Special journal issue., 211 p., During the colonial era, after abolition of slavery in 1833, the British faced extreme shortage of labor for sugar plantation in their sugar producing colonies of the Caribbean. To overcome this problem, over half a million Indians were transported to the region as indentured workers (often called as Indian coolies) with false hopes and promises.
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.
