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    takes place. It is an area where poverty is prevalent‚ where most people are struggling financially. In John Cowley’s Carnival‚ Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making‚ Cowley mentions that there was an economic depression in the Eastern Caribbean where poverty started growing at faster rates. The poor were made up of “stickmen‚ singers‚ drummers‚ dancers‚ prostitutes‚ bad johns…” (Cowley 72) who was all associated with being impoverished. During Carnival‚ they had “flaunted themselves to

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    Evolution of Calypso : from popular music to fame : An heritage and riches shared by Caribbean people. ………………………………p6-9 IV Calypso similarities in the Caribbean………………………………p 10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………..p11 Bibliography……………………………………………………………..p12 Annexes…………………………………………………………………..p13-21 Calypso also called kaiso is the national folk song of Trinidad and Tobago and a very popular music of the Caribbean .This music influenced by the mixture of African and French culture became the voice

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    Cultural Erasure

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    Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 79‚ octubre de 2005 | 125 Identity and Erasure: Finding the Elusive Caribbean Anton Allahar – Caribbean Autobiography: cultural identity and self-representation‚ by Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Madison‚ WI: The University of Wisconsin Press‚ 2002. – Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch policies in a comparative perspective‚ by Gert Oostindie and Inge Klinkers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press‚ 2003. – Ah Come Back Home: Perspectives

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    1.Distinguish between pidgins and creoles. Pidgin language is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly used in situations such as trade‚ or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the country in which they live in (but where there is no common language between the groups). In addition‚ pidgins have a distinct set of characteristics that make them differ from the

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    how often they drank coffee and whether they believed that T&T owns a coffee culture or is in the process of creating one. The results of this are provided later in the essay. Rituals coffee house is a high end café with franchises in nine Caribbean islands. The outlet chosen for the study is a small‚ quaint café located on a corner and enclosed by glass automatic doors to the front and large glass windows to the side. While walking in‚ the atmosphere noticeably transformed the congestion and

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    bus 100

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    HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES UNIT HUMANITIES COURSE SYLLABUS History of the Caribbean: LAC 108 Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00AM-12:15PM Professor: Ana Ozuna‚ Ph.D. Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday‚ 2:00PM-3:30PM Office: C-417 E-mail: aozuna@hostos.cuny.edu Tel.: 718-518-6852 REQUIRED TEXTS Palmié‚ S.‚ & Scarano‚ F. A. (Eds.). (2011) The Caribbean‚ a History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: UP Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-0226645087 Handouts

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    Bibliography: "Languages Spoken in Each Country of the World."Infoplease. Pearson Education‚ Inc‚ 2007. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. Balutansky‚ Kathleen M.‚ and Marie-Agnès Sourieau. Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language‚ Literature‚ and Identity. Gainesville: University of Florida‚ 1998. Print. "Vallecito Resists‚ Satuye Lives! The Garífuna Resistance to Honduras ’ Charter Cities."Vallecito Resists‚ Satuye

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    of the Black British community‚ whereas some people may say that it is a vernacular of British English. The linguist Peter L. Patrick claims that British Creole is the product of contact between the Creole language varieties of migrants from the Caribbean‚ and vernacular varieties of Urban English English. (Peter L. Patrick 2003: 231) So one could say that British Creole is a compounded variety of the Jamaican Creole Patois‚ and a British English Vernacular. But what is British Creole in fact? Because

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    AAVE African American Vernacular English (AAVE)—also called African American English; less precisely Black English‚ Black Vernacular‚ Black English Vernacular(BEV)‚ or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is a variety (dialect‚ ethnolect‚ and sociolect) of American English‚ most commonly spoken today by urban working-classand largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans.[1] Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics (a term that also has other meanings and connotations). It shares parts of its grammar and phonology with

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    Rodney‚ Walter. A History of the Guyanese Working People‚ 1881–1905 ‚ 1981. Seecharan‚ Clem. "Tiger in the Stars": The Anatomy of Indian Achievement in British Guiana‚ 1919–1929 ‚ 1997. ——. "The Shaping of the Indo-Caribbean People: Guyana and Trinidad to the 1940s." Journal of Caribbean Studies 14 (1–2): 61–92‚ 1999–2000. Smith‚ Raymond T. The Negro Family in British Guiana: Family Structure and Social Status in the Villages ‚ 1956. ——. British Guiana ‚ 1962. Spinner‚ Thomas J.‚ A Political and Social

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