Niblett,Michael (Editor) and Oloff,Kerstin (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Amsterdam ; New York: Rodopi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
270 p., Includes Heidi Bojsen's "Other Americas, other genderings : postcolonial heroines and rhizomatic geographies in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes," Patricia Krus' "The ethics of postcolonial healing in Astrid Roemer's trilogy of Suriname," Paulette Ramsay's "Cross-cultural poetics : debating the place of Afro-Mexican poetry in the context of Caribbean literary and cultural aesthetics," Theo D'haen's "Exile, Caribbean literature, and the world republic of letters" and Kerstin D. Oloff's "Wilson Harris, regionalism and postcolonial studies."
Ball,Erica (Editor), Pappademos,Melina (Editor), and Stephens,Michelle Ann (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Special journal issue; Issue 103 of Radical history review, Winter 2009., 246 p., Addresses transnational discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in African diaspora politics, African diaspora experiences on the African continent, the politics of African-descended peoples in Europe, and creative uses of the discourses of memory and diaspora to support political organizing and local struggles. Essays on Venezuelans, Bolivians, and Mexicans address the status of race in the study of African-descended populations and cultures in Latin America.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
"This book was also printed as a special edition in Accra, Ghana for the Brazilian Embassy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil/Itamaraty. A bilingual edition (Portuguese-English) was launched during the inauguration of the Brazil House (15.11.2007) with ISBN 978-184799-013-6"., 146 p., Description of a community of freed slaves who came from Brazil in the mid 19th century and settled in Accra.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
394 p., Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the evolution of popular culture. His approach reveals links among seemingly disparate worlds. In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, slavery came under attack in North America, South America, southern Africa, West Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with former slaves rising to positions of political prominence. Yet at the beginning of the twentieth century, the near-elimination of slavery brought new forms of discrimination that removed almost all blacks from government for half a century.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
248 p., Presents contemporary readings that contest in the areas of Caribbean religion, education, language, music, race, sexual behavior in a time of the AIDS pandemic, and the economy.
Discusses the oral and written life histories and other personal testimonies of African Americans. It clears up the realities behind invisible enclaves and spotlight of the immigrant's own history. Professor John H. McWhorter argues that modern America is the home to millions of immigrants who were born in Africa. He notes that their cultures and identities are separated between Africa and the U.S. However, his vision of an unencumbered, native-born black ownership of black is considered optimistic. Transnational identities of immigrants and their children are formed, negotiated and projected primarily within their experiences.
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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
311 p., Works by Argentine and Uruguayan specialists in the study of the black population and its impact on cultural formation of the Río de la Plata intertwines. The central idea is to strengthen the dialogue and discussion on issues that were silenced by official cultures for many years.
