The writer is a Caribbean immigrant who ministers to an immigrant church which is an ‘island of immigrants living in a sea of immigrants.’ Concerned with the unique challenges facing immigrants, the heightened national awareness about immigration as a result of the September 11,…
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Immigrants from Caribbean Common Market countries (CARICOM) struggle to achieve socio-economic assimilation once they migrate to the United States. CARICOM immigrants are considered racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. The research goal of this study was to gain a deep…
The underlying motivation for this thesis is the position that colonialism, or coloniality, continues to thrive as an ideological and institutional framework all over the world, to the detriment of the majority of the population of the earth, and particularly of indigenous peopl…
Research done by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, household challenges, and neglect were linked to later health risks in life and overall well-being (CDC, 2019). Adverse experiences occur worldwide in a variety o…
This study re-examines the significance and meaning of the period of“nationalist literature” in the two decades following World War II; it does so through a comparative exploration of the literature of three “postcolonial” regions of the former British Empire: Canada, the Caribb…
The goal of this study is to examine the events generating the coup attempt, the government response to it and to posit the recent phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean Islam as a security threat within the fragile polities of the Caribbean Basin as a case study. By studying the ethno-re…
It is in the tension between hegemonic and subaltern cultures that creative responses originate. These responses allow the reader to recognize the degrees of influence the subaltern cultures are willing to accept, the way they appropriate and change the instruments of this hegem…
This dissertation examines the use of mortuary tropes for the articulation of identities in seven Francophone Black narratives: Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée, Jean-Claude Fignolé's Les possédés de la pleine lune and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove—for the Car…
This dissertation analyzes literary and filmic representations of marriage in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Marriage is an important topos and serves as a crucial narrative device because it provides a space to address issues of identity on several levels: personal, reli…
This study addresses factors that contribute to women's madness in African and Caribbean literature as depicted in four novels by Mariana Bâ, Ken Bugul, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra. In these texts written by women, the loss or absence of family love in childhood and adolescence, th…
In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread as figures frozen in tragic postures. Such unrealistic portraitures replicate the traditional white-authored pathologizations of racial hybridity. Drawing on the theore…