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CCDI Grant Resources

Introduction

Informational Materials

You have access to many print materials for this project through the UHD Library. These materials are good for gathering information about your topic.

Copyright Note:

Due to copyright restrictions for this project, you should not use any images, graphs, or tables from a print or electronic resource from the UHD Library collection.

Books (Print and eBooks)

The Garifuna

Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras

Brondo, Keri Vacanti, 2013

Summary: 

Land Grab is a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in Garifuna communities on the north coast of Honduras, before and after the 2009 coup d'état. 

 

Black and indigenous: Garifuna activism and consumer culture in Honduras

Anderson, Mark David, 2009

Based on ethnographic work, Anderson questions perspectives that view indigeneity and blackness, nativist attachments and diasporic affiliations, as mutually exclusive paradigms of representation, being, and belonging."

 

Among the Garifuna: family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast

Wells, Marilyn McKillop, 2015

Wells's portrait of this Garifuna family will be of interest to anthropologists, Caribbeanists, Latin Americanists, students, and general readers alike. 

 

The Black Carib Wars: freedom, survival, and the making of the Garifuna

Taylor, Chris, 1961

 

In The Black Carib Wars, author Christopher Taylor offers the fullest, most thoroughly researched history of the Garifuna people of St. Vincent, and their uneasy conflicts and alliances with Great Britain and France. 

 

 

 

Video Resources

The Garifuna Journey

Berger, Kathy L., director, producer.; Leland, Andrea E., 1998

A first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people and their traditions.