A collection of articles on women in slavery, their family life, condition in society and employment and politics. These articles present themselves either as scientific studies, or as evidence and give a differentiated view of the reality of changing the situation of Caribbean women
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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202 p, Contents: The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview /; Richard D.E. Burton,; Fred Reno --; Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean /; Helen Hintjens --; Politics and society in Martinique /; Fred Reno --; Guadeloupean consensus /; Jean-Paul Eluther --; Society, culture and politics in French Guiana /; Bridget Jones,; Elie Stephenson --; Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique /; Michel Giraud --; The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment /; Emmanuel Jos --; The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean /; Maurice Burac --; West Indians in France /; Alain Anselin --; Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique /; Arlette Gautier --; The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité /; Richard D.E. Burton --; French West Indian writing since 1970 /; Beverley Ormerod
Chicago, IL: Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Many of the song texts are in creole or ritual languages., 214 sound discs (digital) + 2 v. of log sheets, Field recordings, primarily of music, made as part of Bilby's ethnographic and ethnomusicological fieldwork. Jamaica and French Guiana are particularly well represented, but the collection also includes recordings from Antigua, Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent, Suriname, Tobago, Trinidad, and the U. S. Virgin Islands, as well as Cuban music recorded in New York.
