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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Afro-Caribbean"”.

  1. Migration and cultural identity: Performing the Afro-Caribbean woman's struggle

    Wilson, Elvinet Samantha2002

    1 PDF file (vi, 137 pages)

    northern-iowa Repository record

  2. Entrepreneurial support for black (Afro-Caribbean) and Asian construction businesses: Can it enhance their growth?

    Taylor-Lewis, DOxford Brookes University2012

    … investigates challenges encountered by UK Black (Afro-Caribbean) and Asian Construction Businesses (BACBs). It focuses on the effects of UK policies that offer entrepreneurial support to assist BACBs’ survival and growth. Despite significant interest and intensive debates, empirical research has …

    oxford-brookes Repository record

  3. Escucha Nuestras Voces/Luister Naar Onze Stemmen: Afro-Caribbean Girlhood in the Dutch West Indies

    Murrell, GerlynVirginia Tech2020

    The purpose of this project was to examine how Afro-Caribbean girls from the island of Sint Maarten narrate, navigate and negotiate their girlhood experiences. As a Black woman from Sint Maarten, this project is important due to the lack of sociological scholarship surrounding Black girls in the …

    vt Repository record

  4. Living with Sugar: Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Beliefs About Type 2 Diabetes Among Afro-Caribbean Women

    Smith, Chrystal A.SDigital Commons @ University of South Florida2009

    In the U.S., individuals of Afro-Caribbean and Latino descent are two to three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. Caribbean and Latin America migrants, particularly minority women bear a disproportionate burden of type 2 diabetes and its risk factors. The purpose …

    usf Repository record

  5. THE TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES AND STRUGGLES OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN TEACHERS IN NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS

    Williams Brown, Kimberly Natalia

    <p>Between 2001 and 2003, 1500 Caribbean teachers were recruited to teach in New York City’s low income and primarily immigrant/student of color school districts. Using ethnographic research methods through interviews, observations, focus groups, and document analysis, this dissertation documents …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  6. Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature

    Slana, Virginia2014

    … tropes and characters in postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature. It argues that Afro-Caribbean writers deliberately utilize these tropes in order to separate themselves from a vestigial European cultural presence. The three main tropes and characters studied in this thesis are rites of …

    depaul Repository record

  7. The Experiences of Panamanian Afro-Caribbean Women in STEM: Voices to Inform Work with Black Females in STEM Education.

    King Miller, Beverly2013

    THE EXPERIENCES OF PANAMANIAN AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN IN STEM: VOICES TO INFORM WORK WITH BLACK FEMALES IN STEM EDUCATION By BEVERLY A KING MILLER B.A., Psychology, Nyack College, NY, 1985 M.A., Teaching, National-Louis University, IL, 1992 Ph.D., Multicultural Teacher and Childhood Education, …

    unm Repository record

  8. Risk Factors Associated with the Outcome of Hypertension Among Afro-Caribbean Ethnic Groups in the United Kingdom: A Systematic Review

    Yusuf, OmenekeUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David2025

    … among individuals of Black African or Black Caribbean heritage in the UK is markedly higher than that of the general population. Despite advancements in blood pressure management, racial and ethnic minorities continue to face significant differences in hypertension care. Aim: This systematic …

    uwtsd Repository record

  9. An Exploration of Self-Identity Experiences Within the Lives of Afro-Caribbean Women Undergraduate College Students: A Feminist Phenomenological Study

    Gelin, Shana J.

    … was to explore the self-identity experiences of Afro-Caribbean women undergraduate college students. In doing so, self-identity experiences, ethnic marginalization, and counseling experiences were explored for six participants. Data was collected and analyzed using Simone De Beauvoir's feminist …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  10. A Means to An End: Articulations of Diasporic Blackness, Class and Survival among Female Afro-Caribbean Service Workers in New York City

    Pinnock, Christine AThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2022

    … the oral histories and personal narratives of Afro-Caribbean women who migrated to New York from 1961-2008 and explores how they articulate and negotiate multiple identities surrounding diasporic Blackness, class, and gender. This dissertation studies Afro-Caribbean women in the spaces they …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  11. Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature

    Erby, Brandon Marcell2014

    … how imitation is used by black and native Caribbeans, Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son </em>(1940) and Lorraine Hansberry’s <em>A Raisin in the Sun </em>(1958) contextualize and exhibit W.E.B. Du Bois’s double-consciousness theory and the struggles that black Americans experience while …

    shu-thes Repository record

  12. "Injustice on Their Backs and Justice on Their Minds": Political Activism and the Policing of London's Afro-Caribbean Community, 1945-1993

    Fevre, ChristopherUniversity of Dundee2019

    … of grassroots political activism within London’s Afro-Caribbean community around the issue of policing from 1945 to 1993. Using material from local community archives, this thesis represents the first attempt at documenting the history of race and policing in London from the perspective of the …

    dundee Repository record

  13. Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography

    Todd-Stone, Aysha EThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2025

    … intra-racial\ intra-gendered relationship of an Afro-Trinidadian woman as she commandeers professional spaces in North America. The intent is to challenge the instrument of Black sisterhood deeming it as an incomplete, social instrument, and to prove using an auto-ethnographic approach how …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  14. Racial/Ethnic Heterogeneity, Religion, and Mental Health: Examining the Influence of Religiosity on African American and Afro-Caribbean Subjective Well-Being

    Momplaisir, HansVirginia Tech2018

    … is important to most African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Church attendance is positively associated with aspects of subjective well-being. However, research concerning the influence of religiosity on African Americans' and Afro-Caribbeans' subjective well-being is scarce. Research into …

    vt Repository record

  15. “Wa Ya See?”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of The Nuanced Experiences of a Black, Quare, Afro-Caribbean, Asylum Seeker in the United States Higher Education.

    Richards, Travis A

    lmu Repository record

  16. A Framework for Black Girl Transitions Across Space and Time: Sint Maarten as a Case Study

    Murrell, Ocqua GerlynVirginia Tech2023

    … whether there is a transitional period between Afro-Caribbean girlhood and woman/adulthood that is distinctly different from girlhood and from woman/adulthood. Herein I examine at what point in the lives of Afro-Caribbean girls, do they feel like they have entered adulthood. I also examine what …

    vt Repository record

  17. African historical religions and Africana spirituality in the Caribbean literature: an analysis of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in contemporary Caribbean literature using Ifá philosophy as a signifying system

    De La Cruz, Garcia KatiaSchool of Languages and Literatures2019

    This research analyses the presence of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in Caribbean literature as fundamental elements in the identity formation and racial dynamics of African descendants in the Caribbean. The main focus is on the spiritual component of African historical religions and …

    cape-town Repository record

  18. Spanish-Creole characteristics in the dialect of people with African origins in Port Limón, Costa Rica

    Benn, Maren2025

    … project examines the language spoken by the Afro-Caribbean population in Port Limón, Costa Rica. This language resulted from the cultural blend of peoples from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, and other Caribbean islands that immigrated to the Atlantic coast region of Costa Rica in the …

    emich Repository record

  19. Edgardo Rodriguez Julia: Peregrinaciones, Heroes Y Tumbas en La Formacion De La Nacion Puertorriquena

    Rivas, Sara MariaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … Puerto Rican governor Luis Munoz Marin; and the Afro Caribbean musician, Ismael Rivera. Each narrative represents a stage in the development of a contested Puerto Rican national identity that has denied the salience of race. Collectively these works resurrect the mulatto as a central figure in …

    uiuc Repository record

  20. Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora

    Ettienne, Kingsley Vincent2018

    … the music and history of Grenada and the African Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. This research includes four original musical compositions, tailored …

    york Repository record

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