Gender Negotiations Among Indians In Trinidad 1917 1947


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Gender Negotiations Among Indians In Trinidad 1917 1947


Gender Negotiations Among Indians In Trinidad 1917 1947
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Author : P. Mohammed
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-01-16

Gender Negotiations Among Indians In Trinidad 1917 1947 written by P. Mohammed and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-16 with Social Science categories.


This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad. At the same time the situation of migration allows for challenges to the caste system of Hinduism and, for women and some men, new opportunities to confront the more restricting aspect of Indian patriarchy which followed them across the seas from India.



Rethinking Caribbean Difference


Rethinking Caribbean Difference
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Author : P. Mohammed
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998

Rethinking Caribbean Difference written by P. Mohammed and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.


Rethinking Caribbean Differenceexplores the effects of race and ethnicity, class and linguistic variation on gender issues and gender ideologies in the Caribbean. The papers in this issue include: Women's Organizations and Movements in Commonwealth Caribbean; InSearch of our Memory: Gender in the Netherlands Antilles; Gendered Testimonies: Autobiographies, Diaries and Letters by Women in Caribbean History; Gender Systems and the Project of Modernity in the Post-colonial Caribbean; Is There an International Feminism?; Shattering DevelopmentalistIllusions: Challenges for the Feminist Movement in Puerto Rico; Gender and International Relations: Issues for the Caribbean; Masculinity and the Dance of the Dragon: Reading Lovelace Discursively.



Confronting Power Theorizing Gender


Confronting Power Theorizing Gender
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Author : Eudine Barriteau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Confronting Power Theorizing Gender written by Eudine Barriteau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.


This valuable contribution to the exploration of masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean provides a fundamental resource that pays special attention to the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the region. Vital reading for policy makers and teachers and students of gender studies.



Kala Pani Crossings Gender And Diaspora


Kala Pani Crossings Gender And Diaspora
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Author : Judith Misrahi-Barak
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-06

Kala Pani Crossings Gender And Diaspora written by Judith Misrahi-Barak and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-06 with Social Science categories.


This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, class, caste, gender, and sexuality intersect with concepts of home, belonging, displacement and the reinvention of the nation and of self. Positioning itself as a companion to Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th century Migrations from India’s Perspective (Routledge, 2021), the present book examines whether indentureship and diasporic locations marginalised women and men or empowered them; how negotiations or resistances have been determined by race, class, caste, or ethnicity; how traditional standards of Indianness and gender relations have been reshaped; how ideas of home, self and the nation have been impacted in the diaspora and in India after the 19th and early 20th century indentureship migration; and what 21st century Indians stand to gain by theorizing the legacy of 19th century indenture through a gender framework. To understand how fiction and non-fiction writers have negotiated the legacy of indentureship to create spaces where normative practices can be interrogated and challenged, the book gives pride of place to interviews with writers such as Cyril Dabydeen, Ananda Devi, Ramabai Espinet, Davina Ittoo, Brij Lal, Peggy Mohan, Shani Mootoo, and Khal Torabully. Thus rooted in critical analyses but also in subjective and creative perspectives, this volume is a major intervention in understanding Indian indenture and its legacy in the diaspora and in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, history, Indian Ocean studies, migration and South Asian studies.



Indo Caribbean Feminist Thought


Indo Caribbean Feminist Thought
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Author : Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-25

Indo Caribbean Feminist Thought written by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.


Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice.



Contradictory Indianness


Contradictory Indianness
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Author : Atreyee Phukan
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-15

Contradictory Indianness written by Atreyee Phukan and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.


As Contradictory Indianness endeavors to show, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. This book's unique contribution lies in an explicit privileging of Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean.



Beyond Being Koelies And Kantr Ki


Beyond Being Koelies And Kantr Ki
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Author : Margriet Fokken
language : en
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
Release Date : 2018

Beyond Being Koelies And Kantr Ki written by Margriet Fokken and has been published by Uitgeverij Verloren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with East Indians categories.


This book traces the self-positioning of Hindostani people in the face of British and Dutch colonial practices. Originally from India and shipped to the Dutch colony of Suriname after the abolition of slavery, the Hindostani served as contract labourers to keep the plantation system afloat from 1873. Central to the book is the perspective of the Hindostani themselves. We travel alongside the Hindostani from the moment they were recruited and their movement through the depots awaiting shipment, their travel experiences, their arrival in Suriname, relocation to plantations, and their dispersal following the end of their contracts, either as city workers, or farmers. All along, the book poses the question of identification: how did Hindostani make sense of themselves, their fellow Hindostani, and Surinamese society? Stereotyped images make way for insight in lived experience of lower and higher caste, Hindus and Muslims, men and women.



The Encyclopedia Of Caribbean Religions


The Encyclopedia Of Caribbean Religions
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Author : Patrick Taylor
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2013-04-30

The Encyclopedia Of Caribbean Religions written by Patrick Taylor and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Reference categories.


The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions is the definitive reference for Caribbean religious phenomena from a Caribbean perspective. Generously illustrated, this landmark project combines the breadth of a comparative approach to religion with the depth of understanding of Caribbean spirituality as an ever-changing and varied historical phenomenon. Organized alphabetically, entries examine how Caribbean religious experiences have been shaped by and have responded to the processes of colonialism and the challenges of the postcolonial world. Systematically organized by theme and area, the encyclopedia considers religious traditions such as Vodou, Rastafari, Sunni Islam, Sanatan Dharma, Judaism, and the Roman Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Detailed subentries present topics such as religious rituals, beliefs, practices, specific historical developments, geographical differences, and gender roles within major traditions. Also included are entries that address the religious dimensions of geographical territories that make up the Caribbean. Representing the culmination of more than a decade of work by the associates of the Caribbean Religions Project, The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions will foster a greater understanding of the role of religion in Caribbean life and society, in the Caribbean diaspora, and in wider national and transnational spaces.



Social Media In Trinidad


Social Media In Trinidad
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Author : Jolynna Sinanan
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2017-11-21

Social Media In Trinidad written by Jolynna Sinanan and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with Social Science categories.


Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwellers look down on and villagers look up to. The complex identity of the town is expressed through uses of social media, with significant results for understanding social media more generally. Not elevating oneself above others is one of the core values of the town, and social media becomes a tool for social visibility; that is, the process of how social norms come to be and how they are negotiated. Carnival logic and high-impact visuality is pervasive in uses of social media, even if Carnival is not embraced by all Trinidadians in the town and results in presenting oneself and association with different groups in varying ways. The study also has surprising results in how residents are explicitly non-activist and align themselves with everyday values of maintaining good relationships in a small town, rather than espousing more worldly or cosmopolitan values.



Islam And The Americas


Islam And The Americas
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Author : Aisha Khan
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2017-01-10

Islam And The Americas written by Aisha Khan and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Social Science categories.


"A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity "Gives us an entirely different picture of Muslims in the Americas than can be found in the established literature. A complex glimpse of the rich diversity and historical depth of Muslim presence in the Caribbean and Latin America."--Katherine Pratt Ewing, editor of Being and Belonging: Muslim Communities in the United States since 9/11 "Finally a broad-ranging comparative work exploring the roots of Islam in the Americas! Drawing upon fresh historical and ethnographic research, this book asks important questions about the politics of culture and globalization of religion in the modern world."--Keith E. McNeal, author of Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean In case studies that include the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume trace the establishment of Islam in the Americas over the past three centuries. They simultaneously explore Muslims’ lived experiences and examine the ways Islam has been shaped in the "Muslim minority" societies in the New World, including the Gilded Age’s fascination with Orientalism, the gendered interpretations of doctrine among Muslim immigrants and local converts, the embrace of Islam by African American activist-intellectuals like Malcolm X, and the ways transnational hip hop artists re-create and reimagine Muslim identities. Together, these essays challenge the typical view of Islam as timeless, predictable, and opposed to Western worldviews and value systems, showing how this religious tradition continually engages with local and global issues of culture, gender, class, and race.