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The Queer Potential: (Indo-)Caribbean Feminisms and Heteronormativity
(2013-07-24)
Over the past ten years there has been remarkable growth in studies on sexuality in the Caribbean. One of the most underrepresented areas of these analyses, however, remains the intersection between queerness and Indo-Caribbean ...
Kamla at the Apex: Reflections on Indo-Caribbean Feminism
(2013-07-25)
Kamla Persad-Bissessar is elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; it was overwhelming for Indo-Caribbean women of my generation for we had not dared to expect that this could happen. Yet we realize that the ascendancy ...
‘Habitable Identities’— A Review of Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women
(2013-07-26)
Our understanding of the complex journeys of women of Indian ancestry through several centuries in the Caribbean and its diasporas is expanded in valuable ways by Rosanne Kanhai’s 2011 collection Bindi: The Multifaceted ...
Home Away from Home
(2013-07-24)
These photographs are part of photographer and filmmaker Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel’s Home Away from Home Project, an in-progress multimedia project about the global South Asian diaspora.
Indo-Caribbean Feminisms: Charting Crossings in Geography, Discourse, and Politics
(2013-07-22)
The dominant notions of the Indo-Caribbean woman as Hindu, as passive, as heterosexual, as conservative, as submissive, as guardian of Indian culture via her body and her morality, continue to haunt us. This special issue ...
Changing Symbols of Indo-Caribbean Femininity
(2013-07-22)
Cultural differences determine an ethnic group’s expectations regarding women’s roles, as well as how the group is perceived outside the community. Over time there have emerged archetypes of femininity but these archetypes ...
‘Breaking Silences’: An Interview with Jahajee Sisters
(2013-07-24)
Founded in 2007 and based in New York City, Jahajee Sisters has forged new ground in organizing and attempting to empower a multigenerational constituency of diasporic Indo-Caribbean women in ways that affect their social, ...
Putting the 'Cool' in Coolie: dissident Sexuality, Indo-Caribbean identity and the oppositonal aesthetics of Michelle Mohabeer's Film
(2013-07-08)
“It’s referencing back all of those Indian women that have come worked on the plantations and in the cane fields. It’s empowering them to a degree and yet the dance is South Asian...it evokes Bengali folk dance. It has an ...
Modern Navigations: Indo-Trinidadian Girlhood and Gender-Differential Creolization
(2013-07-24)
This article examines suburban, adolescent Indo-Trinidadian girls’ engagement with gender-differential processes of modernization and creolization at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that girls’ experience of ...
Words and Work: Education and Work Among Indo-Muslim Women in Trinidad, 1930–1960
(2013-07-22)
This paper examines Indo-Muslim females’ access to education and participation in formal work over three decades, 1930–1960. In particular, it acknowledges that access to primary and secondary education at the micro level ...