...Jennifer Thorington Springer Abstract “‘Roll It Gal’: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso” examines the ways in which Caribbean women's bodies, namely those of black women, have been overly sexualized in calypsos. More importantly, this article examines how Hinds (re)claims calypso...

...Lia T. Bascomb Abstract The image of black queens has a rich legacy within African diasporic discourse. This article examines Barbadian singer Alison Hinds's performance as Soca Queen . Hinds's prolific career spans decades. Her fans named her the Queen of Soca and she took on the designation...

...Dana Barqawi [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 This artwork is a collaboration between the artist Dana Barqawi and the Palestinian/Lebanese writer, Hind Shoufani, on the Relation to the Land. The artistic collaboration process centers on a poem by Samih...

... exile in Cuba since that time (Hinds 1987).For details of the current situation, see http www.handsoffassata.org/ (accessed January 6, 2009). 17. Communities of escaped slaves and their descendants who fled via the underground railroad to settle in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia after...

... that Barbadian calypso singer Alison Hinds creates an important space in calypso for public discourse on and representation of female sexualityone that both challenges the objectification of women's bodies in men's calypso, as well as the politics of respectability that condemns women's dance movements. From...

.... Wassef, Hind, and Nadia Wassef, eds. 2001. DaughterosftheNile:Photographosf EgyptianWomen'sMovements1,900-1960. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Courtesy ofGazbia Sirry and The American University in Cairo Press TheTwoWives(1953) Prison (1958) Grief(1967...