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BLACKS IN AMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN Ariel Holder SOCL 141 Dr. Danielle James Caribbean people view race differently than African Americans. Caribbean immigrants who arrive to the United States are often shell-shocked by the tangible presence of racism there. What is all the more surprising is that some of these tensions are more so perpetuated by African-Americans. Before an immigrant can experience “the American dream”, a life of joys and hardship, they are adequately discouraged, or warned to

In Afro- Caribbean cultures religions are very essential aspects in the daily lives of the Caribbean people. They combine beliefs and practices that were originally brought to the Caribbean by the African slaves, with other beliefs and practices that were dominant or native to the islands. A multiplicity of these commonly practiced Afro-Caribbean religions such as Santeria, Haitian Vodou and Espiritismo have countless similarities, some of which include the way they carry out different ceremonies

where I was born, and raised. Even though I do consider that one of my homes, New York City, which is where I am from. I also consider Hampshire my home because I feel very comfortably here and I have a community that supports me. That is what defines what home is in my sense, it is having a community and being comfortable. Can you tell me the story behind you moving in the USA? (When, what, where, why) On my mother’s side, my family is from Haiti, she is a Haitian immigrant. She moved when she was

THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN/BRITISH CARIBBEAN is the term applied to the English- speaking islands in the Carribbean and the mainland nations of Belize (formerly British Honduras) and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) that once constituted the Caribbean portion of the British Empire. This volume examines only the islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean, which are Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada), Barbados, the Leeward

medicines with the introduction of transformed seeds, and the imposition of another identity.”1 This comment by one of the subjects interviewed reveals the continuation of expressions of discrimination in the daily life of Indigenous communities in the Caribbean Coast region of Nicaragua. Racism is the

Caribbean Crucible: History, Culture, and Globalization Kevin A. Yelvington In the present age of globalization, it is often forgotten that these world-encompassing processes were initiated with European expansion into the Caribbean beginning more than five hundred years ago. We now see the proliferation of overseas factories enabling owners, producers, and consumers of products to be in widely distant locales. It seems to us that in the search for profits, commercial activity has recently spread

The U.S. Slave Trade The United States Slave Trade, also known as the Atlantic Slave Trade, was the forced migration of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean. These Africans were used as helping hands for agricultural fields that, most of the time, bore cotton, tobacco, and/or sugarcane. The harvesting of these crops were labor-intensive and required a huge amount of hard work. The Growth in Slave Arrivals to the U.S. About 1,500 Africans were enslaved in the British thirteen colonies by the

of settlers, who chose the Caribbean islands over mainland America. The first settlers of the islands being buccaneers, along with their short lifespan, coupled with the monoculture of the islands and a severe disparity between the rich and poor, created a distinct culture, in what Dunn describes as a “classically proportioned sugar society” (Dunn 165). Dunn begins his book in 1624, with the English gaining a foothold on the tiny island of St. Christopher in the Caribbean. From that solitary outpost

Sarah Corner Professor Byam Caribbean Carnival: History, Performance and Resistance AFST 3243/ CAST 3001 Summer 2015 INDEPENDENT MAS IN CONTEMPORARY CARNIVAL Over the past several decades there has been a change in masquerade costumes worn during Trinidad’s pre-Lenten Carnival (hereby referred to as Carnival). The growing global popularity of Carnival has left many concerned that the modern costume, consisting of bikinis, beads and feathers will continue to dominate and lead to the disappearance

History Within the last decade , the United States has become home to 3.5 million immigrants from the Caribbean. The Caribbean accounted for 9% of the country 's 38.5 million immigrants. more than 90% of the immigrants come from Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The number of Caribbean immigrants grew from 193,922 in 1960 to 3,500,000 in 2009. This represents more than a 17 fold increase. They have been among the top ten foreign born groups in the United States