Brathwaite,Kamau (Editor), Shepherd,Verene A. (Editor), and Richards,Glen L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
305p, Contents: Highway to vision : this sea our nexus / Mary Morgan -- Creolisation and Creole societies : a cultural nationalist view of Caribbean social history / O. Nigel Bolland -- Creole : the problem of definition / Carolyn Allen -- Enslaved Africans and their expectations of slave life in the Americas towards a reconsideration of models of "creolisation" / Paul Lovejoy and David Trotman -- Race and Creole ethnicity in the Caribbean / Percy C. Hintzen -- Contestations over culture, class, gender and identity in Trinidad and Tobago : "the little tradition" / Rhoda Reddock -- The "creolisation" of Indian women in Trinidad / Patricia Mohammed -- "Yuh know bout coo-coo? Where yuh know bout coo-coo?" Language and representation, creolisation and confusion in 'Indian cuisine / Veronica Gregg -- Questioning Creole : domestic producers and Jamaica's plantation economy / Verene A. Shepherd -- Creolisation in action : the slave labout elite and anti-slavery in Barbados / Hilary McD. Beckles -- "Driber tan mi side" : Creolisation and the labour process in St. Kitts-Nevis, 1810-1905 / Glen Richards -- The politics of Samuel Clarke : Black Creole politician in free Jamaica, 1851-1865 / Swithin Wilmot -- Creolisation processes in linguistic, artistic and material cultures / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- African sacredness and Caribbean cultural forms / Lucie Pradel -- Hip-hopping across cultures : crossing over from Reggae to Rap and back / Carolyn Cooper -- Angel of dreamers and My uncle / Lorna Goodison -- Po'm for Kamau / Jean Small.
For most Ghanaians, the tenets of Pan-Africanism are remote principles that bear little relevance in daily life, in which kinship, linguistic, ethnic, and national affiliations are primary markers of identity. This presents challenges for repatriated Rastafarians from the Caribbean, United States, and Europe, who attempt to establish a home and a place within Ghanaian society while retaining Rastafarian ways of living and spiritual philosophies drawn from a Pan-African ethos.
The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) is a complex society with multiple diverse ethnic groups: Black Virgin Islanders, Eastern Caribbean islanders, Puerto Ricans, Spanish Dominicans, French Islanders, Americans (Continentals), Arabs and Asians. These ethnic differences as well as United States cultural imperialism have stymied any uniform Virgin Islands identity. Nonetheless, social identity in the USVI can be conceptualized into the bi-level structural analysis of national and trans-Caribbean.
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
411 p., "Even though accepted definitions of the Caribbean Creole focus on its status as native to the region, it is just as emphatically tied to somewhere else, giving it a vexed status. Through a comparative analysis of fictional, sociological, historical and psychological portraits of the Caribbean Creole, I argue that the Creole's working definition is equally indebted to casting it as a cultural outsider in local contexts in and around the Caribbean." --The Author