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The Caribbean, whether french, english, spanish speaking - are interwoven and will remain so. The experiences shared come from a common root in the diaspora, and can never be shaken. The trouble however, is a lack of growth, scholarship, trust and faith in politicians to NOT be corrupt, and a true sense of economics, and socio- gender politics. These small lands can succeed, but they need not succeed on a timetable and schema that is connected to Great Britain or the United States or France or the Dutch. These people and islands must stand on their own, and rebuild, even if is seems insurmountable. That is the work, and they young people need education, incentives to stay or return to their home countries post education abroad. CaribbeanScholarTings is really the start of collecting the past, present, and future to steer a strong and prideful people toward larger and self-sufficient gains. - Kat Mothudi
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This is another documentary and it is based out of Jamaica, but its story is universal to the Caribbean. It is about survival. It is about the IMF. It is about politics. And in that, there are some winners and some losers. The losses faces by these small islands are generational.
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2013 - This documentary is a few years old now. It is a remarkable look into the slums, ghettos, poor people’s lives and stories in Guyana, SA. It bears a striking resemblance to those experiences that Black Americans face in the United States. How then, are these groups really similar, and what forces have similarly torn both groups apart. This is the powerful Tin City Voices.
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Introducing Caribbean Feminist Cyberspace
Nicholas Laughlin (and the bloggers who left comments on his article) traces key moments in Caribbean blogging, going back to at least 2000 with Taran Rampersad blogging from Trinidad and Tobago and the first blog post from Mad Bull (a Jamaican living the Cayman Islands) in 2001. Guyana Gyal (Neena Maiya), described by Laughlin as “the first Caribbean blogger to make a point of writing consistently in a ‘non-standard local dialect,’” began blogging in 2005.8 As one of the strongest female Caribbean voices who has been blogging consistently, Guyana Gyal is clearly a pioneer of Caribbean feminist blogging. Another pioneer, the Barbadian woman behind Titilayo, a blog no longer active or available online, also espoused feminist perspectives beginning in 2001. Thus Caribbean women as bloggers and Caribbean feminist blogs specifically are integral to a history of Caribbean blogging.
Online Caribbean feminisms are extremely diverse, heterogeneous, and polyvocal. Networks may be simultaneously regional, national, and global, or transnational and diasporic. Through practices of media creation, curating, reblogging, retweeting, sharing, and commenting across multiple social media platforms, Caribbean feminists knit together online communities that are often linked to on-the-ground organizing and action. The online feminist activism of Caribbean people has caused major manufacturers to pull advertisements deemed offensive by the community, forced dialogue about and ultimately police investigations into the practices of journalists, and shut down websites with sexist content. Below are key signposts of the significance, emergence, and diversity of Caribbean cyberfeminisms:
Queen Macoomeh initiated an online petition against an Angostura advertisement with the tag line “Avoid the friendzone, offer her a real drink.” Angostura subsequently removed the advertisement.9 The public protest against the advertisement, especially via the online petition, was reported by international media outlets such as Buzzfeed.10
Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe of Groundation Grenada and colleagues at the Goat Dairy Project have used crowdfunding to raise US$63,160 to support a community agriculture project.11
WOMANTRA won a 2013 grant from the FRIDA Young Feminist Fund to organize a summer camp for girls transitioning to secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago. This demonstrates that communities that have their genesis online may incubate others forms of political organizing and intervention.12
Patrice Daniel, a twenty-nine-year-old feminist from Barbados and frequent contributor to International Planned Parenthood Federation’s blog, generated what I consider to be a key moment in Caribbean feminist blogging history. Her “An Open Letter to Caribbean Men, from Caribbean Women” went viral, with over 10,000 shares on Facebook, demonstrating the extent to which her words resonated not only with Caribbean women but with women across the globe.13
Caribbean women, many of whom identify as feminists and are active in feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizing have created online networks for “women who love women.” LGBT organizations such as Guyana’s Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Trinidad and Tobago’s Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation, and St. Lucia’s United and Strongmaintain a significant online presence.14
Air Me Now is a YouTube show hosted by women from Belize, the Bahamas, and Jamaica that highlights “Caribbean women’s voices, Caribbean women’s issues, Caribbean oomanism.”15
Gender consciousness has also meant broader public engagement with questions of gender and sexuality, like that offered by the YouTube video created by a group of young Jamaican men in response to the rape of five women and girls. The video, titled Jamaican Anti-Rape Campaign (Please Share), has received almost 40,000 views.16
The social media efforts of Ashlee Hinds, a twenty-three-year-old Barbadian student, to create positive images of fat black women resulted in a transnational fashion blogand Facebook page titled Big Beautiful Black Girls, with 217,434 followers.17
These are but a few examples of the significance of Caribbean cyberfeminist practices. - http://smallaxe.net/sxarchipelagos/issue01/haynes-mapping.html
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A groundbreaking blog to address current ism’s as they travel through the Caribbean region. This site is well focused on inclusivity and intersectionality.
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Transcript from 2012 speech
This is a transcript of a speech made by Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Emeritus Professor at London University, on 16 May 2012 at Chatham House.
Professor Bulmer-Thomas discussed regional institution building in the Caribbean, obstacles to further integration, and the pressures faced by countries in the region from foreign governments, multinational corporations and organized crime. - https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/183439
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Thoughts from the WorldBank
Latin America and the Caribbean - A time to choose - Caribbean development in the 21st century (English)ABSTRACT
This report seeks to discuss the critical constraints to sustainable, job-creating growth, and to present policy options for the region and country Governments to stimulate such growth. It analyzes growth performance in the Caribbean over the last four decades, and highlights key determinants of past and also future growth. Given the recent deterioration in government finances, the report then studies key areas of government expenditure. A discussion of the climate for private investment follows, which looks at the framework that shapes the risks and returns for private investment. The report then discusses the impact of recent trade developments on the Caribbean, the future outlook in view of major ongoing changes in the international environment, as well as the opportunities that are likely to emerge, especially in the services sector. It then focuses on some key factors that have been significant in determining past growth in the Caribbean, including labor market issues; education, skill development and training; and, infrastructure. The report suggests a pro-active approach for the region to take on the challenges of a group of small states, facing severe resource constraints, eroding trade preferences, declining productivity, and increasing risk of macro instability. First, it argues that greater integration within the CARICOM region on several fronts will be a critical input into improving competitiveness. Second, on trade, the report argues that a negotiation of an orderly dismantling of preferences in return for increased technical and financial support would be in the region's interest. Third, improving the investment climate, and orienting it away from being subsidy-driven, addressing problems of high taxes and inefficient customs procedures, as well as specific infrastructure deficiencies, would help improve the quality of private investment and maintain the high levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Fourth, making the public sector more cost-effective and delivering services more efficiently, through greater reliance on the private sector, seeking cost efficiencies through regional cooperation. Fifth, improving the quality and effectiveness of human resources would enable diversification into knowledge-based activities including services, increase exports, and improve productivity in existing activities. See Less - (http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/434771468231536350/Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean-A-time-to-choose-Caribbean-development-in-the-21st-century)
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OUR HISTORY
The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) is an independent professional organization devoted to the promotion of Caribbean studies from a multidisciplinary, multicultural point of view. It is the primary association for scholars and practitioners working on the Caribbean Region (including Central America and the Caribbean Coast of South America). Its members come from the Caribbean Region, North America, South America, Central America, Europe and elsewhere even though more than half of its members live in the United States many of them teaching at U.S. universities and colleges. Founded in 1974 by 300 Caribbeanists, the CSA now has over 1100 members.
The Caribbean Studies Association enjoys non-profit status and is independent of any public or private institution. Membership is open to anyone interested in sharing its objectives, regardless of academic discipline, profession, ideology, place of residence, ethnic origin, or nationality.
The focus of the CSA is on the Caribbean Basin which includes Central America, the Caribbean Coast of Mexico, as well as Venezuela, Colombia, Northeast Brazil and the three Guianas. The Association serves a critical function for scholars providing one of the only venues for persons working on the Caribbean to come together to share their work, to engage in collaborative endeavors, to exchange ideas, to meet each other, and to develop the field of Caribbean Studies. Most importantly, the Caribbean Studies Association has become potentially one of the most important vehicles for researching, analyzing, and documenting the growing significant presence of populations of Caribbean descent in United States, Canada, and Europe. It provides the perfect venue for maintaining the intellectual and academic connections needed to study this growing phenomenon.
Members of CSA have played leading roles in the Caribbean, most notably in public service and in academia. These include current and past service as leaders of governments, administrators in multilateral and bi-lateral regional organizations. Many of our current members serve in senior positions at Caribbean, North American, and European universities. - CSA Website
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“Why Study the Caribbean?The Caribbean is a fascinating and enriching field of study. An area of incredible diversity - ethno-racial, linguistic, political, economic, and geographical - Caribbean Studies can truly claim its interdisciplinary nature. The Caribbean region is a created space, first inhabited by Indigenous peoples, then irrevocably transformed by European colonizers, enslaved Africans, indentured Asian and European labourers, and transplanted flora, and fauna, creating a truly unique site, arguably the first globalized locale on earth. Caribbean peoples and societies have exhibited tremendous resilience throughout the ravages of colonialism, slavery, indentureship, poverty, debt and continued exploitation.”- Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
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Caribbean centered Twitter
@TheProudCaribbean @CaribbeanParent @CaribbeanBazaar @CaribbeanCreatives @Caribattys @CaribMonth @CaribbeanSAssoc @Caribbeanfilm_ @SocaMomDC @WLoveFromGuyana @Groundationgda @GrenedaNews @TriniTrent @TriniTweets
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Caribbean centered Instagram
@CaribbeanEqualityProject @CaribbeanFilm @CaribbeanPot @Wukkout @CaribbeanGirlsRockOfficialIg @Caribbeanacci @CaribbeanGirlsWhoBlog @CaribbeanMemoryProject @CaribJournal @The.KGN @LittleCaribbeanNYC @IndoCarib @CaribMuse @IamCaribbeing @OutCAribe
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