In the global Feminist forum, many women and women-identifying voices are forgotten and subsequently omitted. Women of colour, specifically Black women, are often left out of discourses due to the troubled history of Feminism and its founders. In light of this, black women have frequently been forced to create narratives and discourses through art, music, resistance and scholarship. This discussion aims to highlight the progression of Feminism over the years, beginning with its troubled past and recognizing the potential for its future while incorporating discussions of the reclamation or emergence of Black Caribbean Feminism from the residual shackles of colonialism and the patriarchy.
{"title":"DEFINE AND EMPOWER: Black Feminist Discourse in a Caribbean Context","authors":"Kennedy-Jude Providence","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.41189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.41189","url":null,"abstract":"In the global Feminist forum, many women and women-identifying voices are forgotten and subsequently omitted. Women of colour, specifically Black women, are often left out of discourses due to the troubled history of Feminism and its founders. In light of this, black women have frequently been forced to create narratives and discourses through art, music, resistance and scholarship. This discussion aims to highlight the progression of Feminism over the years, beginning with its troubled past and recognizing the potential for its future while incorporating discussions of the reclamation or emergence of Black Caribbean Feminism from the residual shackles of colonialism and the patriarchy. ","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42333481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When one exists outside the boundaries of what it means to be a person, let alone a ‘good’ womxn, the simple act of existing is a threat to the heteronormative standards present in one’s life (Alexander, 1994; Kempadoo, 2004, p. 27). Within the Caribbean, many colonial discourses on sexuality and race still exist today, where Caribbean womxn are harmed through dehumanizing stereotypes that pin their sexuality and agency with perversion, rejection of nature, and deviancy along with hypersexuality, immorality and purity, despite countries’ ‘independence’ of the colonial world (Reddock, 2007, p. 3-5; Kempadoo, 2004; Alexander, 1994). Using three visual pieces, I will put three of these harmful stereotypes in conversation with decolonial thought found in third-world feminism and Queer thought: “My Labour is Not Unskilled” with rejection of nature, “My Love is Not Unnatural” with perversion, and “My Body is My Own” with agency and opposition of hypersexuality.
当一个人的存在超出了作为一个人的意义的界限，更不用说一个“好”女人了，存在的简单行为是对一个人生活中存在的异性恋规范标准的威胁(亚历山大，1994;Kempadoo, 2004，第27页)。在加勒比地区，许多关于性和种族的殖民话语今天仍然存在，加勒比妇女受到非人化的刻板印象的伤害，这些刻板印象将她们的性和代理与变态、拒绝自然、越界以及性欲过度、不道德和纯洁联系在一起，尽管这些国家“独立”于殖民世界(Reddock, 2007, p. 3-5;Kempadoo, 2004;亚历山大,1994)。通过三件视觉作品，我将把这三种有害的刻板印象与第三世界女权主义和酷儿思想中的非殖民化思想进行对话:“我的劳动不是不熟练的”是对自然的拒绝，“我的爱不是不自然的”是变态的，“我的身体是我自己的”是对性欲过度的代理和反对。
{"title":"Decolonizing the Body: Resistance in the Queer, Femme Caribbean","authors":"Maria Paula Vidal Valdespino","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.39952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.39952","url":null,"abstract":"When one exists outside the boundaries of what it means to be a person, let alone a ‘good’ womxn, the simple act of existing is a threat to the heteronormative standards present in one’s life (Alexander, 1994; Kempadoo, 2004, p. 27). Within the Caribbean, many colonial discourses on sexuality and race still exist today, where Caribbean womxn are harmed through dehumanizing stereotypes that pin their sexuality and agency with perversion, rejection of nature, and deviancy along with hypersexuality, immorality and purity, despite countries’ ‘independence’ of the colonial world (Reddock, 2007, p. 3-5; Kempadoo, 2004; Alexander, 1994). Using three visual pieces, I will put three of these harmful stereotypes in conversation with decolonial thought found in third-world feminism and Queer thought: “My Labour is Not Unskilled” with rejection of nature, “My Love is Not Unnatural” with perversion, and “My Body is My Own” with agency and opposition of hypersexuality.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beginning as a small assignment which ought to have taken two days, it soon ballooned into a three month project looking at the Cuban political system and the farming sector’s role in developing not only Socialist theory, but Socialism in practice. As the collapse of Cuban Socialism has been expected for the past four decades by Western scholars and lawmakers, this very same inevitability has perplexed its proponents as it continues to not occur. Cuba has been under embargo by the United States for over sixty years now, and its tremendous pressure on the Socialist government has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and hurricane Ian. One ought to ask the question, then, how Cuba remains so resilient after the collapse of the USSR. Although not a conclusive reason as to why Socialism remains prevalent in Cuba, this essay looks at one aspect of this new Cuban Socialism and its successes -- that being its farming systems. By looking at the roles polycultural cropping and alternative incentive schemes play in Cuba, I conclude that they both play a vital role in the development and reinforcement of Socialism in the island nation.
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1.5 Stay Alive is a nature film, music video-like documentary that emphasizes the consequences of a 1.5 degree increase in temperature that would negatively impact the Caribbean region (“1.5 Stay Alive: Science Meets Music in the Caribbean”). The film demonstrated the role that developed countries play in advancing and maintaining the climate crisis in the Caribbean. Disaster capitalism describes the exploitation by developed countries when responding to crises, intentionally creating a more unequal and undemocratic society. Using the example of Hurricane Maria, Klein states that Puerto Rico became broken because of deliberate, systematic interferences to power, water, health, communication, and food systems (2018). Alternatively, developed countries may supply the Caribbean with funds to produce and distribute locally grown produce. An example of what may be done with these funds can be seen in Cuba which created a self-sufficient urban agricultural economy. This would strengthen food security and increase the ability and knowledge to build back food systems following the effects of climate change (Quirk 2012). Information omitted includes details on how developed countries contributed to climate change vulnerabilities in the Caribbean. Environmental changes shape Caribbean agricultural trends which are already historically vulnerable owing to the by-products of colonial and plantation economies (Barker 2012, 42). The film advances the understanding of the effects of global warming in the Caribbean by not only showing the scientific perspective, but also the human side. Climate change affects more than just infrastructure, coral reefs, and economies, but it also affects people’s lives.
{"title":"The Future of Food in the Caribbean: Climate Change and Food Security","authors":"Donna Miller","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.38633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.38633","url":null,"abstract":"1.5 Stay Alive is a nature film, music video-like documentary that emphasizes the consequences of a 1.5 degree increase in temperature that would negatively impact the Caribbean region (“1.5 Stay Alive: Science Meets Music in the Caribbean”). The film demonstrated the role that developed countries play in advancing and maintaining the climate crisis in the Caribbean. Disaster capitalism describes the exploitation by developed countries when responding to crises, intentionally creating a more unequal and undemocratic society. Using the example of Hurricane Maria, Klein states that Puerto Rico became broken because of deliberate, systematic interferences to power, water, health, communication, and food systems (2018). Alternatively, developed countries may supply the Caribbean with funds to produce and distribute locally grown produce. An example of what may be done with these funds can be seen in Cuba which created a self-sufficient urban agricultural economy. This would strengthen food security and increase the ability and knowledge to build back food systems following the effects of climate change (Quirk 2012). Information omitted includes details on how developed countries contributed to climate change vulnerabilities in the Caribbean. Environmental changes shape Caribbean agricultural trends which are already historically vulnerable owing to the by-products of colonial and plantation economies (Barker 2012, 42). The film advances the understanding of the effects of global warming in the Caribbean by not only showing the scientific perspective, but also the human side. Climate change affects more than just infrastructure, coral reefs, and economies, but it also affects people’s lives.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this thesis, I will be discussing the origins of Carnival and the artform of Kalinda, within the Carribean twin island of Trinidad and Tobago. I will discuss the cultural and spiritual roots of these practices that originated from West, Central and South Africa. The first section of this paper will discuss Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival. The explanation regarding the festival will provide understanding about how, what where, when, and why it came into existence, and would always be significant to the island’s cultural and spiritual structural foundation. The second section will explain the complete physical and spiritual artform of Kalinda and why it is to understand. The last section of this paper will discuss the significant cultural and spiritual connection between Carnival and Kalinda. It will discuss how this festival and artform are significant to the spiritual and cultural foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, hence providing the relevance of it being remembered and carried on at present.
{"title":"The Cultural and Spiritual Origination of The Western, Southern and Central African Influences of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival and the artform of Kalinda.","authors":"Shayna Rivelle Thompson","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.38639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.38639","url":null,"abstract":"In this thesis, I will be discussing the origins of Carnival and the artform of Kalinda, within the Carribean twin island of Trinidad and Tobago. I will discuss the cultural and spiritual roots of these practices that originated from West, Central and South Africa. The first section of this paper will discuss Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival. The explanation regarding the festival will provide understanding about how, what where, when, and why it came into existence, and would always be significant to the island’s cultural and spiritual structural foundation. The second section will explain the complete physical and spiritual artform of Kalinda and why it is to understand. The last section of this paper will discuss the significant cultural and spiritual connection between Carnival and Kalinda. It will discuss how this festival and artform are significant to the spiritual and cultural foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, hence providing the relevance of it being remembered and carried on at present.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay unpacked and analyzed the seven-part documentary series, Redemption Song, narrated by Stuart Hall about the Caribbean in early 1990s. Given the diversity of the Caribbean, Redemption Song unified the Caribbean through its framing of how the Caribbean’s past of foreign influence has shaped its present. Thus, this essay linked historical causality and the Caribbean’s present as a cultural mosaic to argue that Redemption Song demonstrates how contemporary Caribbean society is a product of its history of foreign influence and colonialism. This was accomplished by discussing a scene from each episode of Redemption Song and connecting it with secondary literature on Caribbean society to touch upon how the series represents, and comments on, contemporary Caribbean society. Namely, this essay discussed issues concerning economy, identity, citizenship, race, class, sovereignty, borders, and tourism and how it has related British, African, Indian, French, Spanish, and American influences in the Caribbean.
{"title":"Redemption Song: A Commentary on Caribbean Society","authors":"Maria Bacchus","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.39942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.39942","url":null,"abstract":"This essay unpacked and analyzed the seven-part documentary series, Redemption Song, narrated by Stuart Hall about the Caribbean in early 1990s. Given the diversity of the Caribbean, Redemption Song unified the Caribbean through its framing of how the Caribbean’s past of foreign influence has shaped its present. Thus, this essay linked historical causality and the Caribbean’s present as a cultural mosaic to argue that Redemption Song demonstrates how contemporary Caribbean society is a product of its history of foreign influence and colonialism. This was accomplished by discussing a scene from each episode of Redemption Song and connecting it with secondary literature on Caribbean society to touch upon how the series represents, and comments on, contemporary Caribbean society. Namely, this essay discussed issues concerning economy, identity, citizenship, race, class, sovereignty, borders, and tourism and how it has related British, African, Indian, French, Spanish, and American influences in the Caribbean.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135950905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract: In recent decades, China has emerged as a major economic power operating within the Caribbean, making the analysis of its foreign policy strategy in the region of paramount importance. This essay will seek to identify the ideology undergirding China’s foreign policy within the Caribbean, using these insights to analyze the effects of Beijing’s increased engagement within the region. This essay will argue that Beijing has sought to create close ties with a number of Caribbean states by launching a slew of generous development assistance projects, attaching conditionalities to these projects to effectively incorporate partner states into their export and ideological network. China views the Caribbean as a valuable political partner, as its proximity to the United States makes its potential alliance with China a prominent counterfactual to Western hegemony. To achieve this argument, I will highlight how China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) has influenced China’s grand strategy within the Caribbean, as it seeks to incorporate the region into a broader economic network to challenge Western economic systems. I will then highlight how economic considerations influence China’s bilateral relations with a number of resource-rich Caribbean states, investigating the diplomatic approach China has used to increase its access to natural resources in the region. Lastly, this essay will investigate how China’s development assistance based strategy has impacted the Caribbean itself. This will cover both its negative and positive effects on domestic industries, while also exploring how China’s ambitious economic expansion has stoked social discontent in the region.
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This paper focuses on the history of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago and how the country molded the event to become a staple of nationalism following independence in the 20th century. It explores the historical beginnings of Carnival, from slavery to indentured servitude to modern-day Trinidad. It looks at how becoming a mascot of Trinidadian culture was achieved in two ways—the representation and rhetoric of the event and how it became a commodity that politicians could use to prove a robust national culture to the world. It takes on central themes of unification, regardless of race, class, or culture, and how the event tells the history of this island, even with the costumes and enthralling music. It touches on how Carnival reflects cultural and political movements throughout the country's history, how it became significant for social changes after independence, and how it could withstand the infiltration of global capitalism and still present a story about Trinidad's culture and resilience. It is built around the argument that after independence in 1962, Trinidad needed a way to present itself as a nationalist country now that it does not have a metropole. This was achieved through the propping up of Carnival and allowing it to reflect various movements of the past. The goal is to add to the conversation that Carnival is not just a boisterous party on the island but also reflects the colonial history and diverse peoples and how it was able to modernize itself while sticking to these core values.
{"title":"Everybody Jumping on the Savannah Grass: How Carnival Became a Symbol of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Culture","authors":"B. Bahadoor","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.38626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.38626","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the history of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago and how the country molded the event to become a staple of nationalism following independence in the 20th century. It explores the historical beginnings of Carnival, from slavery to indentured servitude to modern-day Trinidad. It looks at how becoming a mascot of Trinidadian culture was achieved in two ways—the representation and rhetoric of the event and how it became a commodity that politicians could use to prove a robust national culture to the world. It takes on central themes of unification, regardless of race, class, or culture, and how the event tells the history of this island, even with the costumes and enthralling music. It touches on how Carnival reflects cultural and political movements throughout the country's history, how it became significant for social changes after independence, and how it could withstand the infiltration of global capitalism and still present a story about Trinidad's culture and resilience. It is built around the argument that after independence in 1962, Trinidad needed a way to present itself as a nationalist country now that it does not have a metropole. This was achieved through the propping up of Carnival and allowing it to reflect various movements of the past. The goal is to add to the conversation that Carnival is not just a boisterous party on the island but also reflects the colonial history and diverse peoples and how it was able to modernize itself while sticking to these core values. \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49023633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Plantation Economy school of thought has been somewhat absent from mainstream discourse surrounding development despite offering a critical lens to understand the Caribbean region's historical and contemporary economic conditions. This paper examines the extent to which Plantation Economy scholarship can explain the current production structure of Guyana's extractive oil and mineral industries. This is demonstrated through a historical recapitulation of the Plantation Economy’s theoretical underpinnings, situates the pertinent particulars regarding Guyana’s extractive industries and highlights the lack of inter-sectoral linkages, significant exploitative ownership agreements and skewed export dynamics that exist. The intention is to spark a resurgence in Plantation Economy scholarship, especially since its relevance remains as vital as ever in addressing the region's structural barriers to economic development.
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For Trinidadian-Candian Queer activists, identity must be navigated through queer identity, ethnic community, and cultural background. This paper seeks to explore what Trinidadian Canadian QTBIPOC and allied activism and care can look like in Canada and how this activism is informed by this complex intersectional identity. This research was conducted under the supervision of Professor Tara Goldstein and postdoctoral fellow Jenny Salisbury as part of a Research Opportunity Program (ROP) towards a larger project focused on 60 Years of Queer, Trans, BIPOC (QTBIPOC) Activism and Care. This paper focuses on research into three activists via the ArQuives: Richard Fung, Anthony Mohammed, and Deb Singh. Richard Fung informs complex art-based activism through his complex identities as Trini, Chinese, Canadian, and a gay man. Fung presents an example of complex identity informing complex activism, for Fung, this is film-based art that spans and explores the many topics surrounding his identity. Anthony Mohammad and Deb Singh present similar experiences of complex identity as Trinidadians within a South Asian diaspora and identity within Queer communities. For Mohammad navigating his sexuality as a gay man through Caribbean and South Asian communities presents contradicting yet synchronous experiences of inclusion and exclusion. Mohammed exhibits complex activism through his work in varied queer groups intended for Caribbean and South Asians separately. Singh similarly identifies the acceptability of a particular identity; navigating fluid sexuality, binary gender, and monogamy presents a similar thread of contradicting inclusion and exclusion. Her activism presents through her work in bathhouses for women and nonbinary folx and her work in the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres. For Trinidadian-Candian Queer activists, their complex navigation of intersectional identities informs their community work and artistic expression as activists.
对于特立尼达-加拿大酷儿活动人士来说，身份必须通过酷儿身份、种族社区和文化背景来定位。本文试图探索特立尼达加拿大QTBIPOC和相关的行动主义和护理在加拿大的样子，以及这种复杂的交叉身份如何影响这种行动主义。这项研究是在Tara Goldstein教授和博士后Jenny Salisbury的监督下进行的，作为研究机会计划(ROP)的一部分，该计划是一个更大的项目，重点是60年的同性恋，跨性别，BIPOC (QTBIPOC)行动主义和关怀。本文主要研究通过ArQuives对三位活动家的研究:Richard Fung, Anthony Mohammed和Deb Singh。冯德伦通过他的复杂身份——Trini、中国人、加拿大人和同性恋者——讲述了复杂的艺术行动主义。冯德伦展示了一个复杂身份传达复杂行动主义的例子，对冯德伦来说，这是一种基于电影的艺术，跨越并探索了围绕他身份的许多话题。安东尼·穆罕默德(Anthony Mohammad)和德布·辛格(Deb Singh)在南亚侨民和酷儿社区中作为特立尼达人的复杂身份认同方面表现出类似的经历。对于穆罕默德来说，作为一名同性恋者，他在加勒比海和南亚社区的性取向呈现出既矛盾又同步的包容和排斥经历。穆罕默德表现出复杂的激进主义，他在不同的酷儿群体中分别为加勒比海和南亚人工作。辛格同样确定了特定身份的可接受性;在流动性取向、二元性别和一夫一妻制中导航，呈现出一种类似的矛盾包容和排斥的线索。她的行动主义表现在她为妇女和非二元福利者在澡堂的工作，以及她在多伦多强奸危机中心和安大略省强奸危机中心联盟的工作。对于特立尼达-加拿大的酷儿积极分子来说，他们复杂的身份交叉导航影响了他们作为积极分子的社区工作和艺术表达。
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