Washington DC's Caribbean Carnival, which is in its 11th year, takes more than 500,000 Caribbean people "back home" with its parade of life, color and unity. To the dismay of many attendees, the parade moved from its original home on Georgia Avenue to the downtown area, where the white, business-class atmosphere with its federal buildings made some feel as though their culture was an exhibit in an art museum.
Proposes that cricket symbolizes both an assertive sense of black culture and an awareness of black economic dependency on whites, a tension that is reflective of Bermudian politics
Focuses on black women's experiences of the annual African-Caribbean carnival in St. Paul's, Bristol, as a potential site of resistance. Looks at how black women challenge conceptions of space on three levels: nationally, locally and within the street. These three spatial levels are permeated by notions of resistance: resistance to dominant notions of Englishness, to representations of place, and to gender roles. Focuses on carnival's potential to contest hegemonic discourses, to denaturalise them and to expose them as partial.
Addresses the place of Carnival in the creation of a national cultural narrative in Trinidad and Tobago and examines the role that such a narrative plays in the formation of a coherent national cultural identity
