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Caribbean Quilt, 2022 With the collapse of the Banana industry, Gabriel was thrust into a new reality that highlights the challenges of life under the externalities of neocolonialism.
David Allens
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Toward a Cultural Sustenance View of Reading
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract This article highlights a Cultural Sustenance View of Reading (CSVR), a complex reader model illuminated by vivid findings from an eight‐year collaborative classroom‐based study and extensive reviews of cognitive and sociocultural research. Within the CSVR, reading is conceptualized as being shaped by a readers' culturally and linguistically ...
Kindel Turner Nash +5 more
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Trade Negotiations and Regional Economic Integration in the Pacific Islands Forum
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 325-336, May 2014., 2014 Abstract When the Pacific Islands Forum was established in 1971, regional economic integration was high on the policy agenda. Over the four decades since, a political commitment to regional integration has waxed and waned. This paper explores past and present prospects for economic cooperation through the lens of regional trade negotiations.
Wesley Morgan
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The Reality of Reparations: An Exploration of Neo-Colonialism, Morality and Control in the Caribbean
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 Reparations are widely understood as the process by which compensation is given or amends made for previous wrongdoing. In the context of the Caribbean, it may refer to official actions taken by former colonial powers to acknowledge and recompense ...
Amna Khan
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Legacy and evolution: The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African‐American Arts + Culture
Museum Anthropology, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 99-110, Fall 2024.Abstract In 2024, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African‐American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, North Carolina, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Founded as the as the Afro‐American Cultural and Service Center in 1974 by Mary Harper and Bertha Maxwell‐Roddey at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, this case study reflects on the Gantt Center's ...
Monica Patrice Barra
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Caribbean Quilt, 2022 This article examines contemporary art of the Hispanic Caribbean as a counternarrative to the antiblack aesthetic ideals in the region. By exploring beauty standards on these islands through quotidian language and images that portray beauty, the ...
Liza Girgis
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Tuning into HEAT: Thermoceptive enskilment and insecurity
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 12-22, April 2024.Abstract In this article, I address how discernments of alterity as insecurity are intimately connected to bodily perceptions and cultural elaborations of heat. Focusing on the interplay of temperature and danger, I look at the role of thermoception—as sensation, as ambient quality, as idiom, and as technology—in experiences and retellings of (in ...
Alana Osbourne
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Integrity of Authenticity and Real Presence in The Couple in the Cage
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 With performance often being used as a means of entertainment for many, audiences can sometimes be at fault for allowing their gullibility to fiction and historical inaccuracies led to dangerously self-constructed beliefs.
Kiewan Foxe
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 198-224, March 2024.Abstract This study traces how Black lesbians in the San Francisco Bay Area made a place for themselves in the world at the end of the twentieth century, after the decline of the Black Power Movement and before the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Alesia Montgomery
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A Revolutionary Cuisine: Food, Liberation & Cubanidad
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 In one of his infamous speeches, Castro challenged Cubans with the question: “Why should we eat peaches? We were made to think that peaches were the best thing going and when we’d visit someone’s house they’d offer us peaches. So we all thought that..
Ruth Masuka
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