"This article investigates the efficacy of community organizing by African Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Ontario. The author argues that community organizing was an instinctive initiative of African Caribbean people. Historically, Black community organizational agenda, although owing much to its own resourcefulness and fortitude, was intimately connected to the influence and strength of the larger White population. Racism and social exclusions were the major external factors influencing the majority of African Caribbean institutional building." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
The article reports on a conference on the history of the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean regions, held in Berlin, Germany, from July 2-3, 2012. Topics of discussion included creole and African diasporic identities, racism, nationalism, and ethnic relations in Caribbean states such as Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic, and migration.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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135 p, Contents: Introduction / Richard Graham -- Racial ideas and social policy in Brazil, 1870-1940 / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Race in Argentina and Cuba, 1880-1930: theory, policies, and popular reaction / Aline Helg -- Racism, revolution, and indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940 / Alan Knight
