| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) : illustrations, map |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization
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Globalization
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Gesellschaft
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Globalisierung
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Kultur
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| SUBJECT |
Antilles, Greater -- Civilization -- 21st century
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Caribbean Area. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020279
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Caribbean Area
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West Indies -- Greater Antilles
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Karibik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knight, Franklin W
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Martínez Vergne, Teresita
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| LC no. |
2005010529 |
| ISBN |
0807876909 |
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9780807876909 |
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0807829722 |
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9780807829721 |
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