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Keywords in Caribbean Studies

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2022
This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of the field of Caribbean studies.
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Ryan Cecil Jobson   +1 more
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Caribbean Water Study

2021
The Caribbean Water Study describes the operational and financial performance of selected water utilities in the Caribbean as reported by the utilities as well as secodary sources, the situation of non-revenue water (NRW) among these utilities, the financial impact of COVID-19 on the utilites, and the issue of their resilience to natural disasters ...
Nils Janson, Lindsay N. Burkhard, Sara Jones   +2 more
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Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2021
This essay traces the roots of marginalization of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean studies, approaching these roots as an integral part of a shared Caribbean intellectual history. In the era of twentieth-century Caribbean anticolonialism, nationalism, and decolonization, local intellectuals emerged in the public arena throughout the Caribbean region ...
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A bio-ecological case study: A Caribbean child.

Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 1997
The present article presents how the bio-ecological assessment system is applied in assessing a child's cognitive intelligence beyond a psychometric intelligence test. The recognition that there are many types of intelligence, such as musical and bodily kinesthetic, is exemplified.
S A, Gopaul-McNicol, E, Armour-Thomas
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Caribbean Circuits: New Directions in the Study of Caribbean Migration

American Anthropologist, 1998
Caribbean Circuits: New Directions in the Study of Caribbean Migration. Patricia R. Pessar. ed. New York‐ Center for Migration Studies, 1997. 231 pp.
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Spanish Caribbean Literature: A Heuristic for Colonial Caribbean Studies

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2016
This essay reflects on the colonial Spanish Caribbean as a heuristic that enriches Caribbean studies. First, it meditates on the usefulness and limitations of applying the category of the Spanish Caribbean to the analysis of some pre- and post-seventeenth-century texts.
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The Caribbean Basin: A Climatological Study

1989
Abstract : A climatological study of the Caribbean Basin, an area that includes Central America, the West Indies, and Northern South America. After describing the general geography of land areas in the Caribbean Basin, it discusses major meteorological features of the entire study area.
Michael J. Vojtesak, Andrew G. Korik, Kenneth R. Walters   +2 more
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Caribbean research in African Studies: an index to ASAWI bulletin / Caribbean journal of African studies

African Research & Documentation, 1986
The African Studies Association of the West Indies (ASAWI) came into being in 1967 for the primary purpose of promoting a scholarly interest in African Studies in the Caribbean area. In the context of this region, the term “African Studies” was to be used to include elements of African culture which persisted in or had an influence on institutions in ...
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Performing the Caribbean in American studies

American Quarterly, 1998
THE AMERICAN IN AMERICAN STUDIES, NOW MEDIATED BY THE FORCES OF globalization, still carries the weight of colony and empire. The term has yet to be replaced by the plural, hemispheric and multicultural Americas, despite the scholarly incursions of comparative Americanists such as Jos6 David Saldivar and Suzanne Oboler, among others, and the ...
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A Commentary on the Inclusion of the Dutch Caribbean within Caribbean Anthropological Studies

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2022
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