Ballivián,Martín Miguel (Author), Cottrol,Robert J. (Author), and Encuentro Intercultural de Historia y Danza Afroboliviana (2nd : 2009 : Chimoré, Bolivia) (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
La Paz, Bolivia: Red Intercultural Martin Luther King : Fundación de Desarrollo para las Culturas y el Diálogo
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Revised translation of author's book review of Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 (New York : Oxford University Press, 2004) entitled "From emancipation to equality" and was published in American Quarterly (Vol. 57, no. 2, June 2005, p. 573-581), 28 p. + 1 DVD, Contents: 2do Encuentro Intercultural de Historia y Danza Afroboliviana en Chimoré -- El pueblo Afroboliviano en busca de un nuevo amanecer -- La lucha afrolatina por la equidad y reconocimiento.
Argues that patterns of gender exclusion occur on multiple levels from the transnational to the local, and identifies gender-specific obstacles in the recovery and reconstruction period. In Haiti, these include meeting family survival needs, violence and exploitation, and class and racially based stigmatization.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
23 p., The January 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti. The risk of rape and other forms of gender-based violence in Haiti's camps has increased dramatically in the past year. This report highlights the protection needs of women and girls in camps against the background of research undertaken by Amnesty International and other organizations on violence against women and girls after the earthquake.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
307 p, Contents: On diaspora and the Akan in the Americas -- Quest for the river, creation of the path: Akan cultural development to the sixteenth century -- History and meaning in Akan societies, 1500-1800 -- The most unruly: the Akan in Danish and Dutch America -- The antelope (adowa) and the elephant (esono): the Akan in the British Caribbean -- All of the Coromantee country: the Akan diaspora in North America -- Diaspora discourses : Akan spiritual praxis and the claims of cultural idenitity
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
223 p., "This collection is wide-ranging, moving from the Caribbean (Jamaica in particular) to Cambridge, England, and from poetry to sex to discrimination." -Library Journal
