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2. As-Salaamu-Alaikum: The Invincibility of Islam in Jamaica Heritage
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Afroz,Sultana (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Spring/Summer, 2007
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean & Its Diasporas
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(2) : 5-39
- Notes:
- Investigates the Islamic heritage of the Maroon societies in Jamaica and the Islamic nature of the Baptist Rebellion which brought an end to slavery in Jamaica and in the British West Indies. The Maroons are the enslaved Muslims who took flight or ran away from plantations in Jamaica. An overview of the African diaspora in the Americas, including Jamaica and the West Indies is presented. The strong Islamic faith of the Maroons are manifested in their use of Qur'anic terms, Islamic salutation, Islamic governance, Muslim names and Islamic actions.
3. Bantos, malês e identidades negra
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lopes,Nei (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Belo Horizonte: Autêntica
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 239 p., Combines historical elements on the formation of Brazil in their ethnic identity and cultural character and shows the reader the contributions of Bantus in this process. Moreover, Nei Lopes sets new parameters on the relationship between Islam and negritude. By way of its involvement with the black cultural resistance in Brazil and Africa, presents the reader with a face of history unknown to most Brazilians.
4. Baye Faal of Senegambia: Muslims Rastas in the Promised Land?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Savishinsky,Neil J. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- London: Africa Magazine
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Africa
- Journal Title Details:
- 64(2) : 211-219
- Notes:
- Includes discussion of the lion as sacred symbol for the Baye Faal Islamic sect
5. Black crescent: the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gomez,Michael A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- New York: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 385 p, Chapters include "Caribbean Crescent" and "Brazilian Sambas"
6. Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Khan,Aisha (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 264 p
7. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Khan,Aisha (Author) and Veer,Peter van der (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 1995
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: University of Philadelphia Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 93-131
- Notes:
- Presented at the 47th Annual South Asia Seminar held at the University of Pennsylvania, 1991/1992.
8. Jamaica's Muslim Past: Misrepresentations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lewis,Maureen Warner (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: Caribbean Universities Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(2) : 294-316
- Notes:
- The revisionings proposed by Sultana Afroz regarding the pervasiveness of the African Islamic presence in plantation Jamaica are contested, on grounds of her falsification of demographic data and of contemporary historical sources, non-differentiation in the treatment of historical processes in West Africa, unsubstantiated or inadequate proof of claims, attribution of causality and relatedness to parallel phenomena, questionable etymological assertions, unfamiliarity with African cultural history, and a general tendency to make exaggerated and dogmatic statements. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
9. Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean: An Anthropological Reader
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Horowitz,Michael M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1971
- Published:
- Garden City, NY: Natural History Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 606 p, Contents: [Caribbean : culture and history] Caribbean as a socio-cultural area / Sidney W. Mintz. Origin of Negro slavery / Eric Williams -- [Language] New languages for old in the West Indies / Douglas Taylor -- [Race, Ethnicity, and Class] Social stratification and cultural pluralism / Lloyd E. Braithwaite. Social stratification and ethnic identification / Elliott P. Skinner. West Indian characteristics of the Black Carib / Nancie L. Solien -- [Plantations, peasants, and communities] Cuban counterpoint : tobacco and sugar / Fernando Ortiz. Specific aspects of plantation systems in the New World : community sub-cultures and social classes / Eric R. Wolf. Typology of rural community forms in the Caribbean / Michael M. Horowitz. Caribbean social type : neither "peasant" nor "proletarian" / Richard Frucht -- [Land tenure] Land tenure and the family in four selected communities in Jamaica / Edith Clarke. Land tenure in three Negro villages in British Guiana / Raymond T. Smith. Changing agricultural land use on Guadeloupe, French West Indies / Don R. Hoy. Patterns of land tenure in the Leeward and Windward Islands and their relevance to problems of agricultural development in the West Indies / Herman J. Finkel -- [Labor, economics, and internal marketing] Jamaican Fishing: a game theory analysis / William C. Davenport. Cooperative labor groups in Haiti / Alfred Metraux. Business of Higglering in Jamaica / Margaret Fisher Katzin. Kin groups in a Haitian market / Caroline J. Legerman. Traditional markets and marketers in the Cibao Valley of the Dominican Republic / Douglass G. Norvell & R.V. Billingsley -- [Domestic organization] Household and family in the Caribbean / Nancie L. Solien. Four categories of interpersonal relationships in the family and community in a Jamaican village. Life cycle in an East Indian village in Trinidad / Morton Klass. Culture and social structure in the Caribbean : some recent work on family and kinship studies / Raymond T. Smith. Decision model of conjugal patterns in Martinique / Michael M. Horowitz -- [Religion and folklore] Belief system of Haitian Vodun / George Eaton Simpson. Focus of Cuban Santeria / William R. Bascom. Carnival in nineteenth century Trinidad / Andrew Pearse. Animism and Islam among the Javanese in Surinam / Annemarie De Waal Malefijt. Revivalistic folk religious movement in Puerto Rico / Scott Cook. Rastafarian Brethren of Jamaica / Sheila Kitzinger