CONTENTS 

                                                                                  

 

Chapter 1: Culture and Identity……...……………..……................................................................11 

Everybody Jumping on the Savannah Grass: How Carnival Became a Symbol of 

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Culture............................................................................................12 

Brittney Bahadoor  

 

DEFINE AND EMPOWER: Black Feminist Discourse in a Caribbean Context…………………19 

Kennedy-Jude Providence  

 

Claudia Jones, The Person and The Idea………………………………………………...………………………………….......25 

Dmitri Gourianov   

 

The Illusion of Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Caribbean………………...…………………….……...30 

Maria Bacchus 

 

The Cultural and Spiritual Origination of The Western, Southern and Central  

African Influences of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival and the artform of Kalinda….…...35 

Shayna Thompson 

 

Gentrification in Toronto’s Little Jamaica: Food for Resistance……………………...……………………..43 

Elizabeth Wong 

 

Chapter 2: Politics and Social Change…………...............................................................49 

The Plantation Economy and Guyana’s Extractivism………………………………………………...…………….50 

Alyssa Nurse 

 



Haiti – Harmed at the Hands of Others……………………………………………………………………………………………..57 

Max Ray-Ellis 

 

Canadian-Trinidadian Activism: Navigating Intersectional Identity in Queer Care……...65 

Julia Chapman 

 

Socialism, Farming, and Resistance: How Cuban Socialism is Beating the 

Embargo………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..73 

Dmitri Gourianov   

 

Conditional Support: Chinese Development Aid in the Caribbean………………….……………………79 

Omar Danaf 

 

Climate Change and Globalization: Food Security in the Caribbean………………………………….…86 

Donna Miller 

 

Guyana’s Racial Politics: Causes, Issues, and its Welcoming of Western  

Neo-colonialism…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………92 

Brittney Bahadoor 

 

 

Chapter 3: History and Decolonization…………......................................................................99 

The Consequences of Colonialism to the History and Lives of the Garifuna  

People of St. Vincent………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………….………100 

Maria Fernanda de Almeida 

 

The Future of Food in the Caribbean: Climate Change and Food Security……..…….………..109 

Donna Miller 

 

Redemption Song: A Commentary on Caribbean Society………………………………………..………………113 

Maria Bacchus 

 

 



Decolonizing the Body: Resistance in the Queer, Femme Caribbean…………….…………………..120 

Maria Vidal Valdespino 

My Body is My Own………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………122 
My Labour is Not Unskilled…………………………………………………………………………………….………………123 

My Love is Not Unnatural………………………………………………………………………………….…………………….124 
 

Indigenous Erasure and Resistance in the Caribbean…………………………….………………………………….125 

Elizabeth Wong 

 

Forward Ever, Backward Never: Examining the Relationship between Colonial Violence 
and Capitalist Development in a Caribbean Context……………………………………………………………….132 
Alyssa Nurse