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    1. "Columbian Consequences."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Thomas,David Hurst (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1990
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    3 vols

    2. "Sis Cat" as Ethnographer: Self-Presentation and Self-Inscription in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men."

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Boxwell,D. A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter 1992
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    African American Review
    Journal Title Details:
    26.(4.) : 605-617 P.
    Notes:
    Examines Zora Neale Hurston's work, particularly her collection of folklore and ethnography of the American South, "Mules and Men." Looks at the author's role, the ways the ethnographer inscribes herself into the text, and speculates about Hurston's understanding of the limits of the impersonal researcher.

    3. "Strangers in a new land": Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban religious tradition in the diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nodal,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations
    Notes:
    247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”

    9. <Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, by Margarite Fernández Olmos; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Payne-Jackson,Arvilla (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2002
    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:
    58(3) : 484
    Notes:
    "The Spanish expression--la cultura cura (culture heals)--is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people"

    10. <Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics, by Patrick Taylor>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hintzen,Percy C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    October, 1991
    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:
    48(2) : 312-313

    13. <Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Carribean edited by Darien J. Davis> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Smothers,Bonnie (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    February 15, 1995
    Published:
    Chicago: American Library Association
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Booklist
    Journal Title Details:
    91(12) : 1055
    Notes:
    Review also covers Whither Thou Goest -- Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country by Carl A. Brasseaux and others; and 'Who Set You Flowin'?' by Farah Jasmine Griffin

    15. <The Colonial Caribbean in Transition. Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History, by Bridget Brereton and Kelving A. Yelvington> (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Emmer,Pieter C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Oct 2002
    Published:
    The Netherlands: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    73 : 140-141

    17. A So Di Ting Set: Conceptions of Male and Female in Jamaica and Barbados

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Carpenter,Karen (Author) and Walters,Gavin (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-12
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sexuality & Culture
    Journal Title Details:
    15(4) : 345-360
    Notes:
    Develops data from interviews about stereotypes of Jamaican and Barbadian men and women.&nbsp;The popular music from Jamaica and Barbados&nbsp;is used as a lens for understanding the cultures within which the respondents develop their gender stereotypes. The stereotype data is then compared with the music that is popular during the interviews.

    18. A Vision of the Land: V.S. Naipaul's Later Novels

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cooke,John (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    December, 1979
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    25(4) : 31-47
    Notes:
    Part of the vision depicted in the novels Middle Passage and Mimic Men is that the image local history is the scenery and landscape. Expresses idea that colonization creates nothing. It is obvious in a place, thrives there then disappears.

    22. Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hoving,Isabel (Author), Korsten,Frans-Willem (Author), and Alphen,Ernst van (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    Amsterdam: Rodopi
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    208 p, Includes Kathleen Gyssels' "Tristes Tropiques et 'Racial Healing' : Ellen Ombre et Caryl Phillips Rentrent an Pays," p.163-179

    23. Africa and the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ogot,Bethwell A. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1997
    Published:
    Kisumu, Kenya: Anyange Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    122 p

    24. Africa and the Caribbean: the legacies of a link

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Crahan,Margaret E. (Author) and Knight,Franklin W. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1979
    Published:
    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    159 p, Contents: The African migration and the origins of an Afro-American society and culture /​ Franklin W. Knight and Margaret E. Crahan; The cultural links /​ Harry Hoetnik; African and Creole slave family patterns in Trinidad /​ B.W. Higman; Myalism and the African religious tradition in Jamaica /​ Monica Schuler; Jamaican Jonkonnu and related Caribbean festivals /​ Judith Bettelheim; The African impact on language and literature in the English-speaking Caribbean /​ Maureen Warner Lewis; The African presence in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén /​ Lorna V. Williams.

    27. African Religions: A Symposium

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Booth,Newell S. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1977
    Published:
    New York: Nok Publishers International
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    390 p

    34. Afro-Cuban tales: Cuentos Negros de Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cabrera,Lydia (Author), Alberto Hernández-Chiroldes (Translator), and Lauren Yoder (Translator)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2004.
    Published:
    Lincoln.: University of Nebraska Press.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    169 P.

    35. Alternative Cultures in the Caribbean: First International Conference of the Society of Caribbean Research, Berlin 1988

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bremer,Thomas (Author) and Fleischmann,Ulrich (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1993
    Published:
    Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    299 p., Thomas and Ulrich speak of Caribbean literature and the social aspects in the Caribbean Area.

    37. Anansi's defiant webs : contact, continuity, convergence, and complexity in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean : proceedings of the ECICC-conference, Guyana, 2010

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Faraclas,Nicholas (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma : University of the Netherlands Antilles
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Culture Conference (aka the 'Islands in Between' Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011., 355 p., A collection of articles that presents a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.

    38. Ancestors and Migrants: On Tradition and Reflection in Surinamese Singing, Storytelling and Writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Van Kempen,Michiel (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov 2004
    Published:
    Barbados: 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:
    12(1/2) : 31-52
    Notes:
    Van Kempen discusses the songs and traditions of the Saramaccan peoples of the Upper Suriname. The music and lyrics of the Saramaccans depicts the troubles the ethnic groups have experienced in the 1990s from transmigration ordered by the government, typically lamenting or singing the praises of their old African villages, and cursing Western engineers for the uprooting of their cultures.;

    39. Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: the Nobel Lecture

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Walcott,Derek (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1993
    Published:
    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    1 vol, "[A]ddress poetry in general, relating the poetry he writes to the poetry he sees around him. It is in many ways a fierce defense of the beauty and timelessness of both poetry, and the Caribbean." (Amazon.com)

    40. Arere Marekén: Cuento Negro

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cabrera,Lydia (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    México, D.F;: Artes de México;en colaboración con la Universidad de Miami
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    1 vol.

    44. Augusta Zelia Fraser in Jamaica: The Case for Racial Separation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bryan,Anthony T. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    48(4) : 12-26
    Notes:
    This work describes cleavages of race, class and caste in the colonial Jamaican company. It tackles the question of the relation between race and culture.

    45. Awakening the Caribbean African: The socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Tillis,Antonio D. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2003
    Published:
    United States: Vanderbilt University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    22(2) : 29
    Notes:
    Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;

    46. Battle dress and fancy dress : an inquiry into the origins of the customs and traditions of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ottley,Irwin (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Irwin Philip Ottley
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    "In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the independence of Trinidad and Tobago, 31st August 1962-2012.", 140 p.

    49. Books on early American history and culture, 2001-2005 : an annotated bibliography

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Irwin,Raymond D. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    326 p., Part of a series listing materials on the history of North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. Organized thematically, the book covers, among many other topics, exploration and colonization; maritime history; environment; Native Americans; race, gender, and ethnicity; migration; labor and class; business; families; religion; material culture; science; education; politics; and military affairs.

    50. Broadcasting in Barbados: the cultural impact of the Caribbean Broadcasting Company

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Yearwood,Gladstone Lloyd (Author) and Andwele,Adisa (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1989
    Published:
    Bridgetown, Barbados: Lighthouse Communications
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    This book discusses the Caribbean Broadcasting Company's effect on cultural diffusion and policy in Barbados