"Focuses on certain calypsos in the decades leading up to Trinidad’s independence in 1962 in which the calypsonian’s sense of his own freedom is manifested in calypsos that focus on the larger struggle for freedom and autonomy for his society. In these calypsos, there is a subversion of the status quo, a move from a respectful deference to colonial rule to a new postcolonial consciousness. These calypsos focus on changing attitudes toward the British Royal Family, a growing allegiance to a homeland other than Mother England and the major events during the Fifties as plans for a West Indian Federation develop and collapse." (author)
Dzidzienyo,Anani (Author) and Oboler,Suzanne (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
323 p, Contents: Flows and counterflows : Latinas/os, blackness, and racialization in hemispheric perspective / Suzanne Oboler and Anani Dzidzienyo -- A region in denial : racial discrimination and racism in Latin America / Ariel E. Dulitzky -- Afro-Ecuadorian responses to racism : between citizenship and corporatism / Carlos de la Torre -- The foreignness of racism : pride and prejudice among Peru's Limeños in the 1990s / Suzanne Oboler -- Bad boys and peaceful Garifuna : transnational encounters between racial stereotypes of Honduras and the United States (and their implications for the study of race in the Americas) / Mark Anderson -- Afro-Mexico : Blacks, indígenas, politics, and the greater diaspora / Bobby Vaughn -- The changing world of Brazilian race relations? / Anani Dzidzienyo -- Framing the discussion of African American-Latino relations : a review and analysis / John J. Betancur -- Neither white nor Black : the representation of racial identity among Puerto Ricans on the island and in the U.S. mainland / Jorge Duany -- Scripting race, finding place : African Americans, Afro-Cubans, and the diasporic imaginary in the United States / Nancy Raquel Mirabal -- Identity, power, and socioracial hierarchies among Haitian immigrants in Florida / Louis Herns Marcelin -- Interminority relations in legislative settings : the case of African Americans and Latinos / José E. Cruz -- African American and Latina/o cooperation in challenging racial profiling / Kevin R. Johnson -- Racial politics in multiethnic America : Black and Latina/o identities and coalitions / Mark Sawyer -- Racism in the Americas and the Latino scholar / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Witnessing history : an octogenarian reflects on fifty years of African American-Latino relations / Nelson Peery
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
283 p, Contents: Reviving Caribs : indegeneity in Trinidad and Tobago and the dialectic of aboriginal presence and absence -- Canonizing the Carib : colonial political economy and indigeneity -- Placing the Carib : the first two resurgences and the "Gens d'Arime" in the nineteenth century -- Writing the Carib : debates on Trinidad indegeneity from the 1800s through the 1900s -- Nationalizing the Carib : the indigenous anchor of a state in search of a nation -- Reproducing the Carib locally : the social organization of indigenous representation in contemporary Trinidad and Tobago -- Representing the Carib : brokers, events, and traditions -- Globalizing the Carib : solidarity, legitimacy, and networked indegeneity -- Reeingineered indigeneity
Fox discusses Lydia Cabrera, a novelist and short story writer many consider the mother of Afro-Cuban studies. Examined are her contributions to Cuba's Africanized popular culture, as well as her bridging the cultures of France, Africa and Cuba.;
Yun examines a rare communal biography by an Afro-Chinese Cuban, Antonio Chuffat Latour. She maintains that his work is a valuable document of the Chinese experience in the Caribbean and argues for the inclusion of Africanity and blackness as part of a reconsideration of what constitutes a Caribbean Chinese identity.;
