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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context /
Provides a measure of, as well as a model for, scholarship on globalization in the Caribbean. Highlighting social and cultural aspects of the region, these essays examine cultural phenomena in their creolized forms - from sports and religion to music and drink, from racial inequality and feminist ac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.