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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
Media Unites to Fight Stereotypes
"With help from Plan
International," journalist Elizabeth Eames Roebling
writes in an article for Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS) "six Dominican journalists who run espacinsular.org as volunteers recently organised a three-day meeting of Haitian and Dominican journalists. Their website carries news articles
from both Haitian and Dominican news sources translated respectively into Spanish and French in order to promote better cross-cultural
understanding.
"The Nov. 14-16 meeting drew 50 representatives from newspapers, radio and television -- 25
Haitians and 25 Dominicans. All agreed to work towards better understanding between the two nations, draw the attention of
their respective governments to the needs of the border region, and focus on specific human rights violations rather than
allowing individual aggressions to escalate into disputes between their two nations.
"A group of eight media
representatives was selected to form an ongoing network, the 'Dominican-Haitian Binational Press Network.' "
Obama's rise forces Brazil to look at racial divide"Barack Obama's rise to power in the United States has exposed cracks in Brazil's
self-image as a racially integrated society, with many seeing the Latin American giant years away from electing a Black president,"
Ana Nicolaci da Costa writes in an article for Reuters. "With only a few Blacks in top government posts, deep-rooted, veiled racism
in a country that is among the world's most racially mixed has prevented the emergence of a serious Black presidential
candidate."
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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
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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
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