TY - BOOK AU - Knight,Franklin W. AU - Martinez Vergne,Teresita ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context AV - F1741 .C66 2005eb U1 - 972.905/3 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Globalization KW - Antilles, Greater KW - Civilization KW - 21st century KW - Caribbean Area KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10273395 ER -