Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth Michael Panfilio
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232505
- eISBN:
- 9780823235643
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232505.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
In dialogue with Afro-Caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time. For ...
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In dialogue with Afro-Caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time. For Cassirer, what makes humans unique is that we are symbolizing creatures destined to come into a world through varied symbolic forms; we pluralistically work with and develop these forms as we struggle to come to terms with who we are and our place in the universe. This approach can be used as a powerful challenge to hegemonic modes of study that mistakenly place the Western world at the center of intellectual and political life. Indeed, the book argues that the symbolic dimension of Cassirer's thinking of possibility can be linked to a symbolic dimension in revolution via the ideas of Frantz Fanon, who argued that revolution must be a thoroughgoing cultural process, in which what is at stake is nothing less than how we symbolize a new humanity and bring into being a new set of social institutions worthy of that new humanity.Less
In dialogue with Afro-Caribbean philosophy, this book seeks in Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms a new vocabulary for approaching central intellectual and political issues of our time. For Cassirer, what makes humans unique is that we are symbolizing creatures destined to come into a world through varied symbolic forms; we pluralistically work with and develop these forms as we struggle to come to terms with who we are and our place in the universe. This approach can be used as a powerful challenge to hegemonic modes of study that mistakenly place the Western world at the center of intellectual and political life. Indeed, the book argues that the symbolic dimension of Cassirer's thinking of possibility can be linked to a symbolic dimension in revolution via the ideas of Frantz Fanon, who argued that revolution must be a thoroughgoing cultural process, in which what is at stake is nothing less than how we symbolize a new humanity and bring into being a new set of social institutions worthy of that new humanity.
Jan Brokken
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461855
- eISBN:
- 9781626740914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461855.003.0035
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter is a follow-up anecdote to the concert described in the previous one, Introducing at the very end one, an illegitimate child begot by Edgar Palm, the last great composer of the Palm ...
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This chapter is a follow-up anecdote to the concert described in the previous one, Introducing at the very end one, an illegitimate child begot by Edgar Palm, the last great composer of the Palm dynasty. They had been of Swedish origin who built a bridge between Europe and Afro- Caribbean music.Less
This chapter is a follow-up anecdote to the concert described in the previous one, Introducing at the very end one, an illegitimate child begot by Edgar Palm, the last great composer of the Palm dynasty. They had been of Swedish origin who built a bridge between Europe and Afro- Caribbean music.
Samantha Pinto
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814759486
- eISBN:
- 9780814789360
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814759486.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This book demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, ...
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This book demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, it brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrative Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, and eschew linear narratives, as illustrated in the book-length, non-narrative poem by M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Such an aesthetics, which protests against stable categories and fixed divisions, both reveals and obscures that which it seeks to represent: the experiences of Black women writers in the African diaspora. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship the book argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. Locating correspondences between seemingly disparate times and places, and across genres, the book fully engages the unique possibilities of literature and culture to redefine race and gender studies.Less
This book demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, it brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrative Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, and eschew linear narratives, as illustrated in the book-length, non-narrative poem by M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Such an aesthetics, which protests against stable categories and fixed divisions, both reveals and obscures that which it seeks to represent: the experiences of Black women writers in the African diaspora. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship the book argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. Locating correspondences between seemingly disparate times and places, and across genres, the book fully engages the unique possibilities of literature and culture to redefine race and gender studies.
Jane H. Hong
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469653365
- eISBN:
- 9781469653389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653365.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter charts the formal repeal of Asian exclusion from the vantage point of the Japanese American Citizens League and of other Americans involved in the postwar campaigns that culminated in ...
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This chapter charts the formal repeal of Asian exclusion from the vantage point of the Japanese American Citizens League and of other Americans involved in the postwar campaigns that culminated in the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act. Generally known as a Cold War measure, the law’s lesser known provisions formally ended Asian exclusion as a feature of U.S. immigration and naturalization policy. But a “colonial quota” amendment spurred protest by African and Afro-Caribbean American activists, who denounced it as an underhanded attempt by racist lawmakers to end black immigration from the Caribbean. This little-known episode of black-Japanese conflict problematizes an easy analogy between postwar legislative gains for Asian Americans and those for black Americans as wholly complementary developments; to the contrary, it identifies the postwar immigration debates as a site of greater intergroup competition than collaboration.Less
This chapter charts the formal repeal of Asian exclusion from the vantage point of the Japanese American Citizens League and of other Americans involved in the postwar campaigns that culminated in the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act. Generally known as a Cold War measure, the law’s lesser known provisions formally ended Asian exclusion as a feature of U.S. immigration and naturalization policy. But a “colonial quota” amendment spurred protest by African and Afro-Caribbean American activists, who denounced it as an underhanded attempt by racist lawmakers to end black immigration from the Caribbean. This little-known episode of black-Japanese conflict problematizes an easy analogy between postwar legislative gains for Asian Americans and those for black Americans as wholly complementary developments; to the contrary, it identifies the postwar immigration debates as a site of greater intergroup competition than collaboration.
Kevin Myers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719084805
- eISBN:
- 9781781708774
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719084805.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The emergence of multicultural Britain was one of the most profound transformations of 20th century society. This book provides both a description and an analysis of that change. It argues that ...
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The emergence of multicultural Britain was one of the most profound transformations of 20th century society. This book provides both a description and an analysis of that change. It argues that immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Ireland, despite deep and historic connections to Britain, were widely represented as ‘alien others’ and understood to threaten an exclusive national culture that was guaranteed by history. This was a highly selective version of the national past but it encouraged the idea that post-war immigrants had created a new ‘race problem’ that required management and intervention. The science and practice of race relations was one influential response. Despite some serious shortcomings that are examined in detail, race relations work helped to provide a space and a language in which immigrant groups responded to their rejection from the national community. In supplementary schools, language classes, in the rise of Black Studies and in a wide variety of cultural and educational projects immigrant groups explored their histories. Historical education was central to all these activities. History, and memory, helped to define the ethnic identities of multicultural Britain and provided the resources with which it became possible to imagine and discuss a future postcolonial Britain. Yet, as these narratives were mainstreamed, and as they became a central element in the municipal multiculturalism of the 1980s, they also became increasingly instrumental and descriptive. Celebratory stories of ethnic heritage, characterised by conceptual confusion and divorced from any adequate understanding of historical processes, began to replace the more critical narratives, and the historical consciousness, once championed by scholar activists.Less
The emergence of multicultural Britain was one of the most profound transformations of 20th century society. This book provides both a description and an analysis of that change. It argues that immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Ireland, despite deep and historic connections to Britain, were widely represented as ‘alien others’ and understood to threaten an exclusive national culture that was guaranteed by history. This was a highly selective version of the national past but it encouraged the idea that post-war immigrants had created a new ‘race problem’ that required management and intervention. The science and practice of race relations was one influential response. Despite some serious shortcomings that are examined in detail, race relations work helped to provide a space and a language in which immigrant groups responded to their rejection from the national community. In supplementary schools, language classes, in the rise of Black Studies and in a wide variety of cultural and educational projects immigrant groups explored their histories. Historical education was central to all these activities. History, and memory, helped to define the ethnic identities of multicultural Britain and provided the resources with which it became possible to imagine and discuss a future postcolonial Britain. Yet, as these narratives were mainstreamed, and as they became a central element in the municipal multiculturalism of the 1980s, they also became increasingly instrumental and descriptive. Celebratory stories of ethnic heritage, characterised by conceptual confusion and divorced from any adequate understanding of historical processes, began to replace the more critical narratives, and the historical consciousness, once championed by scholar activists.
Rachel Afi Quinn
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252043819
- eISBN:
- 9780252052712
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043819.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines a 2013 Santo Domingo performance of Federico García Lorca’s play La Casa de Bernarda Alba by the Dominican theater collective Teatro Maleducadas and its manifestation online. ...
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This chapter examines a 2013 Santo Domingo performance of Federico García Lorca’s play La Casa de Bernarda Alba by the Dominican theater collective Teatro Maleducadas and its manifestation online. Dominican women’s bodies transform the meaning of this surrealist text and its staging, while hierarchies of color hold new significance for Dominican viewers that compliment Lorca’s vision for his script and its elements of the photographic. Not only do representations of Spanish womanhood in this performance resonate but also the matriarchal violence on display equally sustains patriarchal practices in Dominican society. Insights from members of the theater collective, including award-winning director Isabel Spencer, highlight the significance of the performance, Dominican women in the arts, and the ways that various collective members make claims on blackness and Afro-Caribbean identity.Less
This chapter examines a 2013 Santo Domingo performance of Federico García Lorca’s play La Casa de Bernarda Alba by the Dominican theater collective Teatro Maleducadas and its manifestation online. Dominican women’s bodies transform the meaning of this surrealist text and its staging, while hierarchies of color hold new significance for Dominican viewers that compliment Lorca’s vision for his script and its elements of the photographic. Not only do representations of Spanish womanhood in this performance resonate but also the matriarchal violence on display equally sustains patriarchal practices in Dominican society. Insights from members of the theater collective, including award-winning director Isabel Spencer, highlight the significance of the performance, Dominican women in the arts, and the ways that various collective members make claims on blackness and Afro-Caribbean identity.
Shane Vogel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226568300
- eISBN:
- 9780226568584
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226568584.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In summarizing the main points of the book, this conclusion notes that in the black calypso craze it was not Trinidadian culture that was stolen, but the culture industry and the temporality of the ...
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In summarizing the main points of the book, this conclusion notes that in the black calypso craze it was not Trinidadian culture that was stolen, but the culture industry and the temporality of the fad. This stolen time was not an imperial appropriation but a form of exchange across black difference within the idiom of fad culture. This book examines the constrained possibilities of this exchange as it occurred in the short-lived North American fad for calypso. By taking seriously these counterfeit performances of Afro-Caribbean cultures and histories, Stolen Time argues that the black calypso craze provides insight into the development of diasporic consciousness in the mid-twentieth century as African American performers self-reflexively and circuitously engaged with Caribbean performance traditions. This exchange was not one way; it went in multiple directions, including back to Trinidad.Less
In summarizing the main points of the book, this conclusion notes that in the black calypso craze it was not Trinidadian culture that was stolen, but the culture industry and the temporality of the fad. This stolen time was not an imperial appropriation but a form of exchange across black difference within the idiom of fad culture. This book examines the constrained possibilities of this exchange as it occurred in the short-lived North American fad for calypso. By taking seriously these counterfeit performances of Afro-Caribbean cultures and histories, Stolen Time argues that the black calypso craze provides insight into the development of diasporic consciousness in the mid-twentieth century as African American performers self-reflexively and circuitously engaged with Caribbean performance traditions. This exchange was not one way; it went in multiple directions, including back to Trinidad.
Francisco Fernández de Alba
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620252
- eISBN:
- 9781789623857
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620252.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
“Transatlantic Coloniality” focuses on the work of Wifredo Lam and Virgilio Piñera to explore the construction of a national Cuban cannon in the 40s. From the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, ...
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“Transatlantic Coloniality” focuses on the work of Wifredo Lam and Virgilio Piñera to explore the construction of a national Cuban cannon in the 40s. From the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, the development of Cuban arts illustrates the dynamic tensions between those seeking to build Cuban national arts emerging from a whitewashed colonial past and those cosmopolitans, such as Lam and Piñera, emphasizing popular and Afro-Caribbean culture. Colonial discourses were, in both cases, at the center of the struggle to establish and consolidate the Cuban arts. Absorbed and integrated in one case as a historical foundation, it was critically questioned by Lam and Piñera.Less
“Transatlantic Coloniality” focuses on the work of Wifredo Lam and Virgilio Piñera to explore the construction of a national Cuban cannon in the 40s. From the perspective of Transatlantic Studies, the development of Cuban arts illustrates the dynamic tensions between those seeking to build Cuban national arts emerging from a whitewashed colonial past and those cosmopolitans, such as Lam and Piñera, emphasizing popular and Afro-Caribbean culture. Colonial discourses were, in both cases, at the center of the struggle to establish and consolidate the Cuban arts. Absorbed and integrated in one case as a historical foundation, it was critically questioned by Lam and Piñera.
Babacar M'Baye
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732337
- eISBN:
- 9781604733525
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732337.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. This book explores relationships among ...
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In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. This book explores relationships among African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, it examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression. Works discussed in the book include Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Hart Thwaites’s “History of Methodism”, Anne Hart Gilbert’s “History of Methodism”, and Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself. Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom, the book relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.Less
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. This book explores relationships among African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, and philosophy, it examines the work of Pan-African trickster icons, such as Leuk (Rabbit), Golo (Monkey), Bouki (Hyena), Mbe (Tortoise), and Anancy (Spider), on the resistance strategies of early black writers who were exposing the evils of slavery, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, and other forms of oppression. Works discussed in the book include Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Hart Thwaites’s “History of Methodism”, Anne Hart Gilbert’s “History of Methodism”, and Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related By Herself. Analyzing these writings in the context of the black Atlantic struggle for freedom, the book relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.
Candis Watts Smith
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479823543
- eISBN:
- 9781479811113
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479823543.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in ...
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Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. In fact, the very definition of “African American,” as well as who can self-identity as Black, is becoming more ambiguous. Should we expect African Americans' shared sense of group identity and high sense of group consciousness to endure as ethnic diversity among the population increases? This book addresses the effects of this dynamic demographic change on Black identity and Black politics. It explores the numerous ways in which the expanding and rapidly changing demographics of Black communities in the United States call into question the very foundations of political identity that has united African Americans for generations. African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors have evolved due to their historical experiences with American Politics and American racism. Will Black newcomers recognize the inconsistencies between the American creed and American reality in the same way as those who have been in the United States for several generations? If so, how might this recognition influence Black immigrants' political attitudes and behaviors? Will race be a site of coalition between Black immigrants and African Americans?Less
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. In fact, the very definition of “African American,” as well as who can self-identity as Black, is becoming more ambiguous. Should we expect African Americans' shared sense of group identity and high sense of group consciousness to endure as ethnic diversity among the population increases? This book addresses the effects of this dynamic demographic change on Black identity and Black politics. It explores the numerous ways in which the expanding and rapidly changing demographics of Black communities in the United States call into question the very foundations of political identity that has united African Americans for generations. African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors have evolved due to their historical experiences with American Politics and American racism. Will Black newcomers recognize the inconsistencies between the American creed and American reality in the same way as those who have been in the United States for several generations? If so, how might this recognition influence Black immigrants' political attitudes and behaviors? Will race be a site of coalition between Black immigrants and African Americans?
Brian Meeks
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628461213
- eISBN:
- 9781626740679
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461213.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter exposes the sporadic yet barely recorded struggle for the hegemony of ideas in the radical Caribbean movement of the seventies. The resilience of the Caribbean revolutionary movement was ...
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This chapter exposes the sporadic yet barely recorded struggle for the hegemony of ideas in the radical Caribbean movement of the seventies. The resilience of the Caribbean revolutionary movement was primarily due to an alliance between middle class intellectuals, who were of the Marxist-Leninist variety, and popular grassroots supporters, who had their own worldview of African-centered revolutionism. The chapter provides a critical Caribbean historical analysis that includes understanding the boundaries to political and social action set by a particular socio-economic and geopolitical moment, as well as exploring the ideological landscape that determines unique social and political outcomes. It cites the works of Trinidadian calypsonian Valentino and Jamaican reggae vocalist Pablo Moses in illustrating the Afro-Caribbean organic philosophy of the seventies.Less
This chapter exposes the sporadic yet barely recorded struggle for the hegemony of ideas in the radical Caribbean movement of the seventies. The resilience of the Caribbean revolutionary movement was primarily due to an alliance between middle class intellectuals, who were of the Marxist-Leninist variety, and popular grassroots supporters, who had their own worldview of African-centered revolutionism. The chapter provides a critical Caribbean historical analysis that includes understanding the boundaries to political and social action set by a particular socio-economic and geopolitical moment, as well as exploring the ideological landscape that determines unique social and political outcomes. It cites the works of Trinidadian calypsonian Valentino and Jamaican reggae vocalist Pablo Moses in illustrating the Afro-Caribbean organic philosophy of the seventies.
Brian Meeks
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628461213
- eISBN:
- 9781626740679
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461213.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter examines Paget Henry's book, Caliban's Reason, where he argues for the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philosophy that operates in the crevices of the more dominant forms of Caribbean ...
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This chapter examines Paget Henry's book, Caliban's Reason, where he argues for the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philosophy that operates in the crevices of the more dominant forms of Caribbean knowledge. Henry begins by discussing the traditional African philosophy, along with Pan-Africanism, Afro-American philosophy, and contemporary Caribbean Marxism. He seeks to make the connection between traditional African philosophy and that of African descendants in the diaspora. The latter part of the book is comprised of critical analyses concerning mostly Caribbean individuals and intellectual trends, in which Henry tries to identify the continuities that support the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and then simultaneously indicates his preferred direction for its development in the near future.Less
This chapter examines Paget Henry's book, Caliban's Reason, where he argues for the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philosophy that operates in the crevices of the more dominant forms of Caribbean knowledge. Henry begins by discussing the traditional African philosophy, along with Pan-Africanism, Afro-American philosophy, and contemporary Caribbean Marxism. He seeks to make the connection between traditional African philosophy and that of African descendants in the diaspora. The latter part of the book is comprised of critical analyses concerning mostly Caribbean individuals and intellectual trends, in which Henry tries to identify the continuities that support the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and then simultaneously indicates his preferred direction for its development in the near future.
Angelique V. Nixon
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781628462180
- eISBN:
- 9781626746039
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462180.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Chapter two focuses on well-known Afro-Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat, who reside in the United States and make a significant contribution to “resistance culture.” ...
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Chapter two focuses on well-known Afro-Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat, who reside in the United States and make a significant contribution to “resistance culture.” Through narratives of return, Kincaid and Danticat challenge exploitative consumption and tourism in their literary works by exposing and utilizing the power that lies in the production of history. They do this by using their mobility and prominence in North American literary markets to inform potential tourists and fellow Caribbeans abroad of the injustices of the tourist industry that are rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism. Kincaid directly confronts and criticizes the tourist industry in her satirical essay/memoir A Small Place; while Danticat participates in and critiques the tourist industry with her travel guide/memoir After the Dance. They produce alternative travel narratives that resist the travel guide genre, which has historically defined “natives” (the other) outside of history, modernity, and humanity.Less
Chapter two focuses on well-known Afro-Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat, who reside in the United States and make a significant contribution to “resistance culture.” Through narratives of return, Kincaid and Danticat challenge exploitative consumption and tourism in their literary works by exposing and utilizing the power that lies in the production of history. They do this by using their mobility and prominence in North American literary markets to inform potential tourists and fellow Caribbeans abroad of the injustices of the tourist industry that are rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism. Kincaid directly confronts and criticizes the tourist industry in her satirical essay/memoir A Small Place; while Danticat participates in and critiques the tourist industry with her travel guide/memoir After the Dance. They produce alternative travel narratives that resist the travel guide genre, which has historically defined “natives” (the other) outside of history, modernity, and humanity.
Heather D. Russell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169349
- eISBN:
- 9780231538503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169349.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter asks what counts as “black experience” by focusing on Touré’s claim that Caribbean people of African descent lack cultural understanding about and interest in the black experience in ...
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This chapter asks what counts as “black experience” by focusing on Touré’s claim that Caribbean people of African descent lack cultural understanding about and interest in the black experience in America. Taking up some of the roles played by Afro-Caribbean identifications, it examines the ways in which nation, empire, and questions of diaspora complicate discussions of an imagined “black identity.” It also considers how restrictive and confining conceptualizations of black experience as bounded by geography and culture might limit the quality of the creative engagement we might productively engender, and what happens to race in the absence of transnational global discourses of blackness. The chapter concludes by offering a reading of Stephanie Black’s 2001 documentary Life and Debt.Less
This chapter asks what counts as “black experience” by focusing on Touré’s claim that Caribbean people of African descent lack cultural understanding about and interest in the black experience in America. Taking up some of the roles played by Afro-Caribbean identifications, it examines the ways in which nation, empire, and questions of diaspora complicate discussions of an imagined “black identity.” It also considers how restrictive and confining conceptualizations of black experience as bounded by geography and culture might limit the quality of the creative engagement we might productively engender, and what happens to race in the absence of transnational global discourses of blackness. The chapter concludes by offering a reading of Stephanie Black’s 2001 documentary Life and Debt.
Alicia Ebbitt McGill
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780813066974
- eISBN:
- 9780813067162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066974.003.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Chapter 1 outlines the research background and historical and ethnographic methodologies utilized in the book. Chapter 1 also provides a summary of historical and anthropological theories and ...
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Chapter 1 outlines the research background and historical and ethnographic methodologies utilized in the book. Chapter 1 also provides a summary of historical and anthropological theories and scholarship related to heritage, public history, public archaeology, economic and social development, cultural education, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization that inform this work. Additionally, the chapter situates the book’s research in local, Belizean, Latin American, and Afro-Caribbean contexts. The chapter reveals that given the extent of Ancient Maya cultural resources and legacy of archaeology, Belize’s diverse cultural history, a wide-reaching colonial race concept, and British colonial interests in the socialization of productive subject-citizens, education and archaeology have long been official heritage forces in Belize used by those in power to define and manage culture and historical narratives. However, the author notes that education and archaeology are also spaces for agency and cultural production, and that resistance and vernacular heritage within rural Kriol communities are another primary focus of this book.Less
Chapter 1 outlines the research background and historical and ethnographic methodologies utilized in the book. Chapter 1 also provides a summary of historical and anthropological theories and scholarship related to heritage, public history, public archaeology, economic and social development, cultural education, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization that inform this work. Additionally, the chapter situates the book’s research in local, Belizean, Latin American, and Afro-Caribbean contexts. The chapter reveals that given the extent of Ancient Maya cultural resources and legacy of archaeology, Belize’s diverse cultural history, a wide-reaching colonial race concept, and British colonial interests in the socialization of productive subject-citizens, education and archaeology have long been official heritage forces in Belize used by those in power to define and manage culture and historical narratives. However, the author notes that education and archaeology are also spaces for agency and cultural production, and that resistance and vernacular heritage within rural Kriol communities are another primary focus of this book.
Christina M. Greer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199989300
- eISBN:
- 9780199346332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199989300.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
In chapter 1, I lay out my theory of elevated minority status and linked fate of black ethnics—an extension of Dawson’s (1994) black utility heuristic—in order to better understand elevated minority ...
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In chapter 1, I lay out my theory of elevated minority status and linked fate of black ethnics—an extension of Dawson’s (1994) black utility heuristic—in order to better understand elevated minority status as an ethnic utility heuristic that incorporates segmented assimilation, political attitudes, and political behaviors of black ethnic immigrants in the late twentieth century. I utilize previous scholarship from sociologists, economists, and political scientists who have advanced the fields of racial and ethnic politics. My analysis links the research to Asian American studies, Latino politics, urban politics, social identity, and public opinion that have not previously been integrated in a comprehensive analysis pertaining to black diversity. I also focus on how these integrated theories have implications for all “minority” groups living in the United States and can illuminate how they use amorphous concepts of race and detailed ethnic identifications as building blocks for larger conversations pertaining to policy, political resources, representation, and benefits.Less
In chapter 1, I lay out my theory of elevated minority status and linked fate of black ethnics—an extension of Dawson’s (1994) black utility heuristic—in order to better understand elevated minority status as an ethnic utility heuristic that incorporates segmented assimilation, political attitudes, and political behaviors of black ethnic immigrants in the late twentieth century. I utilize previous scholarship from sociologists, economists, and political scientists who have advanced the fields of racial and ethnic politics. My analysis links the research to Asian American studies, Latino politics, urban politics, social identity, and public opinion that have not previously been integrated in a comprehensive analysis pertaining to black diversity. I also focus on how these integrated theories have implications for all “minority” groups living in the United States and can illuminate how they use amorphous concepts of race and detailed ethnic identifications as building blocks for larger conversations pertaining to policy, political resources, representation, and benefits.
Christina M. Greer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199989300
- eISBN:
- 9780199346332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199989300.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Chapter 4 offers a detailed account of the feelings and perceptions of foreign-born and native-born black union members using the SSEU Local 371 Survey. This chapter argues that even if black ...
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Chapter 4 offers a detailed account of the feelings and perceptions of foreign-born and native-born black union members using the SSEU Local 371 Survey. This chapter argues that even if black intraracial differences are subtle, such nuances in attitudes and opinions can greatly influence the US political system. It also includes a qualitative analysis of the genesis of many of these perceptions and feelings of black groups living and working in New York City and of how these opinions affect black perceptions of the American Dream. I find that, although there are varying black ethnic attitudes regarding modes of success and achievement efforts that present distinctive attitudes among black ethnic populations, there is a significant black racial identity present among native-born and foreign-born populations in this country.Less
Chapter 4 offers a detailed account of the feelings and perceptions of foreign-born and native-born black union members using the SSEU Local 371 Survey. This chapter argues that even if black intraracial differences are subtle, such nuances in attitudes and opinions can greatly influence the US political system. It also includes a qualitative analysis of the genesis of many of these perceptions and feelings of black groups living and working in New York City and of how these opinions affect black perceptions of the American Dream. I find that, although there are varying black ethnic attitudes regarding modes of success and achievement efforts that present distinctive attitudes among black ethnic populations, there is a significant black racial identity present among native-born and foreign-born populations in this country.
Gert Oostindie
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813049090
- eISBN:
- 9780813046693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813049090.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter opens with a summary of Dutch decolonization policies in the Caribbean, followed by an analysis of the state of affairs in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles in the late 1960s, ...
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This chapter opens with a summary of Dutch decolonization policies in the Caribbean, followed by an analysis of the state of affairs in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles in the late 1960s, including the position of the Afro-Caribbean population in both countries. It then analyses the dramatic events of the May 1969 revolt in Curaçao, assessing the long-term implications of the uprising for the constitutional development of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and for Afro-Caribbean empowerment in the former Dutch colonies. While ideas of Afro-Caribbean liberation contributed both to the 1969 revolt and to the later independence of Suriname in 1975, these events do not conform to a simple heroic narrative of emancipatory Black Power in the Dutch Caribbean.Less
This chapter opens with a summary of Dutch decolonization policies in the Caribbean, followed by an analysis of the state of affairs in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles in the late 1960s, including the position of the Afro-Caribbean population in both countries. It then analyses the dramatic events of the May 1969 revolt in Curaçao, assessing the long-term implications of the uprising for the constitutional development of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and for Afro-Caribbean empowerment in the former Dutch colonies. While ideas of Afro-Caribbean liberation contributed both to the 1969 revolt and to the later independence of Suriname in 1975, these events do not conform to a simple heroic narrative of emancipatory Black Power in the Dutch Caribbean.
James Davis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231157841
- eISBN:
- 9780231538619
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231157841.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter discusses the Panama of Walrond's youth—a place he had identified with more closely than any other. Panama has been one of the hemisphere's most volatile sites of political positioning ...
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This chapter discusses the Panama of Walrond's youth—a place he had identified with more closely than any other. Panama has been one of the hemisphere's most volatile sites of political positioning and a crucible of transnational communities. The experience of Panama's Afro-Caribbean community is well documented, and Walrond wrote a great deal about Panama after he left it. He had come to see Panama as his ticket out of the West Indies—a springboard to the United States—but the area in which he lived was in an important sense a satellite of the United States, the Canal Zone, a colony in the tropics.Less
This chapter discusses the Panama of Walrond's youth—a place he had identified with more closely than any other. Panama has been one of the hemisphere's most volatile sites of political positioning and a crucible of transnational communities. The experience of Panama's Afro-Caribbean community is well documented, and Walrond wrote a great deal about Panama after he left it. He had come to see Panama as his ticket out of the West Indies—a springboard to the United States—but the area in which he lived was in an important sense a satellite of the United States, the Canal Zone, a colony in the tropics.
Sharika D. Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781469660219
- eISBN:
- 9781469660233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660219.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter introduces locales that formed part of the turtlemen's mobile and transnational world. It explores the interconnectedness between the Cayman Islands and various circum-Caribbean ...
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This chapter introduces locales that formed part of the turtlemen's mobile and transnational world. It explores the interconnectedness between the Cayman Islands and various circum-Caribbean communities in Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Colombia through ethnographical accounts, missionary reports, oral history accounts, and newspaper reports. It also focuses on the way a seafaring culture of Caymanians led to temporary and permanent migration, the formation of transnational as well as transcultural families, and the transmittal of maritime and cultural knowledge among turtlemen of multiple nationalities. The chapter argues that the Caymanian seafaring culture, particularly, turtle fishing, facilitated the creation and recreation of a dynamic contact zone of ongoing transnational and occasional cross-racial encounters among indigenous, white, and Afro-Caribbean inhabitants.Less
This chapter introduces locales that formed part of the turtlemen's mobile and transnational world. It explores the interconnectedness between the Cayman Islands and various circum-Caribbean communities in Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Colombia through ethnographical accounts, missionary reports, oral history accounts, and newspaper reports. It also focuses on the way a seafaring culture of Caymanians led to temporary and permanent migration, the formation of transnational as well as transcultural families, and the transmittal of maritime and cultural knowledge among turtlemen of multiple nationalities. The chapter argues that the Caymanian seafaring culture, particularly, turtle fishing, facilitated the creation and recreation of a dynamic contact zone of ongoing transnational and occasional cross-racial encounters among indigenous, white, and Afro-Caribbean inhabitants.