"Focuses on AIDS/HIV cases in the Caribbean Area as of January 2003. Percentage of people affected with the disease; Information on the University of the West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Program (UWI HARP); Comments from professor Farley Cleghorn on the response of the government to the disease; Impact of the UWI HARP on the students." (author)
Talks about the Antillean waltz and the island where it originated, the Curaçao. Discussion on creolization; Details of music and dance as venues for creolization among Africans aboard a slave ship; Social hierarchy in the island during the eighteenth century.;
Tillis explores the socio-political poetics of Blas Jiménez in the context of the negritude aesthetic in the Spanish-speaking world. The selected poems of Jiménez attest to the continuation of negritude ideology of Afrocentric thematic poetry in the Carribean and showed that the poet's social criticism is linked to an ideology of white supremacy resulting from colonialism and slavery.;
Covers the presence of blacks in Britain from 1640 to 1950, with focus on black Baptists, who came predominantly from Jamaica and America in the 1830's-60's on abolitionist tours or who had connections with the Baptist Missionary Society
Discusses C.L.R. James's chronicle of the history of the Haitian revolution of 1843 in his book 'The Black Jacobins.' Contrast between the behavior of the Haitian slaves during the working day and their conversations around the supper fire; Conscious organization of the Caribbean nation; Processes of communication that took place in the midst of conflicts.
"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.
