Examines the work of Jamaican writer Una Marson for her engagement with the ideas of modernity and her cultural expectations as she traveled from Jamaica to London, England in the 1930s. Topics include colonialism, race and gender, modernism, and the magazine "Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Magazine for Business Youth of Jamaica and the Official Organ of the Stenographer's Association."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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209 p., Based on proceedings of a planning symposium, held at the Caribbean research institute, College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, May, 1966. Kinds of research most needed and most likely to be useful to developing nations and regions, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean area.
Discusses aspects of violence in Jamaica and the efforts to improve the life of women in the country. Cites that the country has one of the highest per capita homicide rates in the world and that gender stereotyping is extensive and pronounced.
Willaarts,Bárbara A. (Editor), Garrido,Alberto (Editor), and Llamas, Manuel Ramón (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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432 p., Provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Focuses on four key themes: setting out the background to water, nature and food in the region; drivers of changing conditions; pressures and challenges; and responses and enabling conditions."
Equipped with new legislative powers, Canada's government is able to pick and choose immigrants more aggressively than ever. The average wait time for someone wishing to bring a spouse into the country through Kingston, Jamaica has ballooned to 15 months, fully three times the processing time in 2006. A similar application lodged in New Delhi takes just six months. Is the country engaging in country profiling?
The countries of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) are linked economically by their trans-boundary living marine resources. The region is facing a continued decline of these resources. Science is improving our understanding of the human contributions to this decline, but national policies and programmes have not kept pace with this understanding. The Caribbean Regional Seas Programme and its Cartagena Convention and Protocols provide the regional legal framework for protection and sustainable management of the WCR's living marine and coastal resources. This article focuses on the Cartagena Convention's Protocol for biodiversity conservation, the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife, arguing that governments and organizations need to significantly increase participation in this regional treaty regime to effectively address transboundary environmental challenges.
Conde,Maryse (Author) and Richard Philcox (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
New York, NY: Soho
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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348 p, A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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308 p, Contents: Reputation & respectability reconsidered : a new perspective on Afro-Caribbean peasant women / Jean Besson -- Marriage & concubinage among the Sephardic merchant élite of Curaçao / Eva Abraham-Van der Mark -- Changing roles in the life cycles of women in traditional West Indian houseyards / Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher -- Women's place is every place : merging domains and women's roles in Barbuda & Dominica / Riva Berleant-Schiller and William M. Maurer -- Women in Guadeloupe : the paradoxes of reality / Huguette Dagenais -- The development & role of women's political organizations in Guyana / Linda Peake -- Neighbourhood networks & national politics among working-class Afro-Surinamese women / Rosemary Brana-Shute -- The migration experience : Nevisian women at home & abroad / Karen Fog Olwig -- Migration, development & the gender division of labour : Puerto Rico & Margarita Island, Venezuela / Janice Monk with the late Charles S. Alexander -- Small farm food production & gender in Barbados / Christine Barrow -- A profile of Grenadian women small farmers / John S. Brierley -- Women in agriculture in Trinidad : an overview / Indra S. Harry -- Women & Cuban smallholder agriculture in transition / Jean Stubbs -- Development & gender divisions of labour in the rural Eastern Caribbean / Janet H. Momsen -- Transformation in the needle trades : women in garment & textile production in early twentieth-century Trinidad / Rhoda Reddock -- Gender & ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory / Kevin A. Yelvington -- Women's contribution to tourism in Negril, Jamaica / Lesley McKay -- Gender & new technology in the Caribbean : new work for women? / Ruth Pearson
Maier,Elizabeth (Author) and Lebon,Nathalie (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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375 p, Contributors explore the emergence of the area’s feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Includes Helen Safa's "Female-headed households and poverty in Latin America : a comparison of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic ";
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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159 p., Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years. Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families, in particular with relation to attachment issues.
