Caribbean Connections

Author : Luisa Marcela Ossa,Debbie Lee-DiStefano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498587099

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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean by Luisa Marcela Ossa,Debbie Lee-DiStefano Pdf

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts.

Author : Cathy Sunshine,Keith Q. Warner
Publisher : Teaching for Change
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005423312

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Caribbean Connections by Cathy Sunshine,Keith Q. Warner Pdf

Product Description: Caribbean Connections: Moving North introduces students to Caribbean life in the United States through oral histories, literature and essays. Moving North features the work of noted authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Paule Marshall, Julia Alvarez and others who trace their roots to Puerto Rico, the English speaking West Indies, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti. Part of a highly acclaimed series on the cultures of the Caribbean.

Author : Alexis Schaitkin
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250219589

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Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 "'Saint X' is hypnotic. Schaitkin's characters...are so intelligent and distinctive it feels not just easy, but necessary, to follow them. I devoured [it] in a day." –Oyinkan Braithwaite, New York Times Book Review When you lose the person who is most essential to you, who do you become? Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, included in Good Morning America's 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020 & named as one of Vogue's Best Books to Read This Winter, Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of February 2020, and O Magazine's 14 of the Best Books to Read This February! Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men–employees at the resort–are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth–not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.

Author : Anne Gallin,Ruth Glasser,Jocelyn Santana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1878554190

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The Dominican Republic by Anne Gallin,Ruth Glasser,Jocelyn Santana Pdf

Articles and poems about Dominican Republic economic conditions and culture, with Spanish vocabulary lists and suggested activities for students.

Author : Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947372016

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Caribbean Creolization by Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau Pdf

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : Robert Chodos
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0888621167

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The Caribbean Connection by Robert Chodos Pdf

Canada's connection to the Caribbean is a long-standing one: sailing ships from Halifax plied the trade routes in the nineteenth century carrying cod and timber south and bringing back sugar and rum. Missionaries and bankers followed, and many of them stayed. In recent years politics and business in the region have undergone drastic changes and most countries have gained formal independence. Canada has not always adapted well to these changes and is not necessarily regarded as a friendly country by many West Indians. In this book, first published in 1977, Robert Chodos offers a broad-ranging exploration of Canada's Caribbean connection, combining a concern for the broad issues it entails with a perceptive reporter's eye for telling detail.

Author : Julie-Françoise Tolliver
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813944906

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The Quebec Connection by Julie-Françoise Tolliver Pdf

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection, Julie-Françoise Tolliver examines the links and parallels that writers from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa imagined to unite that world, illuminating the tropes they used to articulate solidarities across the race and class differences that marked their experience. Tolliver argues that the French tongue both enabled and delimited connections between these writers, restricting their potential with the language’s own imperial history. The literary map that emerges demonstrates the plurality of French-language literatures, going beyond the concept of a single, unitary francophone literature to appreciate the profuse range of imaginaries connected by solidary texts that hoped for transformative independence. Importantly, the book expands the "francophone" framework by connecting African and Caribbean literatures to Québécois literature, attending to their interactions while recognizing their particularities. The Quebec Connection’s analysis of transnational francophone solidarities radically alters the field of francophone studies by redressing the racial logic that isolates the northern province from what has come to be called the postcolonial world.

Author : I. Law,S. Tate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137287281

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Caribbean Racisms by I. Law,S. Tate Pdf

This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

Author : Robert Pastor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429711619

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Migration And Development In The Caribbean by Robert Pastor Pdf

This book represents the product of a two-year research project and a four-year personal journey to explore the relationship between migration and economic development in the Caribbean area. Does Caribbean immigration to the United States assist or impede the economic development of the Caribbean? Would the curtailment of immigration affect the stability of the Caribbean? Can a certain mix of development strategies significantly reduce the pressures for migration? What can the United States and the Caribbean countries do separately and together to improve the prospects for economic development while permitting migration at manageable levels? This book begins with these questions and ends with some answers.

Author : Allison O. Ramsay,Jerome Teelucksingh
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666943986

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Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean by Allison O. Ramsay,Jerome Teelucksingh Pdf

This essay collection addresses past and current debates surrounding colonial relics and monuments, colonial vestiges, heritage, gender, narratives of independence, nationhood and national identity. Caribbean enthusiasts, scholars and students will appreciate the diversity of views of these academic post-colonial narratives.

Author : Helen A. Regis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820328317

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Caribbean and Southern by Helen A. Regis Pdf

Ranging across the colonial and postcolonial eras of the American South and the Caribbean, the six essays in this volume take a fresh look at the regions' transnational linkages. With their focus on border zones, hybridity, and creolization, the essays challenge our notions about the cultural and economic trajectories of the African diaspora in this part of the world. For instance, was the movement of slaves seeking freedom in the United States always south to north? Or was the movement of slaves in bondage always westward, from Africa to the Caribbean or the Americas? One consequence of the work presented in this volume is an expansion of the physical borders of the Caribbean-southern sphere to include, for example, the Chesapeake Bay area. Lesser-known populations, such as the Black Seminoles, also gain heightened visibility. Runaway slaves who first allied themselves with Florida Indians, the Black Seminoles later migrated to the Bahamas. Other topics covered include foodways, environmental justice and Caribbean tourism, and religious or celebratory traditions of Vodou, Jonkonnu, and Rocks.

Author : Alan Gregor Cobley,Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X002163401

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The African-Caribbean Connection by Alan Gregor Cobley,Alvin O. Thompson Pdf

Author : Joseph M. H. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009180313

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Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century by Joseph M. H. Clark Pdf

Explores how Veracruz's Afro-Mexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community.

Author : Abigail L. Palko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137600745

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Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature by Abigail L. Palko Pdf

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering. Abigail L. Palko argues that Irish and Caribbean literary representations of non-normative mothering practices do not reflect transgressive or dangerous mothering but are rather cultural negotiations of the definition of a good mother. This original book demonstrates the sustained commitment to countering the dominant ideologies of maternal self-sacrifice foundational to both Irish and Caribbean nationalist rhetoric, offering instead the possibility of integrating maternal agency into an effective model of female citizenship.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605254

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The Caribbean Before Columbus by William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman Pdf

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. Ranging from low limestone islands to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks, from rainforests to desert habitats, they are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Yet this diversity has become homogenized, for both the tourist and the historian. For instance, it was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans - the paleo-Indians - in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean. -- from back cover.