Cultural Studies
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Latin American & Caribbean Studies
“Caribbean” is a root word. “Caribbean” is also a “route” (Stuart Hall) word – it can offer one way to travel; one path in practices of self-articulation. When you add the suffix “-ness” to the root/route, the resultant word is one that compels you to confront a condition of being – that condition or quality of “being Caribbean.” What then is Caribbeanness? What characterises or constitutes being Caribbean?
Caribbean Cultural Studies: Marsha Pearce
The most extensive discographic database on African and Caribbean music. Nearly 3000 artists and more than 8000 albums referenced, organized by musical styles , country , instruments , labels and years . Many links towards artists, labels, festivals sites.
The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures : news, music, arts
The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures : news, music, arts
The most extensive discographic database on African and Caribbean music. Nearly 3000 artists and more than 8000 albums referenced, organized by musical styles , country , instruments , labels and years . Many links towards artists, labels, festivals sites.
Did you know that Trinidad and Tobago has a rich supply of petroleum reserves and is the leading exporter in the region? This is followed by Jamaica's export of bauxite and alumina.
Caribbean culture featuring Caribbean and West Indian community
Caribbean Review of Books: ABOUT the CRB
The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) , edited by Nicholas Laughlin, is a bimonthly magazine covering Caribbean literature and arts. The original CRB was published from 1991 to 1994 by the University of the West Indies Publishers’ Association in Mona, Jamaica, and edited by Samuel B. Bandara. In May 2004, the CRB was revived by a team of writers and editors at MEP, led by Nicholas Laughlin and Jeremy Taylor. MEP published it until it was incorporated as a not-for-profit under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago in 2007. In 2010, the CRB was relaunched as a bimonthly online magazine.
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Dear Anthurium Readers, We are writing to inform our community that the Fall/Spring 2011 special issue of Anthurium on Bahamian Literature has been published. This special issue features criticism, poetry, fiction and interviews with writers from the Bahamas and is guest edited by Ian Strachan and Marjorie Brooks-Jones.
The Caribbean Writer (TCW) - The Literary Gem of the Caribbean - is an international, refereed, literary journal with a Caribbean focus, founded in 1986 and published annually by the University of the Virgin Islands. The Caribbean Writer features new and exciting voices from the region, and beyond that explore the diverse and multi-ethnic culture in poetry, short fiction, personal essays, creative non-fiction, and plays. Social, cultural, economic and sometimes controversial issues are also explored, employing a wide array of literary devices. Opal Palmer Adisa - Editor of The Caribbean Writer from 2010 - 2011, has 14 titles to her credit.
The Caribbean Writer - 2008
We Are Ugly But We Are Here, article by Edwidge Danticat
One of the first people murdered on our land was a queen. Her name was Anacaona and she was an Arawak Indian. She was a poet, dancer, and even a painter. She ruled over the western part of an island so lush and green that the Arawaks called it Ayiti land of high. When the Spaniards came from across the sea to look for gold, Anacaona was one of their first victims.As shown elsewhere it was the Ashanti in Jamaica who, during the days of slavery, maintained a commanding influence over all the other types of slaves, even imposing on them their peculiar superstitions and religious practices, and who have left their impress on the general population of the Island to such an extent that they may undoubtedly be declared the dominant influence in evolving our Jamaica peasant of the present day.[1] Thus, to briefly summarize a few of the principal facts, in Jamaica folklore, or Anancy stories, we find the spider, anancy, as the central figure and his son Tacoma as next in importance, with both names and characters derived directly from the Ashanti. Here also the Ashanti name of Odum is perserved { sic } for the silk-cotton tree. These stories are passed along by the Nana or Granny, and again the function and title are both Ashanti.
Chapter V: Development of Obeah in Jamaica
Caribbean Religion: Rastafarianism | caribbean-guide.info
Although the Caribbean has been, since the earliest days of European conquest, nominally Christian, the black power movements of the early 1900s helped launch a completely different kind of religion. Based on Christianity and the King James Bible, Rastafarian beliefs also include the worship of Ras (meaning Prince) Tafari of Ethiopia. This movement began in Jamaica, though it has since spread throughout the Caribbean, in fact, practitioners can be found around the globe. It began in 1932 when Ras Tafari became Emperor of Ethiopia. Crowned Haile Selassie, the religious movement begun by Marcus Garvey still bears his princely name. Selassie, however, was not just any man.CiteULike Connotea Delicious Digg Reddit Technorati What's this?