Las Antillas para los Antillanos

Emeterio Betances, Ramón, Las Antillas para los antillanos, Prologo, selección, traducciones y notas del Doctor Carlos M. Rama, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1975.

The Antillean Confederation was the vehement idea of Ramón Emeterio Betances about the need for natives of the Caribbean to unite into a regional entity that would seek to preserve the sovereignty and well-being of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Supporters of the idea wanted to free Cuba and Puerto Rico, later uniting them with the Dominican Republic, creating a united Spanish Caribbean nation, an idea that had a significant level of support in these islands during the mid-late 1800s. Some supporters even wanted to include Haiti or Colombia into this union, however this was not supported by all.

Regionalization of Health Services: The Puerto Rican Experience

Arbona, Guillermo, & Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano, Regionalization of Health Services: The Puerto Rican Experience, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

From the cover:

Puerto Rico began implementing a regional scheme of health services more than thirty years ago. This monograph describes the structural and functional aspects of this effort, including the construction of health facilities of graded complexity, the delineation of tiers of authority and responsibility, and the creation of linkages between institutions to foster the flow of patients, personnel and resources among the different levels. Inevitably, the regionalization process involved overcoming organizational inertia and fighting against professional parochialism, entrenched interests, and highly prized political values. The monograph thus stresses the milieu within which changes took place, and the methods employed – from persuasion to administrative fiat – to bring them about.

Las Américas Negras: Las Civilizaciones Africanas en el Nuevo Mundo

Bastide, Roger, Las Américas negras: las civilizaciones africanas en el nuevo mundo, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1969.

Les Amériques noires. Les civilisations africaines dans le Nouveau Monde reseñado en el Journal de la Société des Américanistes Vol. 57 (1968).

De la cubierta:

Las Américas Negras es un apasionante estudio de las diversas etapas recorridas por esas culturas – trasplantadas por la fuerza y modificadas en su relación con el mundo circundante – desde las “naciones” de la época de la esclavitud (toleradas por los blancos o constituidas por cimarrones en la libertad de las selvas y de los montes) hasta la época actual. Roger Bastide, profesor de la Sorbona, sociólogo y etnólogo de prestigio mundial, aporta gran cantidad de datos – muchos de ellos recogidos en el Brasil y el Caribe – acerca del papel desempeñado en esta dolorosa adaptación por las religiones (bien sean fieles a los modelos ancestrales, como la Yoruba, o fruto de multiples influencias, como el Vodú haitiano), los ritos y el folclore. El libro concluye con una panorámica de las nuevas perspectivas que la transformación industrial abre a las supervivencias africanas en América. Si bien la progresiva desaparición de las comunidades campesinas, la incorporación de los negros a las ciudades y la lucha por la igualdad de derechos implica el abandono de viejas herencias y la occidentalización, la ideología de la “negritud” contribuirá a la cohesión cultural de los descendientes de los antiguos esclavos y proyectará la imagen de un Africa mítica en el mundo excesivamente racionalizado y utilitario de los blancos.

Roger Bastide (Nîmes, 1 April 1898 – Maisons-Laffitte, 10 April 1974) was a French sociologist and anthropologist, specialist in sociology and Brazilian literatura. He was raised as a Protestant and studied philosophy in France, developing at the same time an interest for sociological issues. His first sociological field research, in 1930–31, was about immigrants from Armenia to Valence, France. As scholars later noticed, already in his first works about the Armenians he was interested in how the memory of a different culture survives when a group of people moves to a faraway land, a theme that will become crucial in his studies of African populations in Brazil. In 1938, the University of São Paulo asked him to succeed Claude Lévi-Strauss in its chair of Sociology. He remained in Brazil until 1957, and in 1958 moved back to France, where he became a professor of Sociology of religion at the Sorbonne University. In 1958, shortly before starting his course at the Sorbonne, Bastide had made his first research trip to Africa, exploring the traditional religions of Dahomey and Nigeria. Bastide devoted the last part of his career to social psychology. In 1959, he created in Paris the Center for Social Psychiatry. After the death of Georges Gurvitch in 1965, he also became the director of the Paris Center for the Sociology of Knowledge.

The Racialists of Guyana

Education and Research Committee of the People’s Progressive Party, The Racialists of Guyana, Guyana: Education and Research Committee of the People’s Progressive Party, n.d. (fragile pamphlet)

The People's Progressive Party /Civic (PPP/C) is a centre-left to left-leaning political party in Guyana. (...) The PPP was founded on 1 January 1950 as a merger of the British Guiana Labour Party led by Forbes Burnham and the Political Affairs Committee led by Cheddi Jagan,[5] and was the first mass party in the country. It was initially a multi-ethnic party supported by workers and intellectuals.[6] The party held its first congress on 1 April 1951. Its third congress was held in 1953, with Burnham unsuccessfully seeking to become party leader.[7] The party went on to win the 1953 elections, taking 18 of the 24 elected seats in the House of Assembly, resulting in Jagan becoming Chief Minister.

Los Trabajadores Puertorriqueños y el Partido Socialista (1932-1940)

Silvestrini, Blanca, Los trabajadores puertorriqueños y el Partido Socialista (1932-1940), Río Piedras: Editorial Universitaria, 1979.

Reseñado en el Latin American Research Review Vol. 16, No. 2 (1981).

Blanca Silvestrini se graduó de la Universidad de Puerto Rico con un doctorado en Historia de América Latina. Luego realizó un posgrado en el Departamento de la Historia de la Ciencia en Harvard. Dio clases en la Universidad de Puerto Rico y luego le empezó a interesarle el campo del Derecho y la Sociedad. Fue vicepresidenta en asuntos estudiantiles de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.

The Coalition Exposed: A Series of Nine Articles by the Leader of the P.P.P.

Jagan, Cheddi, The Coalition Exposed: A Series of Nine Articles by the Leader of the P.P.P., Guyana: People’s Progressive Party, n.d. (fragile pamphlet)

Available at Memorial University of Newfoundland - Digital Archives Initiative.

Cheddi Berret Jagan (22 March 1918 – 6 March 1997) was a Guyanese politician and dentist who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964. He later served as President of Guyana from 1992 to his death in 1997. Jagan is widely regarded in Guyana as the Father of the Nation.[1] In 1953, he became the first person of Indian descent to be a head of government outside of South Asia.

Consequences of Class and Color: West Indian Perspectives

Lowenthal, David & Lambros Comitas, Eds., Consequences of Class and Color: West Indian Perspectives, New York: Anchor Press, 1973.

Available online, (pdf).

Contents:

Garvey, M. The race question in Jamaica (1916)
Hadley, C. V. D. Personality patterns, social class, and aggression in the British West Indies (1949)
Nettleford, R. National identity and attitudes to race in Jamaica (1965)
Mau, J. A. The threatening masses: myth or reality? (1965)
James, C. L. R. The middle classes (1962)
Espinet, A. Honours and paquotille (1965)
A young Jamaican nationalist. Realism and race (1961)
Jacobs, H. P. Reality and race: a reply to "Realism and race" (1961)
Anonymous. The favored minorities (1970)
Williams, E. Education in the British West Indies (1951)
Seaga, E. P. G. Parent-teacher relationships in a Jamaican village (1955)
Smith, M. G. Education and occupational choice in rural Jamaica (1960)
Alleyne, M. C. Language and society in St. Lucia (1961)
Efron, E. French and Creole patois in Haiti (1954)
Braithwaite, L. The problem of cultural integration in Trinidad (1954)
Dathorne, O. R. Caribbean narrative (1966)
Carr, W. I. The West Indian novelist: prelude and context (1965)
Walcott, D. Meanings (1970)