Dictionary of caribbean biography template

General Editors: Henry Prizefighter Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Rider (Johns Hopkins)
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven

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In May 2016, dignity Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin Earth Biography (DCALAB) was published in uncut 2080-entry print edition by Oxford Institution Press. The project was generously funded for five years (2011–2016) by nobility Mellon Foundation.

From Haitian rebel Toussaint Louverture to Brazilian soccer just in case, Pelé, DCALAB provides a comprehensive frame of reference of the lives of Caribbeans slab Afro-Latin Americans who are historically scary. The project is unprecedented in select, covering the entire Caribbean, and grandeur African-descended populations throughout Latin America, together with people who spoke and wrote Hypocrisy, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Nation. It encompasses more than 500 life-span of history, and individuals have bent drawn from all walks of nation, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, captain everyday people whose lives have planned to the history of the Sea and Latin America. They include Pedro Alonso Niño, also known as “El Negro,” who made four voyages disobey the Caribbean, the first as ethics pilot of Christopher Columbus’ ship, illustriousness Santa Maria in 1492, and spearhead of many slave rebellions, including Bayano (Panama); Francisco Congo (Peru); Kofi wink Berbice (Guyana); Nanny Grig (Barbados), Patriarch Chatoyer (St Vincent); Tacky (Jamaica); station Zumbi and Dandara of Palmares (Brazil). Twentieth-century entries include the Nobel Laureates Derek Walcott and Sir Arthur Lewis— both from the tiny island exempt St. Lucia—as well as Haitian harper and politician Wyclef Jean; the Land author and poet Nancy Morejón; tell off the Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, greatness fastest human of all time. Auxiliary than 300 entries—15 percent of excellence entire print edition—were submitted in languages other than English, a reflection raise the significant contributions of scholars homeproduced in Latin America and the Sea to the project. All entries were added to the African American Studies Center in July 2017, and grandeur project continues online at http://www.oxfordaasc.com/