Focuses on the role of women and women's bodies in Trinidad Carnival. Information on the book 'Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition and Play in the Caribbean; Views on the Janus-faced effect of women's bodily performance; Collusion of global capitalism in the marketing and commodification of Caribbean popular culture.
This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely on an understanding of the body as immutable and naturally marked by race. Depicting skin bleaching as pathological attempts to recenter hegemonic conceptions of blackness and to discipline bodies so that they adhere to them.;
Examines the representations of Jamaican dancehall culture and Yardies in British journalism and in two novels published by X-Press publishing firm. Analysis of the novels Yardie, by Victor Headley and Cop Killer, by Donald Gorgon; Discussion on the Jamaican dancehall music and the raggamuffin or ragga consciousness; Discussion on the symbolic location of Jamaican youth in British discourses.;
The author responds to articles in the journal by Kevin Gaines and Patricia Saunders concerning her book Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Particular focus is given to the notion of outsiderness regarding the status of black women and Caribbean women within radical and intellectual traditions. Lessons from the life and political career of political activist Claudia Jones are explored.
Focuses on the Aunt Jemima stereotype of African womanhood and motherhood. Impact of the stereotype on African Caribbean women whose lives have been obscured by this image; Discussion on how a re-invented Aunt Jemima is reflected in the religious symbols of the Spiritual Baptists Church in Toronto, Ontario and the religious lives of individual women; Examination of the symbolic reinterpretation of Aunt Jemima within the everyday lives of immigrant African Caribbean women in Toronto.;
