A qualitative study was conducted to characterize gay men in Barbados, their HIV risk, and the impact of stigma on their lives. The 2 main groups of gay men (“bougies” and “ghetto”) reflect social class and level of “outness” in broader society. Homophobia, stigma, and buggery (sodomy) laws increase their HIV vulnerability. The need for anti-discrimination legislation and tools for self-development were identified for gay men to realize their strengths, develop their self-worth, and protect themselves from HIV.
Kingston, Jamaica: University Of West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
292 p, Presentation of empirical historical data on Britain’s transatlantic slave economy and society supports the legal claim that chattel slavery as established by the British state and sustained by citizens and governments was understood then as a crime, but political and moral outrage were silenced by the argument that the enslavement of black people was in Britain’s national interest. Slavery was invested in by the royal family, the government, the established church, most elite families, and large public institutions in the private and public sector. Citing the legal principles of unjust and criminal enrichment, the author presents a compelling argument for Britain’s payment of its black debt, a debt that it continues to deny .
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
Vol. 6
Notes:
468 p, This collection of essays employs an analytic approach developed in the United States which sheds light on the workings of race in political-legal systems as diverse as South Africa, New Zealand, France and Latin and South America. The essays reveal how legal rules define racism so narrowly and make racial discrimination so difficult to prove, that inequality persists despite its symbolic extinction.
The article discusses the history of Santo Domingo (which was renamed the Dominican Republic) under the French General Jean-Louis Ferrand from 1804 through 1809. Particular focus is given to Ferrand's efforts, under the direction of the French Emperor Napoleon I, to re-enslave Santo Domingo and overthrow Haiti's ruler Toussaint Louverture. An overview of the slavery laws in Santo Domingo is provided. Ferrand's use of black Haitian captives as slaves, including the Haitians captured by the French who lived near the border with Santo Domingo, is provided.
This article elaborates on some important concepts in the matter of abortion, the issue of revelant legislation, and ends with pertinent recommendations. Adopting a bioethical perspective, the paper addresses the relevant issues and perspectives on abortion and argues for clarity of concepts and understanding of the context in which a woman is pregnant and considers abortion.
Looks at Barbados's experience of abortion law reform undertaken in the 1980s. The movement was led by then Cabinet Minister and lawyer Billie Miller. Documents the nuances, important moments, key strategies and major players in the reform movement, and highlights the critical role that Miller played in getting the Medical Termination Act passed in 1983. Background information on the situation of Barbadian women and the nature of parliamentary governance at that time is also addressed in order to give context to the politics surrounding the issue.
Discusses the highlights of a seminar on democracy, freedom and reproductive rights sponsored by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Chile in Santiago, Chile on June 21, 2011. The event recognized abortion as a priority issue in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
To determine the stance of providers in Jamaica regarding the suggested change in abortion law, a face-to-face anonymous survey of 35 obstetrician-gynecologists and 228 general practitioners in Kingston was used to assess knowledge, opinions and practice.
Presents the views of a lesbian mother regarding the laws in the U.S. She highlights her several experiences related to political, children, family and sexuality including the anti-Klan protest, abortion rights rallies, and her arrest for demanding an end to apartheid. She explores the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) Sexual Diversity Project.
Francis Humberston Mackenzie of Seaforth (1754-1815) was a Highland proprietor in what has become known as 'The First Phase of Clearance', was governor of Barbados (1801-6) in the sensitive period immediately before the abolition of the British slave trade and was himself a plantation owner in Berbice (Guiana). It is suggested that his concern for his Highland small tenants was paralleled by his ambition in Barbados to make the killing of a slave by a white a capital offence, by his attempts to give free coloureds the right to testify against whites and by his aim to provide good conditions for his own enslaved labourers in Berbice.
In 2006, the Peruvian government passed a law that made racial discrimination a crime punishable by incarceration. This law, part of a multicultural reform in Peru, can be seen as an effective recognition of the reality of racism in Peruvian society. Such recognition, however, contrasts with official depictions of Peru as a country without racism, and of Peruvians as people who deny the existence of racism in their society.
Lavou,Victorien (Editor) and Marty,Marlène (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Contributions in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
445 p., Discussions that took place during the conference organized from 9 to 11 May 2007 by the Group for Research and Studies on Blacks Latin America (GRENAL -CRILAUP) around issues of race. Highlights various forms of racial bias, whether assumed or openly transfigured, conscious or unconscious.
Rio de Janeiro Brasil: Biblioteca do Exército Editora
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
143 p., Contents: A gênese contemporânea da nação bicolor -- Raças não existem -- Sumiram com os pardos -- O que os números não dizem -- Negros e brancos no mercado de trabalho -- Alhos e bugalhos -- As cotas no mundo -- Estatuto das raças -- "Classismo", o preconceito contra os pobres -- Pobres e famintos -- O dinheiro que não vai para os pobres -- Educação, a única solução -- Há solução.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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205 p., Content: PME cor ou raça : setembro de 2006 -- Redação originária, exposição de motivos e redação dada pelo relator deputado federal Carlos Abicalil do PL 3.627/04 -- Boletim informativo sobre o 2° vestibular sob o sistema de cotas da UnB --Análise do cenário institucional do sistema de cotas da UnB -- Íntegra do leading case junto ao egrégio tribunal regional federal da 4a. região sobre a implantação do vestibular com cotas raciais e sociais da UFPR -- Avaliação do reitor da UFPR sobre o novo perfil da universidade pós-vestibular com o sistema de cotas -- Recursos administrativos envolvendo a seleção da UFPR pós-cotas -- Batalha jurídica para a implantação do vestibular de cotas da UFPR.
Rodríguez Garavito,César A. (Author), Alfonso Sierra,Tatiana (Author), Cavelier Adarve,Isabel (Author), and Antonio Rosero,Eliana Fernanda (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá, DC: Observatorio de Discriminación Racial : Programa de Justicia Global y Derechos Humanos y CIJUS, Universidad de los Andes : Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) : Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Austin, TX: Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
57 p., "A report by the Rapoport Delegation on Afro-Brazilian Land Rights, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law."
Quilombo communities with title updated as of May 26, 2008.
Lachatañeré,Rómulo (Author) and Ayorinde,Christine (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Princeton, NJ: M. Wiener Publishers
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
156 p, Distinguishes between the two most important religious forms - the Regla de Ocha (Santeria), which promotes worship of the Oshira (gods), and the traditional oracles that originated in the old Yoruba city of lle-lfe', which promote a more animistic worldview. Africans who were brought to Cuba as slaves had to recreate their old traditions in their new Caribbean context. As their African heritage collided with Catholicism and with Native American and European traditions, certain African gods and traditions became more prominent while others lost their significance in the new Afro-Cuban culture. This book, the first systematic overview of the syncretization of the gods of African origin with Catholic saints, introduces the reader to a little-known side of Cuban culture.
Colonial laws maintained the social and physical security of English settlements in the New World. This essay compares those laws that attempted to define and regulate servants and labour in seventeenth-century Virginia and Jamaica. The laws reveal differences in the social composition of their early populations and in the relationships each colony had with the imperial government. Earlier laws reflect a greater concern with the economic value of labour. In the last two decades, however, the laws defined new social constructs that would dominate slave laws in the next century. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
"Throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean, various legal challenges have been brought to the imposition of the death penalty, the most recent series of which deals with the mandatory nature of the penalty's imposition for crimes of murder (or in some states, certain categories of murder). Efforts undertaken since the mid-1990s to challenge the legality of a mandatory death sentence finally paid off in 2002, when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Privy Council), acting as the highest appellate court for all but one of the Commonwealth Caribbean states, held in a series of three cases that such a sentence was contrary to the prohibition on inhuman punishment and therefore unconstitutional." (author)
Rizzo examines how lawyers represent their clients in the twilight years of the Old Regime France. During this period, lawyers always depict their clients as more metropolitan than their opponent in order to render colonial "others" both more exotic and more accessible to readers and judges.;
"There was no trial. No formal accusations. They just dumped all of the prisoners like animals into a cage," [Jan Mapou] recalls. "they stripped us and then crammed 14 of us into a small cell. We had no idea if we would ever see our families again. We had no idea if we would even be alive from one second to the next." Tell no one "When I first started working with Jan Mapou and the Sosyete Koukouy, I knew very little about the meanings of the daces I was performing," says Nancy St. Leger, who is now the dance troupe's choreographer. "Mapou opened me up to the significance of each dance. He didn't want the dance troupe to perform anything we didn't understand." "What Mapou is promoting through his work is not just Haitian culture but what Haitian culture represents," says [Yves Colon]. "He keeps alive those ideas of beauty, harmony and black pride which are all a part of what Mapou believes is Haitian culture.
A number of high-profile posts were to follow and Guyana's independence in 1966 brought fresh demands on his time. First he became Attorney-General and then, after a series of ministerial positions during the late '60s and early '70s, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. It has been speculated that his relentless pursuit for just international relations, and for trade based on justice, ultimately hindered his chances of being appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations. But to this day, Sir Shridath presses on. Sir Arthur Lewis IN 1979, Sir Arthur Lewis became a standard-bearer for Black intellectuals. He became the first person from the Caribbean ever to gain a Nobel Prize, winning the award for economics in 1979.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
301 p, Contents: The rise of class, race, and party : making differences, 1890-1949 -- The muting of distinction and the making of the "BVIslander", 1950-1990 -- Stereotypes and the immigrant problem -- Race, place, and citizenship -- Immigrants between legislated and chosen identities -- Making family, making genealogy : one hundred years of family land -- The Cadastral survey : a modern reordering of the territory -- Making history for the nation
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
346 p, Contents: 1. The Search for Origins: Women and the Division of Labour during Slavery and Indentureship -- 2. 'A Woman's Place': Colonial Ideology and the Reality of Women's Work 1898-1938 -- 3. The Politics of Sex, Race and Class -- 4. The Early Labour Movement -- 5. Women and Labour Struggles: 1900-1938 -- 6. The Early Women's Movement -- 7. The War and Post-War Economy and the Rise of the Middle Strata: 1939-1960 -- 8. Post-War Welfare Policy and 'Women's Work' -- 9. The Post-War Women's Movement: 1939-62 -- 10. Responsible Trade Unionism and the Woman Worker: 1939-62 -- 11. Constitutional Change and the New Nationalist Politics -- Chronology of Trade Union Development: 1919-1960
Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Expressão e Cultura : Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil-RJ
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
135 p., Quilombo / Carlos Otavio de Andrade, Salete Neme -- Senhor, escravo, e direito / João Luiz Duboc Pinaud -- A mulher escrava e o processo de insurreição / Maria Cândida Gomes de Souza, Jeannette Queiroz Garcia -- Transcrição dos autos crimes -- Transcrição insurreição -- Bibliografia (p. [233]-[236]).
"A discussion confined to the legal constraints on the press is a clear invitation to deal with law to the exclusion of the fundamental problems facing the mass media in a region which appears to be in a state of political, social, and ideological transition. This is so because the law exerts a disappearing influence on fundamental social and political issues." (author)
On April 1, 1680, Sir Jonathan Atkins, governor of Barbados, sent a box full of statistical data about his island to the Plantation Office at Whitehall. This mass of data, filed away among the Colonial Office papers, constitutes the most comprehensive surviving census of any English colony in the 17th century.
