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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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Cultural Responses to the War on Drugs: Writing, Occupying, and ‘Public‐ing’ in the Mexican City
City &Society, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 203-227, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Cardboard publishers (editoriales cartoneras) are small, independent publishers linked by the recovered cardboard that covers their books, a commitment to the promotion of local authors, and a drive to make literature accessible. This cultural movement, whose actors often form part of broader social movements, has spread across Latin America ...
Patrick O’Hare, Lucy Bell
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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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In El Batey, My Father’s Foot Lit a Fire
Caribbean Quilt, 2017 First published in The Caribbean Writer Volume 31 New Vistas: An Evolving Caribbean (2017): 91-93. “In El Batey, My Father's Foot Lit a Fire” is inspired by Juan Bosch's short story “Luis Pie,” narrated from the perspective of Luis Pie's son.
Sophie Maríñez
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DEFINE AND EMPOWER: Black Feminist Discourse in a Caribbean Context
Caribbean Quilt, 2023 In the global Feminist forum, many women and women-identifying voices are forgotten and subsequently omitted. Women of colour, specifically Black women, are often left out of discourses due to the troubled history of Feminism and its founders.
Kennedy-Jude Providence
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From Democratic Socialism to a Neoliberal Agenda: A Jamaican Case Study
Caribbean Quilt, 2015 From Democratic Socialism to a Neoliberal Agenda: A Jamaican Case Study by Raquel ...
Raquel Brown
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The Early Colonial Circum-Caribbean: Affected and Infected by Colonialism and Disease
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 Oftentimes when thinking about the plantocracy, slavery and the Circum-Caribbean region, the first thing that comes to mind is the suffering endured by millions of Indige- nous populations, genocide and forced African migrants, enslaved, and tortured
Kennedy-Jude Providence
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