This collection of provocative new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives seeks to end familiar narratives that regard the Irish as undesirables according to the English--disempowered, their “whit
The author explores the myriad of cultures that make up Trinidad, cultures that mainly originated in West and West-Central Africa and migrated with slaves during the 1800's. Chapter titles include, Cl
Author Farrell (the Institute of Banking and Finance of Trinidad and Tobago) analyzes the outcomes of economic and development policies in the oil-rich Caribbean island state of Trinidad and Tobago ov
Most of the modern history of the nation of Panama centers on the building of the Panama canal, and most of the workers who built the Panama canal were West Indians of mixed African descent. This book
Editors Robertson and Simmons-McDonald present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of scholarly papers and academic articles that together provide an examination of language and edu
Beyond Borders is a multidisciplinary collection of essays with a focus on contemporary issues in Caribbean cultural studies. Culture and cultural identification are without a doubt highly charged pol
Written in plain language, this history is accessible to general readers and students, yet detailed enough for scholars. It describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbado
Rouse-Jones, a retired academic librarian from Trinidad and Tobago, and Appiah, a legislative drafting consultant in Ghana and granddaughter of George James Christian, provide a biography of Chris
"Inward Yearnings: Jamaica's Journey to Nationhood is a pioneering case study of an Anglo-Caribbean island's search for a racial selfhood, its nervous embrace of its African heritage and ultimately a
Drawing on interviews, contemporary newspaper articles, official records, journals, and books, Marshall, a journalist and public relations executive, describes early 20th-century migration from Ba
Based on papers presented at the sixth British-Caribbean Geography Seminar, held at the U. of West Indies in June 2014, the 12 chapters in this volume consider the reaction of human systems in the
This volume contains six case studies analyzing the global value chains of firms and manufacturing and service industries in the Caribbean: Baron Foods Limited in St. Lucia, the hot pepper sauce i
The collection of work by Trinidadian writer Mendes (1897-1991) contains 13 short stories, 21 pieces of journalism, and two letters to him from George Padmore. Among the stories are When My Mother
In this book, author Richard McGuire presents readers with a comprehensive investigation of how the Irish novel, from the 1920s onward, expresses postcolonial themes and concerns in common with the
In this book, 17 principals working in primary through high school in Jamaica who have made a significant difference in education in the country share their experiences. Incorporating research into
This book presents a poem that gives a fictional account of the events of the Second Carib War fought in the late 18th century between Great Britain and the Garifuna, who were then known as the Black
This history of Grenada’s 1979 revolution gathers development and political science scholars from the Caribbean, the UK, and the US to reflect on the political forces and events in Grenada in the late
