This work describes cleavages of race, class and caste in the colonial Jamaican company. It tackles the question of the relation between race and culture.
Discusses the reasons the customs of Africa are being steadily diluted in Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Cuba, the centers of significant black minorities
In this article, I explore the impact of slavery and the Slave trade on the most fundamental relationship in human societies, the bond between mother and child. Firstly, I review European accounts of motherhood and childrearing (pre-enslavement) in the African cultures of origin. Secondly, I address the traumas of dislocation and enslavement during the Middle Passage. This is followed by some insights into the experiences of women and children in Caribbean Slave societies where I argue that, despite the harsh conditions, African-derived conceptualisations of motherhood and parenting endured. I conclude with a brief consideration of the reverberations of slavery into the post slavery era, specifically in relation to European attempts to change African-derived practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];.
"The limitations of the philosophy of black power emerged when the leaders of this popular movement failed to link the spontaneous protest to the organized activities of the working class and farmers. ...The experiences of the National Joint Action Committee and the National Union of Freedom Fighters led to a re-examination of the all-class notion of race, and new political groupings emerged or gathered strength as they sought clarification and answers to the pressing problems of the people. ...The rise of these popular and democratic organizations marked a new turning point, but the failure of some these groups to root their movement in their own historical specificity with the distorted and uneven development of the proletarian masses, led to the growth of the Rasta movement among the youth." (author)
