Climate change and food security are among the world’s biggest challenges. A growing population and climate change means that vulnerable regions such as the Caribbean, will continue to face unique strains. The effects of climate change are associated with poverty and a decrease in food security because of the decline in food production and access to a sufficient amount of nutritious food. Trade liberalization increases the number of challenges experienced by notably, the local Caribbean agricultural sector and has devastating effects on food security and rural livelihoods. Reductions in crop diversity and production mixed with low household incomes results in changed diets. These changes have increased the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and hypertension as well as obesity and other long-term health problems. Current and proposed strategies to aid with the challenges of climate change include further research on the creation of heat tolerant cattle breeds, technological developments, micro-insurance interventions, and the expansion of greenhouse farming. The traditional and acquired knowledge and skills of individuals in the agricultural sector is fundamental in creating strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change and it is essential to ensure the strengthening of food security and food sovereignty. Financial resources in the Caribbean are inadequate and therefore, it is imperative that the Global North pay their dues in shouldering the responsibility of reducing the economic and environmental vulnerabilities in the Caribbean.
{"title":"Climate Change and Globalization: Food Security in the Caribbean","authors":"Donna Miller","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.38686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.38686","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and food security are among the world’s biggest challenges. A growing population and climate change means that vulnerable regions such as the Caribbean, will continue to face unique strains. The effects of climate change are associated with poverty and a decrease in food security because of the decline in food production and access to a sufficient amount of nutritious food. Trade liberalization increases the number of challenges experienced by notably, the local Caribbean agricultural sector and has devastating effects on food security and rural livelihoods. Reductions in crop diversity and production mixed with low household incomes results in changed diets. These changes have increased the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and hypertension as well as obesity and other long-term health problems. Current and proposed strategies to aid with the challenges of climate change include further research on the creation of heat tolerant cattle breeds, technological developments, micro-insurance interventions, and the expansion of greenhouse farming. The traditional and acquired knowledge and skills of individuals in the agricultural sector is fundamental in creating strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change and it is essential to ensure the strengthening of food security and food sovereignty. Financial resources in the Caribbean are inadequate and therefore, it is imperative that the Global North pay their dues in shouldering the responsibility of reducing the economic and environmental vulnerabilities in the Caribbean.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"10 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":"135950907","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}
On January 1, 1804, Haiti officially proclaimed its Declaration of Independence, roughly two months after its forces led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines expelled the last remaining French forces from their territory. Their revolution had begun in 1791, when enslaved people sought to break free of brutal French colonial rule that originated in the mid-seventeenth century. The subsequent Haitian Constitution, published in 1805, detailed a “free and form sovereign state, independent of all the other powers of the universe,” known as the “Haitian Empire,” where “slavery is abolished forever” and “equality before the law is irrefutably established.” The future appeared bright for this newly independent Black nation in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, for Haiti and the Haitian people, this bright future was not to be. For the past two plus centuries, Haiti has been continuously disadvantaged and subjected to mistreatment by other nations, including France and the United States. The potential for Haiti to emerge as a prosperous nation has thus been quashed due to numerous cases of foreign interference, which are still ongoing today.
{"title":"Haiti - Harmed at the Hands of Others","authors":"Max Ray-Ellis","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.40015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.40015","url":null,"abstract":"On January 1, 1804, Haiti officially proclaimed its Declaration of Independence, roughly two months after its forces led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines expelled the last remaining French forces from their territory. Their revolution had begun in 1791, when enslaved people sought to break free of brutal French colonial rule that originated in the mid-seventeenth century. The subsequent Haitian Constitution, published in 1805, detailed a “free and form sovereign state, independent of all the other powers of the universe,” known as the “Haitian Empire,” where “slavery is abolished forever” and “equality before the law is irrefutably established.” The future appeared bright for this newly independent Black nation in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, for Haiti and the Haitian people, this bright future was not to be. For the past two plus centuries, Haiti has been continuously disadvantaged and subjected to mistreatment by other nations, including France and the United States. The potential for Haiti to emerge as a prosperous nation has thus been quashed due to numerous cases of foreign interference, which are still ongoing today.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"310 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":"135951063","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 paper very briefly challenges the normative understanding of development as purely beneficial and aspirational. It argues that capitalist development, as it manifests in the Caribbean, is built on a foundation of colonial violence and exploitation. The paper takes a twofold approach to exploring this relationship, arguing (1) that colonial violence and capitalist development are mutually reinforcing and (2) that the violent legacies of the colonial encounter are replicated in modern-day development initiatives. Through an analysis of development projects in Haiti and Belize, this paper shows how development-induced displacement, environmental degradation, and the erasure of indigenous culture and customs are all examples of this ongoing replication of colonial violence. The paper incorporates scholarship that ex- plains the continued existence of this relationship and raises important questions about how to move forward. Finally, it calls for more decolonial perspectives and critical approaches to capitalist development that recognize and address the ongoing effects of colonial violence especially in Caribbean contexts.
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 This paper very briefly challenges the normative understanding of development as purely beneficial and aspirational. It argues that capitalist development, as it manifests in the Caribbean, is built on a foundation of colonial violence and exploitation. The paper takes a twofold approach to exploring this relationship, arguing (1) that colonial violence and capitalist development are mutually reinforcing and (2) that the violent legacies of the colonial encounter are replicated in modern-day development initiatives. Through an analysis of development projects in Haiti and Belize, this paper shows how development-induced displacement, environmental degradation, and the erasure of indigenous culture and customs are all examples of this ongoing replication of colonial violence. The paper incorporates scholarship that ex- plains the continued existence of this relationship and raises important questions about how to move forward. Finally, it calls for more decolonial perspectives and critical approaches to capitalist development that recognize and address the ongoing effects of colonial violence especially in Caribbean contexts.
 
 
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Carol Boyce Davies’ influential work Left of Karl Marx describes the life and time of Claudia Jones, a not very well known influential 20th century Marxist thinker. Through an in-depth look at the trials and tribulations Jones underwent, whether it be her time in prison or her deportation to England, Davies succeeds in capturing her essence, as well as thoroughly analysing her political development. What is left lacking in her discussion of Jones’ life, however, is Davies’ own reasoning as to why the grandmother of intersectionality was left out of the history books, both by Capitalists and Socialists alike. In this work, I use Davies’ work on Claudia Jones’ life to discern why this is the case, and how the factors which contributed to her erasure from the public consciousness were so effective in their efforts. By the end of this review, I look at how the separation of one from their ideas plays a pivotal role in their erasure, and how this occurred to Claudia Jones.
卡罗尔·博伊斯·戴维斯(Carol Boyce Davies)颇具影响力的著作《卡尔·马克思的左派》(Left of Karl Marx)描述了克劳迪娅·琼斯(Claudia Jones)的生活和时代，她是一位不太知名的20世纪马克思主义思想家。通过深入观察琼斯所经历的考验和磨难，无论是在监狱里还是被驱逐到英国，戴维斯成功地捕捉到了她的本质，并彻底分析了她的政治发展。然而，戴维斯对琼斯生平的讨论中缺少的是她自己的推理，即为什么交织性的祖母被资本家和社会主义者都排除在历史书之外。在这本书中，我用戴维斯对克劳迪娅·琼斯生活的研究来理解为什么会出现这种情况，以及导致她从公众意识中消失的因素是如何如此有效地发挥作用的。在这篇评论的最后，我将着眼于一个人与他们的想法的分离如何在他们的擦除中发挥关键作用，以及克劳迪娅·琼斯是如何发生这种情况的。
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Indigeneity has, for the most part, been absent in literature on the Caribbean, even in de-colonial writing. Writing on the Caribbean has often portrayed Indigenous people as extinct and thus as irrelevant to contemporary life in the Caribbean. Yet Indigenous peoples have played and continue to play a central role in Caribbean politics.
This essay discusses how and why Indigenous people have been erased from discourse on the contemporary Caribbean. I argue that Indigenous erasure is a longstanding colonial tactic that is still used to justify the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on the case of the Maya peoples’ struggle for land in Belize, I describe some of the ways that Indigenous people continue to resist colonial and capitalist violence. Having identified and historicized the myth of Indigenous erasure in the Caribbean, I begin to sketch possibilities for shifting the discourse on the Caribbean such that it highlights rather than ignores the historical and ongoing contributions of Indigenous communities to the Caribbean. I suggest that diaspora and entanglement are two concepts that may be helpful for clarifying the Caribbean’s complex colonial histories in a way that underscores the importance of Indigenous peoples to the Caribbean.
{"title":"Indigenous Erasure and Resistance in the Caribbean","authors":"Elizabeth Wong","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.40016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.40016","url":null,"abstract":"Indigeneity has, for the most part, been absent in literature on the Caribbean, even in de-colonial writing. Writing on the Caribbean has often portrayed Indigenous people as extinct and thus as irrelevant to contemporary life in the Caribbean. Yet Indigenous peoples have played and continue to play a central role in Caribbean politics.
 This essay discusses how and why Indigenous people have been erased from discourse on the contemporary Caribbean. I argue that Indigenous erasure is a longstanding colonial tactic that is still used to justify the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on the case of the Maya peoples’ struggle for land in Belize, I describe some of the ways that Indigenous people continue to resist colonial and capitalist violence. Having identified and historicized the myth of Indigenous erasure in the Caribbean, I begin to sketch possibilities for shifting the discourse on the Caribbean such that it highlights rather than ignores the historical and ongoing contributions of Indigenous communities to the Caribbean. I suggest that diaspora and entanglement are two concepts that may be helpful for clarifying the Caribbean’s complex colonial histories in a way that underscores the importance of Indigenous peoples to the Caribbean.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"16 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":"135951072","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 aims to analyze the aspirational universality of the terms “citizenship” and “sovereignty” by focusing on the nature of these terms in the Caribbean. This is accomplished through establishing the traditional definitions of sovereignty and citizenship before comparing the main tenets of these definitions with case studies from the Caribbean which challenge, contradict, or negate these traditional definitions. Specifically, this essay will discuss the promises of birthright citizenship entrenched in the constitution of the Dominican Republic in contrast with the statelessness and non-citizenship that those of Haitian descent experience in the Dominican Republic. Next, sovereignty is complicated when its traditional definition is compared to the Caribbean’s history of foreign intervention, specifically in Haiti and Jamaica. This results in the conclusion that sovereignty and citizenship are situation-specific constructs and illusionary in the Caribbean. The prevalence of these illusions is contextualized through building off the work of Yarimar Bonilla and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who grouped these terms as “North Atlantic Universals,” to reinforce the non-existence of citizenship and sovereignty, according to their traditional definitions, in the Caribbean.
{"title":"Illusion of Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Caribbean","authors":"Maria Bacchus","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.39941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.39941","url":null,"abstract":"This essay aims to analyze the aspirational universality of the terms “citizenship” and “sovereignty” by focusing on the nature of these terms in the Caribbean. This is accomplished through establishing the traditional definitions of sovereignty and citizenship before comparing the main tenets of these definitions with case studies from the Caribbean which challenge, contradict, or negate these traditional definitions. Specifically, this essay will discuss the promises of birthright citizenship entrenched in the constitution of the Dominican Republic in contrast with the statelessness and non-citizenship that those of Haitian descent experience in the Dominican Republic. Next, sovereignty is complicated when its traditional definition is compared to the Caribbean’s history of foreign intervention, specifically in Haiti and Jamaica. This results in the conclusion that sovereignty and citizenship are situation-specific constructs and illusionary in the Caribbean. The prevalence of these illusions is contextualized through building off the work of Yarimar Bonilla and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who grouped these terms as “North Atlantic Universals,” to reinforce the non-existence of citizenship and sovereignty, according to their traditional definitions, in the Caribbean.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"436 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":"135950913","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}
Over the past decade, the Toronto neighbourhood commonly known as Little Jamaica has experienced gentrification through the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit. This gentrification has perpetuated social and economic inequalities affecting the Caribbean diaspora in Little Jamaica. Urban planning tools, such as the Heritage Conservation District, have been central to the effort to preserve and protect the distinctive culture in Little Jamaica. Yet community members recognize these measures as inadequate to curb gentrification and reduce economic inequality.
I argue that an analysis of gentrification only as a matter of urban planning fails to account for the way that the local community takes up cultural forms, like food, to resist gentrification. Though food is widely recognized as a means of constructing identity and building community in diaspora, less attention is paid to the political implications of food’s social power. Drawing on interviews with community members and local activists, this essay examines how the Caribbean community in Little Jamaica constructs cultural identity through food, highlighting a tension between authenticity and hybridity that exists within this cultural identity. I conclude that, because food produces cultural identity and community, food and food spaces may play a role in communities’ resistance to gentrification and inequalities in the urban sphere.
{"title":"Gentrification in Toronto's Little Jamaica: Food for Resistance","authors":"Elizabeth Wong","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.38687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.38687","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, the Toronto neighbourhood commonly known as Little Jamaica has experienced gentrification through the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit. This gentrification has perpetuated social and economic inequalities affecting the Caribbean diaspora in Little Jamaica. Urban planning tools, such as the Heritage Conservation District, have been central to the effort to preserve and protect the distinctive culture in Little Jamaica. Yet community members recognize these measures as inadequate to curb gentrification and reduce economic inequality.
 I argue that an analysis of gentrification only as a matter of urban planning fails to account for the way that the local community takes up cultural forms, like food, to resist gentrification. Though food is widely recognized as a means of constructing identity and building community in diaspora, less attention is paid to the political implications of food’s social power. Drawing on interviews with community members and local activists, this essay examines how the Caribbean community in Little Jamaica constructs cultural identity through food, highlighting a tension between authenticity and hybridity that exists within this cultural identity. I conclude that, because food produces cultural identity and community, food and food spaces may play a role in communities’ resistance to gentrification and inequalities in the urban sphere.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":"73 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":"135950908","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}
Garifuna people have lived on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent for over 300 years. Enslaved Africans who had survived the sinking of two Spanish ships in the 1600s became the first non-American group to settle on the island. Land ownership struggles, racism and discrimination and attempts at cultural erasure mark their history. This paper analyzes the relations and consequences of colonialism to the current status of the neglect of the Garifuna of St. Vincent. It argues that the arrival of Spanish, French, and British to St. Vincent influenced the genocide of Caribs, the creation of stereotypes associated with their people, and the spread of academic literature based on false narratives of their stories. These consequences led to the current struggles that the Garifuna face on the island and in their fight to rewrite historical memory and knowledge. Finally, it is essential to recognize their progress in rebuilding an identity of self-recognition by restoring historical memory and demanding governmental recognition. They have sought to situate themselves as people who live, fight, and exude their mixed culture of Arawak and black ancestry in a transnational territory. However, their case is complex. They carry indigenous and African identities, which insert them into movements and struggles on transnational networks and narratives of belonging around indigenous and black or Afro descendants' movements.
{"title":"Consequences of Colonialism to the History and Lives of the Garifuna People of St. Vincent.","authors":"Maria Fernanda De Almeida","doi":"10.33137/cq.v7i1.40014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v7i1.40014","url":null,"abstract":"Garifuna people have lived on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent for over 300 years. Enslaved Africans who had survived the sinking of two Spanish ships in the 1600s became the first non-American group to settle on the island. Land ownership struggles, racism and discrimination and attempts at cultural erasure mark their history. This paper analyzes the relations and consequences of colonialism to the current status of the neglect of the Garifuna of St. Vincent. It argues that the arrival of Spanish, French, and British to St. Vincent influenced the genocide of Caribs, the creation of stereotypes associated with their people, and the spread of academic literature based on false narratives of their stories. These consequences led to the current struggles that the Garifuna face on the island and in their fight to rewrite historical memory and knowledge. Finally, it is essential to recognize their progress in rebuilding an identity of self-recognition by restoring historical memory and demanding governmental recognition. They have sought to situate themselves as people who live, fight, and exude their mixed culture of Arawak and black ancestry in a transnational territory. However, their case is complex. They carry indigenous and African identities, which insert them into movements and struggles on transnational networks and narratives of belonging around indigenous and black or Afro descendants' movements.","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":"46605956","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 story of the Taíno people has been historically told from the narrative perspective of the dominant colonial viewpoint, which has been continuously employed as a tool to reinforce the idea of the Taíno community’s “extinction” or nonexistence. This paper outlines the role of the Taíno people as a key element within Caribbean indigeneity and demonstrates the central ways in which Taíno culture has been reinterpreted and carried forward in modernity. To this end, it assesses the lasting impact of language within the cultural landscape of Taíno nationhood.
{"title":"Power & Limits of Language: Linguistic Reclamation as a Driver of Taíno Identity in Borikén","authors":"L. Faria","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.35962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.35962","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000The story of the Taíno people has been historically told from the narrative perspective of the dominant colonial viewpoint, which has been continuously employed as a tool to reinforce the idea of the Taíno community’s “extinction” or nonexistence. This paper outlines the role of the Taíno people as a key element within Caribbean indigeneity and demonstrates the central ways in which Taíno culture has been reinterpreted and carried forward in modernity. To this end, it assesses the lasting impact of language within the cultural landscape of Taíno nationhood.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43048172","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 initial interactions between Indigenous groups and European colonists across the Caribbean were largely shaped by pre-existingsociocultural conditions. The central importance of exchange for social construction and the concomitantly high value placed upon foreign material was common to many Native societies. This played in contrast to European understandings of exchange, which was far more focused on economic gain and competitive bargaining. The role assigned to exchange and the foreign in Indigenous and European societies guided their perceptions of each other and respective goals in interaction. Native systems were well entrenched throughout the regional networks of trade and culture in the Caribbean, and so colonists entered into a world fundamentally defined by such systems. European imperial views permitted them to exploit these systems, twist- ing Indigenous exaltation of intercultural trade into a tool for attempted oppres- sion, subversion, and assimilation. Nevertheless, colonists were unable to under- mine core structures, even if they appropriated them for the creation of new hierar- chies and dehumanization of Natives. These structures prevailed even as coloniza- tion grew more pervasive and degenerative.
{"title":"Exoticism, Exchange, and Early Indigenous-Colonial Relations in the 15th to 16th Century Caribbean","authors":"A. Dua","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i1.35984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i1.35984","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000The initial interactions between Indigenous groups and European colonists across the Caribbean were largely shaped by pre-existingsociocultural conditions. The central importance of exchange for social construction and the concomitantly high value placed upon foreign material was common to many Native societies. This played in contrast to European understandings of exchange, which was far more focused on economic gain and competitive bargaining. The role assigned to exchange and the foreign in Indigenous and European societies guided their perceptions of each other and respective goals in interaction. Native systems were well entrenched throughout the regional networks of trade and culture in the Caribbean, and so colonists entered into a world fundamentally defined by such systems. European imperial views permitted them to exploit these systems, twist- ing Indigenous exaltation of intercultural trade into a tool for attempted oppres- sion, subversion, and assimilation. Nevertheless, colonists were unable to under- mine core structures, even if they appropriated them for the creation of new hierar- chies and dehumanization of Natives. These structures prevailed even as coloniza- tion grew more pervasive and degenerative.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41444463","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}
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