Caribbean Women At The Crossroads
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Author | : Patricia Mohammed |
Publisher | : Canoe Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789768125446 |
This volume looks at the paradox of motherhood among the women of Barbados, St Lucia and Dominica.
Author | : Patricia Mohammed |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Elaine Fido |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African Caribbean poetry |
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Author | : Carrie Gibson |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802192351 |
A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer). Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a panoramic view of the region from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. These fraught years gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, as well as the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion—European and American—but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Told “in fluid, colorful prose peppered with telling anecdotes,” Empire’s Crossroads provides an essential account of five centuries of history (Foreign Affairs). “Judicious, readable and extremely well-informed . . . Too many people know the Caribbean only as a tourist destination; [Gibson] takes us, instead, into its fascinating, complex and often tragic past. No vacation there will ever feel quite the same again.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost
Author | : María Marta Ferreyra |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 146481015X |
"Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean has expanded dramatically in the past 15 years, as the average gross enrollment rate has more than doubled, and many new institutions and programs have been opened. Although higher education access has become more equitable, and higher education supply has become more varied, many of the 'new' students in the system are, on average, less academically ready than are their more advantaged counterparts. Furthermore, only half of higher education students, on average, complete their degree, and labor market returns to higher education vary greatly across institutions and programs. Thus, higher education is at a crossroads today. Given the region's urgency to raise productivity in a low-growth, fiscally constrained environment, going past this crossroads requires the formation of skilled human capital fast and efficiently. 'At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean' contributes to the discussion by studying quality, variety, and equity of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book presents comprehensive evidence on the recent higher education expansion and evolution of higher education labor market returns. Using novel data and state-of-the-art methods, it studies demand and supply drivers of the recent expansion. It investigates the behavior of institutions and students and explores the unintended consequences of large-scale higher education policies. Framing the analysis are the singular characteristics of the higher education market and the market segmentation induced by the variety of students and institutions in the system. At this crossroads, a role emerges for incentives, information, accountability, and choice."
Author | : Janet Momsen |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253338969 |
Recent discussion of postmodern culture describes a movement from center to periphery, privileging cultures that were formerly marginalized. Women and Change in the Caribbean, a study of women marginalized by both gender and race in a region such as the Caribbean—itself marginalized in global terms—attempts to extract insights relevant both within and beyond geographical confines. This volume offers a feminist interpretation of a multicultural society emerging from colonialism and in the process of change and restructuring. The nineteen chapters include case studies of fifteen different Caribbean territories including Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Grenada, and Guyana. The book is divided into two sections: the first looks at women's status and gender relations in the private and public spheres; the second looks at women's economic activity. Taking a broad pan-Caribbean comparative view contributors discuss territories with American, British, Dutch, Danish, French, and Spanish colonial traditions and current political links. The contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, history, sociology, and women's studies.
Author | : University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados). History Department |
Publisher | : Cave Hill, Bridgetown, Barbados : Department of History, University of the West Indies |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : 9789766210311 |
Geschiedenis van de verhoudingen tussen Europa en het Caribisch gebied tussen 1492 en 1992. Een verzamelbundel met bijdragen over dit onderwerp van verschilende Caribische wetenschappers.
Author | : Consuelo López Springfield |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253332493 |
Essays by leading Caribbean scholars explore the shifting boundaries between public and private life cross-culturally. Daughters of Caliban demonstrates how gender, race, ethnicity, and class shape human experience and interpersonal relationships in increasingly global societies. The volume examines Caribbean women and women's studies; women and work; women, law, and political change; women and health; and women and popular culture.
Author | : Gwyneth Harold |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 139834303X |
There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. Three girls are on the brink of expulsion from the respected Redeemer College: 'Failure to complete term assignments, ... using foul language ... stealing another student's cell phone ... persistent lateness for English classes. Breaching the behaviour code ...' Katreena, Ta Jeeka and Caledonia are about to be written off. This insightful book unsentimentally exposes the fault lines through society, and the deep effects they have on individuals. It describes the choices people make and the decisions they feel forced in to. Maturing into young adulthood, these girls each have to make, or lose, their way, in their own way. What difference can one teacher make?
Author | : Kamala Kempadoo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2004-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135951608 |
The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean.