African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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212 p., Analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas, with a focus on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular. The main argument is that democracy promotion is typically formulated to advance commercial, geopolitical and security objectives that conflict with a genuine commitment to democratic development. Includes chapter "Polyarchy at any cost in Haiti."
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323 p., A comprehensive study of the decisive 5-year period between 1962 and 1967 which witnessed the unfolding of an intense decolonization dialogue between Britain and its far-flung Eastern Caribbean possessions at the height of the Cold War.
Describes Fidel Castro's ten day at the Theresa Hotel in Harlem beginning on September 18, 1960, when he addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations
Caxias deo Sul, Rio Grande do Sul: EDUCS -Editora da Universidade de Caxias do Sul
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554 p, Focaliza a questão a partir da vinda da família real portuguesa ao Brasil, escoltada por navios de guerra ingleses. Reúne documentos e analisa os fatores que levaram a Inglaterra a enfatizar a luta contra o tráfico negreiro.;
This essay focuses on James Weldon Johnson's overlapping literary and diplomatic careers. Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, written while he worked as a US consul in Latin America, draws upon tropes of international representation to weigh in upon questions of aesthetic and racial representation. Tracing Johnson's transition from a US representative abroad to a race representative within the US, the essay argues that Johnson's case illustrates the importance of permitting the significant tradition of black work in the US's diplomatic program to inform the ways we approach African America's expressive and geopolitical engagements with the international world.
[Alberto Figueiredo Machado], who is on a working visit to Jamaica, told The Gleaner ahead of Thursday's signing of three other agreements, that Jamaica's tourist product also stands to benefit significantly from the pending non-visa arrangement. He said that Brazil was one of the first countries to have recognised Jamaica's attainment of Independence in 1962, with his compatriots remaining great admirers of Jamaica's athletes and musicians, among other things. Jamaica's Foreign Affairs and îbreign Trade Minister A. J. Nicholson said attention was paid to the greater role of cooperation in the field of energy, with particular emphasis on the role of biofuels as a key instrument of sustainable development, as well as the strengthening of and support to Jamaica's Sickle Cell Programme.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service
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39 p., Restrictions on travel to Cuba have been a key and often contentious component in US efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government since the early 1960s. Under the George W. Bush Administration, restrictions on travel and on private remittances to Cuba were tightened. Congress took action in March 2009 by including two provisions in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations measure (P.L. 111-8) that eased restrictions on family travel and travel related to marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods to Cuba -- Subsequently, in April 2009, President Obama announced that his Administration would go further and allow unlimited family travel and remittances. Tables.
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224 p, Broken show window: the West Indian risings and their aftermath, 1938-1940 -- Securing the Caribbean: the establishment of United States bases in the British West Indies, September 1940-March 1941 -- Beyond security: the forming of the Anglo-American Caribbean commission, April 1941-March 1942 -- With bread or bullets: the Caribbean food crisis, the maintenance of order, and the sugar question, March-December 1942 -- The search for principles: the London conversations, December 1942 -- Unfinished business: divergent paths and broken promises, January 1943-March 1944 -- The birth of a program: the first West Indian conference, March-October 1944 -- Under the microscope: the Barbados recommendations and American economic foreign policy, July 1944-January 1945 -- Standoff: imperial policy and the joint statement, January-July 1945 -- A bitter rehearsal? Epilogue and conclusions.;
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, have been taking it on the chin in some quarters for a fact-finding trip to Havana, Cuba, to meet with that nation's president. Since the Kennedy administration in the 1960s in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tiny island 90 miles off the coast of the U.S. has been embargoed and isolated.
