Caribbean Essay

The Caribbean and C.L.R. James I was sitting on a beach in Jamaica reading a collection of C.L.R. James 's occasional writings on cricket (Grimshaw 1986). The place had once belonged to Errol Flynn. My daughter was playing on the edge of the sea. James had been Neville Cardus 's deputy as the Manchester Guardian 's cricket correspondent in the 1930s. I found myself reading about my father 's heroes in the Lancashire cricket team of that period as if it was today 's sports news. I had been devouring

The Effects of Tourism in the Caribbean: Employment, Local Development, Water Resources, and Environment Families and friends from across the world often travel to the beautiful, Caribbean islands for a warm, fun vacation. Tourists go to the Caribbean islands in a variety of ways. Many choose to stay on the islands in hotels for days or weeks at a time. Others buy a vacation on board a cruise ship, and that ship will sail to different islands for the passengers to enjoy and explore. Both of these

Throughout Introduction to Caribbean Literature and Ideas, the class explored a number of texts, both fictional and non-fictional, that spoke to a number of larger historical issues that have affected the Caribbean as a whole. In every text we read, I saw a recurring concept come about: traveling. The act of travel, or the circulation of people in and out of the Caribbean, seems to be very important, in order to understand many of the issues that Caribbean people face. Whether it is “the boys” of

Carole Boyce Davies discussion on Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How It Feels to be Colored Me” she uses posits Hurston’s proffering to travel “piece of the way” with visitors as new way of thinking about the periphery in academia . Beginning her chapter “Coming to Terms with Theory,” Boyce expresses how outdates and inefficient the current theoretical practices have become. She states that scholars are intellectually trapped by the hierarchical systems within scholarship. Her main critique comes from

sugar, became the means of buying and selling or trading. Two major products that the people of the “new world” depended on during the early colonial times were tobacco and sugar. Both Virginia and the Caribbean were able to be successful and bloom due to these two major products. Virginia and the Caribbean had many similarities as well as differences on how they changed economically and socially due to tobacco and sugar plantations. John Rolfe, the father of the tobacco industry, was the reason why

The Pirate Round had many famous pirates sailing through the waters of the Caribbean, some including Bartholomew Roberts, Blackbeard, and Henry Every (“The Pirate Round”). Bartholomew Roberts, also known as “Black Bart” was one of the most successful pirates of this time. He captured four hundred and seventy ships in his short-lived pirate career (“The Golden Age of Piracy”). In 1690 Howell Davis forced Roberts into piracy after the capturing of his slave ship. Roberts soon proved to be a valuable

Cultures of the Caribbean Research Paper Due Date: December 14, 2014 Jean L. Rene [email:jean.rene@umb.edu and jrelem1@gmail.com] Write an essay to discuss particular processes of class and racial stratifications in one former Caribbean colony and ways in which its corresponding colonial past still informs its evolution. Race and class stratification exist in the Caribbean from the colonial era. Historically, its influence the formulation of the identity of an entire nation, The Caribbean. Race in the

As defined by Fredrick H. Smith in his novel, Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History, rum is “the potable alcoholic beverage obtained by distilling sugarcane juice and the waste products of sugar making” (Smith 1). Imported African slaves on the islands of the Caribbean discovered the distillation of the by- product, molasses, into rum. At first, it was thought to be industrial waste; however, quickly after, it became a global phenomenon, which rapidly amped up the economies of several islands

The Caribbean According to Three Writings Introduction The Caribbean is made up of many islands that were inhabited by many peoples speaking different languages and believing in different things. With the beginning of colonization, many more peoples speaking different languages and believing in different things claimed ownership over certain islands (in many cases nowhere near each other geographically). Under new "ownerships", the islands became involved in slave-trading. Each different

Hawai`i and the Caribbean Islands: A Shared History Jane Desmond’s “Let’s Lū`au,” a chapter in her book Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World, discusses the development of the “destination image,” the staged attempts to give visitors a sense of Hawaiian culture, as well as contrasts between dancing hula for a performance and as a lifestyle. She claims that visual preconceptions of Hawai`i, along with the environment that is staged for the tourist, has created and perpetuated