The Caribbean stands at the crossroads of world history, yet most people only see it as a vacation destination with beaches and rum cocktails. This cluster of islands witnessed some of humanity’s most ...

Caribbean counterpoints -- The Caribbean Stage. Geographies of opportunity, geographies of constraint / David Barker -- Contemporary Caribbean ecologies: the weight of history / Duncan McGregor -- The ...

While taking professor Faith Smith’s course Literature of the Caribbean in the spring of 2019, Dannie Brice ’20 had a moment of enlightenment. “I saw how westernized archival material on slavery in ...

Every June, National Caribbean American Heritage Month recognizes and celebrates the significant contributions of Caribbean people to the United States, and it shares in the community’s rich history ...

The Caribbean islands might sound like the ideal beautiful, balmy vacation spot, but for scholars who study the region, it is so much more – a place of important history and flourishing arts that has ...

Myth 1. Caribbean history started with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 -- Myth 2. The Arawaks and Caribs were the two major groups in the precolonial Caribbean -- Myth 3. Columbus met ...

Carib Indians were some of the original inhabitants of the islands between North and South America — hence the sea named after them: the Caribbean. Suggested Reading Why Black People Dress up On ...

Over the years, I have had dozens of conversations on the question of whether Caribbean history “really matters” and for whom it matters. I’ve heard the region’s history dismissed due to the relative ...

If you are researching ancestors from Africa or the Caribbean there are some specialised routes to the past that you might like to follow . Researching your family history if you're of African ...

Researching family history can be quite challenging for African-Caribbean people because the dispossession caused by the slave trade means that ancestral links have been lost or buried. Guy Grannum ...

Labor Day weekend in the United States is one of the most celebratory times of the year, a holiday that honors the labor force in the U.S. but is simultaneously a symbolic ode to the end of summer. It ...