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The West Indians of Costa Rica

Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority

By: Ronald N. Harpelle

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The West Indians of Costa Rica

Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority

By: Ronald N. Harpelle

A detailed social history of an ethnic minority's adaptation to life in Central America during the first half of the twentieth century.

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0773522816

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40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact

By: Bruce Muirhead,Ronald N. Harpelle

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40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact

By: Bruce Muirhead,Ronald N. Harpelle

The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it has provided research funding it has contributed to creating a very positive image of Canada. The centre’s arms-length relationship with Canadian government assistance provides it with enormous freedom and flexibility—it was established in 1970 with its own act under the Trudeau government. The IDRC board is one-half international and one-half Canadian and is the only governmental agency in the world that has this structure, giving them unique insight into Southern development issues. One of the IDRC’s founding principles was its insistence on having Southern researchers decide which projects would be put forward for possible funding, and much care has been taken to avoid “research imperialism” or “colonialism.” An analysis of the path less travelled, but which IDRC found amenable, is fundamental to this history of the centre, and the book highlights the decisions, ideas, and practices that flow from this basic premise.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554587573

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West Indians of Costa Rica

Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority

By: Ronald N. Harpelle

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West Indians of Costa Rica

Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority

By: Ronald N. Harpelle

Harpelle (history, Lakehead U.) examines the migration of Caribbean people of African descent to the Hispanic-dominated, "white-settler" society of Costa Rica from 1900 to 1950, and the gradual ethnic transformation of this group into Afro-Costa Ricans. Coverage includes the expansion of the Costa Rican banana industry and the rise of the West Indian labor force; the emergence of the young Jamaican activist, Marcus Garvey; the post-WWI period of heightened unrest; attempts by Costa Rican governments, organizations and individuals to destroy the West Indian community; the eventual integration of West Indians into Costa Rican society in the 1940s and early-1950s; and the eventual formation of the Afro-Costa Rican identity. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Services. c. Book News Inc.

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0773521623

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