Explores the routes followed by ideas and practices related to the body emerging in seventeenth-century Caribbean locales like Cartagena de Indias and Havana. Mobile and interconnected Spanish Caribbean ritual practitioners of African descent, using oral tradition, performance, and material culture, functioned as the most important links for the diffusion of ideas about corporeality in the region.
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442 p., Once the lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has become one of the divided and impoverished countries in the world. This title analyzes how and why President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the US and France instigated a second coup in 2004 to remove Aristide and a mobilization known as Lavalas for good.
Burlington, Ont.: TannerRitchie Pub. in collaboration with the Library and Information Services of the University of St. Andrews
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Other Titles: America and West Indies, 1699. Originally published in print: London : Printed for H.M.S.O., by Mackie and Co., 1908., 1 online resource., This book discusses the original state paper of the British colonies; Editors: [v. 1-10] W.N. Sainsbury (with J.W. Fortescue, [v. 10])-- [v. 11-16] J.W. Fortescue.-- [v. 17-] Cecil Headlam (with A.P. Newton, [v. 38-])./ Eastern series continued in the calendars published by the India office
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271 p., Investigates the impact of American literature and culture upon the Anglophone Caribbean during and following the Second World War. Traditional inquiries involving this era usually render the Caribbean in colonial and/or post-colonial contexts; this dissertation instead looks to understand alternative variables, especially the widespread affiliations with U.S. culture made by emergent Caribbean writers from the so-called “Windrush Generation” that were exposed to American soldiers serving overseas. Contents: C.L.R. James -- V.S. Naipaul -- Sylvia Wynter -- George Lamming.
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351 p, Contents: I. Toco -- II. Class differences and standards of living -- III. Work and the problem of security -- IV. The structure of Toco society -- V. The functioning family -- VI. The rites of death -- VII. The role of religion -- VIII. The shouters -- IX. Divination and magic -- X. The avenues of self-expression -- XI. Retentions and reinterpretations -- Appendix I. Notes on Shango worship -- Appendix II. Official documents bearing on Trinidad Negro customs -- Appendix III. References -- Index
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150 p, Contents: 1. The Significance of African and Indigenous Peoples' Contacts in the Americas -- 2. New Identities, New Alliances -- 3. The Promised Island: Andros, Bahamas -- 4. "We Reach": Bahamaland -- 5. De People Dem: Black Seminoles in the "Land behind God's Back" -- 6. Bahamian Black Seminole Identity -- 7. The Meaning of Heritage -- 8. Conclusion
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326 p., Part of a series listing materials on the history of North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. Organized thematically, the book covers, among many other topics, exploration and colonization; maritime history; environment; Native Americans; race, gender, and ethnicity; migration; labor and class; business; families; religion; material culture; science; education; politics; and military affairs.
The article discusses discrimination against free blacks and colored (mixed-race) people in the justice system of 18th-century Curaçao, then a colony of the Netherlands run by the Dutch West India Company. Two examples are examined, that of the Dutch prosecutor Hubertus Coerman, who complained of the situation to company directors in 1766, and the Curaçaoan free black woman Mariana Franko, who complained to the directors in the same year after being falsely accused of theft and banished from the colony. Differences between the administration of justice in the Netherlands and in the Dutch West Indies are then discussed.
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310 p., Explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for Creoles' new identities.
In terms of economic dependence on the metropolitan countries and "a deeply-rooted cultural and psychological colonization." Problems in the areas of employment, tourism, education, health, housing, the family, and the status of young women.
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311 p, Product Description This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire after World War II. In the war’s aftermath, the French colonial system began to break down. Indochina erupted into war in 1945 and Madagascar in 1947, while Guadeloupe chose an opposite course, becoming territorially part of France in 1946. The book traces the introduction of an integralist ideology of “National Revolution” to the French colonial realm, shedding new light on the nature of the Vichy regime, on the diversity of French colonialism, and on the beginnings of decolonization. Encompassing three very different regions and cultures, the study reveals both a unity in Vichy’s self-reproduction overseas and a diversity of forms which this ideological cloning assumed. World War II is often presented as an agent of change in the French colonial empire only insofar as it engendered a loss of prestige for France as colonizer. The author argues that Marshal Philippe Pétain’s Vichy regime contributed to decolonization in a much more substantial way, by ushering in an ideology based on a new, harsher brand of colonialism that both directly and indirectly fueled indigenous nationalism. The author also rejects the popular notion that Nazi pressure lurked behind the Vichy government’s colonial actions, and that the regime lacked any real agency in colonial affairs. He shows that, far from allowing the Germans to run French colonies from behind the scenes, Vichy leaders vigorously promoted their own undiluted form of ultra-conservative ideology throughout the French empire. They delivered to the colonies an authoritarianism that not only elicited fierce opposition but sowed the seeds of nationalist resurgence among indigenous cultures. Ironically, the regime awoke long-dormant nationalist sentiments by introducing to the empire Pétain’s cherished themes of authenticity, tradition, folklore, and völkism. (Amazon) ;
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
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352 p., In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial administrators in the Danish West Indies. This title explores the health conditions of the enslaved workers and the health policies initiated by planters and the colonial government.
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306 p., Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the 18th century Caribbean.
Looks at a key component of the colonial-era curriculum in Grenada, West Indies -- the Royal Readers textbooks. A close analysis of three stories in volume Royal Readers No. 4 reveals the textbooks communicate several unstated and often unrecognized tenets of ideological whiteness, instilled by the colonial authorities to augment a project of subjugated and unquestioning acquiescence to their imperial power.
Kelly,Kenneth G. (Author) and Hardy,Meredith D. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
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Gainesville: University Press of Florida
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250 p, Introduction /Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy -- -- French Protestants in South Carolina: the archaeology of a European ethnic minority /Ellen Shlasko -- -- French refugees and slave abuse in Frederick County, Maryland: Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendière Family at L'Hermitage Plantation /Sara Rivers-Cofield -- -- Commoditization of persons, places, and things during Biloxi's second tenure as capital of French colonial Louisiana /Barbara Thedy Hester -- -- The Moran site (22HR511): an early-eighteenth-century French colonial cemetery in Nouveau Biloxi, Mississippi /Marie Elaine Danforth -- -- The greatest gathering: the second French-Chickasaw War in the Mississippi Valley and the potential for archaeology /Ann M. Early -- -- Colonial and Creole diets in eighteenth-century New Orleans /Elizabeth M. ScottShannon Lee Dawdy -- -- Colonoware in Western colonial Louisiana: makers and meaning /David W. MorganKevin C. MacDonald -- -- Living on the edge : foodways and early expressions of Creole culture on the French colonial Gulf Coast frontier /Meredith D. Hardy -- -- La Vie Quotidienne : historical archaeological approaches to the plantation era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies /Kenneth G. Kelly -- -- Archaeological research at Habitation Loyola, French Guiana /Allison BainRéginald AugerYannick Le Roux -- -- Commentary /John de Bry.
As anonymously as Anton de Kom began his life in 1898 in a small nineteenth-century Surinam village, it would be terminated forty-seven years later by forces beyond his control. His death, however, was not a singular event, but one representative of an entire generation of Surinamese migrants who, desiring to improve their lives, travelled northward to Holland, the "mother country", only to find a deeper sense of pain as unwanted and abused eacute;migrés. De Kom's migration to Holland occurred twice. First, as a youth he was pulled northward to understand better "her greatness". A decade later, he was forcibly pushed and exiled northward by the Dutch colonial authorities. On the second occasion, he became aware of his own illegitimate political birth as a colonial subject, and the psychological trap that awaited him when asked to defend the imperial country against an invading German army. His residence in exile exposed the serious dilemma of "two-ness", described by W.E.B. DuBois, when the colonized becomes psychologically and aesthetically committed to the colonizer's world, as well as that of the colonized. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
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274 p., Examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today. Chamoiseau's work sheds light on the dynamic processes of creolization that have shaped Caribbean history and culture. The author's diverse body of work, which includes plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, treatises, and other genres of writing, offers a compelling vision of the postcolonial world from a francophone Caribbean perspective.
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953-1958.
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2 v., "It includes what is probably the most reliable version of the Laws of Burgos in print (the comparable text of the New Laws appears, however, only in fragmentary form). It fills lacunae in the details of imperial policies for encomienda, native labor, slavery, cacicazgos, and ethnosocial relationships, especially of the latter sixteenth century." --Charles Gibson (JSTOR)
"In this essay I discuss the thwarted cultural translation of modernity across the Atlantic and how this process affected the cultural self-understanding of the Caribbean. I will frame my argument by referring to the Hegelian theme of the Subject insofar as this particular concept condenses and articulates the ideology of modernity as a Eurocentric drive for world domination." (author)
Discusses how ephemeral artifacts of daily material culture, such as marquillas -- the colorful lithographed papers that were used to wrap bundles of cigarettes during the second half of the nineteenth century in Cuba -- partook of the symbolization of emergent forms of racialized governability towards the end of slavery on the island.
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259 p, Includes Veronica Brady's "Arnold apple's son of Guyana. autobiography or fiction?," Sheila Roberts' "V.S. Naipaul's identity in fact and fiction," etc.
Francis Humberston Mackenzie of Seaforth (1754-1815) was a Highland proprietor in what has become known as 'The First Phase of Clearance', was governor of Barbados (1801-6) in the sensitive period immediately before the abolition of the British slave trade and was himself a plantation owner in Berbice (Guiana). It is suggested that his concern for his Highland small tenants was paralleled by his ambition in Barbados to make the killing of a slave by a white a capital offence, by his attempts to give free coloureds the right to testify against whites and by his aim to provide good conditions for his own enslaved labourers in Berbice.
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280 p, Contents: Introduction: Family, Frontier, and the Colonization of the Americas --; Indians, Portuguese, and Mamelucos: The Sixteenth-Century Colonization of Sao Vicente --; Town, Kingdom, and Wilderness --; The Origins of Social Class --; Families of Planters --; Families of Peasants --; Families of Slaves --; Conclusion: Family and Frontier at Independence --; Town of Santana de Parnaiba --; Sao Vicente in the Age of the Bandeiras --; Sao Paulo and the Gold Rush --; Towns of Colonial Sao Paulo --; Population of Principal Towns of Sao Vicente, 1676 --; Deaths among Social Groups, Parish of Aracariguama, 1720-1731 --; Two Agricultural Economies: Income from Crops by Class of Farmer, 1798 --; Landownership by Class of Farmer, 1775 --; The Town Center in 1798 --; Race and Class in Parnaiba, 1820 --; Division of Mariana Pais's Estate, 1740 --; Composition of Planter Family Estates, Eighteenth Century --; Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of the Original Founders of Parnaiba --; Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of Mariana Pais, Great-Great-Granddaughter of the Original Founders of Parnaiba --; The Planters of Parnaiba --; Land Use Patterns of the Peasantry, 1775 --; Godparents of Peasant Children --; Households Headed by Men and Women, Peasant Population, 1820 --; Urban and Rural Family Structure, Peasant Population, 1820 --; Female-headed Households, Peasant Population, 1775 and 1820 --; African and Creole Slaves, 1820 --; Crude Marriage Rates, Slave and Free Populations --; Slave Marriages, Santana Parish, 1726-1820 --; Slave Families on Three Large Estates, 1740s
Examines four social movements made in this century by Jamaican people which have had an impact upon problems of self worth evaluation evident in Jamaican society
Mintz,Sidney W. (Author) and Hall,Douglas (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1970;1960
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New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press
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26 p, Reprint of the 1960 ed. published by Yale University Press which was issued as Yale University publications in anthropology ; no. 57./ Yale University publications in anthropology ; nos. 57-64 also orig. pub. and reprinted under collective title Papers in Caribbean anthropology. Compiled by Sidney W. Mintz./ Bound with Yale University. Department of Anthropology. Yale University publications in anthropology ; nos. 58-64./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-26).
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257 p., Argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization represented a tremendous creative art by enslaved peoples. Creolization was not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement.
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306 p., This dissertation concentrates on the relationship between law, literature, and slavery in the Hispanic Caribbean of the Early Modern Period. The analysis is based on two letters and a treatise, Resolución sobre la libertad de los negros y sus originarios, en estado de paganos y después ya cristianos (1681), that were written by Capuchin friar Francisco José de Jaca, while he was serving as a missionary in the Caribbean region. His writings set the stage for a discussion of how Spanish hegemonic legal thinking is challenged and redefined from an alternative transatlantic narrative.
Morgan,Gwenda Auteur (Author) and Rushton,Peter (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2013
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London: Blooomsbury
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309 p., This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context. Contents: Part one. Diverse patterns of banishment in Britain and Ireland --Part two. Continuity and change: British North America and the Caribbean.
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246 p., "This thesis, situated between literature, history and memory studies participates in the modern recovery of the long-obscured relations between Scotland and the Caribbean. I develop the suggestion that the Caribbean represents a forgotten 'lieu de mémoire' where Scotland might fruitfully 'displace' itself. Thus it examines texts from the Enlightenment to Romantic eras in their historical context and draws out their implications for modern national, multicultural, postcolonial concerns." --The Author
Moyne,Walter Edward Guinness, Baron (Author) and Benn,Denis (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
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Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers
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The Report of West India Royal Commission. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by command of his Majesty, July 1945., 480 p., Exposed the horrendous living conditions in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Following the British West Indian labor unrest of 1934–1939, the Imperial Government sent a royal commission to investigate and report on the situation while also offering possible solutions.
this article charts the connection between gendered concepts of 'whiteness' in Anglo-Caribbean contexts and in metropolitan discourses surrounding British national identity, as articulated in eighteenth-century colonial legislation and official correspondence, popular texts and personal narratives of everyday life. It explores the extent to which the socio-sexual practices of British West Indian whites imperilled the emerging conflation between whiteness and Britishness.
Newson,Adele S. (Author) and Strong-Leek,Linda (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1998
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New York: Lang
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237 p, Contents: De language reflect dem ethos : some issues with nation language / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Language and identity : the use of different codes in Jamaican poetry / Velma Pollard -- Orality and writing : a revisitation / Merle Collins -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Merle Hodge -- Francophone Caribbean women writers and the diasporic quest for identity : Marie Chauvet's Amour and Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon / Régine Altagrâce Latortue -- Unheard voice : Suzanne Césaire and the construct of a Caribbean identity / Maryse Condé --The silent game / Sybil Seaforth -- The politics of literature : Dominican women and the suffrage movement case study : Delia Weber / Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Children in Haitian popular migration as seen by Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat / Marie-José N'Zengo-Tayo -- I'll fly away : reflections on life and the death penalty / Marion Bethel -- Of popular balladeers : narrative, gender, and popular culture / Lourdes Vázquez -- Between the milkman and the fax machine : challenges to women writers in the Caribbean / Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso ; translated by Daisy Cocco De Filippis -- Frangipani House : Beryl Gilroy's praise song for grandmothers / Australia Tarver -- Anguish and the absurd : "key moments," recreated lives, and the emergence of new figures of Black womanhood in the narrative works of Beryl Gilroy / Joan Anim-Addo -- Women of color at the barricades / Beryl A. Gilroy -- Women against the grain : the pitfalls of theorizing Caribbean women's writing / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Ex/isle : separation, memory, and desire in Caribbean women's writing / Elaine Savory -- Dangerous liaison : western literary values, political engagements, and my own esthetics / Astrid H. Roemer -- The dynamics of power and desire in The pagoda / Patricia Powell -- Voices of the Black feminine corpus in contemporary Brazilian literature / Leda Maria Martins
Discusses perspectives in Africana feminist thought. While, not an exhaustive review of the entire diaspora, three regions are discussed: Africa, North America, and the Caribbean.
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257 p., Chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans.
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p. 272
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Includes Explaining Dutch abolition / Gert Oostindie -- Long goodbye : Dutch capitalism and antislavery in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher -- Dutch case of antislavery : Late abolitions and élitist abolitionism / Maarten Kuitenbrouwer -- Dutch antislavery attitudes in a decline-ridden society, 1750-1815 / Angelie Sens -- Economic explanation of the late abolition of slavery in Suriname / Edwin Horlings -- Suriname and the abolition of slavery / Alex van Stipriaan -- Same old song? : perspectives on slavery and slaves in Suriname and Curac̦ao / Gert Oostindie -- Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British, and the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Slavery and the Dutch in Southeast Asia / Gerrit J. Knaap -- Ideology of free labor and Dutch colonial policy, 1830-1870 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Emancipations in comparative perspective : a long and wide view / Stanley L. Engerman.
Adieu foulard, adieu madras is a very popular tune from the French Caribbean. It is just as popular today in continental France, where it has been adapted to different musical genres. Yet, for those familiar with the simple melody and its evocative lyrics, which encourages carefree humming, not many may be aware that it is so deeply rooted in the history of French colonialism, island tropes, and ethnic relations. This essay uses Adieu foulard, adieu madras and its multiple sonic meanings as the lens to better understand the dynamics of the (post)colonial relationship of the people of the French Antilles, particularly from the island overseas departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, many of whom have now migrated permanently to metropolitan France. For these, Adieu has now also become their song of exile.
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144 p., This book is a milestone achievement in the documentation of the newspapers of the British Caribbean islands, a field that, until now, has been neglected by many scholars. The existing and bygone papers, and several commonly unknown publications, listed in this work provide a wealth of information about these obscure times. No other work, before this one, has been as extensive in its documentation and coverage of the individual papers. Of special assistance is the index, which completes the work. This bibliography seeks to determine the extent of newspaper publications in the British Caribbean colonies and to organize it into a useful form. In the past, researchers have either ignored or given brief and scattered coverage to this information, but with Colonial British Caribbean Newspapers, Pactor hopes to make this information available to scholars. His book lists information about the known newspapers of the British Colonial Caribbean, arranged alphabetically by colony and chronologically within each colony. Dates of publications and names of editors, publishers, and owners are given, if known. The newspapers are also listed in an index. It is hoped that a work of this sort may make access to these newspapers easier for scholarly research and call attention to the need to find and preserve these fragile resources. Historians, sociologists, and mass communication scholars will be especially appreciative of Pactor's efforts.
Looks at Abraham Lincoln's pursuit of colonization in the Chiriquí region of Colombia (now Panamá), conventionally known as one of just two places that he seriously considered with respect to his policy of relocating African Americans. Challenging the standard account of the scheme's demise around October 1862 due to vehement Central American protest, this piece questions whether such a development really took the president by surprise.
Pagliaro,Harold E. (Author) and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1973
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Cleveland, OH: Press of Case Western Reserve University
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468 p, Includes Leon G. Campbell's "Racism without race: ethnic group relations in late colonial peru," pp. 323-333; and David Lowenthal's "Free colored West Indians: a racial dilemma";
