Successive waves of Arawak migrants‚ moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America‚ settled the islands of the Caribbean. Around AD 600‚ the Taíno Indians‚ an Arawak culture‚ arrived on the island‚ displacing the previous inhabitants. They were organized into cacicazgos (chiefdoms)‚ each led by a cacique (chief). The final Arawak migrants‚ the Caribs‚ began moving up the Lesser Antilles in the 12th century‚ and were raiding Taíno villages on the island’s eastern coast by the late sixteenth
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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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separately from one another. It took more for them just to come together they had to do other things such as leaving the country. They lived in various places to try and get away. Some of the Native Americans and blacks relocate to the Bahamas‚ Cuba and Haiti. The black refugees hurried themselves to the Manatee River. The site of the black settlement there–apparently located on a point of land at the Braden-Manatee River junction within today’s Bradenton–offered an easily defensible position near fertile
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The Dominican Republic may be a small country however they produce well known artists‚ designers‚ and writers. They are very creative and do not believe in low success rates. The work hard to make sure others know their worthy of talent. Anyone would like to be born in the Dominican Republic. This essay will be about the politics‚ culture‚ and relations amongst the United States. To begin with the political system‚ Danilo Medina is the current president of the Dominican Republic. His presidency began
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“New World‚” Christopher Columbus discovered an island that he would call Hispaniola. The island The Dominican Republic represents two-thirds of the Hispaniola Island in the Caribbean Sea. The country represents the eastern side of the island while Haiti occupies the western portion of the island. Santo Domingo‚ the capital of the Dominican Republic is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Western hemisphere. The nation independence did not come until 1844‚ but they have endured much political
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Many people have said and think Sister Souljah is a racist. She has made a statement to let people know she is not a racist. She considers herself of being a black sister with an unselfish heart and wants to be heard and will be heard. Sister Souljah has impacted and affected our society today. To some people she is a threat and some people admire her work‚ thoughts‚ and music. She has stated ’’I am mentally‚ emotionally‚ spiritually‚ physically‚ intellectually‚ and academically developed and acutely
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APUSH DBQ ESSAY From 1775 to 1830‚ the United States gained their independence and began their formation of a new country. During this period‚ the ideas of the Revolutionary War had an influence on the African Americans. A number of African Americans were freed but the institution of slavery spread due to social and economic reasons. Both the free African Americans and enslaved confronted and endure the challenges they faced as they fought for rights and equality. The Revolutionary War was a
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Columbus has always been portrayed as an enlightened‚ peaceful explorer who “discovered” a new world‚ and became friends with the native people. Howard Zinn’s view on Columbus’s encounter with the natives is an entirely different perspective. Zinn describes Columbus as a man who is willing to torture and kill others to be able to accomplish what he wants; in this case he wanted to obtain gold and other resources to take back with him to Spain. When Columbus and his men arrived to the islands‚ he
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members. He fled the country on a damaged boat that accommodates thirty-six other deserting souls (Danticat 3)‚ in hopes of escaping death by government persecution. The circumstances of this scene paint a picture of social and political unrest in Haiti; which alone demonstrates how people are willing to risk their lives and die at sea rather than succumb to government torment. The severity of government corruption also fuels the development of a powerful voices in some women. An example of horrific
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learned‚ where a boy and a girl in love write letters to each other. The main conflict in this story has to do with the Militia’s and the Radio Six Youth Group. The Militia’s were people or soldiers who were trying to take over Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti. The Radio Six Youth Group was young adults or teenagers who went against the Militia’s and expressed themselves through the radio. The boy in one of his letters he claimed that “It was nice to have a radio like that for a while‚ where we could talk
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