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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Dominican-Haitians form political movement
By Karen Juanita Carrillo
This past December 2007, members of the Movimiento Politico Comunitario Dominico-Haitiano (MPCDH /Dominican-Haitian Community Political Movement) announced that they would begin pushing to have their members run for governmental positions in the Dominican Republic.
The MPCDH has announced that if its members are elected to government, they will make certain to represent Haitian-Dominican
interests.
Haitian-Dominican attorney Rubén Jean-Baptiste Latorti told the DR newspaper Diario Libre that the MPCDH wants to be known as the voice of Dominican-born Haitians. The MPCDH will “fight for a political-communitarian
space with the aim of ensurin g representation in the government across the national arena,” Latorti said.
Rubén Jean-Baptiste
Latorti
movimientodominicohaitiano.com
With a notorious past of neglect and abuse in the Dominican
Republic, Dominicans of Haitian origin had long looked to have their lives and property protected by representatives of the
DR government, by the neighboring government in Haiti, and even by non-governmental organizations working within the DR.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Uruguay: Spirit of Afro Resistance Alive in Candombe "In the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay, Afro-Uruguayans celebrate an often-ignored part of their
history - Candombe and resistance. For more than 200 years Afro descendants have maintained the tradition of Candombe,  a rhythm that traveled from Africa to Uruguay with African slaves. The music carries centuries of resistance and liberation,"
notes Marie Trigona in the article "Uruguay: Spirit of Afro Resistance Alive in Candombe." Photo of the Isla de Flores Comparsa
in Barrio Sur by Marie Trigona
"The word Candombe literally means place and dance of
Africans. The musical tradition evolved during the colonial area. Africans brought to Uruguay for slave labor used the
rhythm of the tambores, or drums, to communicate with each other and defy colonialists."
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The Sound of My Footsteps: Narratives of Migratory Jamaican immigrants
Interviews with over 30 Jamaican immigrants on their
pre-migratory perceptions of New York and England Click
here to view and purchase the book.
The Afro-Latin@ Reader:
History and Culture in the United States
 The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community
in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s
in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories
or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African
Americans. At the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African
Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity,
and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United
States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including
scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. Click here to view and purchase the book.
African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events by Karen Juanita Carrillo The proof
of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation
of the impact of African Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history
is to look at it as a continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just
such an opportunity. Click here to view and purchase the book.
The
View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future by Karen Juanita Carrillo The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the
present, and their hopes for the future is an introduction to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians
live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently won recognition as one of that nation's
distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians to reach even farther than
their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the United States as refugees and as political
activists working for peace in their homeland. The View from Chocó introduces the lives and struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks. Click here to view and purchase the book.
Raise Your Brown Black Fist is a collection of essays
written by Kevin Alberto Sabio during his time as a Contributing Writer  for an online magazine.
The book combines his two article series, "Black
vs Brown" and "Black Thoughts: A Political Ideological Perspective
for Afrolatinos" into one volume, plus three other miscellaneous entries. The book
is currently available through his publisher, AuthorHouse. Click
the logo above to view and purchase the book.
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