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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"British Caribbean"”.
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Forgery for Freedom: Enslaved Literacy and Resistance in the British Caribbean
… of their enslavement and resistance, and British colonial laws’ complicated relationship with enslaved education. Furthermore, it adds a new perspective on the enslaveds’ relationship with literacy to existing historiography on Black literacy education in the British Caribbean by reframing …
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Practices of Rooting & Spaces of Performative Becoming: An Exploration of British Caribbean Diasporic Identities through Dance
… with how identity forms within the movement of British Caribbean Diasporic artists. The study focuses on how this occurs within the work of H Patten, Greta Mendez, Jamila Johnson-Small, and Akeim Toussaint Buck. Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, the thesis offers the notion …
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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
… maps the diminishing representation of the British Caribbean Family in British Television Drama, particularly the absence of the One African Family framework and the overall invisibility of the Black presence in British History. This thesis further addresses specific economic, historical, …
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"The man that says slaves be quite happy in slavery...is either ignorant or a lying person..." an account of slavery in the marginal colonies of the British West Indies.
… last half century or so of formal slavery in the British Caribbean impacted upon the life and labour experiences of bondsmen and women in these territories. More specifically, the study attempts to define the "marginal slave experience" by examining the occupations of slaves in these territories, …
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Education and Multi-cultural cohesion in Belize, 1931 - 1981
This thesis is concerned with the British neglect of education in Belize and the emergence of increased tensions between church and state, from the twin catalysts for social change of the 1931 hurricane and economic depression until independence in 1981. This conflict has revealed a contradictory …
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An anatomy of a slave society in transition : the Virgin Islands, 1807-1864
… and immediate descendants within any single British Caribbean territory in the age of abolitionism and its aftermath. Few studies in Caribbean history have sought to go beyond the transition from slavery to freedom and more specifically, to explore the impact of the enslaved themselves in …
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Black British subjects in Cuba: race, ethnicity, nation, and identity in the migratory experience, 1898-1938
This thesis examines the history of black British Caribbean migrants in Cuba during the early twentieth century. It centres on their experience of social and racial discrimination within Cuban society, and how this was influenced by the historical legacy of black fear in Cuba and the social, …
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Essays in Internationsl Political Economy
… economic equilibrium in seventeen 19th century British Caribbean plantation colonies. I use this set of highly comparable but in precise ways distinct islands as a laboratory to study the effect of globalization on the long run development of representative institutions and on the coerciveness …
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Sheltering colonialism: the archaeology of a house, household, and white Creole masculinity at the 18th-century Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies
… century, a planter's dwelling overlooking the Caribbean Sea at Little Bay on the northwest coast of Montserrat in the British Leeward Islands was destroyed by fire and never reoccupied. Archaeological excavations in 2010 and 2011 yielded fragments of personal adornment, dress, household …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… circulated among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in …