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...Liv Sovik Stuart Hall's work was known in Brazil before the year 2000, but it was after his visit that year and the 2003 publication of a major collection of his work in Portuguese, Da diáspora , that its impact was strongly felt. After a description of that visit and the general influence of his...

...Alexandra Perisic In 1935, while visiting his friend Petar Guberina in Dalmatia, Aimé Césaire saw an island by the name of Martinska (the equivalent of Martinique). Shocked by this discovery, he began writing his Notebook of a Return to the Native Land . While acknowledged, this Yugoslav connection...

... Town from 1963 to 1966; the 1966 state visit of Haile Selassie; and the riots spawned in 1968 by the government expulsion of University of the West Indies lecturer Walter Rodney. This crisis arose from a clash of paths of development—a largely neocolonial one that marginalized the epistemic...

...Michelle Stephens This essay provides a cultural analysis of the work of Trinidadian-born artist Nicole Awai and is derived from a collaborative process between author and artist, including a studio visit in 2014. This discussion presents the author's reflections on the deeper philosophical...

... in the understanding of space, landscape, and those who inhabit the sites of visitation. It is the author's hope that such an investigation will yield a compelling discursive reassessment of how we might rethink the role of “native informants” as cosmopolitans who, despite a fixed identity within a minority group...

... and New York, this essay explores gendered and routinized modes of travel across sites of migration that displace the home-away dyad. How might we explain these visits to Caribbean people in places other than the Caribbean and to Caribbean places in North America? How might we account for the prominence...

... the details of all of his movements among them. When the St. George sailed on to Jamaica, with it went all the excitement that the visit had brought, and the town was forced to return to its humdrum existence. Only the memory remained of an event that would, as the local press suggested, “be long...

... Congress. Th at year, Jagan himself traveled to Trinidad to meet with Trinidadian labor and politi- cal leaders. Having been absent from the Caribbean during the critical period shaped by the Royal Commission’s visit to the region and by the early war years, Jagan was seeking 5...

... of Fulbright and ACLS/Mellon fellowships. His work has appeared in the Journal of Africana Religions and Cultural Anthropology 's “Fieldsights.” With the support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund, he is currently a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar in the anthropology department at New York...

.... The waters recede, return. But perhaps it’s the constancy that matters, the permanent repetition of this circular motion, with all the familiar indifference of the sea anywhere. This sea too is history, I assume. 1 I’ve long wanted to visit Dar es Salaam, and now here I am. 2 In September 1974...

..., I examine the space between the “promise” imagined by King, the starkly different reality of contestation over race in the post-independence years in Jamaica, and the critical intervention of Peter Tosh’s political prophecy offered roughly a decade after King’s visit. I read...

... processes. Th e ability of social actors to use their multiple identifi cations is shown, thus presenting a challenge to social scientists using identity as a conceptual and analytical tool. In the 1990s, I visited the Cuban towns of Banes, Baraguá, Chaparra, Delicias...

... Press, 2004), 119–49. 90 “Miss Nancy Cunard and Her Secretary Now in the Island,” Daily Gleaner , 18 July, 1932; “The Visit of Miss Cunard to This Island,” Daily Gleaner , 19 July 1932; “Miss Cunard's Sad Times in Harlem and Cuba,” Daily Gleaner , 25 July 1932; Lois G. Gordon, Nancy Cunard...

... of the structured and random, deliberate, and accidental junctures we passed through informed our apprehensions of what we saw and the associations we drew as we proceeded. The exhibits and our road trip thoroughly animated my approach to this essay, which, in turn, thoroughly informed the trip and museum visits...

... before Mrs. B, on her way to visit her daughter cut down by sugar, stopped for a brief chat, laughing like old times. I give you thanks for the plot of grass, perpetually green in a place famous for water lock-offs...

... emerita at the University of Michigan, where she was Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies. W arren H arding is Deans’ Faculty Fellow and visiting assistant professor of Africana studies at Brown University, where he earned his PhD in Africana studies and AM...

... went on a field trip to the Bandung area. In addition, in early April we went to Beirut and paid a visit to the newly established Arab Council of Social Sciences, and in June we also went to Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, to attend the assembly meeting of the Council for the Development of Social Science...

... and the African American Freedom Struggle (2011) and coeditor, with Renee Romano, of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (2006). D avid S cott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, and is at present a visiting professor at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne...

... on his ever-expanding global celebrity: I'm Lord Caresser, the King of Hearts Living among the aristocrats, Roaming from pole to pole Singing calypso to the world. 47 Even his 1946 “Visit to Ottawa” has less to do with the splendors of the nation's capital than with the allegedly grand...

..., Don Pepo” Pepo began to explain to my mom that he was going to Nueva York to visit his oldest daughter and to see his grandchildren. I heard nothing else because I became consumed with looking at the workers underneath the plane, loading up the hundreds of cardboard boxes into the cargo space...