pedro R. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- District of Columbia: Howard University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 230 p., Carlos A. Cooks (1913-1966) was a pan-African leader, street speaker and is remembered as perhaps the most militant advocate of the racial-pride philosophies and self-help programs of Marcus Garvey (1887-1940). Cooks was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in a household where his father was a Garveyite. Cooks arrived in New York City in 1929, joined the ranks of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and later formed his own organization, the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement (ANPM), after Garvey died in 1940. For the following two decades, Cooks struggled to materialize the original objectives of the UNIA, exhibiting the commitment that earned him distinction among Harlem personalities. By the 1960s, Cooks had kept the legacy of Garvey going, worked with leaders fighting for freedom in Africa and the diaspora, and organized cultural and economic activities that became part of the Black Power Movement. T
33. A Dark Spectre: The Haitian Revolution and American Politics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Silverman,Aaron Jay (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- California: University of California, Los Angeles
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 637 p., Utilizes perceptions and attitudes towards the Haitian Revolution as a means to resituate party conflict and the boundaries of American nationalism in the Early Republic. The concept of nationalism is utilized in both the shaping of political culture and in the institutional formation of the state. As a result, the Haitian Revolution generated contradictory factional responses between the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans to the emergence of revolutionary abolitionism in the Atlantic. On a more popular level, the ordeal of Haiti engendered a fear of black militant abolitionism that hardened American attitudes towards the possibility of further slave emancipation in the United States.
34. Jean Jacques Dessalines
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 19-Jul 26, 2012
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 29 : A10-A.10
- Notes:
- Dessalines became a lieutenant in Papillon's army and followed him to Santo Domingo, where at first he enlisted to serve Spain's military forces against the French then he joined the "real" slave rebellion that was inspired by Dutty Boukman, a voodoo priest, and led by Toussaint.
35. Independence
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 14-Jul 20, 2011
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 : A9-A.9
- Notes:
- After independence, many of the newly formed nations struggle to maintain their hard fought freedom, though there were many lingering colonial attachments; hostilities; and the difficulties that came with growing pains. Around 1789, the French Revolution was raging in France; two years later, a rebellion swept the northern part of the island like a massive tidal wave.
36. Henri Christophe
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 18-Feb 24, 2010
- Published:
- Los Angeles, Calif., United States, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 7 : A12-A.12
- Notes:
- According to historical records and stories passed down by the griots in Haiti, Christophe was born around October 6, 1767 in Grenada and brought to Haiti (then Saint Domingue) as a slave.
37. Jean Jacques Dessalines
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 11-Feb 17, 2010
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : A12-A.12
- Notes:
- Dessalines became a lieutenant in Papillon's army and followed him to Santo Domingo, where at first he enlisted to serve Spain's military forces against the French then he joined the "real" slave rebellion that was inspired by Dutty Boukman, a voodoo priest, and led by Toussaint.
38. Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 4-Feb 10, 2010
- Published:
- Los Angeles, Calif., United States, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : A12-A.12
- Notes:
- According to colonial records, he was granted his freedom, given 13 slaves and 15 acres of land and allowed to grow coffee and sugar cane, as a surrogate plantation owner. When this declaration of the rights of all men was denied to the slave population, they revolted and in 1791, the rebellion swept the northern part of the island like a massive tidal wave.
39. Our national identity in limbo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sylvain,Patrick (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 : 7
- Notes:
- While at its inception, the revolutionary ideals of the newly formed nation called Haiti held great promise, the reality as understood today detracts from this plesant image . Still , our rituals and their symbolic associations mirror these revolutionary ideals. For example, soup joummou, the New Year's and Independence Day celebratory pumpkin soup, signifies the communion of equals through the consumption of the once forbidden delicacy reserved for the colonial masters. Today, as family and friends gather around the dinner table, we are clearly proud of our freedom and accomplishments, yet know that there are countless Haitians who are hungry, sleeping under tents. Two hundred and eight years after independence, many Haitians live in abject poverty and have no rights as humans.
40. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE: Leader of the Haitian Revolution
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Taylor,Erica (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-02-05
- Published:
- Indianapolis, IN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Recorder
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : T11
- Notes:
- He was born a slave. He was called a genius of the rebellion. He was an 18th century rebel named Toussaint Breda, also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture, and he led the Haitian Revolution to abolish slavery. By the way, translated, L'Ouverture means "the opening."
41. Haiti: One Year After Aristide Coup
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Winston,Bonnie V. (Author) and Blayton,Oscar H. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 10-Mar 16, 2005
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 20 : 1-1,31
- Notes:
- "The U.S. government would prefer to tell Haiti what to do and when and how to do it," said Eugenia Charles, the Haitian-born director of Fondasyon Mapou, a Washingtonbased group that seeks to improve the quality of life for Haitians. The group sponsors weekly demonstrations in front of the Haitian Embassy demanding that political prisoners be freed and democracy be restored in Haiti. Thomas Griffin, a Philadelphia attorney and human rights advocate who traveled to Haiti last year, presented details of his findings to members of the Congressional Black Caucus on March 2. His report, released by the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Miami School of Law, found that "Haiti's security and justice institutions fuel the cycle of violence. Summary executions are a police tactic, and even wellmeaning officers treat poor neighborhoods seeking a democratic voice as enemy territory where they must kill or be killed." [Barbara Lee]'s Haiti TRUTH (The Responsibility to Uncover the Tuth about Haiti) Act would form a TRUTH commission to investigate United States involvement in [JeanBertrand Aristide]'s removal.
42. Spiritual Essence of Our People Missing from Aristide's Rule
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Zoboi,Ibi Aanu (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2004-03-31
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 3 : 11
- Notes:
- Who is it that speaks for our private face? Those of us who take communion at Mass on Sunday morning still intoxicated with the echoes of beating drums from the Vodun ceremony the night before. You know the saying: We are 95% Roman Catholic and 95% percent Vodun. What is it that makes a former Catholic priest more apt to run a country than say, a Vodun priest, a Hougan? To most of us, this would be an atrocity. The country would certainly fall into the wrath of hell if this were to take place. We are trying to move forward not backward, the voices of decency would say. And besides, you would not find a well-educated, well-traveled Vodun priest in the mountains of Ayiti. Ayiti's vision is found in Vodun. Not the religion that it has become, but the very essence of the spirituality. It is the essence of the Ayitian people. After all, these were the conditions under which Ayiti gained its independence. Our country was formed in a ritual - a ritual that called on the guidance and protection of our ancestors who survived the journey from Guinea, as they say in Vodun, and those who were indigenous to the land. The essence of Vodun is to give honor to those whose shoulders we stand on. It is a reverence to the unseen forces that truly determine our fate as a country and it is a time-tested method handed down to us to ensure a successful life.
43. Ex-sprint great honored in U.S
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2014
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 18
- Notes:
- [Dennis Johnson] received TJB's Pioneer Award and Johnson was recognized by the United States government as a Caribbean icon. He was presented with a U.S.
44. Young Americans to face veteran Frater
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 19, 2013-Jan 1, 2014
- Published:
- Jamaica, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Weekly Gleaner
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 18
- Notes:
- TWO-TIME Olympic relay gold medallist, Michael Frater, will be looking to keep Jamaica sprinting atop the podium in the 60 metre dash at the New York Road Runners Millrose Games on February 15, 2014. But the 31-year-old's task won't be easy as three young Americans - US Olympian Isiah Young, and 2013 NCAA champions D'Angelo Cherry, and Ameer Webb - will be in on the chase. 'The Armory is one of my most favourite places to race," said Cherry, who won 60m titles at the US and NCAA Championships last winter. "I'm in good shape and looking forward to running a great race at the Millrose Games."
45. No U.S. Diversity Visas for Jamaicans, Haitians
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2013
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 : 2
- Notes:
- The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States over the period of the past five years, as in the case of Jamaica and Haiti.
46. Congressional Black Caucus urged to visit Afro-Cuban political prisoners and democracy activists
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 13-Apr 19, 2009
- Published:
- New Orleans, LA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Louisiana Weekly
- Journal Title Details:
- 30 : 15
47. U.S. reviewing deportation policy on Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2009
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 6
- Notes:
- The State Department revealed that an estimated 30,000 undocumented Haitians face deportation to their homeland. [Hillary Clinton], however, said the U.S. will look closely at the issue "and try to come up with some appropriate responses to the challenges posed." A large number of legislators and immigration advocates have been calling on the Obama administration to grant TPS to Haitians as the U.S. has done for other countries, such as Honduras and Nicaragua. Last month, two prominent U.S. Democratic senators - Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote U.S. President Barack Obama, expressing deep concern about the status of Haitians here.
48. President Préval calls for U.S. to end deportations to Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2008
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 : 2
- Notes:
- Two Florida Democratic congressmen have been pushing the [George W. Bush] administration to permanently cease deportation of Haitians because of the hardship being experienced in the impoverished country. Kendrick Meek and Alcee L. Hastings, strong Haitian cates, have assailed the istration's policy on Haiti, ing that Haitians have, for long, been victimized by Washington's "double standard" immigration policies. Meek, who represents Miami, said Haiti "over-qualifies" for TPS, bestowed when the U.S. government determines eligible nationals are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing conflicts, environmental disasters or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions."
49. U.S. halts deportations to storm-ravaged Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2008
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 : 3
- Notes:
- "That's terrific news," she added. "We're hopeful that Haitians wont be sent back until the country has had a chance to recover." [Kendrick Meek], who represents Miami, said Haiti "over-qualifies" for TPS, bestowed when the U.S. government determines eligible nationals are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing conflicts, environmental disasters or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions. [Alcee L. Hastings], who represents the city of Miramar, north of Miami, said, in his letter to [George W. Bush], that Haiti can "hardly sustain the lives of those currently living within its borders. "How can we also expect it to contend with the repatriation of the very people who left Haiti in desperation and who, through remittances, can aid in the nation's recovery efforts?" he asked.
50. Black August Celebration In Berkeley Saturday
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003-08-27
- Published:
- Oakland, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Oakland Post
- Journal Title Details:
- 23 : 5
- Notes:
- The first Africans came to America in August, so obviously, it's our entire history - in so far as the celebration or acknowledgement was. It has to do with [Jonathan Jackson], George Jackson and prisons. I believe in a time when the United States has more people in prison than any other industrialized nation, the prediction that if the current rate of incarceration stays the way it is now, one in three men will be incarcerated or on parole in 2020, which is not very far. I think it is contingent on us to look at that - the re-enslavement of African Americans continuing. I think this benefit for Haiti is important, because of what Haiti represents - a nearby island that had a successful slave rebellion, it has always suffered from intrusions from America from as far back as the 1800s, so I think joining together the national and international struggles is important. It is important for African Americans to look at themselves locally, nationally and internationally - to see ourselves in the world. Black August 2003 offers an opportunity to do that.
51. End racist policy toward Haitian immigrants
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-04-30
- Published:
- Chicago, IL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Chicago Defender
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 9
- Notes:
- -, An editorial asserts that the Chicago Defender joins the Congressional Black Caucus, the Miami Branch of the NAACP and Rep Carrie Meek in denouncing a Bush administration directive requiring INS officials to arbitrarily detain Haitian refugees seeking asylum in the US.
52. Haitian sacred artifacts on display at MAAH
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1997-10-08
- Published:
- Detroit, MI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Michigan Chronicle
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 : 1-A-A
- Notes:
- "IBM is honored to sponsor this spectacular exhibition that tells the story of a nation's history while giving all of us a broader view of Haiti's cultural heritage," said Gregg A. DeMar, general manager, Great Lakes Area, IBM Corporation. "Through the study of diverse cultures we often learn more about ourselves, our beliefs and values, as well as gain insight into those whose heritage is represented in an exhibition such as `Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou.'" The predominant religion of the Haitian people, Vodou was created by enslaved Africans who transformed their beliefs and rituals according to the conditions they had to face in the New World. These African traditions encountered European traditions -- the art and ritual practices of Roman Catholicism -- to emerge in an original form, Vodou. The word "Vodou," meaning "sacred," was borrowed into Haitian Creole from the Fon language of West Africa. Parallel African-derived religions now flourish in the Caribbean, South America and major cities of the United States and Canada.
53. African American folktales: stories from Black traditions in the New World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Abrahams,Roger D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- New York: Pantheon Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Originally published: Afro-American folktales. c1985., 327 p, These tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early nineteenth century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.
54. Afro-American folktales: stories from Black traditions in the New World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Abrahams,Roger D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- New York: Pantheon Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 327 p., These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early 19th century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean.
55. Let's fix Haiti once and for all
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alford,Harry C. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 17-Jun 23, 2010
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 24 : 6
- Notes:
- Yes, we owe Haiti. Unfortunately, we have shown little appreciation. My generation has witnessed Haiti in a multi-decades long downward spiral. There have been the dirty Papa Doc regime; the dirty Baby Doc regime; the dirty Aristide regime and dirty everyone else who supposedly had the trust of the people. The United States has sent troops there on various occasions but it was not to strengthened or liberate the people. Preference should be given to Haitian owned businesses in this rebuilding. Partnerships with Haitian and African Americans should be allowed. The money generated from these contracts should stay in Haiti and be taxed by the Haitian government. All, I mean ALL jobs, should be offered first to Haitians with the first right of refusal. It is noble for the world to come to the aid of Haiti but there must be a strategy that will empower the people of Haiti during and afterwards. For the first time in history, we have a chance to make Haiti independent, self sustaining and free.
56. Pimping the Black Diaspora, Next Target: Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alford,Harry C. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 26-Nov 1, 2006
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 : 24-24,53
- Notes:
- The best pieces of good legislation can be hijacked and used against the very people it is supposed to be benefiting. As a result, you may buy clothes that say "Made in Kenya" or "Made in Nigeria," but the reality is that the cotton was grown and processed in China. The textile industry in nations such as Nigeria and the cotton farmers from Kenya and other nations have been devastated. The United has, in effect, laid the environment to bring economic devastation to villages and towns throughout Africa. Why Haiti? It's simple. They can cram China cotton into Haiti and block any textile business in the CAFTA nations. Keep in mind that millions of people of African descent live and work in CAFTA nations. More than any place else, the Dominican Republic is 60 percent Black. It is quickly developing textiles under CAFTA via business with the United States. It also employs many Haitians who border the nation.
57. Discursos poscoloniales y renegociaciones de las identidades negras: Africas, Americas, Caribes, Europa = Post-colonial discourses and renegotiations of black identities: Africas, Americas, Caribbeans, Europe = Discours post-coloniaux et renegociations des identités noires : Afriques, Amériques, Caraïbes, Europe
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Animan Akassi,Clément (Editor) and Lavou,Victorien (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Spanish, English, and French
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 358 p., Contents include "The africans and afrodescendants who constructed Veracruz and the jarocho ethos 1521-1778" by Marco Polo Hernàndez-Cuevas; (Re)presentacién afro-panameria en pensamientos del negro cubena: pensamiento afro-panameûo de Carlos Guillermo 'Cubena' Wilson" by Laverne M. Seales-Saley; "Mâs allâ del 'folklore': bunde y bullerengue, ritmos africanos de liberacién en Panamà" by Xiomara Aldeano-Bolton; "Repensando los movimientos sociales afrodescendientes en las Américas y el espacio Caribe" by Jesiis "Chucho" Garcia; "Negrismo and négritude: reflection on two poetics of Caribbean cultural identity" by Mamadou Badiane; "Politicas culturales, la formacién de la identidad hispano-africana y el hombre y la costumbre" by Elisa Rizo; "Movimientos culturales y politicos Afroperuanos entre los arios 1980-2000" by Alexis Rossemond;
58. Despite Haiti's Problems, Bicentennial of Slave Victory Celebrated Worldwide
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Auguste,Wilner (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2004
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 : 2
- Notes:
- Throughout the year, UNESCO had organized many commemorative events in close cooperation with its member states" and governmental and non-governmental organizations, such as the launching of the research and information program "the Forgotten Slaves," an exhibit at the UNESCO's headquarters in Stockholm Sweden entitled "Lest We Forget: Triumph on Slavery," the Ceremony of the Award of Toussaint Louverture Prize, the International Conference on the theme "Issues of Memory: Coming to terms with the Slave Trade and Slavery," and the International Symposium on the Slave Trade Archives Project in Havana, Cuba, and so on. The worldwide, yearlong commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Haitian Slave Revolution Victory was very important for Haitians and Blacks all over the world. The 1791 revolution, which took place during the 18th Century, beside the American Revolution of 1774 and the French Revolution of 1789, was excluded for years from the pages of world history textbooks, despite its contribution to the abolition of slavery in the world.
59. Haitian history not many of us know (Part II)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Calloway,Al (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 19-Feb 25, 2010
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 4A
- Notes:
- First, the two armies all but destroyed the French plantocracy on the island then they defeated a Spanish force and huge English and French armies. In Adam Hochchild's book Bury the Chains, we learn that then-U. S. President George Washington and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, both slave owners, sent "a thousand muskets, other military supplies, and eventually some $400,000" of U. S. aid to quell the revolt now known as "the Haitian Revolution." Randall Robinson reveals more in his book, An Unbroken Agony: "Some . . . had been brought to Haiti [St. Domingue] from other Caribbean slave colonies men like the storied Boukman from Jamaica and the legendary Makandal from Trinidad, and the great general, Henri Christophe, who was born in Grenada." Blacks who escaped plantations in the United States also joined L'Ouverture's armies. Robinson reports that L'Ouverture had been the intellectual, "the African humanist, the military strategist, the administrator and, not insignificantly, the conciliator." Robinson also writes that [Jean-Jacques Dessalines] "had been, first and last, the hard-nosed soldier who believed that an enemy as manifestly unsalvageable as the French had to be, wherever possible, obliterated."
60. Haitians watch televised presidential debate
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Charite,Sandra J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 22-Sep 28, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 : 11A
- Notes:
- "I could not believe it," she said. "All I could think about was my mother and two sisters who were in Haiti." Hosted by Koze Ayiti (Conversations in Haiti) and Konbit for Haiti, Pierre and several Haitians gathered in Little Haiti on Saturday to watch the televised Haitian presidential debate at the Konbit for Haiti. The debate was streamed from a restaurant in Petionville, Haiti but was interrupted by multiple power blackouts. Haiti's first-ever publicly broadcast presidential debates were organized in Haiti by KozeAyiti collaborators: Interuniversity Institute of Research and Development (INURED), which is led by Louis Herns Marcelin, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Miami and Haiti Aid Watchdog.
61. TPS deadline quickly approaching
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Charite,Sandra J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 16-Jun 22, 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 4A
- Notes:
- A country may qualify for TPS due to the following conditions: ongoing armed conflict (such as civil war), an environmental disaster (such as earthquake or hurricane) or other extraordinary and temporary conditions. In light of the massive earthquake that took place in Haiti on Jan. 12 when thousands were presumed and then confirmed dead, Haiti became a candidate for TPS. "A lot of people don't have the money for the application and so that remains the primary obstacle for them," [Gepsie M. Metellus] said. "Although there is a fee waiver [for which some are eligible], it is a 'process' and it is frustrating."
62. Another World Is Possible
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Concannon,Brian (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-02-28
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 : 8
- Notes:
- The last week of January 2005, the Fifth Annual World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, bringing together 150,000 grassroots leaders, intellectuals and activists to discuss how the world can be made more free and more just. The conference's theme was "Another World Is Possible," and the speakers and participants showed that another, more fair treatment of Haiti is possible. The conference's keynote speaker, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, discussed the debt that the world owes Haiti in a press conference. He acknowledged that Haiti's Constitutional President had been kidnapped, and declared that he and other Latin American Presidents understood that there could be no solution to Haiti's crisis without President Aristide. At a workshop in Porto Alegre, called "Haiti, the International Community's Dictatorship," speakers from Haiti, the U.S. and the Caribbean led a discussion of the human rights crisis in Haiti, and explored ways that people from outside Haiti could promote the country's sovereignty and the return of its democracy.
63. Another Angle: Human Football - The Cuban/American Battle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Culvert,Edward R. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-12-15
- Published:
- Jamaica, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New Voice of New York, Inc.
- Journal Title Details:
- 37 : 11
- Notes:
- The news media showed pictures of the immediate family and family friends. What I found amazing is that it appears that only light-skinned Cubans are trying to escape from their homeland. I saw the Cuban basketball team in the late Olympics. I have also seen pictures of Cubans in a television special one by Harry Belafonte. What I saw were dark-skinned Cubans having the time of their lives. It made me wonder, in light of what I have been told by African people living in Florida, that the light-skinned Cubans are more racist that some southerners. What is really going on in Cuba, and what is this Elian Gonzales issue about? The more I got into thinking this way, the more questions were raised. Why are most of the people trying to escape from Cuba light-skinned? Why are the majority of the athletics in the Olympics dark-skinned? The women's basketball team and the volleyballs teams were the bomb. They were some big, pretty sisters. I also thought of the Haitians. Why are Haitians sent back to Haiti and Cubans allowed to stay in America? They are both supposedly oppressed people. The Haitians are dark and the Cubans, who are trying to escape, light. Is there something more than meets the eye?
64. Remembering Haiti -- The Struggle Continues
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Deal,Esther (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 11-Mar 17, 2004
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 50 : C1-C.1
- Notes:
- Briefly, Haiti and the Dominican Republic occupy the same island in the West Indies, Haiti occupying the western part and the Dominican Republic the eastern part. ... after my year in the Dominican Republic I decided to go to Haiti as a tourist before returning to the U.S. I remember reporting to the embassy in Port-au-Prince to be briefed and to let them know where I was staying and where I would be going. I remember that the Caucasian male embassy employee who interviewed me was both curious and very amused that I was in Haiti to visit. I remember that he told me emphatically, "the only thing you have in common with these people is color." He proceeded to rattle off negative things about the Haitian people. I was shocked at his boldness but I kept my cool. An example of this is the fact that President Thomas Jefferson allegedly launched an economic embargo against Haiti when Haiti became independent, causing the U.S. and Europe to refuse to acknowledge its independence for decades. At the present time it is alleged that Haiti is the most depressed nation in the Western Hemisphere.
65. HAU, St. Fleur Host Town Meeting On Crisis
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- DesRosiers,Steve (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2004-03-31
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 3 : 16
- Notes:
- Rep. St. Fleur and the panelists also called for a change in the Bush administration's policy denying safe harbor to Haitians fleeing Haiti for the shores of Florida by boat. In a strong show of support for St. Fleur's resolutions, representatives of presidential hopeful [John Kerry] circulated a statement from the candidate supporting the presence of a multinational police force in Haiti including police from the United States, OAS and CARICOM. The statement also called for U.S. funded training and support for Haiti's police force, the lifting current sanctions on aid to Haitians for health and education programs, and renewed pressure on international financial institutions to assist the Haitian government in confronting these issues. Kerry's statement went on to state, "If we hope to lead the nations of the world toward a more democratic future, we must act now to protect a fragile democracy in our own backyard."
66. The meaning of freedom: economics, politics, and culture after slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Drescher,Seymour (Editor) and McGlynn,Frank (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- "Outcome of an international conference ... held at the University of Pittsburgh ... 25-27 August 1988", 333 p., This study considers the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States and addressing such questions as: what was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? And did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in plantation societies?
67. Students Raise Money for Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Healey,Caitlin (Author) and Harnois,A. Kent (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2004
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 : 4
- Notes:
- Mr. [Kevin Murray] explained that one of the best ways to help the people of Haiti is to buy pigs for them. This is what the money they raised will be used for. The students learned that not too long ago in Haiti all the pigs were lost due to a flu outbreak. He told the students that in Haiti these new pigs would be bred. Some of the animals would be used for food and others would be sold to help them pay for shelter and clothing. He thanked them for their help.
68. J'cans to benefit from new US track league
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lowe,André (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 19, 2013-Jan 1, 2014
- Published:
- Jamaica, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Weekly Gleaner
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 18
- Notes:
- "Certainly within the United States all of the top level athletes are excited about it. I think we will also get a lot of Caribbean athletes involved and hopefully a lot of the top Caribbean athletes as well," [Paul Doyle] added. 'We have five dates so far but we have interest from other cities since we made the announcement. We are adding entertainment aspect with a live band and cheerleaders." Doyle said. "We are hoping that within a couple of years the momentum of the series will build very quickly and it will grow into a viable option. These are very much made-for-tv events."
69. Liberty City 7 defendant faces deportation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McNeir,D. Kevin (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 29, 2010-Jan 4, 2011
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Miami Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 18 : 1A-1A,4A
- Notes:
- "It's a complete tragedy, a complete disregard for human life," said Lemorin's lawyer, Charles Kuck. "Haiti is still an unmitigated disaster.'' In January, the moratorium not in effect will be lifted and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will resume the deportation of Haitian nationals convicted of crimes in the U.S. Lemorin's lawyers says that while his client has no conviction, he is being included with those who do. However, his deportation under the specific circumstances of his case would be highly unusual, according to legal experts. But his ability to remain in the U.S. is not the only issue at hand. He would be forced to leave his wife and their three children who reside in North Miami Beach. His wife, Charlene Mingo Lemorin, 31, is being treated for kidney failure and her medical condition precludes her from moving the family to Haiti. "Without letting us know they'll resume deportation to Haiti, at a time when Haiti is living under its gravest crisis, it's so unfair," said Marliene Bastien, who heads the Haitian Women of Miami. "It's supposed to be a progressive government. We're gravely disappointed."
70. `Unequal justice': Haiti vs. Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Strausberg,Chinta (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-04-24
- Published:
- Chicago, IL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Chicago Defender
- Journal Title Details:
- 252 : 1
- Notes:
- "In our Cold War fight with Castro, (we were) willing to subsidize Cubans to leave to come here and at the same time lock Haitians out. That is not fair, and we deserve a different policy," [Jesse L. Jackson Sr.] said. He said the U.S. pays to bring Cubans here, subsidizes them, but pays to send Haitians back to Haiti. "That's not fair," he stated. "Haiti fought for our freedom." "The Cubans are political refugees looking for political freedom, and they're given money to come, but, the Haitians are economic refugees so they must go back. There are more Haitians who've died... than Cubans," Jackson said calling for an end to the double standard of refugees between Cuba and Haitians seeking to come to America.
71. Frederick Douglass offered keen insights into Haiti's strengths, weaknesses
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Yolette Ibokette (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2007
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : 9
- Notes:
- [Frederick Douglass] lamented the fact that the U.S. continues to shun Haiti although it has enriched American merchants, farmers and the country overall. He acknowledged a common complaint of Americans at the time that Haiti was more friendly to France and other European countries than the U.S. However, he partly blamed the US for not reaching out to Haiti with respect and friendship. He also cited Haiti's many institutional and cultural connections to France - language, literature, laws and government - as reasons for its friendship with France. Still, Douglass asserted that the main reason for the United States' ambiguous attitude towards Haiti was racial. In discussing Haiti's geography, Douglass lavishly praises its climate; lofty mountains; strikingly beautiful valleys, lakes, rivers and plains; blue waters and the exquisite Bay of Portau-Prince and Mole St. Nicolas. Douglass noted that the U.S. wanted the Mole for a naval station in order to dominate the area's commercial market before and after the then anticipated Nicaragua Canal was completed. The U.S. was also considering taking the Mole by force, if necessary. However, Douglass warned them that Haiti would not peacefully give up the harbor and that it would cost too much to take it by force.
72. Caribbean migrants arrested
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2013
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 : 4
- Notes:
- The arrests came as authorities investigated the boat accident involving Haitian, Jamaican and Bahamian migrants. The U.S. Coast Guard said four people were killed and 11 rescued after the boat carrying the Caribbean migrants capsized. The fatal voyage reportedly began in The Bahamas, and ended when U.S. Coast Guard crews rescued the survivors. The criminal complaint said six of the Caribbean migrants interviewed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identified Davis and [George Lewis] as the alleged smugglers.
73. Stand and be counted: U.S. Congress receives historic Caribbean census bill
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2009
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 7
- Notes:
- The Clarke bill calls for all questionnaires "used in the taking of any decennial census of the U.S. population, to include a checkbox or other similar option so that respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or descent". "In conducting the 2010 decennial census and every decennial census thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include, in any questionnaire distributed or otherwise used for the purpose of determining the total population by states, a checkbox or other similar option by which respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or descent", states the bill. [Felicia Persaud] said the Clarke bill gives the Caribbean community renewed impetus to ensure they lobby around this cause and most importantly, fill out and return the 2010 Census form, especially by writing in their country of origin under Question 8. The origin's category is not an ethnic category so this will not divide the black or Asian or any other ethnic group that may perceive this as a 'divide and rule' strategy, Persaud added.
74. U.S. civil rights activist blasts immigration policy towards blacks
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2008
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 : 4
- Notes:
- At the same time, [Jesse Jackson] lamented what he described as the "disparity" in how the U.S. government treats Cuban and Haitian refugees. Jackson said while the U.S. readily welcomes Cuban refugees, it neglects Haitians. "When Haitian children's parents die at sea they are sent back," he said. "We subsidize Cubans to come to the United States, but we ship Haitians out...We should change our policy and measure human rights by one yardstick." "The Cuban immigrants are called political refugees, and they are welcomed in the United States," he said. "The Haitian immigrants are called economic refugees, and they are sent back...There is a distinction without a difference."
75. Is There Racism Against Black Latinos?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-05-03
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : A6
- Notes:
- I am referring to prejudice against those who are both Latino and black, whose ancestors arrived on Spanish or Portuguese Slave ships. Living in Los Angeles, it might be easy to think that most Latinos are brown-skinned and of Mexican descent; after all, the majority of our city's Latino population identify as Mexican. Latin American scholars and historians agree that about 95 percent of the Africans forcibly brought to the Americas were bought to what is now Latin America. They are concentrated in the Caribbean, Colombia and Brazil, where half of the population is of African ancestry. And many dark-skinned Latinos also live in the United States. A black Latina wrote recently in Hispanic Magazine that Latinos see blackness as a liability in this country because the Latino community seems to be perpetuating the long-standing racism in South America. In Peru, blacks are sill being used as ornamental images ... chauffeurs valets and servants and blacks in Brazil are still considered marginal members of society. And it was reported that "Batista's skin was not pink enough to gain membership to some Cuban elite clubs."
76. Lowery Declines Invitation In Protest Of Haitian Policy
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-01-20
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 13 : 12
- Notes:
- -, [Joseph Lowery] indicated that he was decline the government's invitation because "more conventional means of protesting U.S. policy toward Haitians have failed miserably since the U.S. still greets the Haitians with clenched fists rather than open arms." "These people are imprisoned on military bases, politically quarantined and denied rights afforded other refugees," said Lowery, who went on to urge President-elect Bill Clinton to act "swiftly" to right the wrong and send emissaries to Haiti immediately to negotiate the return of the country's first freely-elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, as well as to set the stage for new elections.
77. The slave trade and the making of the modern world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dodson,Howard (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-09-30
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 10-10:1
- Notes:
- Over the last four decades, scholarship on the transatlantic slave trade has experienced something of a renaissance.
78. Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: five slave narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gates,Henry Louis, Jr. (Author) and Andrews,William L. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- Washington, DC: Civitas
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 439 p, Contents: Preface / William L. Andrews -- Introduction : the talking book / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince / as related by himself -- Narrative of the Lord's wonderful dealings with John Marrant, a Black -- Thoughts and sentiments on the evil and wicked traffic of the slavery and commerce of the human species, humbly submitted to the inhabitants of Great Britain / by Ottobah Cugoano -- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / written by himself -- The life, history, and unparalleled sufferings of John Jea, the African preacher / compiled and written by himself
79. Carib-American trade expo exceeded first-time expectations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hinds,Lester (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-08-28
- Published:
- New York, N.Y., United States, New York, N.Y.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 2
- Notes:
- The first annual Caribbean-American Trade and Cultural Expo in Brooklyn NY has been termed a "tremendous success" by organizers.
80. Caribbean nationals face hassle in U.S. after alleged terror plot
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- King,Nelson (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2007
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 2-2,4
- Notes:
- "I cannot emphasize these things enough," he said. "People need to be extra alert and be very careful with what they're taking to and from the airport." "It's a tragedy because we don't have that kind of culture at all," he said. "It is quite unfortunate. "We can have all kinds of religions in the Caribbean, but we must have peace, love and respect for each other and for the outside world." he added. "I am troubled. We don't need that (alleged plot)."
81. Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World Gender & History Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Newman,Brooke N. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Gender & History
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(3) : 585-602
- Notes:
- this article charts the connection between gendered concepts of 'whiteness' in Anglo-Caribbean contexts and in metropolitan discourses surrounding British national identity, as articulated in eighteenth-century colonial legislation and official correspondence, popular texts and personal narratives of everyday life. It explores the extent to which the socio-sexual practices of British West Indian whites imperilled the emerging conflation between whiteness and Britishness.
82. Raceball: how the Major Leagues colonized the Black and Latin game
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ruck,Rob (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Boston: Beacon Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 273 p., By looking at this history from the vantage point of black America and the Caribbean, a more complex story comes into focus, one largely missing from traditional narratives of baseball's history. Raceball unveils a fresh and stunning truth: baseball has never been stronger as a business, never weaker as a game.
83. NAACP: $1.5 bil Cuba deal aids Black farmers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Strausberg,Chinta (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-11-18
- Published:
- Chicago, IL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Chicago Defender
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 3
- Notes:
- A trade accord spearheaded by the NAACP worth $1.5 billion between the Cuban government and black farmers was heralded on Nov 17, 2002 by the Rev Al Sampson, who called the accord an "international window of opportunity" for African Americans. Sampson, who works with African American farmers, said this agreement gives black farmers an "international window" through Cuba into the Caribbean.
84. Alcohol use, abuse, and treatment in people of African descent
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sutherland,Marcia E. (Author) and Ericson,Rayna (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Black Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41(1) : 71-88
- Notes:
- 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.
85. From The Desk Of Lil: A Double Standard For Haitians
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wiggins,Lillian (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-07-21
- Published:
- Washington, DC
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Washington Informer
- Journal Title Details:
- 38 : 12
- Notes:
- Why are Cubans and Chinese more at risk in their respective countries than Haitians from Haiti? When, last have you read about a revolution in Cuba where so many people lost their lives on a daily basis? This goes ditto for China. Apart from the conflict which took place in Tiamminen Square, a couple of years ago, there's been no other outward display of political persecution. In Cuba, there's always been a movement on from those in exile to recapture Cuba from Castro. For this reason anyone coming from Cuba has been welcomed in the U.S. with opened arms.
86. Caribbean conference brings diaspora voices to U.S. capital
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Williams,Gordon (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2007
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 4
- Notes:
- From the United States' perspective, it is very, very important for the (President George W) Bush administration to understand the location and the reality of the Caribbean's small economies. You cannot ignore them or you will have problems. You have somebody like (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez in the (Caribbean) region that is giving them (the U.S.) a headache. The (U.S.) better fortify the small countries or they will go over to whoever is helping them. People must survive and people must live. For the Caribbean in particular, it is a historical event. We are meeting as a Caribbean people. We seem to be sharing the same concerns every other CARICOMmember shares. From the U.S. standpoint, I really don't know because a lot of the feedback that we've had from our heads of state, we've heard this before... over the years and I'm not sure this is any different. The only thing that might be a little different now is the deportation of criminals to our shores and I don't believe that the U.S. does not know what the implication of that is. We are always seeking financial support from them, so to send us people who have been convicted for crimes that we don't have in the islands, somebody, somewhere, must know.
87. 'We have reputational capital'
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Williams,Gordon (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2007
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 9-10
- Notes:
- Among the big talking points of the current immigration debate in the United States is the type of labor that should be admitted into the country. Many believe the entry of "unskilled" laborers should be severely restricted. Jamaican-born Eleanor Brown, a Reginald Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, is not one of them. Shortly after addressing the "Conference on the Caribbean: A 20/20 Vision " last month, Brown explained to Caribbean Today's Managing Editor Gordon Williams why more of the Caribbean's labor force should allowed to go overseas.
88. Haitian Influence on Early U.S. Has Been Long Underestimated
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Zephir,Flore (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Aug 2004
- Published:
- Dorchester, Mass., United States, Dorchester, Mass.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 11
- Notes:
- Just as dance forms originating from Saint-Domingue made their way into southern culture, religion also left its indelible marks. It is well documented that the Vodou religion in New Orleans began to blossom around 1800 with Sanite Dede, a free woman of color who arrived from Saint-Domingue. The Saint-Domingan Vodou priestess was replaced in 1820 by New Orleans's native Marie Laveau, who became legendary. Haitians were for the most part Catholic; their presence in the various U.S. cities where they settled gave rise to the establishment of a number of biracial congregations. In Baltimore, in 1829, four colored Saint-Domingan women--Elizabeth Lange, Marie Magdelene Baas, Marie Rose Boegue, and Marie Therese Duchemin--established the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the world's first Black religious community, and founded the School for Colored Girls.
89. The Early Haitian Presence in the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Zephir,Flore (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2004
- Published:
- Dorchester, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 7 : 11
- Notes:
- Pierre Toussaint, considered the first American Black saint, is also of Saint-Domingan origin. He was born in 1778 of Haitian slaves in Saint-Domingue, and was owned by a well-educated French family, the Bérards, who brought him to New York with them in 1797 when they fled the slave uprising. While living with the family as a domestic slave, Toussaint learned to read and write and also learned how to be a hairstylist. It is said that he developed a devoted clientele among the city's social elite and was allowed to keep his earnings. Mrs. Bérard freed Toussaint before she died in 1807. Upon Mrs. Bérard's death, Toussaint married a woman from Haiti and, since they had no children of their own, they took in orphans, refugees, and other unfortunate people. In fact, he co-founded with Elizabeth Seton one of the first orphanages in New York City, and helped with fundraising for the city's first cathedral.
90. Class, culture, and color Black Saint-Dominguan refugees and African-American communities in the early republic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Davies,John (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Newark, DE: University of Delaware
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 239 p., From 1791 to 1804, revolution on the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue sent thousands of free and enslaved people of African descent to the United States. Historians have largely viewed this migration as contributing to black community formation in cities like Philadelphia, and as evidence of revolutionary connections in an Atlantic World. This dissertation examines the experiences of these migrants as an example of competing identities among people of African descent, and argues that the emergence of an ethnic identity among black Saint-Dominguans, shaped by Roman Catholicism and French language, impeded assimilation into African-American communities.
91. Correcting "a Touch of the Brush": Afro-Caribbean Racial Identity and Shame in Francisco Arrivi's Los vejigantes and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's Chombo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Edison,Thomas Wayne (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall 2004
- Published:
- United States: Venderbilt University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Afro-Hispanic Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(2) : 45-53
- Notes:
- Within sectors of North America's African-American community, the colloquial expression "being touched by the brush" describes a multi-ethnic individual that possesses subtle Negroid physical features which are only detectable by close inspection by a "trained eye." Here, Edison discusses the historical factors in Puerto Rico and Panama that make up the foundation upon which Francisco Arrivi's "Los Vejigantes" and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's "Chombo" were constructed.;
92. The new African diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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."
93. Jews and blacks in the early modern world
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Schorsch,Jonathan (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- New York: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 560 p, Describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Using many previously unexamined sources, it goes beyond mere inter-ethnic polemics to lay out for the first time the scope of Jewish anti-Blackness in places such as Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam and the Caribbean. Readers will see that Jewish attitudes and behavior remained barely distinguishable from general European trends, hardly benign, but far less intense.