The West Indian Heritage
Author | : Jack Brierley Watson |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : West Indies |
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Author | : Jack Brierley Watson |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : West Indies |
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Author | : Edward Henry Carter |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
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Reviews the origins of four main civilizations--European, African, Indian, Chinese -- and how a West Indian society and culture arose from them.
Author | : Basil A. Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789766402648 |
This volume provides an important entrée into the current thinking and rethinking on Caribbean heritage. Included are several topics that represent the rich plurality of the Caribbean experience, such as symbolism, popular culture, literature, linguistics, pedagogy, philanthropy, natural history, land tenure, townscapes, archaeology and museology. Given its multidisciplinary approach, Caribbean Heritage will have considerable appeal to a wide range of scholars such as folklorists, environmentalists, heritage professionals, linguists, librarians, cultural studies experts, historians, archaeologists, museologists, and students involved in heritage studies in the region and beyond. Co-published with the Reed Foundation, Inc.
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Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Paulette A. Ramsay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
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ISBN | : 9789766408169 |
Voluntary migration from Jamaica to Cuba began in 1875 when a small group of Jamaicans went to Cuba to participate in the War of Independence as part of the Cuban Liberation Army. A second wave of migration from Jamaica to Cuba occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when West Indians sought opportunities to work on sugar plantations and in the sugar mills. As the demand for sugar increased worldwide, many West Indians travelled to Cuba between the 1920s and the 1960s, when they started to work on the US naval base in Guantanamo. The chapters of this book speak in different ways to the links, lost and maintained, between West Indian descendants in Cuba and Jamaica. Communities in Guantánamo, Banes, Santiago de Cuba and other areas are testimonies of the interest in maintaining connections and sharing their West Indian historical and cultural heritage. This book bears witness to the tremendous contributions of West Indians to the Cuban nation and to nation building worldwide.
Author | : Nancy Foner |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2001-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520228502 |
"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural but racially divided social fabric... They explore how gender, transnational networks, class, economic restructuring, and above all racial stereotyping have affected these black immigrants as they struggle for a better life and how their struggles have in turn influenced the contours of the larger society. The result is a model of multi-disciplinary analysis."—John Mollenkopf, co-author of Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century "Islands in the City is a comprehensive collection of the recent findings of the foremost scholars in this field. The premier researchers on West Indians in New York City discuss migration from historical, statistical, theoretical, and experiential points of view. This volume will be used as a model for understanding migration in other areas and it will have importance beyond its field."—Wallace Zane, author of Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion "Nancy Foner has pulled together excellent essays by the leading scholars of the emerging study of West Indians in the United States. Islands in the City is a welcome book because of its informative essays on gender, occupation, and culture, to name but a few."—David Reimers, co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City "West Indians sit right at the center of the crucial divides of race, class, nationality, nativity, gender, generation, and identity. The insights of this book teach us much of what we need to know about our changing nation."—Jennifer Hochschild, author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
Author | : B. W. Higman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Basil Matthews |
Publisher | : Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : William Loren Katz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2030-12-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439115435 |
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Author | : Ransford W. Palmer |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
In Pilgrims from the Sun, Ransford Palmer chronicles the migration of people from the English-speaking Caribbean to the United States, detailing the largely economic reasons for their departure and the cultural reasons for their successful settlement. Close to 700,000 West Indian immigrants and their children live in America today with the greatest concentrations in the New York City and Miami areas. The high value they place on hard work, education, home ownership, private savings, and family loyalty writes Palmer, has helped to rank West Indians among the most socioeconomically successful immigrant groups in the United States. Palmer looks not only at West Indians permanently residing in the United States - many of whom are employed in services, the fastest-growing sector of the economy - but also at temporary residents, in particular farm workers in Florida's sugar industry and students, and at the problem of illegal immigration. He assesses the interrelationship of migration, employment, and trade in the island and U.S. economies, and he argues that only accelerated economic growth in the islands will stem the tide of migration. Despite recent attempts by many Caribbean countries to free up their economies and to create development programs in cooperation with the European community as well as the United States, the promise of higher living standards in America remains too powerful for many West Indians to resist.