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12. Metamorphic literatures: Voicing a new movement
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bidell,Heather Naori (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York: State University of New York at Buffalo
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 159 p., Metamorphic literatures is both the identification of a cohesive group of texts, as well as the assertion that these particular texts are part of a global literary movement. The literatures coming out of this movement fundamentally seek to (1) resist colonization and enslavement, (2) re-vision history and resurface figures of redress, and (3) reimagine gender, sexualities, and the queer diasporic body. The tropes of this new literary movement that are expanded upon in the following work will organize the language, characteristics, and outlines of this movement of contemporary diasporic writers.
13. Music in Diasporic Context: The Case of Curaçao and Intra-Caribbean Migration
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Allen,Rose Mary (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012 /Fall
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(2) : 51-65
14. No Bigger Challenge Facing the Global Community
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Daniels,Ron (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 8-Apr 14, 2010
- Published:
- Nashville, TN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Tennessee Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 : 6A
- Notes:
- Obviously, Haitians in the country and the Haitian Diaspora must play the leading roles in rebuilding the nation. Therefore, it is not surprising that there was a flurry of meetings and conferences leading up to the major UN Donor's Conference where Haiti presented its Development Plan. The OAS convened a major meeting in Washington March 21-23 to secure the input of the Haitian Diaspora and Haiti experts. March 26-27, I was privileged to attend the conference convened by the Trotter Institute, the National Haitian American Elected Officials Network (NHAEON) and the Haitian Studies Project at the University of Massachusetts/ Boston. Organized ground the theme: Haitians Building Haiti: Towards Transparent and Accountable Development, it was an incredibly well designed and facilitated conference. I was very impressed by the genuine effort to create an environment where views of the community and the conferees could be heard on the critical issues of the principles and strategies which should guide the reconstruction process. In that regard, the sessions were profoundly enriched by the participation of leading organizations from civil society who traveled to the conference from Haiti. A recurrent refrain from these organizations was deep concern that their voices and those of grassroots organizations on the ground were not part of the process when the Government formulated the Plan that was presented at the Donor's conference. There was a sense of anger and frustration that the Plan appears to be a fait accompli without widespread engagement of the Haitian people. To his credit President [Preval] has shown a remarkable capacity to bring people from divergent political parties into his Government; indeed it is one of the unheralded achievements of his second tenure in office. Now his Government has the opportunity to utilize that attitude and posture of inclusion to conduct a National Dialogue that could become the hallmark of his presidency. The Donor Conference concluded with a pledge of $10 billion over the next four years to rebuild Haiti. If there is to be a new Haiti, however, no dollar amount will be sufficient to achieve that goal. What is required is a new way of tapping the energy of Haiti's greatest resource, its people. A National Dialogue on Building the New Haiti could give new meaning to L'Union Fait La Force in the 21st Century!
15. Out of many, one
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pryce,Vinette K. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 31-Nov 6, 2013
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 44 : 4-4,16
- Notes:
- "Jamaicans are too rich to be so poor, too blessed to be so stressed, too anointed to be so disappointed" Jamaica's fonner Prime Minister Bruce Golding said after outlining some of the issues which plague the population of 2.5 million he once governed. The reputed orator in candor thanked the protestors for taking time to show up on his behalf. Perhaps, PM Golding's refusal to extradite Christopher "Dudus" Coke and later his approval to adhere to requests from the USA might have resulted in his decision to retire from politics. "Government cannot mobilize the diaspora," PM Golding added, "and cannot operate primarily around patriotism" but must be businesslike.
16. Perspective in Africana Feminism; Exploring Expressions of Black Feminism/Womanism in the African Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Norwood,Carolette (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 2013
- Published:
- Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sociology Compass
- Journal Title Details:
- 7(3) : 225-236
- Notes:
- Discusses perspectives in Africana feminist thought. While, not an exhaustive review of the entire diaspora, three regions are discussed: Africa, North America, and the Caribbean.
17. Pledge your talents, resources to Jamaica, ambassador tells diaspora in U.S
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2010
- Published:
- Miami, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 : 8
- Notes:
- She said Jamaica is determined to become the model for economic revitalization of the hemisphere and for securing the country's well-being. During the ceremony, [Audrey Marks] was recognized by Martin O'Malley, governor of Maryland, with a citation honoring her as Jamaica's first female ambassador to Washington. The citation was presented by Jamaican-born Shirley Natham-Pulliam, the Maryland House of Assembly delegate.
18. Remittances and Their Unintended Consequences in Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Eckstein,Susan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2010
- Published:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- World Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(7) : 1047-1055
- Notes:
- After Soviet aid and trade ended Cuba was forced to reintegrate into the capitalist world economy. Needing hard currency, the government transformed the diaspora into a dollar attaining strategy, by facilitating and tacitly encouraging remittance-sending. Ordinary Cubans themselves wanted remittances to finance a lifestyle they could not otherwise afford. Despite their shared interest in remittances, the government increasingly appropriated remittances at recipients' expense.
19. Sekoto and Negritude: The Ante-room of French Culture
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Eyene,Christine (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Third Text
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(4) : 423-435
- Notes:
- Gerard Sekoto (1913-1993), one of the pioneers of African Modernism, left South Africa in 1947 to further his art training in France and engage with the School of Paris that had been so influential in the development of South African Modern art. Having managed to overcome the colour bar in a society that was racially divided well before the advent of Apartheid, Sekoto found himself alienated in post-war Paris. A Black African with no command of the French language, stumbling against the Euro-centrism of the Parisian art scene, he found a sense of community with the French-speaking African and Caribbean Diaspora rallied behind the concept of Negritude.
20. Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Michael Garfield (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 1978
- Published:
- Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Co.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- p. 763-916
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