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Objective #1:  " The Danger of A Single Story."

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Objective #1:  " The Danger of A Single Story."

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In the Caribbean, there have been a countless number of myths and misrepresentation of the Caribbean that has emerged from reports from “foreigners” similarly, to the Miss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie encounters and perceptions of her country and many other situations that she spoke about in her presentation “The danger of a single story.”

Throughout history, it was perceived that the Caribbean was a place that was said to be uncivilized, had no history because no one was literate, only had two distinct groups of people and that one of the groups (The Caribs) were man eaters. All those perceptions came from the Europeans and these are the “foreigners”  that are being referred to. Christopher Columbus wrote letters depicting people from the Caribbean as being cannibals and being good servants because they repeated whatever he said to them. This Eurocentric perception of the Caribbean has been the only side people have seen or heard about the Caribbean. Chimamanda Adichie stated in her TED talk a quote from Mourid Barghouti which says, “if you want to dispossess a people the simplest way to do it is to tell their story.” That is what the Europeans did, they deprived the Caribbean from telling their own story and in turn they created this horrid image of the Caribbean. Therefore, revisionism of our Caribbean history is needed to fix the false representations and to let people see the real Caribbean for how it truly was/is.

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Objective #2 : Chattel slavery and Enslavement in West Africa

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Objective #2 : Chattel slavery and Enslavement in West Africa

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Chattel’ slavery was the term quite frequently used to describe the type of enslavement that was being practiced in the Caribbean. In this system, the West Africans were property that could be purchased or sold with exemption hence, the term ‘chattel.’ Due to them being property, they had no rights before the law and could be subjected to any form of abuse without any redress. If an enslaved were to die at the hands of another white person, the owners would receive some form of compensation. Eventually, laws were brought about to regulate the treatment of the enslaved people, but these were implemented to benefit the owners as it is to protect their “property” and not to protect the enslaved.

On the other hand, enslavement in West Africa existed before it was brought to the Caribbean. In West African slavery, race didn’t play as a leading factor in fuelling slavery since the masters and slaves were of the same skin complexion. In this instance, slaves were something the results of debt payments owed by either master or the enslaved himself. This then means that in a sense slavery was voluntary. Enslaved people were sometimes those who were criminals, those who practiced witchcraft and sometimes those who were even kidnapped. In west Africa, the enslaved were valued as both a social being also as economic factors. These enslaved were the basis of the West African slave masters wealth because not much importance was place on land as in Europe, so the value shifted to the slaves.

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Objective #3:  Immigration situation between Haiti and Dominican Republic

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Objective #3:  Immigration situation between Haiti and Dominican Republic

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As of recently, the tension has been revived in the courts of Dominican Republic. This has been due to many Dominicans of Haitian descent being either stripped of their citizenship or those who do not have documents have been forced to register with the government. For many years, those who were born in Dominica Republic were given citizenship but, as of 2010, the constitution was rewritten, and the granting of citizenships excluded the children who were born to undocumented immigrants.  It was said that this lawsuit was created to benefit those who were born to immigrant parents before 2010 but, in the end all the residents who were born to immigrant parents dating back to eighty years were not entitled to citizenship. That, then left thousands of Haitian descents stateless. The mass deportation that many feared, did not occur but that created heighten racial tension and the idea of deportation caused many of the Haitians to leave at their own free will. A small non-profitable organization was formed in Dominican Republic to help immigrants of Haitian descent to gain legal work and to help restore citizenship. It was said that these new immigration laws were set up to fail immigrants because many did not have any idea how these laws were supposed  to work.

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Throughout this semester, Caribbean Civilization was most definitely not my favourite course. During this course I encountered so many difficulties in doing my assignments because firstly I did not fully understand what exactly was to be done and I could not think of a proper way to phrase my assignments. Secondly, I waited at the very last moments to do this course assignments and lastly, I was not really interested in some of the topics that were discussed during some of the lectures and even some of the tutorials classes but with the cons of this course there were many pros. For instance, it was fun to work in groups in many of the tutorials classes because many of those who presented brought a fun attitude towards whatever topic they were given which made things interesting and it even made some of the topics easier to understand. The day I enjoyed immensely was the day we watched part one of the movie “Fire in Babylon.” I was so intrigued and intensely focused on what was being said in the movie. It made me see cricket as not just a sport, but I got to partly understand what cricket really meant to the Caribbean people and the ones who played cricket.