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2. Afro-Puerto Rican oral histories
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Géliga Vargas,Jocelyn A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collaborative anthropologies
- Journal Title Details:
- 4: 90-118
- Notes:
- Testimonios afropuertorriqueños: Un proyecto de historia oral en el oeste de Puerto Rico (Afro-Puerto Rican testimonies: An oral history project in western Puerto Rico) is a collaborative research project launched in September 2006. Its purpose is recording the voices, memories, and histories of contemporary Afro-Puerto Ricans in order to fertilize debates about racial constructions and discourses in Puerto Rico and democratize the forum of discussion, representation, and analysis of Afro-Puerto Rican history and identities.
3. The Cultural Currency of Afro-Caribbeans in Northamptonshire c. 1960-1990
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Watley,George (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Midland History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 245-261
- Notes:
- This article addresses how Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbeans c. 1960-1990 were simultaneously part of the transformation from people of the Caribbean with individual island identities or nationalities into Afro-Caribbean British people whilst helping to shape this ethno-racial development. Oral history has been integral in conducting this research. Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) interviews from 2002 to 2005 supplemented the interviews conducted by the author in 2009-10. Economic concepts derived from understanding monetary currencies and flight to quality will be used to help historians understand how culture and its manifestations are forms, and have systems, of exchange. These monetary concepts will also be used to create an understanding of cultural currency, as well as the frameworks for analysing how acquiring strong cultural currencies often leads to a process of exchange for other strong cultural currencies. Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbean organisations and individuals' usage of their historical and developed cultural currencies to obtain greater ethnoracial pride will be illuminated in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
4. Engaging Community: Exploring the African-Canadian Experience through Dialogue and Script Writing
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kelly,Jennifer R. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2)
- Notes:
- Examines the process of producing a play script based on data generated through oral history interviews undertaken with people from the Caribbean who came to Alberta in the 1960s to early 1970s. This process resulted in unearthing of new knowledge, insights, and understandings within African-Canadian communities in Alberta.
5. The Social Memory of Arará in Cuba: Oral Histories from Perico and Agramonte
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Crosby,Jill Flanders (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Southern Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(4) : 91-109
- Notes:
- The article discusses the oral histories of the Arará people in Perico and Agramonte, Cuba, and their roots in African cultural practices. The spiritual Arará religion is discussed. Emphasis is placed on similarities between African and Arará dances, social memory, and communication with the dead. Various Arará deities and religious objects are discussed. Many practitioners of the religion believe such objects came from Africa. Many of the oral stories revolve around the experiences of both African slaves and freed people at the España sugar refinery. It is believed the Arará people are descended from the African Ewe and Fon people, and therefore are strongly influenced by their religious customs.
6. Diasporic Memories: Community, Individuality, and Creativity-A Life Stories Perspective
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chamberlain,Mary (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- September, 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Oral History Review: Journal of the Oral History Association
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 177-187
- Notes:
- Can we talk of a collective, diasporic memory? Argues that in the case of the African-Caribbean community, there are distinctive features - such as the need to tell and the need to connect - which suggest that this diasporic memory is framed through identifiable cultural templates, which distinguish it from the memories of migrants.
7. First-time: the historical vision of an African American people
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Price,Richard (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 189 p., Traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. The top half of each page presents a direct transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors, "Maroons" who had escaped slavery and settled in the rain forests of Suriname. Below these transcripts, Richard Price provides commentaries placing the Saramaka accounts into broader social, intellectual, and historical contexts.
8. Museum seeks interviews for immigration project
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Browne,J. Zamgba (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-08-14
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 2
- Notes:
- The Department of the Interior is seeking interviews with black people who went through Ellis Island when coming to America as part of an oral history project for the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.
9. Cayman yesterdays: an album of childhood memories
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McLaughlin,Heather R. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- George Town, Grand Cayman Island: Cayman Islands National Archive
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 73 p., "A collection of stories and reminiscences from the tapes of the Cayman Islands Memory Bank, illustrated with photographs from the Cayman Islands National Museum collection and many private collections."