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...Odessa D. Despot Abstract This study contributes to the literature on Asian Indian women who have emigrated from Trinidad and Guyana (Indo-Caribbeans) and who are now residing in the US. Using a qualitative design comprised of four ninety-minute interviews, I explored the experiences of immigration...

... peopleseparatedbyracebutmoredeeplybyculture, reiriforceadndabettedbyreligiouspracticesW. earea peoplein searchofOnePeople, OneNation,OneDestiny.Yes,this dearland of Guyanamaderichby thesunshine and lushby the rains.OurElDorado(.Phillips2002) This excerpt, extracted from a letter to the editor of Guyana's StabroekNews, illustrates a desire...

... the experiences of four pubescent girls in 1970s Guyana as they learn about, participate in, and challenge some gender expectations of their immediate and wider communities. The story is told from the point of view of Lula, who keenly observes the ways in which gender roles are enacted and how these roles may...

..., Japanese, Egyptian, Mexican, and the Black Diaspora. The essay "Indo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency" by Odessa Despot is an important addition to the literature on Asian Indian women who have immigrated from Trinidad and Guyana to the United States. Interviews...

... with others in struggle. This essay joins the writing of several black women to reveal our processes of creating diaspora in a framework oflove. I begin with excerpts ofletters from my grandmother who wrote to me from Guyana during my childhood in the U.S. These written exchanges constitute the relationship...

..." through a close reading of the life history narrative of a woman named Andaiye-an activist in the Red Thread Women's Development Organisation of Guyana. In so doing, Nettles reconsiders the role of forced and voluntary migration in women of color's lives. Similarly, in exploring "tropes of mobility...

... in the world ranking by 1998, with the exception of the Bahamas, which moved up by two places. Barbados fell by fiveplaces, Jamaica by thirteen, and Guyana by twentyfive. In 1998 I constructed what I called a misogyny index in which I categorized the degree of slippage on these indices as evidence of declining...

... Kempadoo, and Cisca Pattipilohy. Flamboyant’s first board reflects the coming together of Black women and women of color from different countries such as Suriname, the Dutch Antilles, Indonesia, the Moluccas, Guyana, and South Africa. Quite a few women already had solid work experience within academia...

... and 1939 of labor unrest, hunger marches, and rebellions against the colonial state. These came to a head between 1937 and 1939, culminating in major civil unrest across the whole of the British Caribbean and British Guyana. At the peak of the unrest in 1937 and 1938, Britain stationed troop ships off...

... evident in the civil unrest ofJamaica's Michael Manley-Edward Seaga years, "in Maurice Bishop's Grenada with the New Jewel Movement and American intervention, in Guyana with Walter Rodney and the WPAand the brutal elimination of Rodney, in Haiti with the Duvalier reign of terror and plunder and the post...