Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.36927
Abigail Ralph
{"title":"Invisible Ink","authors":"Abigail Ralph","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.36927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.36927","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000There is a gap in academic literature that highlights the perspectives of Canadian-Caribbean individuals that navigate both poverty and the stigma of limited access to resources necessary for livelihood in Canada. By employing the intersecting identities of Low-Income and (un)documentation, this poem aims to deconstruct the stereotypical expectations of Canadian-Caribbean immigrants. What does an impoverished Canadian-Caribbean immigrant look like once we’ve disregarded our representativeness heuristic? They now may be the straight-A student in your class or that lady that never seems to wear an uncoordinated outfit – or perhaps your lecturer or community organizer who has an undying passion for 19th-century opera. By mobilizing this idea, this poem seeks to encourage the reader to reconsider our pre-conceived notions of an (un)documented, impoverished Canadian-Caribbean individual. Similarly, this poem challenges the notion that to exist, is contingent on external perceptions. A tree in the Northwest Territories may exist unknowingly to us and still be able to blow gracefully in the wind.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41526614","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.37009
Alexander Vesuna
{"title":"Silencing the Radical Black Feminist","authors":"Alexander Vesuna","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.37009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.37009","url":null,"abstract":"In their work Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, Carol Boyce Davies works to rescue Claudia Jones from obscurity and bring the brilliant intellectual back into dominant historical discourse. The Radical Black Feminist was erased from the history books because her intellectual thought posed a threat to the capitalist order. Claudia Jones spent her life working as a journalist allowing her intellectual thought to be brought to the masses in an attempt to build the consciousness of the people. She was key theoretician in the CPUSA and as a Black Radical Feminist Jones stood at the vanguard of revolutionary political thought working to push Marxism further left to account for the intersections of race, gender, and class. Therefore, leftist and Marxist political thought needed to be pushed further left to recognize the triple oppression that Black Women faced. Claudia Jones possessed a unique ability to speak across difference bringing different groups of people together. Her anti-capitalist political thought and this ability to bring people together was seen as a threat to the wealthy elite and the status quo, leading to her eventual deportation to Britain. This piece will work to highlight the life and contributions of Claudia Jones that has been given new life by Carol Boyce Davies.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42388054","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i1.36932
Stephane Martin Demers
{"title":"Recreating Collective Memories of Africa in the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora","authors":"Stephane Martin Demers","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i1.36932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i1.36932","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Forced to succumb to a life of enslavement, African-turned-Afro-Caribbean slaves devel- oped a collective image of their beloved homeland and forged an unbreakable chain of solidarity among their many ethnicities. The collective recreation of Africa as manifest in the imagination of Afro-Caribbean slaves through the practice of Cuban Santería and Haitian Vodou in sixteenth- to eigh- teenth-century Cuba and Haiti catalyzed their resistance to European subjugation. In partic- ular, these recreated cultural memories served as a foundation for the enslaved to subvert the dominant culture and resist enslavement. Syncretism fails to properly acknowledge the Afro-Caribbean slaves’ efforts in challenging the imperial regime and the role these efforts played in maintaining their African roots. The tumultuous yet hopeful history through which Cuban Santería and Haitian Vodou evolved reveals that the African spirit continuously takes on new forms but never dies.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46075017","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.37335
Joseph P. Mulholland
{"title":"After Peter Doig’s “Music of the Future”","authors":"Joseph P. Mulholland","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.37335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.37335","url":null,"abstract":"The poem is loosely inspired by Peter Doig’s painting “Music of the Future” and reimagines the night scene that is depicted in the painting. The poetic voice is rooted in a deep sense of place while simultaneously speaking from the outer edges of that place, creating a liminal space through poetic images and narrative.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46265188","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.36920
Rachelle Sanicharan
{"title":"Politics, Identity and Jamaican Music","authors":"Rachelle Sanicharan","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.36920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.36920","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Music in Jamaica has a long history that is very much intertwined with religious, social, and political factors. As the development of reggae music grew, it became increasingly popular in relation to politics and social issues. This research examines the development of reggae and dancehall music in Jamaica in relation with politics and identity. In turn, this research seeks to present the importance of Jamaican music as a voice for Jamaican people—an accurate presentation of their experiences and their beliefs.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44667109","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i1.36837
D. Allens
{"title":"Green Gold Is No More","authors":"D. Allens","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i1.36837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i1.36837","url":null,"abstract":"With the collapse of the Banana industry, Gabriel was thrust into a new reality that highlights the challenges of life under the externalities of neocolonialism. Almost 10 years later, Allahdua is one of many who have endured Canada’s migrant worker programmes and is currently an advocate for change.","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45024185","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.36902
Ruth Masuka
{"title":"A Revolutionary Cuisine: Food, Liberation & Cubanidad","authors":"Ruth Masuka","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.36902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.36902","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000In one of his infamous speeches, Castro challenged Cubans with the question: “Why should we eat peaches? We were made to think that peaches were the best thing going and when we’d visit someone’s house they’d offer us peaches. So we all thought that...peaches were better than mangoes, but peaches are expensive and foreign and mangoes are sweeter, cheaper, and much better.” Castro’s words spoke to how food, as an instrument of identity formation, allegiances, and community solidari- ty, is an intrinsic part of Cuba’s history. In a Cuban context, food and cuisine can be understood as a site of resistance given the daily role food has in defining Cubanness. Its function goes beyond a mere biological necessity of nourishment and can be understood as a signifier of cultural capital, economic mobility, and social status. This paper seeks to demonstrate the ways in which food is so intertwined with music, religion, and other social institutions that it has become a storytelling practice of the narrative of Cuba’s complex and nuanced historical, political, and socioeconomic reali- ties. Food is not just a matter of what appeals to some- one’s taste, but a matter of what appeals to someone’s ideologies. Cuba’s cuisine is an informant in understand- ing the intersections between the choices of individuals, communities, and the state-at-large.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43235721","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.36939
Stephane Martin Demers
{"title":"Contemplating the Afterlife of Slavery","authors":"Stephane Martin Demers","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.36939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.36939","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Évelyne Trouillot’s novel The Infamous Rosalie makes it abundantly clear that slavery was deeply ingrained in all aspects of an enslaved person’s life. Enslaved expectant mothers in late-eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue contemplated the afterlife of slavery through acts of gynecological resis- tance such as abortion and infanticide as well as marronage both in the novel and as a historical actuality. These acts of resistance laid the groundwork for the development of a collective liberation mentality among slaves necessary for the emergence of an independent Haiti and the creation of the first Black Repub- lic. Black counter-historical narratives, such as Trouillot’s novel, can provide historians with a vantage point from which to understand how historical actors who are often silenced were some of the greatest agents of change and justice in the modern era. Enslaved women should occupy a space in scholarly literature and historical discourse that honors their actions as active agents in search of collective liberation and independence.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43522364","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.36899
Liza Girgis
{"title":"Counternarratives of Nationalist Anti-Black Images: Normalizing and Extolling Blackness in Contemporary Art of the Hispanic Caribbean","authors":"Liza Girgis","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.36899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.36899","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000This article examines contemporary art of the Hispanic Caribbean as a counternarrative to the antiblack aesthetic ideals in the region. By exploring beauty standards on these islands through quotidian language and images that portray beauty, the prolif- eration of whiteness as the epitome of the aesthetic is exhibited in modern day Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba. This article follows the work of scholars who have theorized and evidenced that the post-independence narrative has dominated the islands’ perceived racial identities, marginalizing blackness and praising whiteness. We add that this discourse has also impacted its peoples’ daily beauty rituals, as most of them facilitate the ‘whitening’ of one’s appearance. Present-day art that extolls blackness and questions the exclusion of people of African descent on the islands thus serves as a powerful truth reveal; contrarily to the official history, negritude is not rebellion, rather it is the region’s nature and beauty. In other words, this research seeks to explore how this art portrays negritude as the face of the Hispanic Caribbean, normalizing and celebrating the appearance of the majority of its people.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46799920","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}
Caribbean QuiltPub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.33137/cq.v6i2.36919
B. Dong
{"title":"Internal and External Factors to the Success of the Cuban Revolution","authors":"B. Dong","doi":"10.33137/cq.v6i2.36919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i2.36919","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader of Cuba, gave a speech on the fourth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, mainly focus- ing on how to solidify the pueblo cubano under the revolutionary flag against the U.S. intervention. This paper aims to examine the Cuban revolution stand on the view from four years after Castro has died, to prove that what Castro has mentioned during his Fourth Anniversary Speech has been accomplished, as well as compare the revolutionary movements of its neighbours like Grenada, to see why Cuba could be the only successful example of socialism in the Western Hemisphere. The paper will focus on the social changes during the post-revolution Cuba based on the scholar research of Louis A. Pérez and John Walton’s comparison article between Grenada and Cuba.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":34856,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quilt","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44168981","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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