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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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Caribbean Quilt, 2015 Cover art for main edition Photographer: Tammy Williams; Image Edited: Samra ...
Tammy Williams, Samra Hasnain
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Canadian-Trinidadian Activism: Navigating Intersectional Identity in Queer Care
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 For Trinidadian-Candian Queer activists, identity must be navigated through queer identity, ethnic community, and cultural background. This paper seeks to explore what Trinidadian Canadian QTBIPOC and allied activism and care can look like in Canada and
Julia Chapman
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Haiti - Harmed at the Hands of Others
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 On January 1, 1804, Haiti officially proclaimed its Declaration of Independence, roughly two months after its forces led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines expelled the last remaining French forces from their territory.
Max Ray-Ellis
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The Consequences of Colonialism to the History and Lives of the Garifuna People of St. Vincent.
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 Garifuna people have lived on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent for over 300 years. Enslaved Africans who had survived the sinking of two Spanish ships in the 1600s became the first non-American group to settle on the island. Land ownership struggles,
Maria Fernanda de Almeida
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Redemption Song: A Commentary on Caribbean Society
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 This essay unpacked and analyzed the seven-part documentary series, Redemption Song, narrated by Stuart Hall about the Caribbean in early 1990s. Given the diversity of the Caribbean, Redemption Song unified the Caribbean through its framing of how the ...
Maria Bacchus
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Indigenous Erasure and Resistance in the Caribbean
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 Indigeneity has, for the most part, been absent in literature on the Caribbean, even in de-colonial writing. Writing on the Caribbean has often portrayed Indigenous people as extinct and thus as irrelevant to contemporary life in the Caribbean.
Elizabeth Wong
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Decolonizing the Body: Resistance in the Queer, Femme Caribbean
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 When one exists outside the boundaries of what it means to be a person, let alone a ‘good’ womxn, the simple act of existing is a threat to the heteronormative standards present in one’s life (Alexander, 1994; Kempadoo, 2004, p. 27).
Maria Paula Vidal Valdespino
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