Globalization and survival in the Black diaspora : the new urban challenge / edited by Charles Green.

Other author Green, Charles (Charles St. Clair)
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Description396 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSUNY series in Afro-American studies
SUNY series in Afro-American studies. ^A236574
Contents Introduction : globalization, challenge, and the Black diaspora / Charles Green -- Reaction and resistance : confronting economic crisis, structural adjustment, and devaluation in Dakar, Senegal / Carolyn Somerville -- Meeting the challenge in an African city : Nairobi's informal economy in the 1980s and 1990s / Kinuthia Macharia -- Where do the majority live in urban Tanzania : why and how? / Joe L.P. Lugalla -- Post-invasion Panama : urban crisis and social protests / George Priestley -- Rap in Puerto Rico : reflections from the margins / Raquel Z. Rivera -- Neoliberalism in Venezuela : from urban riots to presidential impeachment / Esther I. Madriz -- An unsavory union : poverty, racism, and the murders of street youth in Brazil / Vânia Penha-Lopes -- Urbanism, transnationalism, and the Caribbean : the case of Trinidad and Tobago / Charles Green -- Power and identity among the urban poor of Jamaica / Obika Gray -- Women, urbanization, and structural adjustment in St. Vincent / Joyce Toney -- The political economy of the Black urban future : a history / Gerald Horne -- By all means necessary : rapping and resisting in urban Black America / Kevin Arlyck -- Crisis and lifestyles of inner-city bloods : youth culture as a response to the urban environment / Kwando M. Kinshasa -- The distorted images of African Canadians : impact, implications, and responses / Carl E. James -- Urban outcasts : stigma and division in the Black American ghetto and the French urban periphery / Loïc J.D. Wacquant -- Racism, Black people, and the city in Britain / Stephen Small -- Conclusion : beyond the 21st century / Charles Green.
Local noteLittle-303360--305131009002O
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96041495
ISBN079143415X (alk. paper)
ISBN0791434168 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HT1581 .G694 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold