Search Results for African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica

... institutions (and other institutions, such as workhouses for the poor) had to be worse than the conditions of the poorest person outside the institution (21), was bound to reflect Jamaica s history. The British Caribbean has no legal equivalent to the ominous and revealing language of the United States...

... 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 colonial education Yoruba language African slave indentured labor Kumina Black Power Eric Williams Kamau Brathwaite Paul Lovejoy Caribbean-oriented press Maureen Warner-Lewis, 1993, Lopez Photography, Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of Maureen Warner-Lewis...

... the role of capitalist economic systems in Jamaica. Th is too is a logical outgrowth of the Venice project. A diff erent direction could include more Pan-Caribbean joint ventures involving the institutions, structures, and material limitations of the region. Th e eff ects of the unique pluralism...

... Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 10 Charles V. Carnegie, ed., Afro-Caribbean Villages in Historical Perspective ( ACIJ Research Review no. 2) (Kingston: African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica, 1987); see...

... A. Shepherd is professor of social history at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Hercolonial research Jamaica, areas Asian include migration, African andenslavement Caribbean in women’sJamaica, history. non-sugar She economic is the author activities of many in books, including, most...

... an essay on the African experience in the Americas for publication by the Institute of the Black World. This conference, the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), then held in the Caribbean for the first time, was a critical event in anglophone Caribbean criticism...

... history Caribbean religion Ras Bupe Karudi Tanzania In August 1986, a Rastaman roamed the streets of Kingston encouraging other Rastafari to leave Jamaica permanently. In particular, he searched for Rastafari elders who shared both his intellectual commitments and his deep desire to repatriate...

... overall importance for Jamaican and Caribbean political thought. - e second moment requires us to unearth silences in Jamaican political history. - e political meanings of the Claudius Henry movement and of the African Reform Church constitute a rich lode that can be used to explore the diff erent...

... into and out of the region) have always populated Caribbean literature. Further, thinking Caribbean and African (or Indian) literature together is not new. 15 But a life like Peter Abrahams’s—lived in South Africa, Europe, and Jamaica, with Abrahams making explicit claims on Jamaican citizenship...

... University, Berlin. Veer le Poupeye is a Belgium-born, Jamaica-based art historian who specializes in Caribbean art. Her publications include Caribbean Art (1998), which appeared in Thames and Hudson’s World of Art series, and Modern Jamaican Art (1998), which she co-authored...

... them in the New World. For these scholars, it was the African heritage embedded within the folk culture of West Indian slaves that should be seen as the basis for Caribbean cultural creativity, and thus developed as a modern national culture. The tension between the perspectives of James and Williams...

... as in Nigeria andCave the Hill, United where Kingdom. she is professor Since 1992, of African she hasliterature taught and at thecinema. University She has of thepublished West Indies, in the areas of contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, film and visual culture, popular writing, women’s...

..., 1959); George Eaton Simpson, The Shango Cult in Trinidad (Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1965); George Eaton Simpson, Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti (Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1970...

... in Guyana during the Caribbean independence struggles and, unlike James, who was essentially self-taught and did not have a university degree, studied at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and made a conscious decision to concentrate in African history at the School...

... from labor—Jamaican Chinese controlled the means of production and circulation outside Jamaica. Furthermore, Chinese capital in the Caribbean, unlike Canadian Asian capital, for example, is marked by the shadow of generations of debt derived from the plantation order under the institution of “racial...

... religions” and their Caribbean off shoots, including African-Christian religions such as Revival and Zion in Jamaica, and the Shouter and Spiritual Baptist religions in the East- ern Caribbean and Guyana. ? is access to knowledge through trances underlies notions of spiritual...

... literary formation as not solely oriented around and through events in London. In addition to these African connections, the Caribbean literary scholar Frank Birbalsingh has recounted his own journeys: from Guyana to Jamaica, to study literature at UCWI in the 1950s, and then, in 1962, to India, albeit...

...-time lecturer on the bachelor of art course at the New University of Ulster, Belfast, prior to teaching since 1985 in the painting department of the Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts, Jamaica. He has exhibited extensively in the Caribbean and internationally and represented...

... the opportunity to see a decolonizing art history put into museological practice when I, my colleague Huey Copeland, and graduate students from Northwestern University, worked with the African American artist of Caribbean descent, Fred Wilson, on an exhibition at the Institute of Jamaica...

... and African Diaspora Studies Department as an assistant professor in the fall of 2024. She specializes in the art history of the colonial Caribbean and contemporary art practices of the Caribbean and African diasporas. She is finishing her first book, an examination of Jamaica in the nineteenth century...