03096nam 22005774a 450 991082904130332120200520144314.0979-88-908789-7-70-8078-7690-9(CKB)1000000000462072(EBL)413207(OCoLC)476236225(SSID)ssj0000129618(PQKBManifestationID)11134867(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129618(PQKBWorkID)10079237(PQKB)10396767(Au-PeEL)EBL413207(CaPaEBR)ebr10273395(CaONFJC)MIL930664(MiAaPQ)EBC413207(EXLCZ)99100000000046207220050412d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context /edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martinez-VergneChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20051 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5634-7 0-8078-2972-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index.Introduction / Teresita Martinez-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 Benitez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negron-Muntaner -- Creolite 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.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.GlobalizationAntilles, GreaterCivilization21st centuryCaribbean AreaGlobalization.972.905/3Knight Franklin W682891Martinez Vergne Teresita0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829041303321Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context3935408UNINA