K. O. Lawrence, K. O. Laurence
May 1994Matibag, Eugenio. Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint. Reserve list.
Cambeira, Alan. Quisqueya La Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective. p. 19 "The Dominican Reality."
Introduction
Chapter One - Colonialism and Revolution
1. The Tainos: The Voyage of Christopher Columbus John Cummins
*2. Forced Conversion: King Ferdinand's letter to the Tainos King Ferdinand of
Castille
3. Colonisation: Les Racines du sous-développement en Haïti Benoît Joachim
4. The Buccaneers: La Nation haïtenne Dantés Belegarde
5. Cut of Africa: The Drum and the Hoe Harold Courlander
6. Slaves and Profitability: The Black Jacobins CLR James
7. Torture: Notes à M. le Baron V.P. Malouet Baron de Vastey
8. The Maroons: Marronage in the French Caribbean Gabrid Debien
9. Poison: The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier
10. The Field Slaves: The Making of Haiti: the Saint-Dorningue Revolution from
Below Carolyn Fick
11. White Society: A Civilization that Perished: the Last Years of White
Colonial Rule Moreau de Saint-Méry
*12. The 'Pigmentocracy': Racial Categories: Description de la partie française
de l'lle de Saint-Dorningue Moreau de Saint-Méry
13. Boukman's Ceremony: Histoire de Toussaint L'ouverture Pauléus Sannon
14. The Uprising: Black Liberator Stéphen Alexis
15. British Graveyard: The British Army and the Slave Revolt David Geggus
16. Military Strategy: Letter to Laveaux Toussaint Louverture
17. Slave Turned General: Toussaint Louverture: Haiti's Tragic Hero René
Depestre
18. Dessalines: Thank You Dessalines Félix Morisseau-Leroy
19. Birth of Haiti: Declaration of Independence Boisrond Tonnerre
Chapter Two - The Status Quo: Elites, Soldiers and Dictators
1. Land and Colour: From Dessalines to Duvalier David Nicholls
2. Christophe's Kingdom: Brief Notices of Hayti John Candler
3. Taxing the Peasantry: Haiti's Nightmare and the Lessons of History Michel-Rolph
Trouillot
*4. Ephemeral Presidencies: Heads of State Various Sources
5. Divided Elite: Hayti or the Black Republic Spencer St John
6. Rise of the Military: Haiti: State against Nation Michel-Rolph Trouillot
7. Coup-Mongers: The Vortex Family Jean Métellus
8. Banking on Terror: The Nightmare Republic Graham Greene
9. Taming the Vatican: Il était un fois... François Duvalier Jean-Claudiste
National Action Committee
10. Baby Doc and Repression: Les Cachots des Duvalier Marc Romulus
11. Blood Money: Haiti: the Duvaliers and Their Legacy Elizabeth Abbott
12. Election Day Massacre: Papa Doc, Baby Doc James Ferguson
13. Unnatural Justice: No Greater Priority: Judicial Reform in Haiti National
Coalition for Haitian Refugees
14. The Smuggling Industry: The Military and Society in Haiti Michel Laguerre
15. The View From Above: The Rainy Season Amy Wilentz
16. Traditional Oligarchy and New Entrepreneurs: An Interview with Ben Dupuy,
Aristide's Ambassador-at-Large Catherine Orenstein
17. Enemies of Reform: Haiti in the New World Order Alex Dupuy
18. Aristide's Overthrow: Aristide: an Autobiography Jean-Bertrand Aristide
19. Human Rights Under Fire: Resistance and Democracy Platform of Haitian Human
Rights Organisations
20. The Powerful Few: Haiti's Family Affairs James Ridgeway
Chapter Three - Rural Haiti: Peasants, Land and the Environment
1. Rural Isolation: The Magic Island William Seabrook
2. Working Together: The Drum and the Hoe Harold Courlander
3. The Peasant Farmer's Year: Making a Living in the Marbial Valley Alfred
Métraux
4. Women's Work: Haïti et ses femmes Madeleine Sylvain Bouchereau
5. The Rural Market: Bulletin météorologique du College Saint-Martial P.
Baltenweck
6. Haiti's Higglers: Markets in Haiti Sidney Mintz
7. Coffee and Conflict: Comnune of Borgne Haiti Info
8. A Coffee Port: An Aroma of Coffee Dany Laferriére
9. Law of the Land: Haitian Peasant Economy George Eaton Simpson
10. Land and Politics: San kontinye ap koule nan Latibonit Libète
11. Smaller and Poorer: Coup d'oeil sur le passé Georges Anglade
12. A History of Degradation: Causes de la dégradation de l'environnement en
Haïti. COHPEDA
13. Unnatural Disaster: Quelques donnees sur la réalité dramatique de
l'environnement en Haïti Federation des Amis de Ia Nature
14. Charcoal: the Last Resort: Interview with a Charcoal Maker Leah Gordon and
Anne Parisio
15. The Creole Pig Disaster: Swine Fever Ironies Bernard Diederich
16. Resisting the Outside World: Underdevelopment in Haiti Mats Lundahl
17. Ignoring the Experts: The Low Voice of Saint-Jules Clocy, A Haitian Farmer
Ideas and Action
18. Singing the Blues: Peyizan yo Gwo Zago's gwoupman
19. Passive Victims or Agents of Change? The Rainy Season Amy Wilentz
Chapter Four - Poverty and Urban Life
1. Under the Table: In the Parish of the Poor Jean-Bertrand Aristide
2. The Rural Crisis: Famine and Food Aid Haiti Briefing
3. Child Servants: Rèstavek: Four-Year-Old Child Servants J.P. Slavin
4. Urban Chaos: All the Trouble in the World P.J. O'Rourke
5. Life in Cité Soleil: Coup d'Etat and Contraceptives Catherine Maternowska
*6. Beyond Slums, More Slums: Haiti: the Taiwan of the Caribbean Breaks Away
Mike Kamber
7. Everyday Mysteries: A Place called Haiti Amy Wilentz
8. Street Life: Urban Life in the Caribbean Michel Laguerre
*9. Mickey Mouse in Port-au-Prince: Living on the Edge of Misery Charles
Kernaghan
10. Beasts of Burden: The Bouretyes' Burden Haiti Info
11. Surviving in the Informal Sector: Political Economy in Haiti Simon Fass
*12. Mean Streets: Street Children Haiti lnfo
13. Sick Hospitals: General Hospital: Ante-Chamber of Death Ives-Marie Chanel
14. The Health Crisis: Interview with Rose-Anne Auguste Haiti Support Group
*15. Aids and Misinformation: AIDS in Haiti George Leonard
16. The Cost of Private Education: Equity and Quality in Private Education Jamil
Salmi
17. Promise for the Future: Comités de quartiers Zacharie Louis and Fred Montas
Chapter Five - Forces for Change
1. The Piquets: Haiti in Caribbean Context David Nicholls
2. The Steamroller: The Haitians: Class and Colour Politics Lyonel Paquin
3. The Communists: Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoutes Bernard Diederich and Al
Burt
4. A History of Resistance: The Long Unknown Struggle of the Haitian People
Arnold Antonin
5. Grassroots Organising: The Peasantry and Political Change in Haiti Robert
Maguire
6. Radio Soleil: Father Hugo Triest Interview Unda News
7. Cradle of Rebellion: Gonaïves; Symbole de la résistance Haiti Progrés
8. The Fight for Land: The Milot Land Struggle Haiti Info
9. Reformists and Revolutionaries: Up by the Roots Greg Chamberlain
10. Political Resurrection: Jean-Bertrand Aristide Press Conference
11. Uprooting the Old Order: Haiti's Popular Resistance Marx-Vilaire Aristide
and Laurie Richardson
12. Peasant Democracy: Interview with Tet Kole Ti Peyizan, Haiti Support Group
13. Popular Power: Press Release La Militant
14. Avalanche: The Aristide Factor Leslie Griffiths
15. Confrontation: L'insurrection du 7 janvier 1991 Laënnec Hurbon
16. Aristide in Power: Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains EPICA/Voices for
Haiti
17. Peasant Power: MPP Programmes Move Forward The Peasant
18. Alternative Development: Interview with Camille Chalmers New
Internationalist
19. A Programme for Recovery: Structural Adjustment and the Aid Juggernaut in
Haiti Lisa McGowan
20. Anger in the Streets: Resurrection of the Popular Movement Haïti Progrés
Chapter Six - Refugees and the Diaspora
1. A History Of Migration: Boat People Félix Morisseau-Leroy
2. The Lure of Cuba: Haitian Migrants and Backyard Imperialsm Brenda Gayle
Plummer
*3. The Massacre: Relations of Production in the Dominican Coffee Economy Rénald
Clérismé
4. Non-Citizens in the Dominican Republic: Beyond the Bateyes National Coalition
for Haitian Rights
5 . Life in the Bateyes: Bitter Sugar Maurice Lemoine
6. Modern Slavery: Neo-slavery in the Cane Fields: Haitians in the Dominican
Republic Paul Latortue
7. The Bahamas Connection: One Haitian in the Hand and Two in the Bush P.
Anthony White
8. Welcome Workers: La Migration haïtienne en Guadeloupe, Laënnec Hurbon
9. Poverty and Persecution: Aiding Migration: The Input of International
Development Assistance Josh DeWind and Darid Kinley
10. The View From Miami: Liberty Magnum Band
11. Haitians and Cubans: Children of the Sea Edwidge Danticat
12. Mass Exodus: The Great Escape Haïti Progrés
13. Unhappy Returns: Life Still Hard After Aristide's Second Coming Dan Coughlm
14. Facing Prejudice: Edwidge Danticat: Chronicling the Haitian-American
Experience Garry Pierre-Pierre
15. Haitians in Miami: Interview with Monsignor Thomas Wensky Libète
16. Spiritual Links: Serving the Spirits across Two Seas Elizabeth McAlister
17. Anger in Brooklyn: An Alienated and Angered Haitian-American Community
Fights Back James Ridgeway andJean Jean-Pierre
18. Fugee Star: A Night with Wclef Jean and the Refugee All-Stars Karin Joseph
Chapter Seven - Foreign Interventions
1. Condemned to Debt: Haïti: Perspectives Jean Métellus
2. The 'Arab Invasion': Economic Dependence and Political Autonomy. The Haitian
Experience David Nicholls
3. The Corvée: Lea Blancs débarquent Roger Gaillard
4. Against the Yankees: Lettre Charlemagne Péralte
5. Open for Business: L'occupation américane d'Haiti Suzy Castor
6. A Country Being Killed: A Haitian View of the Occupation Normil Sylvain
7. Undermining the Economy: L'espace rural haïtien Ernest Bernardin
8. Aiding Dictatorship: The New Haitian Exodus Alex Stepick
9. The American Plan: Haiti's Agricultural Production Haiti Info
10. Saving Souls: Bonjour Blanc Ian Thomson
11. Versions of Development: Haiti Held Hostage Robert Maguire et at.
12. Funding the Transition: Low Intensity Democracy in Haiti William Robinson
13. The CIA Payroll: Tous les 'nationalistes' agents de la CIA Haïti en Marche
14. Paramilitary Allies: Our Man In FRAPH: Behind Haiti's Paramilitaries Allan
Nairn
15. The Real Coup-Mongers: Position of the Popular Organisations on the
Country's Crisis Fourteen Popular Organisations
16. Structural Adjustment: Aristide Agrees to Austerity Allan Nairn
17. Welcome Invasion: The Significance of Haiti Paul Farmer
18. Business as Usual: Democracy Restored? Noam Chomsky
19. The Disarmament Issue: Haiti: Disarmament Derailed Laurie Richardson
20. The Power of Culture: Haitian Culture: Basis for Development Jean-Claude
Martineau
Haitian Portraits Leah Gordon
Chapter Eight - Popular Religion and Culture
1. Black Magic: Histoire d'Haïti Thomas Madiou
2. What is Vodou?: The Social History of Haitian Vodou Sidney Mintz and Michel-Rolph
Trouillot
3. World of Spirits: Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy Laënnec Hurbon
4. Symbols and Signs: Lwa Chart Various sources
*5. Erzili Dantò: Tracing the Spirit Karen McCarthy Brown
6. Zozo: Envoi: The Gedes and Bawon Samdi Donald Cosentino
7. Spirit Possession: Voodoo Alfred Métraux
8. Herbal Medicine: Spirits of the Night Selden Rodman and Carole Cleaver
9. Secret Societies: Serving the Spirits: the Ritual Economy of Haitian Vodou
Karen McCarthy Brown
10. Vodou is a Religion: So Spoke the Uncle Jean Price Mars
11. The Curse of Vodou: Vodoun and Politics in Haiti Rémy Bastien
12. Political Missionaries: Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains EPICA/Voices
forHaiti
13. Haitian Painting: The Traveller's Tree: Patrick Leigh Fermor
14. Rara: Caribbean Revels Gage AveriIl and Verna Gillis
15. Haitian Rhythms: Dances of Haiti Katherine Dunham
16. Up for the Cup: The Man Who Beat Dino Zoff Charles Arthur
17. Cock-Fighting: Black Haiti Blair Niles
18. The Final Hope: Banking on Shit Charles Arthur
19. The Oral Tradition: Riddles and Jokes Various Sources
*20. Tall Tales: Papa God and General Death Diane Wolkstein
*21. Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs Various Sources
Chapter Nine - Literature and Language
1. The Fallacy of Racial Superiority: De L'égalité des races humaines Anténor
Firmin
2. Folk Romanticism: Choucoune Oswald Durand
3. Vodou Obsessions: Au gré du souvenir Frédéric Marcelin
4. The Poetic Renaissance: Five Poems Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, Carl Brouard,
Leon Laleau, Emile Roumer
5. For a Folk Literature: so Spoke the Uncle Jean Price Mars
6. Literature and ldeology: L'art au service du peuple Carl Brouard
7. The Peasant Novel: Masters of the Dew Jacquas Roumain
8. The Conquistadors Return: Les arbres musiciens Jacques Stéphen Alexis
9. Defiance and Dread: Dezafi Franketienne
10. A Dream of Revenge: Mémoire en colin-maillard Anthony PheIps
11. Death and Resurrection: Cathedral of the August Heat Pierre Clitandre
12. Papadocracy: The Festival of the Greasy Pole René Depestre
13. Love and Murder: Amour colère, folie Marie Chauvet
14. Real Nightmares: Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat
15. A Primitive Writer: Pays sans chapeau Dany Laferrière
16. The Impossible Return: Les urnes scellées Emile Ollivier
*Chapter Ten - The View From Abroad
1. Subversive Rites: A Civilization that Perished Moreau de Saint-Méry
2. Heroic Toussaint: Toussaint Louverture John Greenleaf Whittier
3. Authentic Ecstasy: The Magic Island William Seabrook
4. A Darker World: White Shadows in a Black Land Langston Hughes
5. Unreliable Haitians: Tell My Horse Zora NeaeHurston
6. Rural Haiti: The Haitian Panorama Pierre Mabile
7. Presence of the Caribbean: The Great Camouflage Suzanne Césaire
8. Christophe's Suicide: The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier
9. Haitian Homecoming: The Comedians Graham Greene
10. Vodou President Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoutes Bernard Diederich and Al
Burt
11. Singular Horror: The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis
12. Vigilante Justice: Beyond theMountains Mark Danner
13. The View Beyond the Palace: The Rainy Season Amy Wilentz
14. Haiti's Messiah: No Other Life Brian Moore
15. The Haitian Other: Continental Drift Russell Banks
Epilogue
Ayiti Demen Jean-Claude Martineau
Bell, Berverly, ed. Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of survival and resistance. Cornell UP, 2001.
jackie recommends most of this book...pair with Krik Krak?
Janet, Let me recommend a wonderful historical analysis tying the Caribbean to NOrth America through comaprative analysis of labor systems: Charles Berquist, Labor and the Course of American Democracy: Latin America in US History. Alan
minevic2@tcnj.edu My name is Rich Minevich and I am the webmaster for the International Studies website which you can all see at http://internationalstudies.intrasun.tcnj.edu . Dr. Sullivan has given me some content to update, but there are some parts where I would like suggestions from the staff which this site represents, all of you. The biggest section where I would like input is under "Resources" (http://internationalstudies.intrasun.tcnj.edu/resources/index.html) seeing as much of this content is empty. If you have any links (such as ones to a personal site) at all that you would like me to add, update, edit, etc, please let me know. The same goes for the rest of the site, so if you happen to notice an error, typo, broken link, or have any suggestions for new sections or pages, I'm open to any and all ideas. Lastly, Dr. Sullivan suggested that I offer my services to any of you who need any assistance with getting a website of your own up and running. I can help you get everything organized and accessible and then link to it from the INTS site under the faculty list.
http://www.units.muohio.edu/aisorg/syllabi/resources.html - interdisciplinarity
http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.html
http://www.womensedge.org/pages/aboutus/detailpage.jsp?id=232
http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/tmoore/caribbean.html - Caribbean resource page on the library web
A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana,
1875-1917
K. O. Lawrence, K. O. Laurence
May 1994
Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of
the State in Guyana and Trinidad
Percy C. Hintzen
Film: "I Is a Long-Memoried Woman" - history of slavery via Carib women, poet Grace Nichols
vieques!!!!!!
MAP
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/b-Mediterranean/exp.horiz.html#world
1421: Gavin Menzies' account of Chinese expedition to the Caribbean, source of European maps http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006054094X/qid=1075313999/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9648384-1735231?v=glance&s=books
ARTWORK
"Hello Columbus" by Catherine Chalmers (photo: tomatoes and cockroaches :)) http://www.life.com/Life/eisies/eisies2000/stillSingle.html
ASSORTED WEBSITES & SEARCHES
ENDA-Caribe, Rural Federation of Zambrana-Chacuey - what is on the web about this environmental group in Dominican Repub?
http://www.whrnet.org/ see Peggy Antrobos interview
http://www.fire.or.cr/indexeng.htm
Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Activism (CAFRA): http://www.cafra.org
Environmental activism in the Caribbean,
specifically Trinidad:
http://trinicenter.com/Environment/GeneticallyEngineeredFoods.htm
http://www.centrelink.org/fntt/Stollmeyer.htmlThe video Life and Debt is available from the PBS web site www.pbs.org
The site also contains background info and other resources.
interview excerpt and link to full interview
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/lifeanddebt/thefilm.html
about IMF, World Bank etc (great intro for students!)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/lifeanddebt/moreabouttheissues.html
online articles
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/lifeanddebt/resources.html
about the filmmaker
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/lifeanddebt/thefilmmaker.html
http://www.barbmuse.org.bb/museum.you/heritage/heritage-prints.html rachel pringle
http://www.candw.ag/~jardinea/ffhtm/ff970228.htm more on rachel
http://www.macmillan-caribbean.com/books/General/creoleana.htm Caribbean Classics
http://www.cubanow.net/ Cuba NowCuba-Iraq http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00093.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/15/international/15TRAD.html?ex=1064638723&ei=1&en=b35f83bf97672fc7 Note caribbean nations' role in WTO '03 - centered on agriculture
http://www.chapman.edu/~starr wto protests
From Debbie: links about conferences
http://www.fiu.edu/~africana/caribwomen/newsletternov01.pdf
http://www.as.miami.edu/english/cls/faculty.html
On ecofeminism:
What is Ecofeminism?
http://www.ecofem.org/
Ecofeminism -- Rosemary Radford Reuther
http://www.spunk.org/library/pubs/openeye/sp000943.txt
Ecofeminism and the Internet
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~orenstei/ecofem/overview.html
Ecofeminist and Ecology Resources
http://www.ecofeminism.net/
Ecofeminism Webring
http://x.webring.com/hub?ring=ecofem
BOOKS ON THE CARIBBEAN: TRAVEL/TOURISM
Behind the Smile
The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism
George Gmelch
An inside look at Caribbean tourism
through the words of tourism workers.
Indiana University Press, 2003.
Cloth
0-253-34272-4
$54.95
Paper
0-253-21615-X
$19.95
BOOKS ON CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY:
Alfred Crosby's COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE and ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM are
foundational texts. Although both deal with the Americas generally,
both have significant sections on the Caribbean.
Carl Sauer's THE EARLY SPANISH MAIN. Sauer was a geographer, but there
is a signifcant amount of environmental/social content to his work.
A broad environmental history of the Caribbean islands from the conquest
to the nineteenth century, there is David Watt's WEST INDIES: PATTERNS
OF DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE SINCE 1492 (Cambridge
UP). This book is particularly good at talking about the environmental
impact of the arrival of European capitalism, of slavery, etc...
A study that
touches on the Caribbean in part is Richard Grove's GREEN IMPERIALISM:
COLONIAL EXPANSION, TROPICAL ISLAND EDENS, AND THE ORIGINS OF
ENVIRONMENTALISM, 1600-1800.
One well-known history of disease and race
in the Caribbean (which I have sadly not read) is Kenneth Kiple's THE
CARIBBEAN SLAVE: A BIOLOGICAL HISTORY (CUP).
A broad-ranging collection of essays that
touch on the Caribbean, see Helen Collinson, ed, GREEN GUERRILLAS:
ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS AND INITIATIVES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN.
On the environmental and social impacts of tourism, see
Polly Pattullo, LAST RESORTS: THE COST OF TOURISM IN THE
CARIBBEAN(1996).
A good recent work on the political ecology in the
Caribbean is Lawrence Grossman's THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF BANANAS:
CONTRACT FARMING, PEASANTS, AND AGRARIAN CHANGE IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN
(UNC Press).
There is a good book and film entitled GREENING THE
REVOLUTION, on the rise of organic agriculture in Cuba during the
blockade. A more critical view appears in Diaz-Briquets and
Perez-Lopez, CONQUERING NATURE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY OF SOCIALISM IN
CUBA (U Pittsburgh).
Alfred
Crosby's works -- ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM, and THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE are both
very student-friendly. He writes vividly and lucidly, and batters you over
the head with his theses.
The GREEN GUERRILLAS reader also has a good range of
essays, although this ranges more widely than the Caribbean.
The film and
book of GREENING THE REVOLUTION are good -- I believe that Janet Morrison is
familiar with them.
Polly Patullo's LAST RESORTS is also engaging.
Stuart McCook
History Department
University of Guelph
LITERATURE SUGGESTIONS
Lillian Allen, a Toronto Afro-Canadian Caribbean
performance poet, "Dis Ya Mamma Earth" - Critical Conditions & Freedom and Dance
are her CDs--where to get them?
*Abeng*, by Michelle Cliff (1970s)
Audre Lorde's *Zami*
Opal Palmer Adisa's literary poetry book, Tamarind and Mango Women, you will
find several poems about the link between tourism and the state of the island
of Jamaica: "Will the Real Ilsand Please Stand UP," "De Boys," "Tamarind" or "A
Run-Away"
Paul Gilroy has quite a bit to say about the link between black diasporic
people and a concern with the body, health, environment, and spirituality in
his article "Urban Social Movements, 'Race,' and Community."
ASSORTED COLLECTIONS WITH POSSIBLE RELEVANCE
Warren, Karen, ed., and Duane L. Cady, eds. Bringing Peace Home: Feminism, Violence, and Nature.
Rocheleau, Dianne, ed. Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences.
Noel Sturgeon. Ecofeminist Nature: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action.
Ruether, Radford, ed. Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Ecology, Feminism, and Religion.
Rowbotham, Sheila, ed. Women Resist Globalisation: Mobilising for Livelihood and Rights.
Anzaldua, Glora E., and Kantrowitz, Melanie Kaye, eds. Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical perspectives by Women of Color.
Hawthorne, Susan. Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio/Diversity.
From J. Landreau on readings:
For the conquest in
the Caribbean, I´d read something of Columbus and Las Casas´s essay
on Enriquillo.
Cecilia Valdés is a 19th century Cuban novel about a
light skinned woman who passes for white in Havana - lots of really
great historical material here about gender and race.
Juan Francisco Manzano wrote the
only slave narrative from Spanish America. He was a cuban slave who
taught himself to read and wrote his "autobiography" at the behest
of an English abolitionist in the hopes of buying his
manusmission. Very interesting, complex text that involves a
delicate management of multiple audiences. There are some gender
issues at play in the text as well.
Rebecca Scott is the foremost
US scholar on Slavery in Cuba. Her stuff is great.
Alejo
Carpentier, the great Cuban novelist, has a fine historical novel
(and very short) on the Haitian revolution called The Kingdom of
this World. Miguel Barnet is a Cuban anthropolist who wrote a
testimonial narrative based on a synthesis of various people´s
interviews about the life of a fictional Rachel, a rumba singer at
a famous Havana nightclub of the 20´s, 30´s or 40´s
You probably have thought of The Farming of Bones. Also,
The Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez) is an excellent novel
about the Mirabal sisters in the Domincan Rep who resisted the
Trujillo govt. and were killed.
Black Shack Alley (La rue des cases
negres), by Josef Zobel, is an autobiographical story about a boy
who grows up with his grandmother on a sugar cane plantation in
Martinique
Joaquín Balaguer, who governed the Dom
Rep for many years, wrote an amazingly racist text call the Island
Upside Down about Haitian Dominican relations. It provides insight
into the small male white elite of the country, and might be a
juicy text to take apart with students (not the whole thing, but
some selections). He discusses the islands natural environment (the
degradation on Haiti due to erosion), Haitian labor migration to
DR, and race.
CARIBBEAN STUDIES - Rashida
Suggested by Dr. Jackson
The Journal of Caribbean Studies
Black Jacobin CLR James (The Haitian Revolution)
Eric Williams from Columbus to Castro the History of the West Indies
Jan Carew Fulcrums of Change
Caribbean Popular Culture (I forgot the author)
Africa in the Caribbean
India in the Caribbean (I think Dayberdeen)
Two Nations:Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker
Ain't I a Woman by Deborah Gray White
White Racism by Joe R.
Feagin, Hernan Vera, and Pinar Batur
Engendering History: Caribbean
Women in Historical Perspective by Verne Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, and
Barbara Bailey
Africans and their History by Joseph E. harris
Books I found
They Came before Columbus Ivan Van Sertima
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents; and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of the explorers themselves, Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus. Combining impressive scholarship with a novelist's gift for storytelling, Van Sertima re-creates some of the most powerful scenes of human history; the launching of the great ships of Mali in 1310 (two hundred master boats and two hundred supply boats), the sea expedition of the Mandingo king in 1311, and many others.
Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of
Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
Patrick Colm Hogan
Suffering Grass:
Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean
Thomas George Weiss,
James G. Blight (Editor)
Central Africa in the
Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture
Maureen Warner Lewis,
Maureen Warner-Lewis
"Central
Africa in the Caribbean is the product of more than three decades of research.
Maureen Warner-Lewis's pioneering study analyses some of the main lineaments of
the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean, with fascinating
transatlantic comparative data. She identifies Central African cultural forms in
areas settled by the Koongo, Mbundu and Oviumbundu (the two present-day Congos
and Angola) and illuminates Caribbean thought and customs through comparison
with those cultures." This book is invaluable for scholars and general readers
interested in African diaspora studies, African and Caribbean history,
linguistics, music, religion, and cultural anthropology.
Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana Isadora Tattlin
Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives
from the Caribbean, Africa and the African Diaspora
Verene A. Shepherd (Editor)
African
Literature Today,No 9, Africa, America & the Caribbean, Vol. 9
Eldred Durosimi Jones (Editor)
Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews
Barry Chevannes (Editor),
Institute of Social Studies
Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the
Caribbean
Renee Brenda Larrier, Rene Larrier
Forms of Protest: Anti-Colonialism and
Avant-Gardes in Africa, the Caribbean, and France
Phyllis Taoua
Women Pay the Price: Structural Adjustment in
Africa and the Caribbean
Gloria T. Emeagwali (Editor), Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali
These studies further show that IMF/World Bank policies have induced or intensified the finalization of poverty and have reversed a great deal of the socioeconomic gains of the post-colonial era of the last thirty years. These studies embrace the research of a multi-disciplinary range of scholars from three continents. The area of focus is Africa and the Caribbean. Among the programs included are the removal of subsidies for health and education, privatization and the various forms of shock therapy with which currency devaluations have been associated.
White Minority in the Caribbean
Howard Johnson (Editor),
Karl Watson (Editor),
Karl S. Watson (Editor)
Wit and Wisdom of Africa: Proverbs from Africa and
the Caribbean
Patrick Ibekwe (Compiler)
Resisting Discrimination: Women from Asia, Africa
and the Caribbean and the Women's Movement in Canada
Vijay Agnew
Story of the Jamaican People
Philip Sherlock, Hazel Bennett
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn,
Catherine Gallagher (Editor
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, the story of an African prince's enslavement by British colonists and his journey from West Africa to the Caribbean, is the first literary work in English to portray the global interactions of that interlocking structure that came to be known as "the triangular trade." This edition features a generous selection of thematically organized historical materials that illuminate the three corners of the Atlantic triangle: West Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe. Excerpts from contemporary literary works by Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Daniel Defoe enrich our understanding of the literary contexts for Behn's portrayal of "blackness" in Oroonoko, and selections from later dramatizations of Oroonoko demonstrate the evolution of British attitudes toward racial difference in the century following the publication of Behn's work
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Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and
Creole Subjectivity
Judith L. Raiskin
Colonial Legacy in Caribbean Literature, Vol. 1
Amon Saba Saakana
Caribbean Transnational Experience
Harry Goulbourne
Caribbean Short Stories
Edward Archibald Markham, E. A. Markham (Editor)
Caribbean & The Bahamas,
5th
James Henderson
The
Caribbean has captivated travelers for centuries, with the warmth of the sun,
the coral-filled seas and the startling colors and scents of the fruit and
flowers. The islands' long history has left traces from all over the world:
Parisian chic, English parish churches, Dutch gables, Hindu prayer flags, Muslim
minarets and, everywhere, echoes of
Africa,
not least in the all-accompanying rhythms, from Jamaican reggae to Haitian
voodoo drums. The Caribbean is everyone's first choice for an all-over
body-holiday, daiquiri in hand, but summon the energy and you can swim with
angelfish off Bonaire, spot hummingbirds on Tobago, island-hop in the Bahamas,
or hike through the Blue Mountains in Jamaica. This guide contains: practical
travel advice; 900 hand-picked places to stay; 1,100 restaurants and bars; 500
sports and activities recommendations; 49 user-friendly maps; stunning
photography; where to find steel pan on
Trinidad
and liqueur on Curacao. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 882 pages, color photos, maps)
Books from U. of West Indies P.
http://www.uwipress.com/cgi-local/shop.pl/SID=1074878425.49752/page=genderstudies.html
See esp. The Caribbean AIDS Epidemic and Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean