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Abstract: How come the Dominican Republic has become a stable electoral democracy while Haiti has descended into authoritarianism' Back in the mid-twentieth century, both countries found themselves on a similar plane, yet by the turn of the century their outcomes could not be more different, with Dominicans currently enjoying free, competitive elections while Haitians witness their country being gripped by political violence. This article seeks to examine the tortuous process of democratization in the Dominican Republic and Haiti from a comparative perspective. In doing so, it answers three fundamental questions. First, how has their common authoritarian past impaired their chances for a smooth democratization process and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Let me tell you a story. For all I have is a story. Story passed on from generation to generation, named Joy. Told for the joy it gives the storyteller and the listener. Joy inherent in the process of storytelling. Whoever understands it also understands that a story, as distressing as it can be in its joy, never takes anything away from anybody. Its name, remember, is Joy. Its double, Woe Morrow Show.I love the power of stories, especially tales told within circles of attentive listeners. Sharing our experiences, viewpoints and values is essential to creating (just) community, especially where these are stories of resistance and survivalStories are our lives; without them we disappear into the nothingness of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: El bacalao a mí me gusta afeita’o; sin espinas, ya pa’l de veces me he ahoga’o.Since the end of the 19th century, Puerto Rican elites, United States government officials, and eugenicists have devised eugenic practices and methods under the cloak of hygienic concerns in order to exclude, manage, and control certain sectors of the population (Sánchez-Rivera 2020a; Sánchez-Rivera 2022). Throughout the 20th century, eugenic discourses have been internalized by the Puerto Rican population. In this study we argue that reflections of these internalized eugenic ideas and practices can be seen in contemporary popular culture, including trap and reggaetón. The purpose of this work is to explore how mainly hygienic practices ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Si queremos mejorar los problemas de nuestra juventud, sensibilizándoles en los derechos humanos, en los valores de la justicia, la solidaridad, la responsabilidad, la tolerancia y la convivencia ciudadana, tenemos que oír sus voces, sondear sus opiniones, es decir, conocerlos para transformarlos. Estos han sido los objetivos últimos de estas investigaciones y encuestas, aplicadas en 1993 y de 2019 en América Latina y en Puerto Rico, que aquí presentamos.Las ciencias sociales nacieron en el esplendor de la Ilustración con la vocación progresista de transformar la realidad social y construir un mundo más humano, liberándole de ataduras inquisitoriales e iluminándose por la ciencia. Así nació la Sociología con ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Brinsley was a “country boy” born in the small village of Ecclesville in southern Trinidad, where his parents owned and farmed a medium sized estate. Like many descendants of indentured Indians in Trinidad, he grew up in a Presbyterian Christian household, though Brinsley was always deeply interested in the religions of his forebears, Hinduism and Islam. He won a scholarship to attend Naparima College (high school) in San Fernando, the main town of southern Trinidad. Brinsley participated fully in the lively social and cultural life of “Naps” in the 1950s, along with people like his lifelong friend, the noted critic Ken Ramchand.Brinsley SamarooA scholarship from the government of India took him to Delhi ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From 1861 to 1880, the planters from the Caribbean islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) were given permission from the British and colonized Indian governments to import an estimated 2,474 indentured laborers from north and south India to replace the loss of African slave labor some two decades earlier. The arrival of these laborers was one small segment of a larger movement in the Caribbean and Indian and Pacific Ocean regions to meet labor demands. The movement is best described as a minor episode in the saga of Indian indentureship and shares more commonalities with the movements of Indians to Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Croix, and Belize rather than with larger movements to British Guiana ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ian Bethell Benett <bethellbennett@gmail.com> is Associate Professor and Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas.Bridget Brereton is Professor Emerita at The University of West Indies, St. Agustine Campus in Trinidad & Tobago. She pecialises in Caribbean social history; in the history of Trinidad and Tobago; in Caribbean historiography; and in Women and Gender in the Caribbean. Her teaching fields span from our introduction courses to History to “Women and Gender in Caribbean History” to the development of society in the Caribbean, 1830s–1930s, as well as Theory and Methods. She is the first woman to win the prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for Research ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-04T00:00:00-05:00
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