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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context [electronic resource] / edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martínez-Vergne. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. - viii, 303 p. : ill., map.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN:

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA583983 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Globalization.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Antilles, Greater--Civilization--21st century.
Caribbean Area.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F1741 / .C66 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 972.905/3