Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Knight, Franklin W., Martínez Vergne, Teresita
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
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Table of 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.