[{"id": "cquilt-19020", "words": "158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Gurprasad, Tiffany", "title": "Remembering Our Leaders", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean", "summary": "2010 Tiffany Gurprasad is a practicing artist and a Dean's List scholar at the University of Toronto majoring in Visual Studies and Caribbean Studies. In the diaspora, certain histories are excluded from our everyday life; this etching attempts to look at the process of remembering one's history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19038", "words": "2583", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Valcius, Leonika", "title": "The Caribbean Diaspora and the Formation of Identity in Second Generation Immigrants", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean; generation; haiti; identity; immigrants", "summary": "I would say that the very fact that celebrations of Caribbean culture have become mainstreamed and commercialized undermines that project of passing on cultural values to second generation immigrants. Reis contends that \u201cthe region is actually composed of a plethora of diasporas,\u201d making Caribbean immigrants living in the West \u201ctwice diasporised\u201d - first from Africa (and other regions) to the islands of the Caribbean and then from the Caribbean to Europe and North America (Reis 2006, 46-47).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19039", "words": "120", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Chatarpal, Mark", "title": "Untitled", "date": "2012", "keywords": "mark", "summary": "With a love for his home country Guyana and a strong belief in the teachings of political activists Cheddi Jagan and Dr. Walter Rodney, Mark has kept strong connections with his home, family and friends. 18 \u201cUntitled\u201d *** Mark Chatarpal is a student at the University of Toronto.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19040", "words": "2852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Hemingway, Kathleen", "title": "Jean Rhys\u2019s Wide Sargasso Sea and the Case of Post Colonial Haunting", "date": "2012", "keywords": "past; postcolonial; rhys; rochester", "summary": "While in Jane Eyre Bertha\u2019s death is as marginal as her existence, with the sole purpose of clearing the way for Jane\u2019s and Rochester\u2019s marriage, in Wide Sargasso Sea, death represents Antoinette\u2019s salvation from her colonial relationship with Rochester. In Wide Sargasso Sea Rochester describes Antoinette as \u201cCreole of pure English descent\u201d but \u201cnot English or European\u201d (Rhys 56).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19041", "words": "316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Persaud, Savitri", "title": "On the 32C(ulture) of Eglington", "date": "2012", "keywords": "eglinton; gender; streets", "summary": "Nip, tuck, pluck sun-scorched skin Coloured hands knead white and wrinkled crocodile patches Sun ripened apricot mist veils The stench of burnt flesh Trophy wives in downward dog At the Village Yoga Not a love handle in sight Thank you Forest Hill Institute of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Luxury sedans choke narrow streets Mercedes, Porsche, Audi Gleam as daylight kisses candy cherry paint Foiegras tickles and tingles the tongue Hoodwinked by prices Bistro Grande, Fusian, Il Mulino A pinnacle of conspicuous consumption Eglinton West Station Bathurst Forest Hill Village Posh boutiques litter clean streets Bottega Bertalucci, Segal, Tilli Rose Chartreuse, saffron, carmine silks Of haute couture made for blue eyes alone Throngs of spas fester with the privileged Bissa, Chakra, Franco\u2019s", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19042", "words": "80", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Williams, Tammy Ronique", "title": "5:30 in Negril", "date": "2012", "keywords": "jamaica", "summary": "30 \u201c5:30 in Negril\u201d *** Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Tammy Ronique Williams is a second year student at the University of Toronto, where she is pursuing an Honours Bachelor's Degree in English and Caribbean Studies, with a minor in Russian. At 5:30 in the evening, the colours of the day are swept to the westernmost end of the island Jamaica creating an array of (carefully) blended shades.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19043", "words": "6877", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Deonarinesingh, Anastasia", "title": "Climate Change and Caribbean Coral Reefs", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean; change; climate; coral; fishing; hurricane; ibid; ibid page; levels; page; reefs; region; sea", "summary": "In these two countries, coral reef fishing has a much smaller economic impact when compared with Belize, ranging from US$0.7 million in Tobago and US$0.4 million in St. Lucia. Coral reef fishing is essential in providing jobs, adding cultural value and a social safety net in both locations25.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19044", "words": "120", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Gurprasad, Tiffany", "title": "63 Beach", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean", "summary": "CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2011 54 \u201c63 Beach\u201d We are usually confronted with images of the Caribbean which depict the area as sensual; where the water, sand and sky are usually crystal clear, luring potential tourists to take a break from their real lives. The foreground and background share an intrinsic correlation, contrasting the way in which Caribbean reality is juxtaposed to the tourist's ideal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19045", "words": "3452", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "De Silva, Kevin", "title": "Continuities in Capitalism: Exploitation of Indentured and Migrant Labour", "date": "2012", "keywords": "capital; caribbean; exploitation; government; indentureship; india; labour; period; university; workers", "summary": "If indentured labour can be read as a cloaked \u201cslavery,\u201d then, as this paper has argued, migrant labour certainly can be read as a continuation of indentureship. This paper will argue that indentured labour, though non- existent in the Caribbean today and less apparent in the rest of the world, continues structurally in the form of migrant labour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19046", "words": "270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Williams, Tammy Ronique", "title": "From the Ground Up", "date": "2012", "keywords": "ground", "summary": "I want to feel it is okay to hang my head over the railing hair blowing in the wind to be able to open my eyes under the Caribbean waters without your whips suppression to run free forgetting years of shackles and bare-bottomed lashes I want for you to know that man cannot take or repress the undaunted spirit rattling like a snake quiet, but coursing inside of me A movement which will continue to thrive to be celebrated. Tammy Ronique Williams \u2013 FROM THE GROUND UP 67 \u201cFrom the Ground Up\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19047", "words": "270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Anderson, Jan", "title": "Yuh Mad Man! Lying Letters: Speculations on the Catalysts of Male Madness in Caribbean Literature", "date": "2012", "keywords": "ground", "summary": "I want to feel it is okay to hang my head over the railing hair blowing in the wind to be able to open my eyes under the Caribbean waters without your whips suppression to run free forgetting years of shackles and bare-bottomed lashes I want for you to know that man cannot take or repress the undaunted spirit rattling like a snake quiet, but coursing inside of me A movement which will continue to thrive to be celebrated. Tammy Ronique Williams \u2013 FROM THE GROUND UP 67 \u201cFrom the Ground Up\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19048", "words": "86", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "85", "author": "Bridgelal, Pooran", "title": "Cocount Drive", "date": "2012", "keywords": "coconut", "summary": "Pooran Bridgelal was born and raised in Trinidad and now lives here in Toronto with his wife Judy and their son Levi. He is an avid collector of rare books and maps.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19049", "words": "3440", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Gurprasad, Tiffany", "title": "Baseball as an Intersection of Popular Culture & North AMerican Exploitation in the Dominican Republic", "date": "2012", "keywords": "american; baseball; dominican; latin; north; players; republic", "summary": "\u201c1947 onwards marked racial integration in American baseball with players such as Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby opening up the field of organized baseball for Latin American players.\u201d Sugar intensely captures the narrow, burdensome path baseball creates into the Western world for Dominican players, the struggle of adjusting to American culture and the ever- looming machine of the MLB that commodifies Latin American and Caribbean players.28 Accustomed to racially inclusive leagues in the Caribbean and Latin America, players who migrated to American baseball were largely unprepared for the level of discrimination and racism entrenched in American society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19050", "words": "200", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Rampersand, Ashti-Leah Mindy", "title": "Hybrid 2", "date": "2012", "keywords": "canada", "summary": "Still to this day I am curious about understanding how and why diasporic groups manage to hang on tightly to certain customs from \u201cback home,\u201d and how they adapt to a \u201ccontemporary\u201d society such as Canada. Like many customs, the significance and purpose of this sacred tradition has now been taken away by commercialism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19051", "words": "4197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Connell, Robert", "title": "The Maroon Communitarion Dilemma: Navigating the Intersices between Resistance and Collaboration", "date": "2012", "keywords": "campbell; cudjoe; ibid; jamaica; maroons; resistance; slave; treaties; treaty; war", "summary": "Given the horrors of the slave system, and the fact that many Maroons and their loved ones were themselves tortured and brutalized by the enslavers, cooperation with the Europeans must have been an agonizing choice for many of the warriors. His research focuses on conflicts over resource extraction and sovereignty rights between Maroons and the Jamaican state in the 21st century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19052", "words": "179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Rampersand, Ashti-Leah Mindy", "title": "Torn 2", "date": "2012", "keywords": "world", "summary": "My art maintains the traditional decorative flow of patterns, which is applied on canvas or wood, using a variety of materials such as sand, torn paper, tiles and acrylic paints; these materials represent the change and influence of the world in which we now live in. CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2011 102 \u201cTorn: A Custom Altered By Society\u201d Ashti-Leah Mindy Rampersad I have seen changes throughout the course of time and how the use of mehndi has been taken out of its traditional context and now used in multiple forms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19062", "words": "723", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "De Silva, Kevin", "title": "Letter From the Editor", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean; quilt", "summary": "Because many young Caribbean scholars and students often find themselves isolated from one another, the enterprise of creating this journal was one in which we simultaneously hoped to develop and sustain linkages between very bright minds in the university, linkages which up until now have never existed. It is true that a tropical region such as the Caribbean is seldom thought of in relation to any type of blanket.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19063", "words": "215", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Executive, CARSSU", "title": "About Us", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean", "summary": "ABOUT US The Caribbean Studies Student Union is comprised of every student enrolled in a Caribbean Studies course. CARSSU works closely with the Caribbean Studies department, its faculty and its professors to ensure that the program continues to grow and encourage critical thought.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19293", "words": "6345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Doyle, Connor", "title": "Rastafarianism & Michael Manley", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; class; colonial; government; jamaica; manley; manley\u201fs; marijuana; michael; movement; politics; rastafari; rastafarians; reggae; society", "summary": "As I have argued in the foregoing pages, by the time of Manley\u201fs campaign Rastafari was no longer the \u201ccult of outcasts\u201d it had been a scant decade earlier. The protests lacked an explicit racial motive or content, but nevertheless engaged matters of economic disparity redolent of Rastafari critiques.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19295", "words": "1953", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Bridgelal, Pooran", "title": "Appendix 1: Colonial Documents: Of Indentureship & Slavery", "date": "2013", "keywords": "april; female; james; male; ship; trinidad", "summary": "Lindo Male Industry Barbados May/06/1830 John Male Perseverance Antigua May/08/1830 Bashey Male Eliza Pratt Barbados June/03/1830 Maria Female Caroline Tobago June/19/1830 James Male Concord Trinidad July/01/1830 Quamina Male James & Margaret St. Christopher July/01/1830 Celia Female James & Margaret St. Christopher July/01/1830 Betsy Female James & Margaret St. Christopher \u201cImported\u201d CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2012 220 Date Name of Slave Sex Vessel Exported to Feb/13/1830 Malvina Female Amelia Trinidad Feb/16/1830 Timothy Male Sir John Thomas Duckworth Trinidad Feb/16/1830 Alick Male Sir John Thomas Duckworth Trinidad Feb/18/1830 Lindo Male Isabella St. Christopher Feb/23/1830 Bob Male Robert Barbados Feb/23/1830 Desir Male Robert Barbados Mar/04/1830 Peter Male Pigwidgeon St.Vincent May/29/1830 Bashey Male Lady of the Isle St. Vincent June/18/1830 Clara Female Flora St. Vincent July/15/1830 Bob Male Lady Adventurer St. Lucia Table 7: \u201cExported\u201d Trinidad 3/01/1830 Peter Male Pegasus Bermuda 4/03/1830 Lindo Male Industry Barbados 5/06/1830 John Male Perseverance Antigua 5/08/1830 Bashey Male Eliza Pratt Barbados 6/03/1830 Maria Female Caroline Tobago 6/19/1830 James Male Concord Trinidad 7/01/1830 Quamina Male James & Margaret St. Christopher 7/01/1830 Celia Female James & Margaret St. Christopher POORAN BRIDGELAL | APPENDIX 1 - OF INDENTURESHIP & SLAVERY 219 7/01/1830 Betsy Female James & Margaret St. Christopher GRENADA: Table 6: An account of slaves \u201cimported\u201d and \u201cexported\u201d into and from the Port of St. George, Grenada, from 1 st January 1825 \u2013 5 th July 1830 Date Name of Slave Sex Vessel Imported From Mar/01/1830 Jane Edant Female Amelia Trinidad Mar/01/1830 Rosannah Female Amelia Trinidad Mar/01/1830 Sophia La Grenade Female Amelia Trinidad Mar/01/1830 Peter Male Pegasus Bermuda April/03/1830", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19296", "words": "2752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Chance, Liane", "title": "Stay: Migration and the Caribbean", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; development; labour; lewis; migration; region; return", "summary": "The primary motive for Caribbean migration has been the intent to improve economic circumstances, therefore migration out of the region persists when the perception of opportunities abroad outweigh the real opportunities at home.1 Migration rates from the Caribbean remain high and are steadily rising which indicates that the crumbling economic and social structures which sustain such rates continue to degrade.2 As a result, Caribbean countries continue to experience the loss of highly skilled men and women to more industrialized parts of the world. The United Kingdom had been the traditional recipient of Caribbean migrants from 1948, but political shifts in Britain restricted Caribbean migration in the 1960s.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19297", "words": "149", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Chatarpal, Mark", "title": "\u201cTears of My Heart\u201d", "date": "2013", "keywords": "mark", "summary": "With a love for his country Guyana, Mark has maintained strong connections with his home, family and friends. ..... 14 \u201cTears of My Heart\u201d Mark Chatarpal Mark Chatarpal is currently studying at the University of Toronto.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19298", "words": "3196", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-10", "author": "Edmonds, Kevin; Panchang, Deepa; Fluerant, Marshall; Rattan, Rishi", "title": "Stabilizing Haiti: Mission Accomplished? A Review of the work of MINUSTAH 2010-2011", "date": "2013", "keywords": "haitian; http://ijdh.org/projects/universal-periodic-review-upr http://ijdh.org/projects/universal-periodic-review-upr; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_05_08_savethechildren.pdf http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_05_08_savethechildren.pdf; http://www.chrgj.org/press/docs/haiti%20sexual%20violence%20march%202011.pdf http://www.chrgj.org/press/docs/haiti%20sexual%20violence%20march%202011.pdf; http://www.ijdh.org/article_international-tribu.n.al.htm; http://www.ijdh.org/haiti(english)(final).pdf; http://www.transafricaforum.org/files/haiti_report.pdf; http://www.un.org/news/dh/infocus/haiti/un-cholera-report-final.pdf; https://www.osac.gov/pages/contentreportdetails.aspx?cid=10560 https://www.osac.gov/pages/contentreportdetails.aspx?cid=10560; minustah", "summary": "Compounding these protection failures was the actual introduction of cholera into the country by MINUSTAH troops, the subsequent cover-up, failure to investigate, and lack of proper response to the growing epidemic.xviii Counter to its mandate to assist in free and fair elections, MINUSTAH also played a role in propping up a U.S.-supported but illegitimate presidential election which oversaw the exclusion of a majority political party and a large part of the population.xix In addition to these main areas of concentration are a number of other issues related to MINUSTAH\u2019s involvement in Haiti. By April, at the request of interim President Alexandre Boniface, the UNSC established the Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haiti (MINUSTAH), which included the deployment of 6,700 CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2012 50 soldiers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19299", "words": "4197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Edwards, Duane", "title": "Wilson Harris and Human Alienation", "date": "2013", "keywords": "alienation; consciousness; ego; freedom; harris; human; nature; self; wilson", "summary": "Harris on the Alienation from Nature Wilson Harris deals with many topics in his writings, including alienation. ..... 3 Wilson Harris and Human Alienation Duane Edwards Duane Edwards is a 3 rd year student at the University of Guyana reading for a degree in Sociology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19300", "words": "6675", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-191", "author": "Enberg, Susan G.", "title": "Bombs, Land & Dignity: Annihilation, Genocide & Legal Recourse: Vieques, Puerto Rico", "date": "2013", "keywords": "http://bf4dv7zn3u.search.serialssolutions.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3aofi%2fenc%3autf-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=pentagon+finished+with+shad+test+vets&rft.jtitle=vfw%2c+veterans+of+foreign+wars+magazine&rft.au=tim+dyhouse&rft.date=2003-09-30&rft.issn=0161-8598&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=8&rft.externaldbid=gvfw&rft.externaldocid=485589301 http://bf4dv7zn3u.search.serialssolutions.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3aofi%2fenc%3autf-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=pentagon+finished+with+shad+test+vets&rft.jtitle=vfw%2c+veterans+of+foreign+wars+magazine&rft.au=tim+dyhouse&rft.date=2003-09-30&rft.issn=0161-8598&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=8&rft.externaldbid=gvfw&rft.externaldocid=485589301; http://ezproxy.qa.proquest.com/docview/200372207?accountid=14771; http://go.galegroup.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/ps/i.do?id=gale%7ca95598535&v+2.i&u=utoronto_main&it=r&p=grgm&sw=w http://go.galegroup.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/ps/i.do?id=gale%7ca95598535&v+2.i&u=utoronto_main&it=r&p=grgm&sw=w; http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/ayala/vieques/papers/03ayalacarrogalleys.pdf http://bf4dv7zn3u.search.serialssolutions.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3aofi%2fenc%3autf-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=pentagon+finished+with+shad+test+vets&rft.jtitle=vfw%2c+veterans+of+foreign+wars+magazine&rft.au=tim+dyhouse&rft.date=2003-09-30&rft.issn=0161-8598&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=8&rft.externaldbid=gvfw&rft.externaldocid=485589301; http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/ayala/vieques/papers/03ayalacarrogalleys.pdf http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/ayala/vieques/papers/03ayalacarrogalleys.pdf; http://www.wri-irg.org/nonviolence/nvse10-en.htm; navy; puerto; puerto rico; rico; states; united", "summary": "Specifically with respect to the Viequenses, the Tribunal emphatically recommends an immediate end to U.S. military exploitation of Puerto Rican lands; immediate cessation of military activities in and around Vieques; and removal of all Puerto Rican military installations. 124 Bombs, Land & Dignity: Annihilation, Genocide & Legal Recourse: Vieques, Puerto Rico Susan G. Enberg Susan Enberg is currently completing her third year at the University of Toronto.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19301", "words": "216", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Fullerton, Leslie-Ann", "title": "\u201cThe Anglo-Blackxons & Indo-Anglo-Saxons\u201d", "date": "2013", "keywords": "anglo", "summary": "..... 2 \u201cThe Anglo-Blackxons & Indo-Anglo-Saxons\u201d Leslie-Ann Fullerton To all my fellow Anglo-Blackxons and Anglo-Indo-Saxons: We, who have been Stolen, Bribed, Beaten, Raped, and Bamboozled, We, who have been maliciously torn from our past like that of a tree from its roots, We, who have been educated with expensive Eurocentric values in Kindergarten Schools, Primary Schools, High Schools and Universities, We, who are now reproducing colonial values, norms, and beliefs; Beliefs alien to the message of our ancestors which run deep and rhythmic through our veins. We, who were forced to holla out a di top a wi lungs: \u201cGad Saav di Queen\u201d!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19302", "words": "2841", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Galoustian, Naregh", "title": "Paths to Decolonization in the French Caribbean: Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire and Frantz Fanon", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; c\u00e9saire; decolonization; fanon; frantz; social; white", "summary": "..... 143 Paths to Decolonization in the French Caribbean: Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire and Frantz Fanon Naregh Galoustian Naregh Galoustian is a 4 th year student majoring in History and Political Science. In order to better understand this choice and its limits, historical and cultural developments will be explored by referring in broad terms to the thought of two Martinicans: Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire and Frantz Fanon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19303", "words": "1956", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "G\u2019meiner, Anna Agosta", "title": "The CARIBSAVE Partnership: Climate Change Impacts & Tourism", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; caribsave; change; climate; region; tourism", "summary": "This course is an opportunity for students with interests in the Caribbean region, climate change research, and the intersection of tourism, livelihoods and the environment to gain greater knowledge and understandings in these fields. Her areas of interest include the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean region, paleo- reconstruction of sea level changes, and effective policy implementation in SIDS.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19304", "words": "173", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Gurprasad, Tiffany", "title": "\u201cMetamorphoses\u201d", "date": "2013", "keywords": "tiffany", "summary": "..... 15 \u201cMetamorphoses\u201d Tiffany Gurprasad Tiffany Gurprasad is a practicing artist and a Dean's List scholar at the University of Toronto, majoring in Visual Studies and Caribbean Studies. In 2010, Tiffany curated the group show Tracing Sources at the University of Toronto Art Centre.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19305", "words": "47", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Henriques, Cletus", "title": "River\u2019s Edge", "date": "2013", "keywords": "art", "summary": "221 Cover art for main edition: Cletus Henriques (c. 1927-1976) River\u2019s Edge 1968 Oil on board 94 x 109 cm National Collection of Art, Guyana Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Castellani House, Georgetown, Guyana Image Edited & Print - Kevin De Silva, Hamilton Choi", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19306", "words": "2603", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Mahmood, Mahavish", "title": "The Haitian Carnival & Rara: Avenues for Political & Religious Assertion by Haiti\u2019s Poor", "date": "2013", "keywords": "carnival; haitian; music; power; rara", "summary": "CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2012 62 ochans, or \u201cmilitaristic musical salutes\u201d that often refer to military leaders, are also used as political performance pieces.13 He goes on to say that music both \u201ccreates\u201d and \u201cevokes\u201d memories and that with political lyrics accompanying the music, the emotions attached to the message are sure to remain in mind.8 The powerful associations that music creates in hearts and minds greatly contribute to its function as a source for amplifying political thinking and sentiment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19307", "words": "2772", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "McFarlane, Chantal", "title": "Maroon Societies: A Political Perspective", "date": "2013", "keywords": "communities; maroon; maroon societies; slave; societies", "summary": "7 Alvin Thompson, Flight to Freedom, 211 CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2012 86 significance, which is that the very formation and survival of emerging Maroon societies was contingent on a particular political organization that embraced collective solidarity and defence.8 Barbara Kopytoff argues that the period of political formation before the first treaty between the Maroons and the Jamaican government may be viewed as the only point when the political institutions of Maroon societies were outside the influence of colonial rule.9 This period had the chiefs much more involved in maintaining order within the community. This essay will argue that Maroon societies acted as an entity of defiance against slave communities, even though intricate organizational structures had an atypical symbiotic relationship with them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19308", "words": "332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Msingwana, Kwanza", "title": "Egungun (CUBA RITMO)", "date": "2013", "keywords": "kwanza", "summary": "o great spirit/ on our ways/ elegua/ shango/ whirling and prancing/ fancy step stepping in the middle/ with ogun perched on his broad shoulders/ while the rhythms of the bata/ okonkolo/ iya/ and itotele/ percolated above/ as sonorous kongas and tumba shook beneath/ emanating tremorous bliss that washed over us like ocean waves/ o feet please don\u2019t fail me now/ He has also performed with poets Reg E. Gaines (from New York), U of T alumnus Dr. Afua Cooper, and David Robeson \u2013 grandson of Paul Robeson.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19309", "words": "270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Musa, Khalid", "title": "Circle of Interest", "date": "2013", "keywords": "time", "summary": "Circle of Interest Khalid Musa I claim I\u2019m not a poet but I can feel it in my bones I say I don\u2019t carry pain but u can hear it in my tone And here I thought I was gonna get severance before they passed Here comes the World Bank to make things fair With so much restriction, might as well give me the money and cut off my air No oxygen, we\u2019re left in our own country like hostage-men Now we are here in the modern day Where you can C slavery in a modern way Where the islands are commodified to cater to tourist\u2019s desires in everyway Where my counterpart N I are seen as racialized hypersexual objects Where our job is to please and serve outsiders like royal subjects Poverty is @ an all-time high, unemployment is @ an all-time high, and misery is @ an all-time high", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19310", "words": "251", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "81", "author": "Patel, Sharifa", "title": "\u201cThe Blonde Woman\u2019s Kitchen\u201d", "date": "2013", "keywords": "woman", "summary": "Where pink faced babies nuzzled up to the breasts of slave women. She is particularly interested in the historical effects of colonialism on women and how they persist today.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19312", "words": "381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Williams, Tammy Ronique", "title": "\u201cOn Affirmative Action\u201d", "date": "2013", "keywords": "action", "summary": "..... 82 \u201cOn Affirmative Action\u201d Tammy Ronique Williams Born in Moscow Russia and raised in Kingston Jamaica, Tammy Ronique Williams is a third year student at the University of Toronto. TAMMY RONIQUE WILLIAMS | ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 83 I am not your june plum, don\u2019t pick at me for grasping my mother-tongue", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19313", "words": "3275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Williams, Tammy Ronique", "title": "Tourism as a Neo-colonial Phenomenon: Examining the Works of Pattullo & Mullings", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; colonial; hotel; islands; mullings; new; pattullo; states; tourism", "summary": "In his book Behind the smile: The working lives of Caribbean tourism, George Gmelch suggests that tourism \u201creawakens memories of the colonial past and so perpetuates resentments and antagonisms.\u201d Mullings in her article Caribbean tourism: trouble in paradise? suggests that since \u201cthe islands could not finance tourism projects without diverting resources away from the other sectors that were also being developed,\u201d Caribbean governments would have to depend on foreign investment to build hotels and infrastructure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19314", "words": "5129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Silberberg, Monica", "title": "The Jamaican Bauxite Industry & Decolonization", "date": "2013", "keywords": "alumina; bauxite; bauxite industry; caribbean; case; companies; government; industry; jamaica; mncs", "summary": "Given the superior power of MNCs to control capital flows and exploit markets in the international arena, it is unrealistic to suppose that Jamaica would have easily developed an independent competitive aluminum industry.24 It can be argued that MNCs have provided capital, expertise, and markets for the exploitation of Jamaican bauxite more efficiently than could an independent effort by the Jamaican government or private Jamaican entrepreneurs. Based on the data for 1950-1967, it was calculated that a lack of forward linkages resulted in 95% of the gross value generated from Jamaican bauxite being accrued abroad rather than domestically.40 The wages received by bauxite workers in Jamaica did not compare to their counterparts in metropolitan countries, yet they were still substantially higher than in other sectors of the Jamaican economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19315", "words": "5197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Troup, Daniel", "title": "Haiti and the False Promise of State Power", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aristide; country; haiti; haitian; ibid; new; power; state; university; york", "summary": "The preceding historical overview of Haitian political history has sought to establish an historical basis for the application of state theory to the case of Haiti. This will be followed by an examination of the Haitian state in theoretical context, which will outline the impediments to future leftist governance in Haiti proposing the development of political strategies aside from the pursuit of state power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19316", "words": "4728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Zlotnik, Jessica", "title": "Gender, Oppression & Resistance in Caribbean Slave Society", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; press; slave; slave society; society; university; west; women", "summary": "Their financial independence meant that there was a greater tendency for them to participate in the market economy as autonomous agents giving them more freedom than their rural counterparts.11 Since powerful white men dominated the centre of the urban economy, many white women operated on the periphery as owners and managers of taverns, sex-houses, and slave rental services.12 While the urban economy provided white women with greater independence in a society based on patriarchal power, it could also work to further subjugate women of colour. The concerns articulated by Lewis do not appear to be unusual indicating that slave women did in fact play an important role in resisting their enslavement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19317", "words": "400", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Arhurton, Jodi", "title": "The Caribbean Studies Student Union", "date": "2013", "keywords": "caribbean; executive; studies", "summary": "CARSSU works closely with the Caribbean Studies department, its faculty and its professors to ensure that the program continues to grow. By hosting engaging events we hope to reaffirm the Caribbean Studies program as an important part of the academic discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-19318", "words": "407", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "De Silva, Kevin; Chatarpal, Mark", "title": "Preface", "date": "2013", "keywords": "university", "summary": "Editors, Kevin De Silva, Mark Chatarpal Moreover, many of the papers within this journal will be presented at this year\u201fs CERLAC Conference held at York University.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22582", "words": "100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "18", "author": "Baker, Jesse", "title": "Caribbean Studies Students\u2019 Union Sponsors and Acknoweldgements", "date": "2015", "keywords": "studies", "summary": "Caribbean Studies Students\u2019 Union UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO NEW COLLEGE STUDENT CENTRE 40 WILLCOCKS STREET MAILBOX 343 TORONTO, ONTARIO M5S 1C6 students.carssu@gmail.com CARIBBEAN QUILT - VOLUME III 2013 Sponsors: Caribbean Studies Students\u2019 Union Caribbean Studies Program, New College Arts and Science Students Union ACKNOWELDGEMENTS We would like to dedicate this volume to our professors in the Caribbean Studies Department, especially Professor Trotz, Professor Itwaru and Professor Newton for their unwavering guidance and their unfailing support with every aspect of this journal -theirs are the shoulders we stand upon. We would also like to thank the Caribbean Studies Department for funding our project.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22583", "words": "282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "18", "author": "Baker, Jesse", "title": "Table of Contents", "date": "2015", "keywords": "amber; williams", "summary": "Positing an Alternative Reading Duane Edwards 4 Haiti and Cuba: Trans-Caribbean Conversation And Cross Border Movements Monica Espaillat Lizado 17 \u201cImmigrant Skies\u201d Amber Williams-King 31 The Seasonal Moral Contract: The Legitimization of the Abusive Treatment of Caribbean Workers in Ontario Cecilia The Pervasive Silence of Enslaved Women and The Dichotomy of White Woman as Property and Proprietor Chantal McFarlane 93 Pum Pum Rule Jamaican Dancehall: An Analytical Response to the Inability to Recognize Female Sovereignty in Dancehall Leslie Fullerton 100 Deconstructing Ideas of Violence and Homophobia in Jamaica Sharifa Patel 117 Insecurity in Security: National Security in the Context of Tourism And Domestic Sustainment in the Caribbean Melissa Sobers 129 The Dismantlement of the Netherlands Antilles:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22585", "words": "84", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Williams-King, Amber", "title": "catch a fyah", "date": "2015", "keywords": "fyah", "summary": ":::::: 2 \u201ccatch a fyah\u201d Amber Williams-King historical propaganda stolen memoranda bloodied baptizer genocide disguiser violence infester silenced ancestor grave-yard ships drowning lips sunken voices phantom noises beaten drums timely hums roaring hunger swallowed thunder rebel armour sage and farmer maroon runnah badman gunnah AMBER WILLIAMS-KING| CATCH A FYAH 3 sistah sistah mistah mistah ghetto guerrilla slum-born Attila stone slinger sword swinger spirit fightah freedom writah hope ignitah spark a lightah son and daughtah blood and fyah set the world ablaze!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22586", "words": "443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Baker, Jesse", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2015", "keywords": "pieces", "summary": "This journal began with the hope of facilitating a space, outside the classroom, where students could express their ideas as well as engage in discourses that they felt were important in regards to the Caribbean and its diaspora. With over 20 pieces, this year\u2019s publication features the work of undergraduate, masters and PhD students all engaged in challenging, at various levels, the histories, realities, and varying narratives that colour and layer the Caribbean region.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22587", "words": "4763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Edwards, Duane", "title": "Guyana\u2019s Ethnic Security Dilemma: Positing an Alternative Reading", "date": "2015", "keywords": "africans; guyana; guyanese; harris; history; indians; reality; security", "summary": "The call by Jagdeo was not necessarily to study Guyanese history which would entail (re- )reading history from various viewpoints. The Art of Memory and the Re-membering of History This prioritizing of history and historical experience lies at the heart of the conflict between Caribbean poeticism and historicism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22588", "words": "4759", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Espaillat Lizardo, Monica", "title": "Haiti and Cuba: Trans-Caribbean Conversations and Cross Border Movement", "date": "2015", "keywords": "caribbean; claude; communism; cuba; culture; haiti; haitian; jean; music; press; university; vodou", "summary": "In the 1930s alone, approximately 38,000 laborers were forcefully repatriated to Haiti, being given no time to sell or gather their assets.12 It is worth noting that the Communist Party of Cuba, which would later ally itself with Haitian communists, opposed these anti-immigration and specifically anti- Haitian measures.13 Today, Haitian culture and language still has a deep influence on the province of Guantanamo, which \u201chas been historically the most important region for Haitian residents\u201d.14 MONICA ESPAILLAT LIZARDO| CUBA AND HAITI 21 Krey\u00f2l library was opened in Havana, attesting to the huge impact Haiti and Haitians have made on Cuba.17 Cuba\u2019s acceptance and elevation of Haitian culture within its own borders seems at odds with its earlier policies of population whitening.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22589", "words": "136", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Williams-King, Amber", "title": "\u201cImmigrant Skies\u201d", "date": "2015", "keywords": "immigrant", "summary": "Here, stars are all fallen knights imprisoned by street lamps and concrete walls, cocooned in expired posters and stale graffiti. There are no sparkling sapphire nights, no constellations to connect the images AMBER WILLIAMS-KING| IMMIGRANT SKIES 32 of childhood dreams birthed on Islands; only a dull orange haze hanging low in the distance and a lot of people who never look up because there\u2019s nothing to see.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22590", "words": "3101", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Saez, Cecilia", "title": "The Seasonal Moral Contract: The Legitimization of the Abusive Treatment of Caribbean Workers in Ontario", "date": "2015", "keywords": "brem; canada; faraday; labour; program; rights; workers", "summary": "Some of the historical and social factors that underlie the differences in the treatment of Canadian workers versus Caribbean workers in Canada will be explored. The rules that apply to foreign labour are in opposition to the laws erected to protect Canadian workers from exploitation and from physical and emotional distress.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22593", "words": "3091", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ramirez, Juliana", "title": "Theories of Haitian Mobility and their Relationship to the Dominican Sugar Industry", "date": "2015", "keywords": "caribbean; dominican; haitian; labour; mart\u00ednez; migration; republic; sugar", "summary": "In this paper I will study the emergence and evolution of the Dominican sugar plantations\u2014and their employment of migrant labor\u2014in order to delineate the reasons that led to Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic. Firstly, I will investigate different scholarly explanations on migration in the Caribbean; secondly, I will describe how the Dominican ingenio evolved; and finally, I will compare the migration theories with the economic development of the Dominican sugar industry in order to discern the possible causes of Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic during the early Twentieth century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22594", "words": "4773", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Taluy, Sarah", "title": "USA\u2019s Crusade on the Haitian Black Pig Population & its Toll on Haitian Peasantry and Agriculture", "date": "2015", "keywords": "asf; country; government; haiti; haitian; new; peasantry; pig; pigs; population; usa", "summary": "As a result, poverty in rural Haiti has drastically intensified and consequently there has been an exodus from rural areas to the capital. Farmer, 130 27 MacKenzie 28 Farmer, 130 29 Dubois, 325 30 Farmer, 130-1 CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2013 58 was to kill all of the pigs and as Laurent Dubois argued, this was perhaps the first time that the Haitian government efforts towards any policy aimed at rural Haiti was so successful because this brutal attack on the peasantry and its native pig had devastating effects in innumerable facets of Haitian life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22595", "words": "3977", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hasnain, Samra", "title": "AIDS in Haiti: Situating the Incidence and Prevalence of AIDS in Structural Violence", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aids; caribbean; farmer; gender; haiti; haitian; hiv; risk", "summary": ":::::: 64 AIDS in Haiti: Situating the Incidence and Prevalence of AIDS in Structural Violence Samra Hasnain Samra Hasnain is in her final year at the University of Toronto, pursuing an undergraduate degree in Human Biology and Caribbean Studies. In doing so, the aim of this paper is to analyze the link between structural violence and AIDS and address how these specific social forces have shaped the incidence and the prevalence of AIDS in Haiti.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22596", "words": "5224", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Enberg, Susan G.", "title": "Puerto Rico: Sterile Breeding Grounds for Coercion and Uniformed Consent", "date": "2015", "keywords": "american; control; latin; population; puerto; puerto rico; rico; sterilization; u.s; vol; women", "summary": "440-441) Puerto Rican women have consistently constituted the highest prevalence of sterilized women in the world.1 Many scholars question whether or not a negative eugenics campaign has been waged on the island by U.S. and Puerto Rican biomedical researchers, scientists, and public health officials in order to reduce and even potentially eliminate the Puerto Rican population,2 a 1 Bonnie Mass, \u201cPuerto Rico: A Case Study of Population Control,\u201d Latin American Perspectives, Issue 15, Vol. IV, No. 4 (Fall 1977):78. A great number of Puerto Rican women had been sterilized to serve the needs of industry in Puerto Rico, and their wombs too were now bereft.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22597", "words": "12", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Williams-King, Amber", "title": "YARA", "date": "2015", "keywords": "amber", "summary": ":::::: 90 Amber Williams-King YARA : 11x14, acrylic and oil marker on canvas", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22598", "words": "14", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Williams-King, Amber", "title": "TAMSIN & TIA", "date": "2015", "keywords": "amber", "summary": "AMBER WILLIAMS-KING ART 91 TAMSIN & TIA: 18x24, acrylic and gold marker on canvas", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22616", "words": "14", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Williams-King, Amber", "title": "SIENNA", "date": "2015", "keywords": "panel", "summary": "CARIBBEAN QUILT | 2013 92 SIENNA: 11X14, acrylic and oil marker on canvas panel", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22617", "words": "2491", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "McFarlane, Chantal", "title": "The Pervasive Silence of Enslaved Woman and the Dichotomy of White Woman as Property and Proprietor", "date": "2015", "keywords": "manon; property; slavery; white; women", "summary": "The need to keep one\u2019s property beyond everything else is shown in Property which takes away from the mutuality of kinship between black women and white women, as it is Manon who has Sarah hunted to bring her back to slavery. Mair states that white women existed at two levels that of the \u201cdelicate beings, requiring masculine protection and as good creatures ...", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22618", "words": "5695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Fullerton, Leslie-Ann", "title": "Pum Pum Rule Jamaican Dance: An Analytic Response to the Inability to Recognize Female Sovereignty in Dancehall", "date": "2015", "keywords": "dancehall; fashion; female; jamaican; lady; people; pum; queen; saw; stolzoff; town; women; yuh", "summary": "Perhaps if there were a departure from the practice of measuring dancehall women and their willingness to sexually express themselves in reference to European women, then the point of contention would become less rigid. This dichotomy also renders observers unable to appreciate working class women actively creating a space where they are seen and heard in Jamaica\u2019s post-independent atmosphere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22619", "words": "3852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Patel, Sharifa", "title": "Deconstructing Ideas of Violence and Homophobia in Jamaica by Sharifa Patel", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bodies; caribbean; colonial; dancehall; government; homophobia; jamaica; violence", "summary": "Homophobic violence in Jamaica does deserve international attention but the trajectory of violence and homophobia must be analyzed responsibly. Vulnerable bodies have indeed become the sight for political violence, but further research is required to truly deconstruct this problem as it relates to Jamaica\u2019s history and Jamaica\u2019s place in the global economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22620", "words": "4765", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Sobers, Melissa", "title": "Insecurity in Security: National Security in the Context of Tourism and Domestic Sustainment in the Caribbean", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bowling; caribbean; countries; crime; officers; police; region; security; tourism; tourists", "summary": "The limited amount of resources available to Caribbean security forces is another major roadblock for making the region a safer place. It is puzzling that such claims are made about a region that is statically considered to be the most violent and dangerous in the world due to skyrocketing crime rates in certain countries, specifically Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22621", "words": "4215", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Baker, Cameron Wathey", "title": "The Dismantlement of the Netherlands Antilles: How Autonomy is More Viable than Independence", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aruba; caribbean; dutch; independence; islands; kingdom; netherlands; netherlands antilles", "summary": "The Charter was designed to grant Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles the rights to self-government while also remain part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.14 The Charter defined foreign affairs, defense, citizenship, and safeguarding proper governmental administration as matters of interest that would be governed by the Kingdom.15 With final authority over these affairs, the Netherlands believed that they were ensuring good governance and fundamental human rights in the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam.16 Paul Sutton lists that good governance is recognized as having a \u201cbroad range of concerns focused on open, transparent and accountable government; efficient, effective and responsive administration; and respect for human rights and law.\u201d17 Unlike Surinam, the option for political independence for Netherlands Antilles has never been popular.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22622", "words": "6349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Brown, Raquel", "title": "From Democratic Socialism to a Neoliberal Agenda: A Jamaican Case Study", "date": "2015", "keywords": "government; imf; jamaica; jlp; manley; payne; people; pnp; policy; seaga; socialism; time", "summary": "Days after this meeting Manley announced his support for the Cuban presence in Angola, this resulted in US economic aid being embargoed for the rest of the Ford administration\u2019s term (Payne, 1994). Introduction This paper looks at Jamaica's experience with neoliberal policies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22623", "words": "4939", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "McCarthy, Thomas", "title": "Extraction, Exploitation and Degradation: A Brief Environmental History of Western Investment in Jamaica", "date": "2015", "keywords": "beckford; caribbean; century; development; economy; exploitation; jamaica; land; people; production; tourism; witter", "summary": "But beyond denuding large tracts of rural Jamaica, the processing of the bauxite ore produces much pollution. 21 Tony Weis, \u201cBeyond peasant deforestation: environment and development in rural Jamaica,\u201d Global Environmental Change: 10(2000) 4, 299-305.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22624", "words": "9325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Chatarpal, Mark", "title": "Monsanto and Caribbean Agricultural Politics", "date": "2015", "keywords": "agricultural; april; caribbean; chatarpal; company; corp; farmers; food; global; guyana; mark; monsanto; rice; seeds; south; u.s", "summary": "In short, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world\u2019s largest private charity, single handedly distributes Monsanto GM seeds in the form of aid to foreign countries. In this context the term farmers, encompass the vast majority of Indian men and women who were coerced into abandoning their intergenerational crops for Monsanto GM seeds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22625", "words": "38", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "89", "author": "Williams-King, Amber", "title": "\u201cREQUIEM\u201d", "date": "2015", "keywords": "rise", "summary": "I From grave ships they leap Black diamonds with glassy eyes Ghosts beneath the sea II Pulled by the moon\u2019s song Spirits dance on swaying tides Bodies dip, ebb rise :::::: 216 \u201cRequiem\u201d Amber Williams-King (in haiku)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22626", "words": "3295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Mavalvala, Nasha", "title": "As the Snow Melts before the Sunbeam: Writing the \u201cInevitable\u201d Extinction of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas", "date": "2015", "keywords": "american; caribbean; caribs; extinction; forte; indigenous; peoples", "summary": "(Young, 18) Implicated in these statements are not only questions of numbers of Indigenous peoples but the designation of who is Indigenous. Maximilian Forte asserts that \u201cIndigenous peoples have been ever vanishing, almost as if disappearance was their predetermined historical role\u201d (Forte, 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22627", "words": "117", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Williams, Tammy", "title": "Collage: Cuba and Jamaica", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cuba", "summary": "227 :::::: Tammy Ronique Williams Born in Moscow Russia and raised in Kingston Jamaica, Tammy Ronique Williams is a third year student at the University of Toronto. \u201cBreadfruit Stand\u201d (Bluefields, Westmoreland Jamaica) \u201cCine Payret\u201d (Havana, Cuba) *", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22628", "words": "13", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Williams, Tammy; Hasnain, Samra", "title": "Cover art for Main Edition", "date": "2015", "keywords": "samra", "summary": "Photographer: Tammy Williams Image Edited: Samra Hasnain 228 Cover art for main edition", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-22629", "words": "189", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Executive Team, 2013-2014", "title": "Executive Team 2013-2014", "date": "2015", "keywords": "executive", "summary": ":::::: 229 The Caribbean Studies Student Union is comprised of every student enrolled in a Caribbean Studies course. CARSSU works closely with the Caribbean Studies department, its faculty and its professors to ensure that the program continues to grow.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34365", "words": "3244", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Abdel-Shehid, Malek ", "title": "A Home in Disorder is not a Home: Examining Race in Trinidad and Tobago", "date": "2020", "keywords": "afro; caribbean; groups; people; tobago; trinidad; trinidadians", "summary": "Although modern Trinidad and Tobago prides itself on being a worldly and diverse country, the tendency of all groups to vie for representation and influence inevitably leads to division. African enslaved peoples were brought to Trinidad largely in the early nineteenth century (Morgan 249).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34366", "words": "10", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "91", "author": "Mungalsingh, Megan", "title": "Caribbean Quilt Front Cover", "date": "2020", "keywords": "quilt", "summary": "CARIBBEAN QUILT vol 5 Front cover VOL . 5 caribbean quilt", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34367", "words": "2415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Abdel-Shehid, Malek ", "title": "From Trinidad and Tobago to the World: Determining the role of Calypso in a new Era", "date": "2020", "keywords": "calypso; calypsonians; caribbean; genre; people; region; trinidad", "summary": "Regional integration across the British West Indies, albeit short-lived as the West Indies Federation (1958- 1962), or WIF, showed Caribbean people that unity was possible. Perhaps a seemingly apolitical decision, this collaboration demonstrates mutual admiration and reminds Caribbean people that their differences are not significant.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34368", "words": "2983", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Allens, David", "title": "Conceptions of Race Beyond North America: The Subversion of the Colonial Racial Contract in The Bahamas", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bahamas; bahamian; contract; haitians; identity; race; west", "summary": "In applying Barth\u2019s framework, modern Bahamian identity has developed\u2014and is largely understood\u2014in comparison to a Haitian \u2018other.' It is therefore more difficult to define a normative Bahamian while the race of afro- Haitians in The Bahamas can easily be described as a group of people bound by the elements of slavery, racism and revolution in Saint-Domingue, political instability in Haiti and the formation of a diasporic group.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34370", "words": "2385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Allens, David", "title": "Dependency, White Privilege, and Transnational Hegemonic Reconfiguration: Investigating Systems of Power and Identity Privilege in The Bahamas", "date": "2020", "keywords": "american; bahamas; hegemonic; identity; privilege; u.s; white", "summary": "This paper suggests that despite independence, The Bahamas remains subjected to the dependent role under a system of white privilege resulting from colonial agreements made with the United States, multi-national agencies, and regulatory bodies that enforce a hegemonic reconstruction of influence. U.S. hegemonic force would continue to assert its political influence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34371", "words": "2306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Andrade-Dixon, Octavia", "title": "Indigeneity and Blackness: Partners in the Struggles of Settler-Colonialism", "date": "2020", "keywords": "colonial; community; marriage; queer; status; women", "summary": "Through the Indian Act, Indigenous women had to be married to Indigenous men for their children to maintain status. Under this protocol, Indigenous women with an Indigenous mother and non-status father became 6(2)s, the lower-status denomination.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34373", "words": "2556", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Andrade-Dixon, Octavia", "title": "Racialized Emotional Labour: The Weight of Blackness in White Spaces", "date": "2020", "keywords": "club; labour; women; work", "summary": "Emotional labour for Black women comes with the responsibility of conforming to the standards upheld by white society (Durr and HarveyWingfield 558). Emotional labour manifests more prominently for Black women in non-Black spaces as they use it as a tool for assimilation and self-perseveration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34375", "words": "3644", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bicknell-Hersco, Prilly ", "title": "Reparations in the Caribbean and Diaspora", "date": "2020", "keywords": "caribbean; caricom; people; region; reparations; slavery; trade", "summary": "The justification and political theory addressing reparations for past injustices upon present ancestors of Caribbean slaves have encountered both positive and negative feedback. Prilly Bicknell-Hersco Reparations in the Caribbean and Diaspora 39 It has been argued that there is a real and present need for an acknowledgment of the significance of the legacy that transatlantic slave trade left behind.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34377", "words": "4448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Brown, Kahlia", "title": "A Brief History of Race, Politics and Division in Trinidad and Guyana", "date": "2020", "keywords": "africans; caribbean; guyana; indians; party; people; politics; tobago; trinidad", "summary": "This is when hostilities worsened between the emancipated black population and indentured Indians. In 1965, C.L.R James wrote West Indians of East Indian Descent.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34378", "words": "3406", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "McCausland, Julie Ann", "title": "Racial Capitalism, Slavery, Labour Regimes and Exploitation in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program", "date": "2020", "keywords": "canada; canadian; countries; farm; labour; sawp; workers", "summary": "A transnational approach to viewing the issues affecting migrant farm workers allows for a global perspective. To provide for themselves and their families, migrant farm workers were forced to painfully separate from their families and their communities for months every year and to lead temporary, transnational lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34379", "words": "1928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Sheptenko, Mollie", "title": "The Dynamic Character Impressions Regarding the Life and Person of Thomas \u201cIndian Warner\u201d", "date": "2020", "keywords": "english; indian; island; warner", "summary": "After the death of his father, Thomas \u201cIndian\u201d Warner suffered at the hands of his stepmother on the island of his birth, Antigua (Hulme and Mollie Sheptenko The Life and Person of Indian Warner 63 Whitehead 95; Dampier 90). The overwhelming sentiment to acquit Colonel Philip Warner after he had murdered his own half- brother (who had been labeled \u201ca slave\u201d, not a son of Sir Thomas Warner), coupled with the English Secretary of State\u2019s plea to \u201cseek justice for \u2018Indian\u2019 Warner\u201d so as not to tarnish the image of the British in the eyes of the indigenous Kalinago peoples exhibit the utter self- centeredness colonizing nations and their great abuse of an individual\u2019s ethnic hybridity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34381", "words": "2473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Uwase, Sabrina", "title": "Debt and Destruction: The Global Abuse of Haiti and Unbalancing the Myth of Benevolent Canada", "date": "2020", "keywords": "america; caribbean; debt; haiti; latin; state", "summary": "66 Debt and Destruction: The Global Abuse of Haiti and Unbalancing the Myth of Benevolent Canada Sabrina Uwase An integral responsibility of nation-states is to provide protection and the means for attaining a fulfilling life to those it governs. From its inception, Haiti has been the source of inspiration for various slave rebellions while simultaneously sparking the first embers for the global fight for Black liberation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34383", "words": "1721", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Williams, Adriana", "title": "The Validity of Patois: An analysis on the Linguistic and Cultural aspects of Jamaican Patois", "date": "2020", "keywords": "caribbean; jamaican; language; patois", "summary": "72 The Validity of Patois: An analysis on the Linguistic and Cultural aspects of Jamaican Patois Adriana Williams The purpose of this essay is to debunk the dated Eurocentric notions that dismiss the significance of Jamaican Patois and to argue the validity of the language. I argue that Jamaican Patois is indeed a language, comprising of multiple linguistic components.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34384", "words": "1107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Adeliyi, Wendy ", "title": "Caribbean Visual Arts, Social Media and Performance", "date": "2020", "keywords": "africa; caribbean; world", "summary": "Mari\u00e1 Magdalena Campos-Pons\u2019 photograph focuses on the Atlantic Slave Trade and the journey to the New World, focusing on the traditions of West African culture in a subtle way that creates a strong emotional impact for the viewer so that they may never forget the history where we all collectively began the journey. The photographic installation created by Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons in De las dos Aguas (Between Two Waters), Campos-Pons takes the viewer on a historical journey of the two bodies of ocean water that separate Africa and the Americas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34385", "words": "3075", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "McCausland, Julie Ann", "title": "Who is Claudia Jones?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "boyce; boyce davies; claudia; davies; jones; women; xxiv", "summary": "She was later released on $1000 bail and threatened with deportation to her native country of Trinidad if she did not modify her persistent stand against exploitation and the oppression of Black women in the United States (Boyce Davies xxiv). She challenged the Communist Party to take a more serious interest in the cause of Black women (Boyce Davies 40).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34436", "words": "4", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Rodriguez, Nestor", "title": "Statement from the Director", "date": "2020", "keywords": "matter", "summary": "FRONT MATTER with bios.pdf", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34437", "words": "4", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Edmonds, Kevin", "title": "Statement from the Faculty Advisor", "date": "2020", "keywords": "matter", "summary": "FRONT MATTER with bios.pdf", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34438", "words": "4", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Mehary, Yohanna; Allens, David", "title": "Statement from the Caribbean Studies Student Union", "date": "2020", "keywords": "matter", "summary": "FRONT MATTER with bios.pdf", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34439", "words": "4", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Mungalsingh, Megan", "title": "Cover Artist Biography and Artwork Description", "date": "2020", "keywords": "matter", "summary": "FRONT MATTER with bios.pdf", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-34440", "words": "4", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Edmonds, Kevin", "title": "Contributor Biographies", "date": "2020", "keywords": "matter", "summary": "FRONT MATTER with bios.pdf", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cquilt-35960", "words": "3767", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Haile, Shenhat", "title": "Investigating Discourses of Indigeneity and Taino Survival in Jamaica", "date": "2022", "keywords": "caribbean; histories; ibid; island; jamaica; maroon; survival; ta\u00edno", "summary": "Neeganagwedgin, 383 32 33 34 31 29 28 26 30 26 27 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 (January 20, 2022 / 08:53:05) 122815-1b_CaribbeanQuilt_Vol6_rev.pdf .31 32 survival, but rather to continue challenging and disputing historical materials that have written Jamaica Ta\u00edno\u2019s out of existence entirely. 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