Research Catalog

Title

Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean : social dynamics and cultural transformations / compiled, edited, and with a general introduction by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Arlene Torres.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
• Torres, Arlene

Description

2 v.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Blacks in the diaspora

Subject

• Black people > Caribbean Area > History
• Latin America > Race relations
• Caribbean Area > Race relations
• Black people > Race identity
• Social change
• Functionalism (Social sciences)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

v. 1. Central America and Northern and Western South America: To forge the future in the fires of the past : an interpretive essay on racism, domination, resistance, and liberation / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Arlene Torres. "To rescue national dignity" [Ecuador] / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Diego Quiroga. Crisis, contraculture, and religion among West Indians in the Panama Canal Zone / R.S. Bryce-Laporte. The Black diaspora in Costa Rica / Philippe Bourgois. Structural continuity in the division of men's and women's work among the Black Carib (Garífuna) [Belize] / Virginia Kerns. Ritual and resource flow : the Garifuna dugu / Carol L. Jenkins. Ritual enactment of sex roles in the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador-Colombia / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Gold mining and descent [Colombia] / Nina S. de Friedemann. Africans and Indians : a comparative study of the Black Carib and Black Seminole [Honduras, Belize, Florida] / Rebecca B. Bateman. Pantera Negra : a messianic figure of historical resistance and cultural survival among Maroon descendants in southern Venezuela / Berta Pérez. The selling of San Juan [Venezuela] / David M. Guss. Policing boundaries : race, class, and gender in Cartagena, Colombia / Joel Streicker. The cultural politics of Blackness in Colombia / Peter Wade. Stratification and pluralism in the Bolivian Yungas / Madeline Barbara Léons. Black traders of North Highland Ecuador / Kathleen Klumpp. Migrants in Medellín / Peter Wade. "We are people of the Yungas, we are the Saya race" / Robert Whitney Templeman. Folk healing and the structure of conquest in Southwest Colombia / Michael Taussig -- v. 2. Eastern South America and the Caribbean: To forge the future in the fires of the past / Arlene Torres and Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Eastern South America and the Caribbean / Arlene Torres and Norman Whitten, Jr. Blacks and the Abertura democrática [Brazil] / Michael Mitchell. The Negro problem in a class society, 1951-1960 [Brazil] / Florestan Fernandes. Race, class, and politics in Guyana / Ralph C. Gomes. Ethnicity and resource competition in Guyanese society / Leo A. Despres. The cultural continuum [Guyana] / Lee Drummond. The historical context of Nengre kinship and residence : ethnohistory of the family organization of lower status Creoles in Paramaribo / B. Edward Pierce. Sexism and the construction of reality [Suriname] / Sally Price. Dancing for Ògún in Yorubaland and in Brazil / Margaret Thompson Drewal. La gran familia puertorriqueña "Ej prieta de Beldá" / Arlene Torres. Stratification in Grenada / M.G. Smith. West Indian version : literature, history, and identity [Grenada] / Douglas Midgett. Stick song [Trinidad] / John Stewart. The contemporary migration cultures at St. Kitts and Nevis / Bonham C. Richardson. Gender and ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory / Kevin A. Yelvington. Women in Jamaica's urban informal economy : insights from a Kingston slum / Faye V. Harrison. Culture and ideology in the English-speaking Caribbean : a view from Jamaica / Diane J. Austin. Celebrating cricket : the symbolic construction of Caribbean politics [Bermuda] / Frank E. Manning. Rumba : social and aesthetic change in Cuba / Yvonne Daniel. The voodooization of politics in Haiti / Michel S. Laguerre.

Call Number

Sc E 99-95

ISBN

• 0253334047 (v. 1 : cl : alk. paper)
• 025321193X (v. 1 : pa : alk. paper)
• 0253334063 (v. 2 : cl : alk. paper)
• 0253211948 (v. 2 : pa : alk. paper)

LCCN

97044093

OCLC

38061504

Title

Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean : social dynamics and cultural transformations / compiled, edited, and with a general introduction by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Arlene Torres.

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998.

Series

Blacks in the diaspora

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-

Torres, Arlene.

Research Call Number

Sc E 99-95

JFE 99-3271