This article presents excerpts from the monthly Haitian journal 'Revue Indigene.' After an introduction by Meehan and Leticee, the pieces, published in 1927 and 1928, are presented in their original French and with a translation into English
The St. Croix-based West Indies Laboratory will be rejuvenated as the site of a new Caribbean-wide research program. The laboratory was the primary source of scientific data on the Caribbean Sea for 20 years before its destruction by Hurricane Hugo
The disruptions and transformations caused by the slave trade are largely demographic and cultural. It was through this extended and traumatic forced population transfer that Caribbean colonies across the board became dominantly black communities. For these island nations and territories, the inescapable fact of their blackness had always marked a tangible and material link with their origins in Africa. Jamaica was home to more rebellions than all of the other British islands combined, proof positive of the continuing identitarian role of African culture in the Caribbean during the period of slavery. Colonization's phenomenon of ethnocultural creolization marked an interpenetration of populations and practices originating both from the colonial metropole and from the African continent, such that long-held notions of race and social stratification would be have to be revised as independence approached, posing a set of complex tensions effectively articulated in Michelle Cliff's novel Abeng.
Presents information on the authors' association with writer Andre Gunder Frank whom he first met in a meeting of the World Congress of Sociology in Mexico City, Mexico. Though the internationalism of the Black Liberation Movement is certainly linked to Pan Africanism, there is a broader internationalism that had been inspired by Frank and others who had come to intellectual, political, and moral maturity while laboring to understand the world in order to change it in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s. Frank's stance is that underdevelopment results from the same processes that have produced development, and the development of capitalism itself is also the development of underdevelopment.
