African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
420 p, The Garifuna are presented as an African-Amerindian culture which has successfully fought and won several wars with Europeans (French and British). Chronicled are their struggles for survival after European attempts of extermination and exile; and their 20th century thrust toward cultural awareness as an African people as they redefined (renamed) themselves and remained committed to the retention of their African and Amerindian traditions (Africanisms). Moreover, possible African anteriors are suggested in the rituals of ancestor rites of the Yoruba, Igbo and Dahomey cultures of West Africa; and as they are also seen in some Afro-Caribbean
