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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/220.9781908857767

Publication date: 18 February 2020

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Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond

Jack Webb (Editor), Rod Westmaas (Editor), Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (Editor), William Tantam (Editor)

Published in association with: Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Northern Atlantic. Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.

“The thread that binds together this inclusive conversation between academia and voices from the Windrush generation (and their descendants) is the spirit of activism, resistance and the ﬁght against prejudice and racism. As a collection of essays, this is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature of the Black Atlantic.”
-Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies

Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies

“The essays in this collection represent an update of the anti-imperial and anticolonial tradition, related in a most interesting way through personal memories.”
-New West Indian Guide

Prologue Rod Westmaas

Introduction Jack Webb, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam

1. Loving and leaving the new Jamaica: reckoning with the 1960s Matthew J. Smith

2. Why did we come? B. M. Nobrega

3. History to heritage: an assessment of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, the Bahamas Kelly Delancy

4. ‘While nuff ah right and rahbit; we write and arrange’: deejay lyricism and the transcendental use of the voice in alternative public spaces in the UK William ‘Lez’ Henry

5. Journeying through the ‘motherland’ Peter Ramrayka

6. De Zie Contre Menti Kaba – when two eyes meet the lie ends. A Caribbean meditation on decolonising academic methodologies Nadine King Chambers

7. Organising for the Caribbean Anne Braithwaite

8. The consular Caribbean: consuls as agents of colonialism and decolonisation in the revolutionary Caribbean (1795–1848) Simeon Simeonov

9. To ‘stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Antillean space in the context of Césaire and Fanon Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez

10. Finding the Anancyesque in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the decolonisation project in Jamaica from 1938 to the present Ruth Minott Egglestone

11. Maybe one day I’ll go home Rod Westmaas

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Jack Webb (Editor)

Rod Westmaas (Editor)

Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (Editor)

William Tantam (Editor)

Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies

“The essays in this collection represent an update of the anti-imperial and anticolonial tradition, related in a most interesting way through personal memories.”
-New West Indian Guide

Subject: Languages, Cultures and Societies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

BISAC codes: HIS041000, POL045000, SOC007000

Thema codes: NHK, NHTQ, NHTR

Keywords: activism, colonialism, decolonisation, migration, policy

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