While the role of Caribbean immigrants in the “New Negro” movement in the United States is now well established, the concurrent militancy of black Caribbean workers in Panama is much less understood. Examines the rise and fall of Afro-Antillano militancy in both the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama from 1914–1921.
The Cuban journey on race relations denotes an adventure driven by ideology. A doctrine of equals and the need for consensus building towards national unity called for the reversal of disenfranchisement commonly practiced prior to the revolution. Public policy has affirmed a commitment to social integration of people of color yet the residue of bigotry still inflames the Cuban populace and stymies potential maturity among its people.
This paper begins by reviewing briefly at historical changes in the employment of geospatial technologies in major devastating disasters, including the Sichuan and Haiti earthquakes. It goes on to assess changes in the available dataset type and in geospatial disaster responders, as well as the impact of geospatial technological changes on disaster relief effort. Finally, the paper discusses lessons learned from recent responses and offers some thoughts for future development.
115 p., The Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Office of Evaluation and Oversight Office (OVE) is conducting comparative assessments of citizen security in Central America and the Caribbean to better understand what has worked more and less well during project implementation, as well as the reasons for variations in outcomes. Jamaica's Citizen Security and Justice Program (CSJP) is included in the comparative study. In order to improve understanding of CSJP's youth targeted interventions, the OVE commissioned a tracer study of participants in one of these programmes; that is, one administered by Rise Life Management. The objective of the tracer study is to assess to what extent the social services provided by RISE to the youth in volatile communities in Kingston have made a difference in the lives of beneficiaries in terms of employment and satisfaction with life
Reviewing the 22 years that have elapsed since Gifford's 1989 report labelled Liverpool as racist, the authors focus on the fact that in a city which has had a British African Caribbean community for over 400 years, there is minimum representation of that community in the city's workforce.
Discusses the impact of the global financial crisis in late 2008 on social welfare, specifically to mother's ability to provide for their households' needs. Mentions the continuous unemployment, rise in food prices, and decline in Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Direct Investment.
Reports on a study of the experiences of minority ethnic workers in seeking advice and support for workplace problems. Focuses on three minority ethnic groups (Kurdish, Black Caribbean and South Asian) in three specific localities of London. The study is unique in that it provides new micro-level qualitative data on whether or not local social networks are utilized to assist with employment problems.
Repatriations of Haitians in the Dominican Republic have become an almost daily routine. Indeed Dominican authorities almost constantly expel hundreds of Haitians illegally living in the Dominican Republic. Haitian authorities seem to accept as a fait accompli the onslaught on our territory nationals of Haiti with their Dominican counterparts, regardless of taking long-term measures to stop the bleeding of the labor national work as well as the brain drain to benefit our bordering neighbors. Notwithstanding the ill-treatment Dominicans inflict our brothers, repressed people manage to return a month later to where they are to be expelled. Since, in the absence of a long-term strategy to frame the returnees and give them hope for a decent life in their country, crossing to the other side of the border continues to attract good workers sentenced to unemployment in their own countries.
Among the big talking points of the current immigration debate in the United States is the type of labor that should be admitted into the country. Many believe the entry of "unskilled" laborers should be severely restricted. Jamaican-born Eleanor Brown, a Reginald Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, is not one of them. Shortly after addressing the "Conference on the Caribbean: A 20/20 Vision " last month, Brown explained to Caribbean Today's Managing Editor Gordon Williams why more of the Caribbean's labor force should allowed to go overseas.
In the midst of a historic political crisis in Haiti last February, Boston-based Haitian Americans United Inc. (HAU) and State Representative Marie St. Fleur convened an emergency town meeting at Codman Square's Church of the Nazarene. St. Fleur and the panelists addressed a sizeable crowd, including the likes of Reverend Eugene Rivers, Senator Jarret Barrios, Reverend Paul Jones of the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus and representatives from the offices of U.S. Senator John Kerry and state Senator Jack Hart, among others. Held on Feb. 25, St. Fleur and others called for United Nations peacekeeping troops to ensure public order and disarm both pro and anti Aristide agitators.
Nomination form and submission materials for 2004 APA Illinois Chapter Annual Awards.
2004 Award Winner: Plan
Includes submission material for the 2004 ILAPA Award Program and 5 attachments. These attachments include: #1 DeKalb County Unified Comprehensive Plan; #2 Background Detail of the DeKalb County Regional Planning Commission; #3 Sample Intergovernmental Agreement to Create the DeKalb County Regional Planning Commission; #4 Sample Municipal Plan; #5 Ordinance Adopting a Unified Comprehensive Plan of DeKalb County.
Nomination form and submission materials for 2004 APA Illinois Chapter Annual Awards.
Attached is the 2004 ILAPA Awards Program nomination form and submission material.
Nomination form and submission materials for 2003 APA Illinois Chapter Annual Awards.
2003 Award Honorable Mention: Public Education
Illinois APA Chapter 2003 Award Submitttal. Nominated by John Paige. There are eight brochures that are part of the Smart Growth Portfolio: Achieving Balance: Jobs and Housing (Oct. 2001); A View of Economic Activity (Sept. 2002); Diversity and Inclusiveness (Sept. 2002); Enhancing Main Streets and Town Centers (Dec 2002); Guiding Development to Protect Our Natural Resources (Oct. 2001); Intergovernmental Planning & Cooperation (Oct. 2001); Managing Development to Protect Agriculture (Oct. 2001); and Transit-Oriented Development (Jan. 2001).
Dos Santos and Joaquim Barbosa Gomes, a constitutional law professor and lecturer at Columbia University, say racism is more easily detected in the United States than Brazil and is thus harder to combat. Affirmative action's advocates chide dos Santos Silva and other cautious Afro Brazilians, noting that blacks have been "feeling different" since an estimated 3.6 million slaves toiled throughout the country from 1532 to 1850. That estimate does not include the captured Africans who did not survive the brutal journey to Brazil by ship.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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346 p., Ranging from the time of slavery and indentureship, to national independence in 1962 and the present day, this book shows how gender inequalities have been perpetuated for the benefit of exploitative systems from slavery to the present day. The book explores women's roles and activities both in colonial ideology and in reality.
50 p., Examines the impact of labor market trends on poor families. Revised and updated version of the authors' study, Pobreza y mercado de trabajo en el Gran Santiago.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the theory which held that the cultural assimilation of ethnic groups of Indian and African descent into the national Hispanic or Portuguese cultures implied an improvement in the condition of women has been challenged through ethnographic and historical research.
The purpose of the paper is to design and test a model which explains internal migration in Jamaica, based largely on the 1960 census. Suggests that urban migration was unrelated to the level of employment opportunities.
Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc. (author), State of Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings (author), Teska, Robert B. (author), Illinois Division of Highways - Bureau of Planning (author), Herman, Frank V. (author), U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads (author), Strassenburg, Clifford G. (author), Brown, Ralph D. (author), and Holmes, E. H. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1963
Location:
City Planning & Landscape Architecture Reference and Resource Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16; Folder: 5
This item is a large binder that has many relating documents: memorandums from R. Teska about the Decatur Urbanized Area Transportation Study financial status; Equivalency Tables for Traffic Zones, Districts and Centroids; Population Inventory; Sources of Data for Population Studies; An Introduction to Population for Transportation Planning; Population Inventory and Economic Factors Inventory; Inventory of Economic Factors Affecting Development; Economic Factors Inventory; Land Use Inventory; Changes in Land-Use Inventory Procedures; Land-Use Inventory Procedure; Housing Unit Count Procedure; Data Card Formats--Economic Factors, Population, and Land-Use Inventory Data; Land-Use Inventory Summary; Summary of Urban Travel Data; Forecasting Techniques; Procedure for Forecasting Land-Use and Socio-Economic Factors for Comprehensive Transportation Planning Programs in Small and Medium Sized Metropolitan Areas; Available Land Inventory By Type; ... and more. Dates range from 1963-1966.
Extracted from: "From Fireside to Jobsite, Houston." (A Report of 410,000 workers of Harris County, covering their places of work and place of residency, by Industry and by Occupation.) Study Conducted mi-1958.
