Category Archives: Afro-Caribbean
The Caribbean Imaginary Spring 2016 Lecture Series
Institute of African American Affairs at New York University presents The Caribbean Imaginary Spring 2016 Lecture Series The series aims to look at the large ideas—the contemporary critical issues surrounding Caribbean production, be they cultural, social, or political. Speakers will … Continue reading
Conference: The Iconography of Lumumba and the Work of Raoul Peck
Antwerp University – February 18-19, 2016 A two-days bilingual international conference with speakers Raoul Peck, Piet Defraeye, Johannes Fabian and many others. https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container38901/files/DEF_program_abstractsbio.pdf This interdisciplinary colloquium revolves around the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck and the iconography of Patrice Lumumba in Peck’s … Continue reading
CFP: Between Two Worlds: Jean-Price Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa Edited by Celucien L. Joseph, PhD Jean Price-Mars (1876 – 1969), Haitian physician, ethnographer, diplomat, educator, historian, politician, was a towering intellectual in Haitian history and cultural studies, and a Pan Africanist … Continue reading
Happy Haitian Independence Day!
Soup Joumou Recipe
Announcement! New Book: The Haitian Peasantry through Oral and Written Literature: Roumain, Alexis, Endore, Carpentier and Fountain
My book, The Haitian Peasantry through Oral and Written Literature: Roumain, Alexis, Endore, Carpentier, and Fountain has just been published with Caribbean Studies Press!! Continue reading
The Caribbean, The Future: Despair or Hope, Strategies of Connection and Disconnection — Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Institute of African American Affairs at New York University presents Lyonel Trouillot on “The Caribbean, The Future: Despair or Hope, Strategies of Connection and Disconnection.” Part of the Caribbean Imaginary Lecture Series Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 LOCATION: NYU Law School … Continue reading
Jamaica Calls for Britain to Pay Billions of Pounds in Reparations for Slavery
This week, Jamaica, led by historian Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, called upon Britain to pay reparations for slavery. Additionally, The Journal of African American History, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Psychology, Souls: A Critical Review of … Continue reading