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" Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context / "
edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martínez-Vergne.
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968377
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b722747
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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context /\ edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martínez-Vergne.
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :: illustrations, map
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0807829722
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0807829722
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0807856347
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9780807829721
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9780807856345
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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 activism to indebtedness and economic uncertainty.
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Globalization.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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Civilization.
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Gesellschaft
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Globalisierung
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Globalization.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Kultur
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Antilles, Greater, Civilization, 21st century.
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Caribbean Area.
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Caribbean Area.
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Karibik
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West Indies, Greater Antilles.
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| Dewey Classification
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972.905/3
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F1741.C66 2005eb
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Knight, Franklin W.
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Martínez Vergne, Teresita.
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