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Immigrants in Baltimore: How Warm the Welcome?
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
Elizabeth Clifford, “Immigrants in Baltimore: How Warm the Welcome?”
This paper focuses on the contemporary situation of immigrants in Baltimore. Immigrants in Baltimore face
a situation different from those in many other ...
The Problems and Challenges of Research and Writing on Africans and their Descendants in Colonial Cartagena de Indies:A Research Report
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
This paper is a work-in-progress summarizing the kinds of documents that can be used to
learn about the history of Africans in colonial Cartagena de Indias. Some of the sources
described here include the work of Alonso ...
Atlantic Bridge, Atlantic Divide: Africans and Afro-Brazilians in Portuguese America
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
This essay focuses on an aspect of persons of African birth and descent in colonial Brazil
to which not sufficient attention has been paid by scholars. To the many factors--
ethnicity, language, belief systems slavery, ...
Immigration, Race, and Nation: Baltimore's Immigrant Recruitment and Response, 1880-1910
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
In the period immediately following the Civil War, Maryland was among the southern states to pursue an active campaign to recruit European immigrants. This paper explores these efforts as well as the response of residents ...