Newly arrived from Cuba, Angelica, Dora, Marina, and Damaris attempted to negotiate new surroundings and immigrant identities, building a sense of home for themselves and their families. Data from qualitative interviews, classroom observations, and focus group conversations revealed hopes that by acquiring English language skills, they would improve their quality of life in their new country. Struggles included personal factors situated in their pasts in Cuba and their new surrounds in the Miami Cuban exile enclave, contexts that were further complicated by uncertain expectations of new lives in Miami and the overwhelming task of learning a new language at a local adult education center.
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
Perl,Matthias (Author), Schwegler,Armin (Author), and Lorenzino,Gerardo (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Vervuert; Madrid: Frankfurt am Main
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
379 p, Contents: ntroduction / Matthias Perl -- El español caribeño : antecedentes sociohistóricos y lingüísticos / Gerado Lorenzino ... [et al.] -- O portugûes vernáculo do Brasil / Heliana R. de Mello ... [et al.] -- El papiamentu de Curazao / Philippe Maurer -- El palenquero / Armin Schwegler -- Perspectivas sobre el español bozal / John M. Lipski
Van Kempen discusses the songs and traditions of the Saramaccan peoples of the Upper Suriname. The music and lyrics of the Saramaccans depicts the troubles the ethnic groups have experienced in the 1990s from transmigration ordered by the government, typically lamenting or singing the praises of their old African villages, and cursing Western engineers for the uprooting of their cultures.;
