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  • Morant Bay, Jamaica

    “The events at Morant Bay in 1865 followed on the heels a period of public meetings known as the Underhill Meetings, and peaceful expression of grievances through petitions. Complaints included a series of economic issues related to wages, land tenure, access to markets, and labor rights; political issues related to unfair taxation, no justice in the courts, and elite-biased government policies; and civil issues that included voting rights, and access to healthcare, education, and land. In that sense it was not a riot so much as a social movement, which was rejected by the Governor and finally turned to violence against the representatives of the local government.”

    via Graphic Arts, Princeton University Library. Research for future works.

  • Casa de África

    Casa de África
    Obrapía No. 157, e/ San Ignacio y Mercaderes, Habana Vieja.

    The Casa de Africa was founded in 1986 in a colonial palace in Old Havana to showcase the history and culture of Africa.

    There are valuable collections from 27 African countries, based on the collection of researcher Fernando Ortiz, who first used the term Afro-Cuban, and also on the African collection of Fidel Castro, which consists principally of pieces sent by grateful recipients of Cuban aid..

    afrocubaweb.

    53495643_10157188395682722_123850694854705152_nvia fb.

  • Gloria Ronaldo Casamayor

    Filmmaker.

    AfroCubaWeb.
    gloriarolandofilms on fb.
    Wikipedia.

    Imágenes del Caribe.
    Partido Indepediente de Color (Independent Party of Color), founded by Pedro Ivonnet.


    2015


    2018, Pulitzer Center.

    Discussion with Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando on Film 1912: Braking the Silence, April 6, 2010 from Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Afro-Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando brought her acclaimed documentary and feature work to UNC Chapel Hill as artist-in-residence from April 1-7. During her stay, she screened and spoke to an audience about her most recent films, Roots of My Heart and 1912: Breaking the Silence.

    Ifé-Ilé Afro-Cuban Festival, 1999.
    cubanartnews, 2012.
    In Miami, 2013.
    Reembarque, FIU, 2014.
    caribbeanstudiesassociation in Haiti, 2016.
    In D.R.
    Miami – Art of Black

    Related: youtube.

  • Cornelius Castoriadis interviewed by Chris Marker, 1989

    On democracy and the lessons to be drawn from the Athenians.  Public life concerns us all, is our affair, and can not be fully delegated. Also on philosophy, polis, hubris, tragedy, slavery, barbarian, the individual, freedom, the collective, and a cosmology of order, disorder, and chance.

    The full version of an interview with Cornelius Castoriadis, conducted by Chris Marker for his documentary TV series, “L’héritage de la chouette” (“The owl’s legacy”), broadcast in 16 episodes from June 12th-28th 1989 on La Sept (future Arte).

  • Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series

    Via Forum, Spring 2018.

    The LibraryPress@UF, an imprint of the University of Florida Press and the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, is proud to announce the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series.  This series makes available for free 39 books related to Florida and the Caribbean that are regarded as “classics.” It is made possible by
    the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program.  Books in the series highlight the many connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. They show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers throughout the region. They examine topics important to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, urban development, and tourism.

    Read books in the series for free at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/openbooks

     

  • Racism – On the Media

    On the Media’s Face the Racist Nation episode, kind of a re-broadcast, is gem; especially Dr. Kendi’s interview. He makes the distinctive argument for the lineage of racist’s ideas, policy, poverty, ignorance, exploitive systems and attitude, as it has been implemented in the West. His 2016 book is Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

  • This week in 1915, …

  • Jérémie

    Un bulletin electronique, a la sauvegarde du patrimoine national. Jérémie: Le patrimoine en péril (Août 2009) .

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    ISPAN and Mapping Haitian History.