THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN/BRITISH CARIBBEAN is the term applied to the English- speaking islands in the Carribbean and the mainland nations of Belize (formerly British Honduras) and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) that once constituted the Caribbean portion of the British Empire. This volume examines only the islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean‚ which are Jamaica‚ Trinidad and Tobago‚ the Windward Islands (Dominica‚ St. Lucia‚ St. Vincent and the Grenadines‚ and Grenada)‚ Barbados‚ the Leeward
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“The history of the Caribbean is the history of the exploitation of labour” - with reference to slavery and the Encomienda labour system” In the above statement “the history of the Caribbean is the history of the exploitation of labour‚” it simply states that the Caribbean’s history is basically the history of its exploitation of labour. The definitions of keywords exploitation and labour must be considered. Exploitation can be defined as the practice of taking selfish or unfair advantage of a
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Revolt of the Cockroach People The novel Revolt of the Cockroach People by author Oscar Zeta Acosta is a very interesting story that shares the life of a Chicano lawyer by the name of Buffalo Zeta Brown; he is the main character in the book and is the archetype of “masculinity”. This novel takes place in the late sixties early seventies in the City of Los Angeles‚ California during the Chicano movement which was a time of turmoil for many Chicanos. They were discriminated against‚ thought of as
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sing songs. They used calypso‚ which can be traced back to West African Kaiso‚ as a means of communication and to mock the slave masters. Calypso singing competitions held annually at carnival time grew in popularity after the abolition of slavery by the British in the 1830s. It was the French who brought the tradition of Carnival to Trinidad. The griot later became known as the chantuelle and today as the calypsonian. The year 1914 was a landmark in the history of calypso. This was the year that
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Boudicca and The Iceni Revolt Boudicca‚ Queen of the Iceni Tribe‚ organised an army of Celtic Tribes and led the revolt against the Romans. Boudicca was the wife of King Prasutagus‚ the king of the Iceni tribe. Prasutagus died in 60 AD and by his will‚ the kingdom was left to his daughters and the roman emperor Nero as co-heirs in an attempt to keep his kingdom and family safe and out of harms way. As his daughter’s were too young to rule the kingdom of Iceni on there own‚ Boudicca assumed
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Black Caribbean children experience significant disadvantage in the British education system. Discuss In a Guardian article (January 2002) by Diane Abbott‚ MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington‚ she mentions how African and Caribbean children enter the education system doing as well as whites and Asians in tests until they reach the age of 11 when the descent begins. While some people blame gang culture and rap music for the decline of educational achievements amongst black pupils‚ specifically
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Tennyson Joseph DATE: 22ND November 2013. Identify and discuss the central themes of Gordon Lewis’ Main Currents in Caribbean Thought‚ Paget Henry’s Caliban’s Reason‚ Rex Nettleford’s “The Battle for Space” and Charles W. Mill’s Blackness Visible and explain the manner in which these works assist in your understanding of the characteristic features‚ concerns and content of Caribbean political thought? ABSTRACT Western Political Philosophy in the opinion of this essay is a concerted attempt to
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Mariela Boutte Dr. Subramanian HUMN 3375 July 2‚ 2015 Behind the Caribbean Scenery “A People to Mold‚ A Nation to Build”-European Colonization in a A Small Place “Antigua is a small place‚ a small island‚” nine by twelve miles long‚ discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 (Kincaid‚ 80). Europeans later settled on the island along with the slaves they imported. In A Small Place‚ Kincaid described the Europeans as “Human rubbish‚” who took “noble and exalted human beings from Africa” to enslave
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Book Review Capitalism and Slavery‚ (1944)‚ written by Eric Williams‚ has been the most influential scholarly work from a Caribbean historian about the Caribbean and its contribution to world history. Due to his unconventional perspectives toward the conclusion of slavery in the British Empire‚ followed by his critiques on previous statements made by historians that have concentrated on false actions of abolition and so forth deemed as humanitarians. This historical literature has been highly
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------------------------------------------------- Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Kimberly Leed 2Y / History The CCJ is the first proposed court of final jurisdiction for the Anglophone Caribbean‚ all other courts had to answer to the English court. The supremacy of the English courts was laid down in the Colonial Laws Validity Act of 1865‚ which formally conferred the power to make laws on colonial legislatures‚ but at the same time it declared that colonial laws inconsistent with an Act of the British Parliament
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