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Author : Melville Jean Herskovits
Publisher : Buccaneer Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Trinidad Village written by Melville Jean Herskovits and published by Buccaneer Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Gershenhorn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803221871
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge written by Jerry Gershenhorn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledgeis the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895?1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classicThe Myth of the Negro Pastdelineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his bookMan and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African and African American studies, he criticized some activist black scholars, most notably Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois, whom he considered propagandists because of their social reform orientation. ø After World War II, Herskovits became an outspoken public figure, advocating African independence and attacking American policymakers who treated Africa as an object of Cold War strategy. Drawing extensively on Herskovits?s private papers and published works, Jerry Gershenhorn?s biography recognizes Herskovits?s many contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars.
Author : Lise S. Winer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727679X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Trinidad and Tobago written by Lise S. Winer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and calypsos, and oral interviews. Many of the older texts are now made easily accessible for the first time. The introduction includes descriptions of the historical background, the sound system, grammar and vocabulary, speech styles, social and linguistic interaction of Creole and English, and implications for education and spelling. The older sources demonstrate much closer links to other Caribbean English Creoles than previously recognized. The texts and recordings of oral interviews are invaluable resources for researchers and teachers in linguistics, Creole Studies, Caribbean studies, literature, anthropology and history.
Author : James L. Conyers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317475798
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Black Lives written by James L. Conyers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or lesser known) African-Americans, among them General Daniel Chappie James Jr; William Levi Dawson (composer); Vinnette Carroll (director and playwright); and Elizabeth Ross Haynes (political speaker and activist).
Author : Shane Vogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656844X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Stolen Time written by Shane Vogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956 Harry Belafonte’s Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was the top-selling genre in the US—it even threatened to supplant rock and roll. Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural history of this moment and outlines a new framework—black fad performance—for understanding race, performance, and mass culture in the twentieth century United States. Vogel situates the calypso craze within a cycle of cultural appropriation, including the ragtime craze of 1890s and the Negro vogue of the 1920s, that encapsulates the culture of the Jim Crow era. He follows the fad as it moves defiantly away from any attempt at authenticity and shamelessly embraces calypso kitsch. Although white calypso performers were indeed complicit in a kind of imperialist theft of Trinidadian music and dance, Vogel argues, black calypso craze performers enacted a different, and subtly subversive, kind of theft. They appropriated not Caribbean culture itself, but the US version of it—and in so doing, they mocked American notions of racial authenticity. From musical recordings, nightclub acts, and television broadcasts to Broadway musicals, film, and modern dance, he shows how performers seized the ephemeral opportunities of the fad to comment on black cultural history and even question the meaning of race itself.
Author : Nazru Deen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483481107
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Merickens: Inspiring Stories from Trinidad and Tobago written by Nazru Deen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Freed from US slavery, African-Americans resettle and prosper in Trinidad (The Merickens); - East Indian indentured labourers build prosperous lives in Trinidad (The Last Ship); - Syrian immigrants bound for the USA choose Trinidad instead (Syrian Flyers); - English Ship Captain loses shipload of supplies at cards (Poker); - Canadian French Immersion teacher discovers surprisingly emotional connection to Trinidad (Sister in Law). Some of the original, exciting and inspiring stories of strong women and men in Trinidad and Tobago. Enjoy the read! Praise for The Merickens: "An excellent representation of the lives of the hardworking people of Trinidad and Tobago.Every story captures the true essence of struggle, sacrifice and perseverance.The Prodigal was so heartwarming!" Dr. Sara Ali, Ottawa, Canada. "I had no idea that American ex-slaves settled in Trinidad!Inspiring story! I would be delighted to read this story to a high school History class. Garry Gauthier, Retired High
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Total Pages : 1052 pages
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Download or read book Colony of Trinidad and Tobago written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ferne Louanne Regis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898996
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Trinidad Dougla written by Ferne Louanne Regis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their search for personal identity, Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation. This is reflected as much in their unclear and uncertain social positioning in a society of competing ethnic groups as in the linguistic possibilities open to them in their quotidian social interactions as they negotiate between their parent communities. Trinidadian English Creole (TEC), the mother tongue or lingua franca of the majority of the population, exhibits a lexical amalgam of donor varieties brought to the island during the period of its colonization. The extent to which Trinidadians employ these lexical items is linked to their affinity to a particular donor group. As a consequence of this, Dougla ethnicity and identity are hypothesized as being expressed chiefly through the use of lexical items available to them via their upbringing in specific communities. This book describes and analyses specific lexical items in use by Douglas, who reside in mixed-race communities, as well as communities stereotypically marked Indic and Afric by Trinidadians, to determine the extent to which Douglas project a distinct identity, a subsumed identity linked to an ancestral ethnic group or a shifting identity based on accommodative strategies employed during interaction within their social networks.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000325105
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture. The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates.
Author : J. Brent Crosson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670551X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Experiments with Power written by J. Brent Crosson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed “crime hot spots.” The government justified this action and subsequent police violence on the grounds that these measures were restoring “the rule of law.” In this milieu of expanded policing powers, protests occasioned by police violence against lower-class black people have often garnered little sympathy. But in an improbable turn of events, six officers involved in the shooting of three young people were charged with murder at the height of the state of emergency. To explain this, the host of Crime Watch, the nation’s most popular television show, alleged that there must be a special power at work: obeah. From eighteenth-century slave rebellions to contemporary responses to police brutality, Caribbean methods of problem-solving “spiritual work” have been criminalized under the label of “obeah.” Connected to a justice-making force, obeah remains a crime in many parts of the anglophone Caribbean. In Experiments with Power, J. Brent Crosson addresses the complex question of what obeah is. Redescribing obeah as “science” and “experiments,” Caribbean spiritual workers unsettle the moral and racial foundations of Western categories of religion. Based on more than a decade of conversations with spiritual workers during and after the state of emergency, this book shows how the reframing of religious practice as an experiment with power transforms conceptions of religion and law in modern nation-states.
Author : John William Furlong
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Notes on Cuba, 1909 written by John William Furlong and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. War Dept. War Plans Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Publications written by United States. War Dept. War Plans Division and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 944 pages
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Download or read book Military Notes on Cuba, 1909 written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juanita De Barros
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135894833
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 written by Juanita De Barros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with slavery, indentureship, migrant labour and plantation agriculture, led to the emergence of new social and cultural forms which are especially evident the area of health and medicine. The history of medical care in the Caribbean is also a history of the transfer of cultural practices from Africa and Asia, the process of creolization in the African and Asian diasporas, the perseverance of indigenous and popular medicine, and the emergence of distinct forms of western medical professionalism, science, and practice. This collection, which covers the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean, explores the cultural and social domains of medical experience and considers the dynamics and tensions of power. The chapters emphasize contestations over forms of medicalization and the controls of public health and address the politics of professionalization, not simply as an expression of colonial power but also of the power of a local elite against colonial or neo-colonial control. They pay particular attention to the significance of race and gender, focusing on such topics as conflicts over medical professionalization, control of women’s bodies and childbirth, and competition between ‘European’ and ‘Indigenous’ healers and healing practices. Employing a broad range of subjects and methodological approaches, this collection constitutes the first edited volume on the history of health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean region and is therefore required reading for anyone interested in the history of colonial and post-colonial medicine.
Author : Great Britain. Admiralty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Mexico ... written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
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Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book A Handbook of Mexico written by Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Paton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351331
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Obeah and Other Powers written by Diana Paton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
