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Gilbert Morris on Blackness & The Presumptions of Ultimate Power

28 November 2010

This is an interesting thesis, to say the least. I want to reject it outright, but I am not sure I can. I can certainly see evidence of what Morris is talking about in the case of our own turn-of-the-century leaders; there is a core lack of confidence in the ability—or is it the right?—of [...]

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More on the Caribbean Review of Books

6 June 2010

Yes, I know I wrote about this before, but I have spent a lot of today reading bits and pieces of the new, improved, online Caribbean Review of Books and I need to write about it again. Here’s what it has to say about itself: The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) is a bimonthly magazine [...]

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Reading: Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies

12 May 2010

First of all, thanks to Nicholas Laughlin and the Caribbean Review of Books for asking me to review this book. I’ve long been a fan of Sidney Mintz. His study of the impact of sugar on the creation of modernity, which I read first in the 1979 article “Time, sugar and sweetness,” (Marxist Perspectives 2 [...]

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The Caribbean Review of Books • A bimonthly review of Caribbean literature, art, and culture

5 May 2010

Big congratulations to Nicholas and company for this venture. I’ll be checking back regularly! A note to our readers: Welcome to the new website of The Caribbean Review of Books. From May 2004 to May 2009, the CRB published twenty-one quarterly print issues, featuring reviews of books of Caribbean interest, interviews with writers, original fiction [...]

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Rex Nettleford Dies

3 February 2010
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Professor Rex Nettleford Is Dead Prof. Rex. Nettleford CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Weds. Feb. 3, 2010: Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies, Professor Ralston Milton `Rex` Nettleford, is dead. Nettleford died at 8 o`clock tonight in the George Washington Hospital last night. He was 76. via CaribWorldNews.com – Global Caribbean Daily Newswire.

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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading. I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways [...]

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How not to lead a nation

16 January 2010

Before I post this, let me say two things. First, I have been informed by a reliable source (one of the editors) that the Tribune was not responsible for writing the article whose headline I slammed; it was an AP story that they re-ran as the lead. And second, I am trusting that by reposting [...]

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Generation Y

11 November 2009

Generation Y It’s been a long time since I was able to follow the blogs I read, partly because I’ve been doing so much other stuff but largely because I still can’t add bookmarks to Safari and I haven’t taken to other feed-readers. So I haven’t been discovering new blogs or dropping old ones — [...]

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Killing with kindness

9 November 2009

We on the arts community in The Bahamas often like to believe that things are different for artists in other Caribbean nations. This blog post from PLEASURE blog suggests that it’s not so: Tomorrow, the spanking new $518 million National Academy for the Performing Arts around the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, will officially [...]

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Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists’ IP Addresses

1 September 2009

I have often wondered seriously about the American commitment to freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have often wondered also about the American belief in the principles on which it is founded; it’s one of those things that make me deeply sceptical about any action taken by that giant of a country that [...]

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