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Linguistic Representations of Black Characters in Cuban Fiction of the New Millennium
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 If scholarship has focused on the return to the stereotypical portrayals of black characters during the 1990s, and that were common to the pre-revolutionary era, what had not yet been addressed is how differentiating linguistic traits (manner of speech)
Catia Dignard
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From Trinidad and Tobago to the World: Determining the role of Calypso in a new Era
Caribbean Quilt, 2020 Calypso is a popular Caribbean musical genre that originated in the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The genre was developed primarily by enslaved West Africans brought to the region via the transatlantic slave trade during the seventeenth and ...
Malek Abdel-Shehid
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Continuities in Capitalism: Exploitation of Indentured and Migrant Labour
Caribbean Quilt, 2012 Kevin De Silva is a third year student at the University of Toronto. He is completing his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Caribbean Studies, winning in 2010 the United Network of Indo-Caribbean Toronto Youths (U.N.I.T.Y.) Scholarship.
Kevin De Silva
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Investigating Discourses of Indigeneity and Taino Survival in Jamaica
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 In Jamaica, the longstanding notion of indigenous extinction through colonial violence and subsequent intermixing with enslaved Africans has led to widespread debate on the island regarding the legitimacy of Taíno survival. Colonial narratives attesting
Shenhat Haile
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The Dynamic Character Impressions Regarding the Life and Person of Thomas “Indian Warner”
Caribbean Quilt, 2020 “The Dynamic Character of Impressions Regarding the Life and Person of Thomas ‘Indian’ Warner,” is an analysis of the “The Case of ‘Indian’ Warner,” a part of the wider anthology Wild Majesty: Encounters With Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day by ...
Mollie Sheptenko
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Climate Change and Globalization: Food Security in the Caribbean
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 Climate change and food security are among the world’s biggest challenges. A growing population and climate change means that vulnerable regions such as the Caribbean, will continue to face unique strains.
Donna Miller
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Caribbean Quilt, 2023 In this thesis, I will be discussing the origins of Carnival and the artform of Kalinda, within the Carribean twin island of Trinidad and Tobago. I will discuss the cultural and spiritual roots of these practices that originated from West, Central and ...
Shayna Rivelle Thompson
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The Future of Food in the Caribbean: Climate Change and Food Security
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 1.5 Stay Alive is a nature film, music video-like documentary that emphasizes the consequences of a 1.5 degree increase in temperature that would negatively impact the Caribbean region (“1.5 Stay Alive: Science Meets Music in the Caribbean”).
Donna Miller
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The Plantation Economy and Guyana’s Extractivism
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 The Plantation Economy school of thought has been somewhat absent from mainstream discourse surrounding development despite offering a critical lens to understand the Caribbean region's historical and contemporary economic conditions.
Alyssa Nurse
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