"En Martinique, lors des décennies qui précèdent l'abolition de l'esclavage, tous les groupes sociaux redoutent les sorts et les maléfices qui peuvent leur être jetés. Les colons ont peur des nègres empoisonneurs, les esclaves et les affranchis sont terrorisés par les pratiques magiques qui les menacent. Certes la religion catholique prétend protéger, mais lui est souvent préférée l'intervention d'un sorcier désenvouteur." (author)
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.;
A photo essay entitled "Ayiti: Reaching Higher Ground" depicting Haitian people after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti to counter the press coverage of the event, including photographs entitled "Holding Innocence," "We Can Feed the Country," and "Pretty in Pink."
Budgetary proposals of the Barbados Labor Party government, Apr. 1986 and of the Democratic Labor Party government, July 1986; income tax and other tax provisions
Discusses feminist theorizing of beauty and its intersection with the notion of race in Latin America and the Caribbean including Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.
