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    22. <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

    24. <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

    28. 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.

    29. 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.

    32. A invenção da baianidade

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Mariano,Agnes (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Annablume
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    310 p., "The idea baianidade is very much a model, a source of inspiration, the translation of concrete reality. All cultural identities are just that: ideas. ...They unite people, facilitate dialogue, summarize important, beautiful values. As can also serve to alienate us from other people, to justify to ourselves, our faults and mistakes." --The Author, "Agnes Mariano e a "Invenção da Baianidade" (www.passieweb.com).

    33. A people's temple in Jamaica?

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kitchin,A. (Author)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    1980
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: Gleaner Co. Ltd.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Daily Gleaner
    Journal Title Details:
    May 19 : 8-13

    34. A questão ancestral: Africa negra

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Leite, Fábio Rubens da Rocha (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    São Paulo, Brazil: Palas Athena
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    385 p., The study is not a work about religion but rather of black African identity. Leaning on three black African societies (Yoruba of Benin and Nigeria, Agni-Akan and Senufo Ivory Coast), the author investigates the notion of person. Faced with the question of death, passing moment of earthly existence of man to his condition.

    35. A short, Storied Tale of (Transplanted and Transcribed) Talking Animal/Objects/beings

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Fox,Patricia (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) : 52-66
    Notes:
    Fox discusses Lydia Cabrera, a novelist and short story writer many consider the mother of Afro-Cuban studies. Examined are her contributions to Cuba's Africanized popular culture, as well as her bridging the cultures of France, Africa and Cuba.;

    38. AfricAmericas: itineraries, dialogues, and sounds

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Phaf-Rheinberger,Ineke (Editor) and Pinto,Tiago de Oliveira (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Madrid, Spain: Iberoamericana
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    224 p., Essays on the cultural dynamics and exchanges between Brazil, Africa and Latin America.

    39. 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

    40. 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