Caribbean Immigrants to New York/Us In the early 1900s the largest number of black immigrants were English-speaking Caribbean (West Indians) who settled in the Northeast‚ mainly in New York City. These immigrants were only 1.3 percent of the NYC population and faced intense racism‚ but by 1923 they became a 12.7 percent of the city’s population. Many of these immigrants were young‚ unmarried men. According to Winston James‚ a few women arrived and held occupations as teachers‚ doctors‚ lawyers
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Topic: Defining the Caribbean Thesis: The Caribbean‚ also known as the West Indies is defined as a broad crescent of tropical islands extending from the Bahamas and Cuba southwards to Trinidad with varied history resulting from the various races of people and various cultures characterized by different languages‚ music and dance. Topic | Sentence | The physical landscape | The crescent shaped physical landscape of the Caribbean is located between ten and twenty degrees north and eighty
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WHAT TIME THE EUROPEAN MIGRANTS DID CAME INTO THE CARIBBEAN AND FOR WHAT REASONS? (3 MARKS) The West Indies are a group of islands lying in an arc between Florida in the US and the Venezuelan coast of South America. Europeans came to the region in the 15th century looking for spices‚ gold‚ silver and precious stones. Christopher Columbus believed the world was round and that by travelling westward‚ he could eventually reach the East. When he made his first landfall in the ’New World’ in 1492‚ he was
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: Discuss the connection between political parties and trade unions in Jamaica and one other Caribbean country‚ showing areas of similarity and difference. A Political Party is a political organization that normally seeks to influence government and government policy‚ this is done by nominating their own candidates‚ trying to seat them in political office. Parties often express an ideology or vision of specific views and participate in electoral campaigns and protest actions. The emergence of
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I. Introduction Caribbean Area 2‚754‚000 km2 (1‚063‚000 sq mi) Land area 239‚681 km2 (92‚541 sq mi) Population (2009) 39‚169‚962 Density 151.5 /km2 Ethnic groups Afro-Caribbean‚ European‚ Indo-Caribbean‚ Chinese Caribbean‚[2] Amerindians (Arawak‚ Caribs‚ Taínos) Demonym West Indian‚ Caribbean person‚ Caribbean Languages Spanish‚ English‚ French‚ Dutch‚ among others Government 13 sovereign states; 17 dependent territories Largest cities Santo Domingo Havana Santiago de los Caballeros Port-au-Prince
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Course description The slaves in the British Caribbean had high expectations of freedom. They hoped that it would give them‚ amongst others‚ the vote and control over their time and labour. This course explores the extent to which these and other expectations of freedom were realised in the period between the abolition of slavery in 1838 and independence in the early 1960s. It examines in some detail the various factors inside and outside the region that impacted on the ability of the former slaves
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The Caribbean When most people hear ‘Caribbean’ what jumps to mind is colour‚ steel drums‚ good food‚ smoothies‚ beaches‚ laid back attitudes‚ and all we do is party. Hopefully at the end one’s stereotypical thoughts would have changed. Brief History I shall start from the beginning Christopher Columbus did not discover the Caribbean‚ it was already there‚ people inhabited the islands before he ‘discovered the new world’. He died believing that he’d reached the islands southeast of India-Indonesia
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Rationale Area of Research: Slavery in the Caribbean “What evidence is there to prove that the Africans‚ who arrived in the British West Indies‚ were ill-treated?”This project seeks to examine the nature of slavery in the British West Indies and to prove that the slaves endured harsh‚ inhumane conditions. Acknowledgement First of all I would like to thank the Lord for giving me the health‚ strength and understanding to complete this project. Secondly‚ I would like to pay credit to
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was characterised primarily by one protracted war launched by those enslaved against their enslavers’ (V. Shepherd). Discuss with special reference to the anti-slavery activities of enslaved Africans." Ra’Monne Darrell Gardiner 410004250 Caribbean Civilization Professor C. Curry University of the West Indies November 23rd‚ 2010 “Where ever there was slavery‚ there was resistance” (University of the West Indies 86). Before the arrival of the first African slave ship‚ until the expansion
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2014 The Caribbean presents an unrealistic facade to outsiders; this region is the vacation hot spot with many beautiful tropical islands‚ perpetual sun‚ and clear waters – a place to rid yourself of all worries‚ and unwind. But there are many underlying issues in this region that most people are unaware of. In The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories‚ written by Stewart Brown and John Wickham‚ there are many depictions of the difficulties that people experience in the Caribbean. A common
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