Leland,Andrea E. (Director) and Berger,Kathy L. (Director)
Format:
Video/DVD
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Hohokus, NJ: New Day Films
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
1 videocassette (46 min., 30 sec.) + 1 study guide (49 p.), Genocide, exile, Diaspora and persecution did not break the spirit of the Garifuna people. Descendants of African and Carib-Indian ancestors, the Garifuna fought to maintain their homeland on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. The Garifuna resisted slavery. For this love of freedom, they were exiled from St. Vincent to Roatan in Honduras by the British in 1797. Despite exile and subsequent Diaspora, their traditional culture survives today. It is a little known story that deserves its place in the annals of the African Diaspora. In first person Garifuna voices, this documentary presents the history, the language, food, music, dance and spirituality of the Garifuna culture. It is a celebratory documentary, with engaging scenes of fishing, cooking, dancing, cassava preparation, thatching a temple, spiritual ritual, ritual music and dance all demonstrating the Garifuna link to the Carib-African past.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
402 p., Intends to illuminate old creole societies and emerging cultures and identities in many parts of the world. This book covers areas that include Latin America, the South Atlantic/Indian oceans, the Caribbean, West and East Africa, the Pacific and the US. It provides a reader-friendly and informative overview of creolization. Includes Jean Bernabe, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphael Confiant's "In Praise of Creolite" and Mary Gallagher's "Creolite Movement: Paradoxes of a French Caribbean Orthodoxy," Gordon Rohlehr's "Calypso Reinvents Itself" and Aisha Khan's "Sacred Subversions? Syncretic Creoles, the Indo-Caribbean and 'CULTURES In-Between'."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
247 p., The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. The three British colonies of Grenada, Trinidad and Demerera were characterized by insecurity and personified by the high mobility of people and ideas across empires; it was a part of the Caribbean that, more than any other region, provided an example of the liminal space of contested empires. Because of the multiculturalism inherent in this part of the world, as well as the undeveloped protean nature of the region, this was a place of shifting borderland communities and transient ideas, where women in motion and free people of color played a central role.
