African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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406 p, In the first systematic study of the politics and culture of the Afro-Caribbean migration to the U.S., historian Wintson James explains the enigma of political radicalism among Caribbean migrants. This important work shows that streams of Afro-Caribbean migration constituted a vibrant link between African Americans and the continent from which their ancestors were wrenched centuries ago. 256 pp;
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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240p., Contents: Introduction : downtown stirs -- The Henry Rebellion, counter-hegemony and Jamaican democracy -- NUFF at the cusp of an idea : grassroots guerrillas and the politics of the seventies in Trinidad and Tobago -- The harder dragon : resistance in Earl Lovelace's Dragon can't dance and Michael Thelwell's Harder they come -- Carl Stone : political science as people's tribune -- Remembering Michael Manley : 1924-1997 -- Careening on the edge of the abyss : driving, hegemony and the rule of law in Jamaica -- Conclusion : the Caribbean Left at century's end.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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278 p., In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise.
