New Directions in Caribbean History (original) (raw)
A Review of The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its People
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 2013
A virtual kaleidoscope of cultures, languages, religious beliefs, and histories spread out over an amorphous geographical expanse, the Caribbean is a place of contrasts. It is also a challenging subject of study. Perhaps for these reasons, students and specialists of the archipelago and surrounding littoral have found it useful to focus their research and publications on specific historical periods, disciplinary approaches, and subregions, or to privilege certain topics, such as slavery or piracy, which are either deemed representative of the overall picture or simply more manageable. Breaking out of that historiographical mold. The Caribbean: A History ofthe Region and its People takes on the daunting task of surveying the entire area with an inclusive approach that merges the various methodologies, themes, and units of analysis into a comprehensive narrative.
Historiography of the Caribbean
A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English, ed. Poddar, Prem; Johnson, David, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. 439-443.
Graduate course Spring 2017- New Approaches in Caribbean History
others, the newest generation of Caribbeanist historians and interdisciplinary scholars continues to consider the region not only for its tremendous depth and complexity, its centrality to world history, but also as a key locus of theoretical study. Slavery, emancipation, revolutions, imperialism, and nationalism continue to be at the heart of Caribbean studies, even as scholars increasingly seek theoretical lenses to look for and listen to the putative silences produced by historical archives, to complicate easy temporal dichotomies, to appreciate entangled and interconnected stories across empires, deepen the historicization of gender constructs and racemaking, make deeper, more fundamental, and more political connections across the Atlantic and in other sites, and to consider multiple frames of analysis, from the microlocal to expansive and schematic. Fundamental questions, including the foundational What is the Caribbean?, continue to provide impetus for and debate among Caribbeanists. At the same time, new approaches expand study of the Caribbean as much more than a set of islands beyond traditional frameworks.
Caribbean historical processes
Consuelo Naranjo; María Dolores González-Ripoll; María Ruiz del Árbol (eds.). The Caribbean: origien of the modern world. Aranjuez. Doce Calles/Connected Worlds: the Caribbean, Origin of Modern World, 2020: http://conneccaribbean.com/publicaciones-cientificas/, 2020
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2008
of political participation, economic progress and social uplifting and, in fact, found their own ways to construct their own notions of citizenship on a daily basis (p. 170). The reality of the plural society could not be avoided. Individually and collectively these three studies constitute monumental contributions to the historical literature. Although most pertinent to the history of the Dominican Republic, they offer highly sophisticated insights into the complex process of state formation and nation-building. Turits demolishes the concept of Sultanistic regimes based on the case study of Rafael Trujillo. Peguero illustrates how Trujillo effectively blended military culture with civilian popular culture to reconstruct society. Martínez-Vergne demonstrates that the discourse of state and nation had roots way back in the nineteenth century and that Dominican nationhood and culture resulted from the unstable dynamic reciprocity of class, race, colour, condition and international circumstances.
The Caribbean: Origin of the Modern World
2019
Its transnational approach allows addressing issues about the shaping of the Atlantic World since 1492, all of them clearly contemporary: the definition of the Caribbean as a space for cultural, economic and social interactions, slavery, the creation of the concept of race, racism, the policies of the great empires and their struggles to dominate the region, local resistance, the circulation of knowledge, regional identities, the sustainable conservation of natural and cultural heritage, urban, political, economic and social development models, the representations in and of the Caribbean, cultural exchanges and dialogues of the region and literature. This book, aimed at the educational community, presents the different aspects discussed in the project. The objective is to provide an accessible and rigorous work tool to professors, to the educational community in general but, in particular, to that linked to the last years of education, that is, to students between the ages of 14 and 17. The volume is structured in eight parts. Contributions, varying in number depending on the addressed topics, discuss key aspects related to each of the major issues of the project. The Caribbean: origin of the Modern World 8 The first part is dedicated to the Caribbean space, a structured geopolitical space, in which economic, political, social and cultural contacts flow from one island to another, as well as to American continental lands. The three chapters that address this topic deepen in the cultural and social processes that converge in the building of the Caribbean world between the 15th and 21st centuries. Slavery is one of the key aspects to know the social and cultural characteristics of the Caribbean region today. The most important issues for understanding its origin, development and consequences are explained in the second and third parts of the book. Its analysis is essential to comprehend and assess the formation of ideas and practices concerning racial classification and racism. Racism occupies the fourth part of the book which provides clues to understanding its validity in today's societies. Closely related to these aspects is the study of the multiple identities and cultural forms in Caribbean societies, dealt with in the fifth, sixth and seventh parts of the volume. In the fifth part, special attention is paid to the processes of cultural dialogue through the study of heritage, identities and languages, while the sixth and seventh parts are dedicated to the socio-economic development models of the region and, specifically, to the historical processes that have shaped it. Special attention is given to the study of sugar cultivation, production and marketing for its crucial importance in understanding the functioning of the slave system and the role of the Caribbean in the configuration of the modern world. The book ends with a global vision of the region's literature. In this part the Caribbean's cultural diversity emerges through the written testimonies, themes and figures that have nurtured a rich cultural exchange. With this volume we want to contribute, in short, to the knowledge of the past and present of Caribbean countries and their connection with the rest of Latin America, Europe and Africa. The various themes emphasize topical issues that cannot be missing in the higher education of our societies, whose classrooms, a true reflection of society, are marked by integration, multiculturalism and coexistence between different cultures. Education therefore must contribute to the integration of human diversity and the banishment of concepts of one-Ejemplar de cortesía © CSIC Todos los derechos reservados Main fortified Caribbean ports. N.
New Questions and Old Paradigms: Reexamining Caribbean Culture History
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs of that paradigm (styles, periods, cultures) continue to be used routinely. This work aims to show that by doing so, one is still implicitly subscribing to that theoretical perspective's assumptions and biases. In the end, this article is intended to be a self-critical assessment of the shortcomings of Caribbean archaeology vis-à-vis issues inherent in that region's dominant culture-history framework. Moreover, it aims to provide an example for Caribbeanists, and archaeologists working in other regions, of the value of moving beyond the products, and not just beyond the term, Culture History.