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Negros

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Negros , island (1990 pop. 3,182,252), 4,905 sq mi (12,704 sq km), one of the Visayan Islands, 4th largest of the Philippines, between Panay and Cebu. Although mountainous (Mt. Canloan, a volcano, rises to c.8,088 ft/2,465 m), Negros has extensive arable lowlands; they are intensively cultivated and densely populated. Negros is the sugar center of the Philippines. Two thirds of the nation's sugarcane is grown there, and sugar processing is a major industry; paper products are made from sugarcane residue. Rice, coconuts, bananas, and corn are also grown. The island has a lumber industry and copper... Read more
asiento de negros
A Dictionary of World History asiento de negros A contract made between Britain and Spain in 1713 for the sale of slaves to the Spanish American colonies. In the Peace of UTRECHT ... Read more
Dumaguete
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , city (1990 pop. 80,262), capital of Negros Oriental prov., SE Negros, the Philippines. A busy interisland-shipping port at ... entrance to Tañon Strait (which separates the islands of Negros and Cebu), it is also a trade and cultural center. Silliman ... Read more

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Life in the occupied zone: one Negros planter's experience of war.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 3/1/1996; Hofilena, Josefina Dalupan; 7274 words ; Introduction People from the Visayan Island of Negros - Negrenses - who lived through the Second ... information on life in the free areas of Negros, they shed little light on life in those ... the course of doing research on wartime Negros Occidental, I had the good fortune of ... Read more
Masonic myths and revolutionary feats in Negros Occidental.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 9/1/1997; Aguilar, Filomeno V., Jr.; 8890 words ; ... The Provincial Governors of both Iloilo and Negros, in a rare demonstration of cooperation, organized ... planter opposition to colonial rule, however, the Negros elite, unlike the shamans, generally avoided ... of revolution was finally brought home to the Negros hacenderos as the direct result of Spanish ... Read more
The Unto site: excavations of a late first millennium B.C. and mid-second millennium A.D. habitation site in southeastern Negros Island, the Philippines.
Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 3/22/1997; Bacus, Elisabeth A.; 12877 words ; Although southeastern negros island in the central Philippines has ... among sites investigated in southeastern Negros. Furthermore, few sites in the archipelago ... occupations so far uncovered in southeastern Negros(4)--and the mid-second millennium A ... Read more
Negros perciben que el racismo persiste en sur de Florida
El Nuevo Herald; 9/11/1998; 638 words ; El Nuevo Herald 09-11-1998 Negros perciben que el racismo persiste en ... slo este ao que han dejado a muchos negros con una sensacin de impotencia y el ... tuvo lugar entre demcratas blancos y negros cuando los demcratas blancos de Broward ... Read more
New discourses and traditional genres: the adaptation of a feminist novel into an Ecuadorian telenovela.(Yo Vendo unos Ojos Negros)
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; 9/1/2006; Avila-Saavedra, Guillermo; 8306 words ; ... feminist Ecuadorian novel Yo Vendo unos Ojos Negros into a telenovela, a Latin American form ... Cossio's (1979) novel Yo Vendo unos Ojos Negros, this study explores the paradoxical process ... in the telenovela Yo Vendo unos Ojos Negros (Alvarado, 2004), which aired on Ecuavisa ... Read more
Piden a candidatos blancos que no aspiren contra negros
El Nuevo Herald; 7/22/1994; Dexter Filkins; 1048 words ; ... candidatos blancos que no aspiren contra negros. Por DEXTER FILKINS Redactor de El Nuevo Herald Dos de los ms prominentes lderes negros de Dade hiceron esta sorprendente demanda ... compiten electoralmente contra jueces negros: retrense. El presidente de la comisin ... Read more
Grupos negros desconfian de politica de recortes
El Nuevo Herald; 5/8/1995; Dexter Pugh Tony; Filkins; 916 words ; ... Filkins El Nuevo Herald 05-08-1995 Grupos negros desconfan de poltica de recortes. Por ... gobiernos de la ciudad y el condado. Grupos negros como la NAACP (National Association for ... los mismos grupos y los comisionados negros del condado han dirigido su atencin al ... Read more
Cubanos negros afirman que si son discriminados
El Nuevo Herald; 10/10/1994; Francisco Garcia-Azuero; 421 words ; ... Garcia-Azuero El Nuevo Herald 10-10-1994 Cubanos negros afirman que s son discriminados. Por FRANCISCO ... el domingo la liberacin de los esclavos negros el 10 de octubre de 1868 en Cuba declarando que hoy los negros cubanos estaban excluidos de las organizaciones ... Read more
Vision diferente separa a negros del Caribe de los de EU
El Nuevo Herald; 4/23/1995; Tony Pugh; 931 words ; ... Herald 04-23-1995 Visin diferente separa a negros del Caribe de los de EU. Por TONY PUGH ... mantiene a Fauntroy y a otros norteamericanos negros en desacuerdo con sus hermanos isleos ... aos, entonces comprenderan por qu los negros norteamericanos piensan del modo en que ... Read more
Oh, for the old Cadillac days: the Philippines. (the island of Negros is tied to the sugar industry)
The Economist (US); 6/14/1997; 745 words ; NEGROS THIS fertile, cultured and potentially profitable island of Negros, whose excellent condition in all ways surpasses the other ... recognition of the emerging sugar industry that promised to make Negros far richer than the other islands in the Philippine archipelago ... Read more

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