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Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
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ISBN-10: 0853456259
ISBN-13: 9780853456254
Published: 1979-01-01
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
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Cabral is among the great figures of our time — these texts provide the evidence.
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Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction
Author: Kesha Fikes
ISBN-10: 0822345129
ISBN-13: 9780822345121
Published: 2009-11-17
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
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In Managing African Portugal, Kesha Fikes shows how the final integration of Portugal’s economic institutions into the European Union (EU) in the late 1990s changed everyday encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This economic transition is examined through transformations in ideologies of difference enacted in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. Fikes evaluates shifts in racial discourse and considers how both antiracism and racism instantiate proof of Portugal’s European “conversion” and modernization.The ethnographic focus is a former undocumented fish market that at one time employed both Portuguese and Cape Verdean women. Both groups eventually sought work in low-wage professions as maids, nannies, and restaurant-kitchen help. The visibility of poor Portuguese women as domestics was thought to undermine the appearance of Portuguese modernity; by contrast, the association of poor African women with domestic work confirmed it. Fikes argues that we can better understand how Portugal interpreted its economic absorption into the EU by attending to the different directions in which working-poor Portuguese and Cape Verdean women were routed in the mid-1990s and by observing the character of the new work relationships that developed among them. In Managing African Portugal, Fikes pushes for a study of migrant phenomena that considers not only how the enactment of citizenship by the citizen manages the migrant, but also how citizens are simultaneously governed through their uptake and assumption of new EU citizen roles.
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Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island)
Author: Marilyn Halter
ISBN-10: 0252063260
ISBN-13: 9780252063268
Published: 1993-05-01
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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The Making of the Cape Verdean
Author: Manuel E. Costa Sr.
ISBN-10: 1463401345
ISBN-13: 9781463401344
Published: 2011-05-19
Publisher: AuthorHouse
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The Making of the Cape Verdean is a book written about Cape Verdeans who migrated from the Cape Verde Islands in the late 1800's to the 1970's to New Bedford Massachusetts. The book is based on the historical facts about the Portuguese colonization of the Cape Verde islands and its people located off the West Coast of Africa. The author provides the history of colonization under Portuguese rule of Salazar and how the Cape Verdean people survived famine, imprisonment, torture, politcal unrest and the abandonment of the Portuguese government. In addition, the author gives you a voyeuristic view of what life was like growing up in the Cape Verdean community in New Bedford after they migrated to the United States. This book is a powerful recap of of Cape Verdeans from this period and location. There is no other documentation that captures the Cape Verdeans the way "The Making of the Cape Verdean" does in this book.
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Nantucket's People of Color: Essays on History, Politics and Community
Author: Robert Johnson
ISBN-10: 0761834958
ISBN-13: 9780761834953
Published: 2006-08-30
Publisher: University Press Of America
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Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. While most other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket worked as free people and established communities and institutions such as schools and churches. This anthology examines the relationships that developed between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along 'racial' lines. This anthology is the culmination of more than ten years of scholarly research on the culture and history of Nantucket Island by James Bradford Ames Scholars. The James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program was established at the University of Massachusetts Boston to foster research into the history and culture of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket.
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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde (Historical Dictionaries of Africa)
Author: Richard A., Jr. Lobban
ISBN-10: 0810849062
ISBN-13: 9780810849068
Published: 2007-06-11
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
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The archipelago forming the Republic of Cape Verde consists of 21 islands and inlets, 9 of which are inhabited. First discovered by Portuguese sailors around 1455, the islands were set up as a strategically secure base for trade along the West African coast and became stopover points for such famous navigators as Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus. This small nation achieved independence from Portuguese rule in 1975, first as a nationalist one-party state and then in 1991 transforming into a plural democracy. Since independence, its growing tourism business has improved the living conditions of this once poor and undeveloped nation into the promising up-and-coming country it is today.This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde offers a comprehensive history of the country, linking the pre-colonial and colonial past with postcolonial events. Through newly created maps, a detailed chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important political and cultural events, historical figures, places, political organizations, and cultural groups as well as abstract cultural, social, political, and economic topics, this valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, and teachers of African studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to providing the most extensive and up-to-date assessment of Cape Verde history available.
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Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony To Independent Nation (Nations of the Modern World)
Author: Richard A Lobban
ISBN-10: 0813335620
ISBN-13: 9780813335629
Published: 1998-07-17
Publisher: Westview Press
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The Cape Verde Islands, an Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Senegal, were first settled during the Portuguese Age of Discovery in the fifteenth century. A “Crioulo” population quickly evolved from a small group of Portuguese settlers and large numbers of slaves from the West African coast. In this important new study, Dr. Richard Lobban sketches Cape Verde’s complex history over five centuries, from its role in the slave trade through its years under Portuguese colonial administration and its protracted armed struggle on the Guinea coast for national independence, there and in Cape Verde.Dr. Lobban offers a rich ethnography of the islands, exploring the diverse heritage of Cape Verdeans who have descended from Africans, Europeans, and Luso-Africans. Looking at economics and politics, Lobban reflects on Cape Verde’s efforts to achieve economic growth and development, analyzing the move from colonialism to state socialism and on to a privatized market economy built around tourism, fishing, small-scale mining, and agricultural production. He then chronicles Cape Verde’s peaceful transition from one-party rule to elections and political pluralism. He concludes with an overview of the prospects for this tiny oceanic nation on a pathway to development.
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Cape Verdean-American Vietnam War Veterans of New Bedford, Massachusetts
Author: Jose A. Tavares dos Anjos
ISBN-10: 0557176840
ISBN-13: 9780557176847
Published: 2010-02-03
Publisher: lulu.com
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This is a compilation of Cape Verdean-Americans from the New Bedford, Massachusetts area who were Vietnam War veterans.
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Atlantic Islands: Madeira, the Azores, and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation (Studies in the History of Discoveries)
Author: Thomas Bentley Duncan
ISBN-10: 0226170012
ISBN-13: 9780226170015
Published: 1972-06
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
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The Fortunate Isles: A Study in African Transformation
Author: Basil Davidson
ISBN-10: 0865431221
ISBN-13: 9780865431225
Published: 1990-02
Publisher: Africa World Press
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