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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Knight, Franklin W., Martínez Vergne, Teresita
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Subjects:	Globalization. Antilles, Greater > Civilization > 21st century. Caribbean Area.
Online Access:	Publisher description

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.

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