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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context [electronic resource] / edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martínez-Vergne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.Description: viii, 303 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 972.905/3 22
LOC classification:
  • F1741 .C66 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Teresita Martínez-Vergne and Franklin W. Knight -- Challenges to Caribbean economies in the era of globalization / Helen McBain -- Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian economy / Alex Dupuy -- Creolization in Havana: the oldest form of globalization / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Creolité in the hood: diaspora as source and challenge / Juan Flores -- Glocal spirituality: consumerism and heritage in a Puerto Rican Afro-Latin folk religion / Raquel Romberg -- Women's grass-roots organizations in the Dominican Republic: real and imagined female figures / Valentina Peguero -- Race and politics in Cuba / Aline Helg -- Jamaican reggae and the articulation of social and historical consciousness in musical discourse / Jorge L. Giovannetti -- Rum, revolution, and globalization: past, present, and future of a Caribbean product / Anthony P. Maingot.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index.

Introduction / Teresita Martínez-Vergne and Franklin W. Knight -- Challenges to Caribbean economies in the era of globalization / Helen McBain -- Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian economy / Alex Dupuy -- Creolization in Havana: the oldest form of globalization / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Creolité in the hood: diaspora as source and challenge / Juan Flores -- Glocal spirituality: consumerism and heritage in a Puerto Rican Afro-Latin folk religion / Raquel Romberg -- Women's grass-roots organizations in the Dominican Republic: real and imagined female figures / Valentina Peguero -- Race and politics in Cuba / Aline Helg -- Jamaican reggae and the articulation of social and historical consciousness in musical discourse / Jorge L. Giovannetti -- Rum, revolution, and globalization: past, present, and future of a Caribbean product / Anthony P. Maingot.

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