From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Cape Verdeans/Deirdre Meintel
Background information on Cape Verdeans is available in a volume of collected works by Antonio Carreira, The People of the Cape Verde Islands: Exploitation and Emigration (Hamden, Conn., 1982). Other useful sources include Michel Lesourd, État et société aux Îles du Cap-Vert (Paris, 1992); T. Bentley Duncan, Atlantic Islands: Madeira, the Azores and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth Century Commerce and Navigation (Chicago, 1972); Colin Legum, ed., “Cape Verde Islands,” in Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents, 1985–86 (New York, 1987), B20–B24; Deirdre Meintel, Race, Culture and Portuguese Colonialism in Cabo Verde (Syracuse, N.Y., 1984), and idem., “Cape Verdean-Americans,” in Joan Rollins, ed., Hidden Minorities: The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life (Washington, 1981), 233–56.
