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

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.905/3
• Soggetto topico: Globalization
• Soggetto geografico: Antilles, Greater Civilization 21st century; Caribbean Area
• Altri autori: KnightFranklin W Martínez VergneTeresita
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context
• ISBN: 979-88-908789-7-7; 0-8078-7690-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777525803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II