Caribbean History

En el cincuentenario de CARIBBEAN STUDIES: algunas notas sobre las universidades del Caribe y sus revistas académicas

by Humberto Garcia-Muniz

Article published in CARIBBEAN STUDIES vol. 39, nos. 1-2 (Jan-Dec 2011), pp. 3-42.

These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavor to discuss academic... more These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavor to discuss academic journals published by universities in the Caribbean region. The first part deals with thedevelopment of higher education institutions and the creation of university-based academic journals in the Hispanic-and English-speaking Caribbean. The next section addresses the development of the first academic journals with a regional perspective—Caribbean Quarterly and Social and Economic Studies—until their becoming peer-reviewed journals. In the third part, the article centers on the origin and development of Caribbean Studies, including also a bibliometric analysis ofseveral aspects, such as the the origin of authors, fields of study, andothers. The essay closes with a rapid view of the present panorama of journals dedicated to the Caribbean and with a brief conclusion.

HAHR Review of Baud and Betances

by Neici Milagros Zeller

Research Report for Rockefeller Archive

by Neici Milagros Zeller

Puerto Plata en el siglo XIX M-M Estudios Dominicanos

by Neici Milagros Zeller

What the Sands Remember

by Vanessa Agard Jones

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2012 Volume 18, Number 2-3: 325-346.

Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores—both territorially and symbolically—of Martinique, a French... more Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores—both territorially and symbolically—of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean Sea. During the nineteenth century, Saint-Pierre was known as the “Sodom” of the Antilles, as a cosmopolitan city where decadence and liberal sexual mores were at the heart of bourgeois and elite culture. In 1902 Mount Pelée, the volcano that sits just above the city, erupted—killing Saint-Pierre's population of over thirty thousand within five seconds. Today, the black, volcanic sand beaches that line the coast remind visitors to Saint-Pierre of the city that once was. Sainte-Anne is a town with a far different reputation. During the 1950s it was known as a refuge for rebels, for people who contested the continued dominance of white and mixed-race elites in the lives of ordinary (mostly black) Martinicans, and was the center of the island's small cultural nationalist movement. Nearly fifty years later, the town retains that reputation—but Sainte-Anne is known for another reason, too, for it is home to one of Martinique's few meeting spaces for men who have sex with men, a secluded section at the end of the commune's most popular beach, Les Salines.

This essay seeks to cross temporal, scalar, and disciplinary boundaries while revisiting tropes of queer invisibility that mark representations of same-sex desire in the Caribbean. Cycling from the world described in the 1901 erotic novel Une nuit d'orgie à Saint-Pierre, Martinique to field notes taken in 2010 among men who frequent Les Salines, this essay unites, in a provisional way, a scattered archive of same-sex desire on the island, while relating these desires critically to place. These archives ask us to reconsider a narrative that insists on movement—away from Martinique, away from the Caribbean, away from the global South—as the grounding force for a radical queer (of color) politics. Instead of privileging diasporic subjectivities, these markers of local presence and emplacement offer an alternative framing of what it means to stay put. They give us access to modes of queer relationality that resist documentation, but are indicative of the kinds of lives that certain subjects live: shot through with ambiguity and grounded in a refusal of fixed identity politics. Sand emerges as a compelling metaphor for this kind of theoretical and ethnographic intervention, as its ability to be diffuse yet still irreducibly material provides a model for one way to understand the memory of same-sex desire and gender transgression. Making use of fragments, then, this essay thinks simultaneously through the sexual politics of memory and landscape, linking queer presence to the sands of both Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne.

"They Couldn't Mash Ants": The Decline of the White and Non-White Elites in Antigua, 1834-1900

by Susan Lowes

Originally published in Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture, and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, edited by Karen Fog Olwig (London: Cass, 1995).

The 1918 Riots: "Them Planters Got Well Shook Up"

by Susan Lowes

This is the story of the 1918 riots, when the people from town and country stood up to the planters.

The U.S. Bases in Antigua and the New Winthorpes Story

by Susan Lowes

This is the story of the time at the beginning of World War II when the U.S. established two bases in Antigua, moving a village to do so, and the social upheaval that resulted. It is published as a website, with photos and other images.

Social and Economic Change in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, 1868-1968, as seen Through Land Transfer Deeds

by Susan Lowes

Unpublished paper, written in 1978.

The Changing Political Structure in the Netherlands Antilles/St. Eustatius: Documentation and Preservation - Field Report #2

by Sidney Shapiro

Research was conducted at the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR) from April to May 2010 for... more Research was conducted at the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR) from April to May 2010 for approximately three-and-a-half weeks. St. Eustatius was part of the Netherlands Antilles and has been undergoing major changes as a decision reached in 2005 regarding the status of the Netherlands Antilles came into effect in October 2010. 

Caribbean emancipations*

by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

36 (August 2011).

Special issue with articles on French Guiana, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil. Special issue with articles on French Guiana, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil.

From slaves to spaniards: The failure of revolutionary emancipationism in Spain and Cuba, 1868-1895

by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Conquering categories: the problem of prehistory in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico and Cuba

by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Report NuStar Watching Brief Schotsenhoek, Stelten 2011

by Ruud Stelten

Preliminary PHD-discription: Including the recipient in a study of cultural memory - the case of Cuban culture

by Sjamme van de Voort

To be finished march 2012

By publishing my preliminary thoughts about my PHD-project, I hope to find feedback.

Specially I would... more By publishing my preliminary thoughts about my PHD-project, I hope to find feedback.

Specially I would like ideas as to:
- Which networks, universities and researchers would be interesting??
- How to grasp the essence of historical consciousness through ethnographic fieldwork, studies of official and educational sources??

Junkanoo: A Bahamian cultural myth.

by Heatherlyn Cleare-Hoffman

Hoffman, H. P. (2008). Junkanoo: A Bahamian cultural myth. In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, F. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. 363-372). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.

An existential analysis of Junkanoo

by Heatherlyn Cleare-Hoffman

Cleare-Hoffman, H. P. (2011, November). An existential analysis of Junkanoo. Poster session presented at the Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology, Nassau, Bahamas.

Call for papers: The Many Headed Hydra 10 years On

by William Farrell

Tensiones y continuidades en la historicidad de la negritud: Aimé Césaire ante Frantz Fanon

by Ricardo Lopez Muñoz

El presente ensayo fue publicado en: Oliva, Elena; Stecher, Lucía; Zapata, Claudia (editoras): Aimé Césaire desde América Latina. Diálogos con el poeta de la Negritud. Ediciones Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile. Santiago. Págs. 79 - 96. 2011

La Negritud enunciada por Césaire es un discurso que debe ser comprendido desde la praxis de quienes la enarbolan ante... more La Negritud enunciada por Césaire es un discurso que debe ser comprendido desde la praxis de quienes la enarbolan ante la discriminación y el colonialismo. En este sentido, se encuentra en permanente mutación, conforme se ubica en el tiempo y los contextos donde las comunidades negras enfrentan su subordinación al blanco. Dicha mutación involucra tensiones dentro de su continuidad. La realidad y las experiencias que enfrentan Césaire y Fanon en las Antillas y en África, revelan cómo la Negritud debe adaptarse a contextos donde no siempre ella responde a cabalidad con todo lo liberador que proclama. Sin embargo, también muestra que ella se nutre y potencia de las tensiones que se generan entre sus enunciados y la realidad donde se hace presente.

"Eric Williams y CLR James: simbiosis intelectual y contrapunteo ideológico"

by Humberto Garcia-Muniz

Published in Eric Williams, El NEGRO EN EL CARIBE Y OTROS TEXTOS, La Habana: Fondo Editorial Casa Las Américas, 2011, pp. 419-458.