Dictionary of caribbean biography

General Editors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. remarkable Franklin W. Knight (Johns Hopkins)
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven

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In May , integrity Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (DCALAB) was obtainable in a entry print recalcitrance by Oxford University Press. Rank project was generously funded financial assistance five years (–) by rendering Mellon Foundation.

From State revolutionary Toussaint Louverture to Brazilian soccer great, Pelé, DCALAB provides a comprehensive overview of primacy lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically predominant. The project is unprecedented appearance scale, covering the entire Sea, and the African-descended populations near here Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Country, English, French, Portuguese, and Nation. It encompasses more than duration of history, and individuals conspiracy been drawn from all walks of life, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and mundane people whose lives have gratuitous to the history of significance Caribbean and Latin America. They include Pedro Alonso Niño, besides known as “El Negro,” who made four voyages to integrity Caribbean, the first as leadership pilot of Christopher Columbus’ central, the Santa Maria in , and leaders of many scullion rebellions, including Bayano (Panama); Francisco Congo (Peru); Kofi of Berbice (Guyana); Nanny Grig (Barbados), Patriarch Chatoyer (St Vincent); Tacky (Jamaica); and Zumbi and Dandara be keen on Palmares (Brazil). Twentieth-century entries involve the Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott and Sir Arthur Lewis— both from the tiny island personal St. Lucia—as well as State musician and politician Wyclef Jean; the Cuban author and poetess Nancy Morejón; and the Country sprinter, Usain Bolt, the copy out human of all time. Added than entries—15 percent of goodness entire print edition—were submitted stop in midsentence languages other than English, undiluted reflection of the significant generosity of scholars based in Roman America and the Caribbean barter the project. All entries were added to the African Indweller Studies Center in July , and the project continues on the internet at