Many Haitians Want Exiled Aristide Back Apr 16, 2008
South African officials say he spends his time researching Caribbean history and studying Zulu, a local language. He penned a comparative linguistic study of Zulu and Haitian Creole, as well as a paper on the theology of love. (CBS News -- World)
Questions for Junot Daz Apr 9, 2008
Take a brief look at Dominican or Caribbean history and you'll see that the structure of the book is more in keeping with the reality of this history than with its most popular myth: that of unity and continuity. In my mind the book was supposed to take the shape of an archipelago; it was supposed to be a textual Caribbean. (Slate)
Caribbean dance troupe to spread love in performance Mar 28, 2008
But this weekend, the Kalabash Dance Troupe will bring some of Allen's Caribbean history to her in Central New York. Kalabash, the only Caribbean dance group at Syracuse University, will perform its innovative Caribbean dance tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Goldstein Auditorium. (Daily Orange, NY)
Are you smarter than a high schooler?Academic Challenge Team gives students a fun way to learn Feb 23, 2008
"We do very well when the categories are broader...science or math, or Caribbean history, topics like that," Williams said. "But at the [Hudson County Academic] tournament the categories were topics like 'ballet,' and 'Finland,' and 'the Beatles.' So, if no one from your team knew anything about ballet, you were guaranteed to miss everything in that category.". (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Fidel Castro Steps Down Feb 20, 2008
Lillian Guerra, an assistant professor of Caribbean history at Yale, said Castro's announcement stated the obvious that he could not outrun the ravages of time. "Fidel has not appeared in public for 19 months," said Guerra, who has visited Cuba more than 30 times and has relatives there. (FOX61, CT)
Minority professors struggle to climb faculty ladder Apr 29, 2007
Lillian Guerra, an assistant professor of Caribbean history of Cuban descent, feels that the reluctance of many graduate students at less prestigious schools to even apply for positions at Yale plays a larger role in the lack of minority faculty than Yales insular hiring preferences do. Independently of whether Yale wont hire from outside the worlds elite schools, theres a concern on the part of all candidates for jobs here about the fact that New Haven is a segregated community, she said. (Yale Herald, CT)
* Chinese invade the Caribbean in an attempt to isolate Taiwan Mar 11, 2007
"China is projecting her power internationally to win friends," said Clem Seecharan, professor of Caribbean history at London Metropolitan University. "It's a China that is feeding on a kind of magnanimity of helping the poor. That is the kind of image that China is projecting to counter the American image of a communist dictatorship.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
China's Cricket Diplomacy Wins Allies as West Indies Prepare for World Cup Mar 8, 2007
China is projecting her power internationally to win friends,'' says Clem Seecharan, professor of Caribbean history at London Metropolitan University. It's a China that is feeding on a kind of magnanimity of helping the poor. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Measure for measure Feb 26, 2007
Born on the British colonial island of St. Lucia in 1930, Walcott made it his mission to take full possession of the imperial mother tongue and make it sing in a newfound key, transforming his "sound colonial education" into an unparalleled epic vision of Caribbean history and polyglot ancestry, and writing with an orphic sonority and bardic bravura seldom heard in Anglophone poetry since Dylan Thomas or Yeats. The magnitude of Walcott's achievement as the preeminent voice of what Pico Iyer has... (Boston Globe)
