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Voluntary migration from Jamaica to Cuba began in 1875 when a small group of Jamaicans went to Cuba to participate in the War of Independence as part of the Cuban Liberation Army. A second wave of migration from Jamaica to Cuba occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when West Indians sought opportunities to work on sugar plantations and in the sugar mills. As the demand for sugar increased worldwide, many West Indians t...

This Thing That Is Not a Thing says a lot with little. Economy of words in fine, colourful form, these poems by Paulette A. Ramsay prompt the reader to question human perception - ways of seeing the world and ways people view each other. Weaving the everyday with the extraordinary, heaviness of heart with humour, grief and gratitude, This Thing That Is Not a Thing centres absence - absence of voice, of persons, of trust and affection - showing...

El estudio de Paulette Ramsay analiza la producción cultural y literaria de los afromexicanos de Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, México, para socavar y subvertir la pretensión de mestizaje u homogeneidad mexicana. Para la investigación interdisciplinaria, la autora se sirve de varios marcos teóricos: los estudios culturales, la antropología lingüística, los estudios sobre masculinidad, los estudios de género, la crítica feminista y amplias t...

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Influenced by the principles of writing across the curriculum, Blooming with the Pouis provides students with a range of readings selected to enhance the development of writing skills in all academic disciplines. Multidisciplinary in approach, this Reader presents selections from Caribbean literature, culture, geography, history, education, religion, economics, and the pure and applied sciences.

Chevere is a brand-new 4-level Spanish Course which has been written specifically for Caribbean secondary schools, to provide students with all they need to succeed in Spanish.

Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity. The interdisciplinary research draws on several theoretical constructs: cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, masculinity studies, gender studies, feminist criticisms, and broad postcolonial and postmodernist theories, especially as ...

A stirring collection of poetry paying tribute to the greatest attributes of life's journey from a Caribbean, moreso Jamaican, perspective.

These revised practice papers are designed to prepare students for Paper 11 of the CSEC Spanish Examination as well as the listening Comprehension section of Paper 1. It adresses the changes which became effective in 2007. As such, it includes many excercises on Contextual Advertisements and new Situations (Directed Writing) have been added. All the exercises are original.

Paulette Ramsay is a lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at U.W.I., Mona. She received her M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature and her Ph.D. in Spanish from U.W.I. Her training includes research methodology, evaluation and assessment strategies, translation, writing and interpreting at regional conferences. She is a member of Associatio?n Internacional de Traductores, Intirpretes y Profesores del Espan?ol. (A.I.T.I.P....