Volume 49, Nos. 1 & 2 March - June 2003

Foreword ix
Rex Nettleford

Editorial xi
Esther Figueroa

The Middle Passage 1
Esther Figueroa

Celebration of Life: John Joseph Maria Figueroa 2
John peter Figueroa

Two poems by John Figueroa 6
Love Leaps Here...
Hartlands/Heartlands

Remembrance 9
Frank getlein

Excerpts of John Figueroa's Holy Cross Letters 11
to His Parent

Remembrance - The Education of a Poet 20
Joseph Cunneen

Three Poems by John Figueroa 22
The Garden Gate
Accompaniment
A prayer for D.G.M.A.F.

Poem by Philip Nanton 25
Dorothy and the Boys
A Celebration of the life of Dorothy Grace Murray Alenander Figueroa Dorothy Anna Figueroa Jarvis 26

Unpublished Poetry Excerpts by Dorothy Alexander Figueroa 29

Four Poems by Cecil Gray 36
Swift Moving Water
Amen
Lucky One
To Wonder At

Two Remembrances
Green Hills and Purple Prose: Remembering the Past
Mavis Burke 41
A Tribute -
Christopher Pym 42

Three Poems by Pamela Mordecai 44
Patriarch
Convent Girl
Serafina

Fiction by Mavis Burke 49
Park Home: Tale of a Bench and Bag Lady

Two Poems by John Figueroa 53
SILENCE and the WORD
Problems of a Writer who does not Quite
A Poem by Derek Walcott 56
Nearing Forty

Poem by John Figueroa 60
Invaders

Interviews with John Figueroa 61
Philip Nanton
Erika J.Waters (The Caribbean Writer)

A Poem by John Figueroa 75
Cosmopolitan Pig

Three Poems by Louise Bennett 77
Uriah preach
Dutty Tough
Colonisation in Reserse
Excerpt from "A Passage to Some other Place: Finding the Caribbean on a boat and learning in London about Caribbean Attitudes."
John Figueroa 81

Four Poems by James Berry 83
Drawn to water
Looking at the Painting Fin l' Arabesque by Edgar Degas
Sharing is an Open Game
Haiku Moments 1

A Poem by John Agard 86
Equatic Beyond the Margins

A Poem by Grace Nichols 91
Wings

Two Remembrances
Figueroan Fragment 94
John NewBould
John Figueroa - A man o' Pairts 96
Alastair Niven

Fiction by Vanessa Spence 100
The Quick Visit

Three Poems by John Figueroa 113
The Dance
A portrait of a Woman ( and a Man)
Birth Is

Three Poems by Esther Figueroa 117
the sound of rain
the terror of remembering
the gift of forgetting

Fiction by Alexei Figueroa 119
Papi in Zion

A Poem by Nara Anderson Figueroa 120
My Imaginary Composition

Remembrance - If I Die... 121
Marshall Morris

Five Poems by John Figueroa 126
Two From Cidra
That green would grow in Me
Clarity
Yes I Recall
The Garden, Green and Great

A Poem by Gloria Escoffrey 130
House and Home

Two Poems by Velma Pollard 133
Old Town Montserrat
Train to Venice

Three Poems by John Figueroa 136
The The Facade of the Eglise de Brou
On Seeing the Reflection of the Notre Dame in the Seine
The White, The Green and The Red

A Poem by mervyn Morris 138
A Chant Against Death

A Poem by Edward Baugh 139
Walking into Jerusalem

Extract of a Letter Ralph Thompson from John Figueroa 144

Two Poems by Ralph Thompson 142
This New Light
Espousals

Three Poems by John Figueroa 144
The Little Boy at Dawn
You Cannot Hear Silence
Brou III

Fiction by Christine Craig 147
The Queen of Sheba

Three Poems by John Figueroa 161
Birthday Poem 1970
On Losing Grips
Ignoring Hurts

Three Poems by Honor Ford - Smith 162
Anna Taurus
Daddy the Divine
A Place Called Home

Fiction by Oliver Senior 166
The Pain Tree

Four Poems by John Figueroa 174
The Descent to Water
Pastores
For and After Sappho
Hespera (After Sappho)

Six Poems by Jane King Hippolyte 177
Same Circus, second year
Geography for Robert
On Whether it Has to Have Palm Trees to be in Caribbean
Poetry
The Performer gets some Comfort from a Tree
The Performer's Prayer in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
I'll Tell You One Thing for Free

Poem by Ian McDonald 181
A Simple Man

Two Poems by E.A. Markham 183
Malice
The Secret

Six Poems by John Figueroa 186
Closure
Goodbye (After Lorca)
I Will Plant Morning Glories where You Lie
Epitaph
Too late...
Spring Feast

Bibliography of John Figueroa's Major Works 191

Notes on Contributors 192

Information for Contributors 196



Volume 49 No.4 December 2003

Foreword iii

Introduction: Public Health and the Imperial Project 1
Juanita De Barros, Sean Stilwell

Quarantine in the Fort Ozama Dungeon: The Control of Prostitution 12
Rebecca Lord

A new 'Imperial Disease': The Influenza Pandemic of 30
1918-1919 and its Impact on the British Empire
David Killingray

For the Children? A Preliminary Analysis of 50
Health-Related Issues
Discussed at the 1921 Educational Conference in Trinidad
Janice M.Mayers

Sanitation and Civilization in Georgetown, British Guiana 65
Juanita De Barros

A Different Intervention: The International Health Commission/Board, Health, Sanitation in the British Caribbean,
1914 - 1930 87
Rita Pemberton

Gendered Health Care: Legacies of Slavery In Health 104
Care Provision in Barbados Over The Period 1870-1920
Pedro L.V. Welch

BOOK REVIEWS 121

BOOKS RECEIVED 134

Information on Contributors 137

Instructions for Authors 138



Volume 50 No. 3 September 2004


Political Economy Aspects of a Developmental State 1
Framework for the Bahamas
Nikolaos Karagiannis

Arguing Over the "Caribbean": Tourism on Costa 25
Rica's Caribbean Coast
Moji Anderson

The Recalcitrant Muse: Race, Sex and Historical Tension in the Search for the West Indian (Trans) subject 47
Shona N. Jackson

A forgotten Forum: The Forum Quarterly and the Development of West Indian Literature 63
Carl Wade

BOOK REVIEWS 74
Books Received 91
Notes on Contributors 94

Abstracts 95

Information for Contributors 97



Volume 50 No.4 December 2004

The Haitian Revolution and Jamaica 1790s - 1834 1
Dave St. A. Gosse

Education and Society in Haiti 1804 - 1843 14
Carl Campbell

Vive 1804; The Haitian Revolution and the 25
Revolutionary Generation of 1946
Matthew J. Smith

Language, Culture and Power. Communication and Society 42
under the Duvaliers
R.Anthony Lewis

"I am Sorry: a visit to Haiti" 52
Patricia Mohammed

The Tree that does not hide the Forest: Raoul Peck's 63
Aesthetical and Political Approach to Cinema
Marie - Jose N'Zengou - Taya

Book Reviews 72
Books Received 83
Notes on Editor and Contributors 86

Information for Contributors 87


Volume 51 No. 1 March 2005


Caribbean Identity and Integration in the Work of Nicolas 1
Guillen
Keith Ellis

Global Tourism and Caribbean Culture 15
David Bennett with Sophie Gebhardt

Woodrow Wilson and Nicaragua 25
Benjeman Harrison

Marcus Garvey, Race Uplift and his Vision of Jamaican 37
Self-government
Nicholas Patsides

Revisiting Chinese Hybridity: Negotiating Categories 53
and Re-constructing
Ethnicity in Contemporary Jamaica - a Preliminary Report
Yoshiko Shibata



Volume 51 No. 2 June 2005


Subjectivity, Difference and Commonalities in the Context of Gender in the Caribbean 1
C. Jama Adams

Preparing Union Men for change 14
Marva Phillips

Arguing Over the "Caribbean": Tourism on Costa 31
Rica's Caribbean Coast
Moji Anderson

Resisting definitive interpretation: Seeing the story of 53
the Exodus through Caribbean (ite) eyes
Anna Kasafi Perkins

The many faces of Rasta: Doctrinal Diversity within 67
the Rastafari Movement
Michael Barnett

The Folk Roots of Jamaican Cultural Identity 79
Edward Seaga


Volume 53 Nos. 1&2 March - June 2007

ADDRESS: Cannibal scholars, native informants and smugglers of disqualified knowledge: performing the Caribbean in the Northern academy
Honor Ford-Smith 8

KEYNOTE: Applied theatre: Pure of heart - naively complicit
Peter O' Connoe 23

KEYNOTE: Drama in education: finding self, finding "home"
Urvashi Sahni 37

KEYNOTE: "You're not allowed to say that"
Minefields and political correctness
Judith Ackroyd, Andy Pilkinton 49

Mediatised performance and theatre for young people: how TYP is responding to digital natives
Michael Anderson 63

The Bufoon and representation: the case of 'Oliver' in Jamaican theatre.
Tanya Batson-Savage 76

Processing Post - Colonialism: using drama to produce multifaceted art experiences from notionally mono-cultural material.
Pamela Bowell and Brain S. Heap 84

Parallel space but disparate usage negotiating language use in a bilingual society
Jeanette Campbell 95

When inuit suclpture opens into stories
Francine Chaine 104

Contesting space and power through digital drama research: colonial histories, postcolonial interrogations
Kathleen Gallagher, Isabelle Kim 115

The creative ethos of the African diaspora: performance aesthetics and the fight for freedom and identity
Clinton Hutton 127

Emancipating Shakespeare: cultural transmission or cultural transformation?
Alistair Martin-Smith, Annette Hayton and Maya Ishiura 150

Permission to speak?
Briar O' Connor 160

The ARROW programme : genesis, ideas, growth and aspiration
David Oddie 168

A quantitative research method in reception theory in reception theory in international theatre case studies
Dan Olsen 181

From neocolonial to postcolonial: implications for the practice of theatre for development
Tim Prentki 194

Creative teaching - teaching creativity
Aud Berggraf Soeebo, Laura A. McCammon, Larry O'Farrell 205

Postcolonialism, positioning and the use of drama in the teaching of French
Jean Small 216

Nian - the story of Chinese
Jeffrey Tan 222


Volume 53 Nos. 3 September 2007

An analysis of the type and content of TV Ads in the 2002 Jamaican General Election 1
Christopher A.D. Charles

Stepping out of the Kumbla – Kincaid’s AIDS narrative, ‘My brother’ 16
Lorna Down

Liminal Anansi: Symbol of Order and Chaos
An exploration of Anansi’s Roots amongst the Asante of Ghana 30
Emily Zobel Marshall

Diasporic transnationalism: relocation Montserratians in the UK 41
Gertrude Shotte

Creolization and the search for identity in Caribbean Philosophy 70
Lawrence O. Bamikole


Volume 53 Nos. 4 December 2007

Calling all singers, musicians and speechmakers: Mento Aesthetics and Jamaica’s early recording industry 1

Daniel T. Neely

Forging identity and community through Aestheticism and entertainment: the sound system and the rise of the DJ 16

Clinton Hutton

Punching for recognition: the juke box in the promotion of popular Jamaicans music 32

Dennis Howard

Brown girl in the ring: Margarita and Malungu 47

Herbie Miller

Ernest Ranglin: Creative activist, initiator, innovator, living legend 75

Marjorie Whylie

The social and aesthetic roots and identity of Ska:
Interview with Garth White 80

Volume 55, Nos. 1 & 2 March - June 2008

POEM
The Yellow Cemetery Derek Walcott 1
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas 5
Wilson Harris

POEMS
Negus Kamau Brathwaite 39
Sweat and the Lash Nicholas Guillen 42
Sometimes – in the Middle of a story Edward Baugh 43
Passage Kumar Mahibir 45
I Shall Remember H.D. Carberry 47
Return Frank Collymore 49
A Place Called Home Honor Ford-Smith 51
At home the Green remains John Figueroa 52
Colonization in Reserve Louise Bennett 53

Opening Address – Caribbean Conference on Culture honouring Rex Nettleford 55
Goorge Lamming

POEMS
Men of Ideas Roger Mais 73
Tomb of a Hero: NWM Basil McFarlane 76
Rilke(for Mardi) Wayne Brown 78
Creolization in the making of the Americas 81
Edouard Glissant

POEMS
Balled for Soweto Jan Carew 91
No word does you justice Robert F. Retemar 94
Because the dawn breaks Merle Collins 95
Grenada 1983 Rachel Manley 97
Ethtiopian Soldier Earl McKenzie 98
Letter from Jamaica Howard Fergus 99

Landscape with faces 101
John Hearne

POEMS
To wonder at Cecil Gray 131
From a MS the summer of Lilacs Anthony McNeill 132
Worthing – Midnight Slade Hopkinson 133
Fugue Neville Dawes 135
Bun Down Crossroads Lorna Goodison 137
The new man Brian Chan 138
Ole times Paul Douglas 139
Espousals Ralph Thompson 140

Where have all the feminists gone? 141
June Castello

POEMS
Revelation H.A.Vaughan 157
The best philosophers I know Velma Pollard 158
Journey AnnMargaret Lim 162

STORY – The PAIN TREE – 165
Oliver Senior

POEMS
A plume of dust Marguerite Wyke 175
After the carnival Dennis Scott 176
Cricket grounds, Plymouth Lloyd W. Brown 177

Two lectures by C.L.R. James 179

POEMS
Application and reply Mark McWatt 186
Faculty of Arts Bridget Jones 188
For Elsa Goveia Mervyn Morris 189
Chapel gradens – UWI Pam Mordecai 190
Student at year’s end Alma Mock Yen 191

Sir Phillip Sherlock 193
Rex Nettleford
Year’s ending 197

Volume 54, No. 3 September 2008

Science for the people 1
Lloye Coke

A clear human footprint in the coral reefs of the Caribbean 11
Camilo Mora

A journey through the medicinal plant industry of the Caribbean
Highlighting UWI’s contribution 27
Sylvia A. Mitchell, Rani-Devi Jagnarine, Raxon Simmonds,
Taja Francis, David Picking and Mohammed H. Ahmad

Interviews with Professor Hugh Wynter 53
Joan Meade and Pansy Hamilton

Notes and Comments
The climate studies group Mona: 85
Tannecia S. Stephenson, A. Anthony Chen, Michael A. Taylor


Volume 54, No. 4 December 2008

The U.W.I. and the teaching of West Indian History 1
Elsa Goveia

Women’s lives and labour on Radnor, a Jamacia Coffee Plantation, 1822-1826 7
James A. Delle

Anna Heegaard – Enigma 25
Neville Hall

Indian women and indentureship in Trindad and Tobago 1845-1917: Freedom denied 41
Rhoda Reddock

They never looked back; the role of the Hakka women in Jamacia 69
M.Alexandra Lee

Kalinago (Carib) Resistance to European colonization of the Caribbean 77
Hilary McD. Beckles

Juan De Bolas and his Pelinco 95
David Buisseret and S.A.G. Taylor

Maronnage in slave plantation societies: a case study of Dominica, 1785-1815 103
Bernard A. Marshall

Post – emancipation protest in the Caribbean: the “Belmanna Riots: in Tobago, 1876 111
Bridget Bereton

The 1990 violent disturbance in Trinidad & Tobago: some perceptions 129
John laGuerre


Volume 55, No. 1 March 2009

Early groundings for a Circum-Caribbean integrationist thought 1
Ileana Sanz

“El pais que no se parece a otro”: negotiating literary representations of Yucatan
In narrative texts written from within and without the region. 15
Margaret Shrimpton

Writing bridges of sound: praise song for the widow and Louisiana 33
Velma Pollard

“Visions of hell: the representation of the continental Caribbean in Alejo 43
Carpentier’s El siglo de las luces and Maryse Conde’s La vie scelerate.”
Odile Ferly

La colonie du nouveau monde: Conde’s Pessimistic views of a Caribbean 61
Utopian community
Marie-Jose Nzengou-Tayo

Harlem New York – Haarlem Paris: America-Martinique: Daniel Picouly’s 75
Caribbean Bridge over the Atlanic
Francoise Cevaer


Volume 55 No.1 June 2009
Introduction 2
Sabrina R. Rampersaud, James C. Robertson

Small islands, large settlements: archaeology at Les iles de la petite terre, Guadeloupe, F.W.I. 5
Maaike Lesparre-De Waal

Targeting the Jamaican ostionoid: The Blue Marlin archaeological project 23
Sabrina R. Rampersaud

Jamaican Taino ‘Shellsmithing’ techniques explored: a study in method 43
Dianne T. Golding-Frankson

Archaeological investigation of Suriname Maroon ancestral communities 65
Cheryl White

Linstead market before Linstead? Eighteenth-century Yabbas and the internal market system of Jamaica Mark W. Hauser 89

Re-imagining public space: Jamaica’s main square 1534-2000 113
James C. Robertson

Through women’s eyes: architectural sketches of the West Indies 131
Aleric Josephs

The intrinsic value of cultural heritage and its relationship to sustainable tourism development: the contrasting experiences of Jamaica and Japan 151
Janice Francis-Lindsay


Volume 55, No. 3 SEPTEMBER 2009

Tidal poetics in Dionne Brand’s At the full and change of the moon 1
Lucy Evans

‘C-Men’ and tricksters in Smile Orange 21
Rachel Moseley-Wood

African matrix cultural production: towards a model of sustainable
Human development in Santiago de Cuba 43
Alicia Sanabria

Incorporation of biomedical knowledge in sickle cell disease (SCD)
Representations of a Guadeloupe School Population (FWI): Marie – Galante profile 53
Jerome, Pruneau, Sylvain Ferez, Frederic Maillard, Jacques Dumont, Sebastien Ruffie, Olivier Hue

Studying the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Jamaica 71
David DeBuissieret


Volume 55, No. 4 DECEMBER 2009

Guest Editorial: Forever indebted to women 1
Marva Phillips

Forever indebted to women: Annstory 9
Judith Soares

Forever indebted to women: As they carry the burden of globalization 15
Lynn Bolles

Forever indebted to women: In spite of the difference 25
June Castello

Forever indebted to women: The power behind the throne 39
Desiree Bernard

The role of women in building social capital in the region. 49
Lennox Bernard

Forever indebted to women: The Caribbean Woan and the labour movement 59
Rex Nettleford

Forever indebted to women: serving in the private domain
Influencing the public domain 67
Marva Phillips


Volume 56, No. 4 DECEMBER 2010

Distant drums: The Unsung contribution of African-Jamaican percussion to popular music at home and aboard 1

KENNETH BILBY

Oh Rudie: Jamaican popular music and the narrative of Urban badness in the making of postcolonial society 22

CLINTON HUTTON

Naturally: The crucial contributions of Sonia Pottinger 65

KLIVE WALKER

Don Drummond and the philosophy of music 86

EARL McKENZIE

The Jones High Fidelity audio power amplifier of 1947 97

HEDLEY JONES

Merritone: Music from Morant Bay to the world 108

NEVILLE YING
Poems 115


‘’Studio”
“She tells herself”
“Exhibition”
MERVYN MORRIS
BOOK REVIEW

Claudette Williams, The devil in the details: Cuban Antislavery
Narrative in the postmodern age 116

NICOLE ROBERTS


Volume 57 No.1 March 2011

Portrait of a Vincy artist: Caroline “booops" Sardine 1

JANE BRYCE

Creolisation and the Americas 11

EDOUARD GLISSANT

Philosophy: a view from the canepiece 21

EARL McKENZIE

The Jamaica youth survey: assessing core competencies and risk for
aggression among Jamaican youth 35


JULIE MEEKS GARDNER, KIRK R. WILLIAMS, NANCY G. GUERRA, IAN WALKER


“A far cry” turns fifty-five 54

Keith GOFFE

STORY

My brother’s keeper 61

VICTOR CHANG

BOOK REVIEWS

Paul B. Miller, Elusive Origins: the enlightenment in the modern Caribbean historical imagination 73

BRIDGET BRERETON

Beverley Bryan, Between two grammars: research and practice for language learning
and teaching in a Creole-speaking environment 78

PAULETTE RAMSAY

Edward Seaga, The Grenada intervention : the inside story 83

STEPHEN VASCIANNIE


Volume 57 No.2 June 2011

Hegemony in post-independence Jamaica 1

D. A. DUNKLEY

Equality in education? A study of Jamaican schools under Michael Manley, 1972-80 24

KHITANYA PETGRAVE

Michael Manley: some visions that still remain relevant 51

CARLTON E. DAVIS

Colombia’s drug trafficking subculture: its literary representation in La Virgen de los sicarios and Rosario Tijeras 75

MAITE VILLORIA

Sovereignty and social justice: ‘the Haitian problem’ in the Dominican Republic 92

EUGENIO MATIBAG AND TERESA DOWNING-MATIBAG
COMMENTARY

The life and death of a nation: the mood on immigration in Barbados 118

AARON KAMUGISHA

POEMS

Stone soup 123

Poor execution 125

PAM MORDECAI

BOOK REVIEWS

Colin A. Palmer, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of power 127

RALPH PREMDAS

Yvonne Shorter Brown, Dead woman pickney: a memoir of childhood in Jamaica 131

JUDITH SOARES

Marifeli Perez-Stable, The United States and Cuba : intimate enemies 134

LEROY A. BINNS

Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves, Art in the Caribbean: an introduction 140

PETRINE ARCHER

Marcia A. Forbes, music, media and adolescent sexuality in Jamaica 144

BETH-SARAH WRIGHT


Volume 57 No.2 December 2011

The trade union education institute and Rex Nettleford’s philosophical orientation 1

GEORGE E. EATON

Rex Nettleford: the canepiece, lobour, education and the Caribbean intellectual 20

ANTHONY BOGUES

“Mirror Mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?”

Rex Nettleford and the Knotty issue of identify 33

RUPERT LEWIS

Nettleford and Rastafari’s inner landscape 49

JAHLANI NIAAH

Tribute to a sage: the life and work of professor the honorable Ralston Milton
“Rex” Nettleford 1933 – 2010 64

MARVA A. PHILLIPS

“Guerrillas in the trenches”: Nettleford on Extra-mural studies at the UWI 79

JUDITH SOARES

Forever indebted to Rex: women crafting a “New story of human experience” 89

CECELIA BATSON-ROLLOCK, JUDITH SOARES, MARVA A. PHILLIPS

The sage shapes the nexus: convergence and collaboration 99

JUDITH WEDDERBURN

Rex Nettleford: gatekeeper of anthropological research in Jamaica 108

A. LYNN BOLLES
“You ‘re educable”: personal reflections on Rex 112

BARBARA GLOUDON

POEM

“Nettleford nonpareil” 117

HOWARD A. FERGUS


Volume 58 No.1 March 2012

‘Throw word’: Graffiti, space and power in Kingston, Jamaica 1

RIVKE JAFFE, KEVON RHINEY AND CAVELL FRANCIS

Acts of possession and symbolic decolonization in Trinidad and Tobago 21

DAVID V. TROTMAN

The Monad: the hegemony of personality – Eric Williams and the Post-Independence imagination of Trinidad, 1956 – 1981 44

RAYMOND RAMCHARITAR

History at the personal level: Tesserae in the in the Mosaic of Caribbean social history 65

MARGARET D. ROUSE-JONES

Cuba from due south: an Anglo – Caribbean perspectives 87

BRIAN MEEKS

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

Understanding: Pan-Africanism 99

SIMON A. CLARKE

POEMS

Blue Mahoe (In memory of John Maxwell). Where the cord lies. Now back home. Liberation. Scene from the stage 112

FRAGAND LEDGISTER


Volume 58 Nos. 2&3 June - September 2012

PART 1: COMMUNICATION IN ACTION 1

Introduction 1

JUNE P. BARBOUR AND CORINNE BARNES (GUEST EDITORS)

Modernity, empowerment and grassroots communication in the English-speaking Caribbean 3

PATRICK WADE PRENDERGAST

Citizen journalism vs. traditional journalism: a case for collaboration 6
CORINNE BARNES
Caribbean media convergence: towards a new Caribbean journalist 28

CANUTE W. JAMES

“Pinch, leave an inch and roll:” applying the communication – for – behavioural – impact (COMBI) approach to the promotion of proper male condom use in Jamaica 43

LIVINGSTON A. WHITE, LOVETTE BYFIELD, SANNIA SUTHERLAND, AND ROSHANE S. REID

The role of the academic library in facilitating scholarly communication 67

FRANCES SALMON AND CHERRY-ANN SMART

PART 2: THE IMAGE IN COMMUNICATION 79

Travelling humour reimagined: the comedic unhinging of the European gaze in Caribbean postcards 79

SAM VASQUEZ

Tony’s oldies: visualizing Vincentian diasporic memory 101

PHILIP NANTON

“Ah my brownin’ dat!”: A visual discourse analysis of the performance of Vybz Kartel’s masculinity in the cartoons of the Jamaica observer 116

PATRICK HELBER

COMMENTARY: Citizenship and social exclusion 129
DEBORAH A. THOMAS

STORY: Door 133

MARTIN MORDECAI

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

To ease her exile: reading Una Marson’s poetry intently and welcoming Alison Donnell’s Una Marson: selected poems 144

STEPHANIE McKENZIE
Volume 58 No.4 December 2012

Leonard P. Howell’s leadership of the Rastafari movement and his “missing years” 1

DAIVE DUNKLEY

Stepping out: Peter Tosh and the dynamics of Afro-Caribbean existence 25

TAITU HERON AND YANIQUE HUME

Journeys in poetry, painting and philosophy 50

EARL McKENZIE

Defining traditional knowledge: a perspective from the Caribbean 62

SHARON B. LE GALL

Challenges to solidarity across multiple borders: Haiti’s free trade zone 87

MARK SCHULLER

COMMENTARY

History and social death 111

ERNA BRODBER

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Is there a place for the scientist in the Caribbean intellectual landscape? 116

E. NIGEL HARRIS

POEMS

NANCY ANNE MILLER 124

BOOK REVIEWS

Edwidge Danticat, create dangerously: the immigrant artist at work 127

MARIE-JOSE NZENGOU-TAYO

Jeff Karem, The purloined islands: Caribbean – US crosscurrents in
Literature and culture, 1880 – 1959 134

BRIDGET BRERETON


Rudy Insanally, multilateral diplomacy for small states:
“The art of letting others have your way” 138

DENIS BENN

Reniel Rodriquez Ramos, rethinking Puerto Rican precolonial history 141

STEPHAN LENIK


Volume 59 No.2 June 2013

ARTIST’S VOICE

Notes on Ras Witter

JAKE HOMIAK

Introduction

JAHLANI NIAAH AND ERIN MACLEOD

FEATURE ARTICLES

Blackheart man

MOQAPI

Brother man’s asceticism

FAITH SMITH

Left waiting in vain for your love: situating the (In) visibility of black women of Rastafari as lovers, partners and revolutionaries in Brooklyn Babylon and one love

ASHEDA DWYER

Critical literacy: a Rastafari perspective

ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA

Towards a pre-history of Rastafari

WIGMOORE FRANCIS

The Ethiopian world federation: a Pan – African organization among the Rastafari in Jamaica

GIULIA BONACCI

From peace and love to ‘ Fyah Bun’: did Rastafari lose its wat?

LEAHCIM SEMAJ

Honouring in existential priority responsibilities: a call to create and operate a Ras Tafari collective machinery

RAS IRATION 1

“Mek Wi Talk Bout de Bottom a de Sea”: Mutabaruka’s submarine poetics

CAROLYN COOPER

Rex Nettleford’s reflections on the Rastafari report and movement and his impact on the trajectory of Rastafari scholarship

MICHAEL BARNETT

BOOK REVIEW

Anjahli Parnell, comp., ed. And rev., The biography of empress Menen Afsaw: The mother of the Ethiopian nation

IMANI M. TAFARI-AMA



Volume 59 Nos. 3 & 4 September - December 2013

ARTIST’S VOICE
Intersections
HUBERT NEAL, JR.

PART 1: Building our nation’s sustainability: UWI open campus Belize 2010 country conference

Introduction
SHARMAYNE SAUNDERS (GUEST EDITOR)

Social and economic equity and stability: achievable for most if not for all

JANE E. BENNETT

Human capital theory: implications for educational development in Belize and the Caribbean

LEROY ALMENDAREZ

A model for designing and facilitating virtual learning in Belize: addressing faculty needs and contextualization

KATHLEEN P. KING

Training Caribbean literacy professionals online: challenges and possibilities

MICHELLE McANUFF – GUMBS

Harmonising nursing education: theory and practice
MARJORIE E. PARKS, LAURA TUCKER LONGSWORTH AND ISIDORA ESPADAS

Integrating education on climate change in the UWI open campus: promoting sustainable development in CARICOM

EMILY DICK – FORDE

Building an effective oil spill response mechanism for Belize: obligations, threats and challenges

LLOYD JONES

PART 2: Building Belize: the conversation continues

Why are Garifuna students underachieving in our primary and secondary schools?

JOSEPH O. PALACIO

COMMENTARY

Media and the Belizean society

JANELLE CHANONA

ARCHIVE GEMS

The sea of Belize

The Maya heritage of Belize

STORY

The kite
IVORY KELLY
POEMS
KALILAH ENRIQUEZ

BOOK REVIEWS

Mavis C. Campbell, Becoming Belize: a history of an outpost of empire searching for
identity, 1528 - 1823

REVIEWED BY ANGEL CAL

Micheal J.Monahan, the creolizing subject: race, reason and the politics of purity

REVIEWED BY MATTHEW C. REILLY

Shona N. Jackson, creole indigeneity: between myth and nation in the Caribbean

REVIEWED BY BRIDGET BRERETON

Nicole N. Aljoe, Creole testimonies: slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838

REVIEWED BY D.A. DUNKLEY

Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Ann H. Ross, eds., island shores, distant pasts: archaeological and biological approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean.

REVIEWED BY ZACHARY J. BEIER
John Gimlette, wild coast: travels on South America’s untamed edge

REVIEWED BY LOMARSH ROOPNARINE

Emily Greenwood, Afro-Greeks

REVIEWED BY ST HOPE EARL McKENZIE

Paulette A. Ramsay, Vivienne A. Harding, Janice A. Cools, and Ingrid McLaren, blooming with the Pouis: critical thinking, reading and writing across the curriculum – a rhetorical reader for Caribbean tertiary students.

REVIED BY NADINE BARNETT