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    1. Educacao dos negros em Santa Catarina: narrativas, expectativas, experiencias (1850-1889)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sebrao,Graciane Daniela (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2016-01-01
    Published:
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    315 p., Examines expectations and experiences regarding the education of the black population in Santa Catarina. The expectations were observed in educational legislation, in speeches of the press and the province's government, which appeared mainly in the discussions about the Brazilian Law of Free Birth, with the emergence of the figure of the “ingênuo”. In the press, many articles pointed to black education as an important way to prepare to free labor, ensuring social order. In the official speeches of the government, the issue was addressed less frequently, defending the freedmen's education to prevent anarchy and enable the conscious vote.

    2. The sovereign colony : Olympic sport, national identity, and international politics in Puerto Rico

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sotomayor, Antonio (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2016-01-01
    Published:
    Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    302 p, Illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that developed within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. Significantly, it was precisely in the Olympic arena that Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures--and the United States' claim to democratic values--to their advantage. Drawing on extensive archival research, both on the island and in the United States, Sotomayor uncovers a story of a people struggling to escape the colonial periphery through sport and nationhood yet balancing the benefits and restraints of that same colonial status.

    3. Blacks, mulattos, and the Dominican nation

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Franco,Franklyn J.
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2015-01-01
    Published:
    New York: Routledge
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Originally published in 1969 in Spanish as Los negros, los mulatos y la Nación Dominicana., 122 p, Contents: The Black population -- The Black population and the national consciousness -- The Constitution of 1801 -- The other face of the reconquest -- "Foolish Spain" and "rebellious Africa" -- Complete unity and national unity.

    5. Enterprising women : gender, race, and power in the revolutionary Atlantic

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Candlin,Kit (Author) and Pybus,Cassandra (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2015
    Published:
    Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    241 p, In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.

    6. The origin, development and diffusion of the steel band in the Caribbean and beyond : the historical geography of a musical instrument

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Parris,Ralph L. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2015
    Published:
    Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    The Steel Band was created by descendants of African Captives in the Caribbean who struggled to retain some elements of their culture while simultaneously rejecting elements of the captive culture that controlled their lives for three centuries. This book chronicles the origin and evolution of the Steel Band orchestra.

    7. Black Belizeans and fugitive Mayas: Interracial Encounters on the Edge of Empire, 1750-1803

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lent,Mark W. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2014-04
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    70(4) : 645-675
    Notes:
    The article focuses on the interactions between anglophone blacks, black Caribbeans, and indigenous southern Mesoamericans during the second half of the 18th century. The author discusses the history of race relations between Europeans, Africans, and Indians within the British and Spanish empires, examines the relationship between Mayas and Spanish colonists, and analyzes the role of religious differences within their encounters.

    9. "Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born": The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Stuelke,Patricia (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2014-03
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    American Literature
    Journal Title Details:
    86(1) : 117-145
    Notes:
    An essay is presented on the relationship between black U.S. feminist literature celebrating author Zora Neale Hurston and U.S.-Caribbean cultural linkages, and the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean during the 1980s. According to the author, black feminists' attempts to reclaim the Caribbean through Hurston contributed to a neoliberal vision of the Caribbean which excluded Grenadian revolutionaries. Grenadian government debt and depictions of the Caribbean in popular culture are discussed.

    10. Next Generation of Stars at C'Sean Paradise

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    2014-02-20
    Published:
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Montreal Community Contact
    Journal Title Details:
    4 : 3
    Notes:
    On Sunday. February 23. Black History Month takes a youthful turn as the next generation of Black performers takes to the stage at Caribbean Paradise for a showcase that's appropriately entitled "Let Dem Sing.''