"This paper examines CARICOM's convergence strategy for building sub-regional linkages in the current process of hemispheric integration. It looks at the concentric circles approach first advocated by the West Indian Commission, and assesses how it was implemented and the issues and problems it generated." (author)
Discusses attitudes towards a military career and perceptions of efforts by the Ministry of Defence to recruit ethnic minorities, including Blacks of African and Caribbean origin; based on interviews with 300 people in Greater London.
In addressing some of the issue facing Caribbean migrants, Dr. Manley implored everyone to take responsibilities for themselves and their respective islands. "Maybe we have been depending too much on the people we elect. A democracy works best when it has citizens who are willing to be accountable," she said. While empathizing with the terrorism issues, currently affecting the United States, Dr. Manley pointed out that the Caribbean was also experiencing terrorism in its own form. "For us poverty is terrorism. The amount of guns that come into Jamaica from this country is terrorism. Jamaica is way ahead of the other islands with their homicide rate. "Guyana is right behind us and some other islands are beginning to see the same thing happening."
Discussed is the career of fashion designer Francis Heady, whose interest in clothing began when, as a child in Trinidad, he worked with his mother, a seamstress. Heady has created fashions for celebrities such as Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
159 p, Discusses the importance of the role played by the Caribbean mother in her Latina daughters' negotiation of a hybrid identity as seen through the works of Julia Álvarez, Cristina García, and Esmeralda Santiago
Arciniegas, Germán (Author) and Onís,Harriet de (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1946., 486 p, History of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the 19th century. Archiniegas' narrative provides readers with both a panorama of Caribbean history and colorful details about important historical figures and events.
