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

Contributor(s): Knight, Franklin W | Martinez Vergne, Teresita | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005Description: viii, 303 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Globalization | Antilles, Greater -- Civilization -- 21st century | Caribbean AreaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 972.905/3 LOC classification: F1741 | .C66 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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