https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio Caribbean Civ - Kelsie Nancoo en-us 2017-04-12 00:39:24 UTC 2017-04-23 14:46:31 UTC hello@padlet.com kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167403128 18/2/2017- Author's such as Reddock and Beckles,Barrow and Gabriel, have tried to paint a corrected picture of what the life of an enslaved woman was like. Contrary to the literature women were quite heavily involved in field labour on the plantations. While it is maintained that they did work in the houses as well, their lives not working the field was in no way easier. This contributed heavily to a phenomenon known as House wifization. This is the devaluation and normalising of women’s work in the home (Mohanty, 162.) The African Woman has been dealt a severe blow by the Eurocentric, colourist and sexist ideals of history. Colourism is defined as “the system of privilege and discrimination based on the degree of lightness in the colour of a person’s skin.” (Deborah Gabriel, 11.)Being not only oppressed and exploited by her white masters, The african woman was also subjected to oppression being the lesser to her African male counterpart. With colonial masters referring to, using, buying and selling their bodies as commodities the African woman has endured alot. Rape and abuse was a part of her constant reality. In the image depicted below,an african slave woman is seen breastfeeding a white baby, one that we can infer was not her own. This was a common practice (Beckles, 2011). While the psyche and moral of the slave is constantly being destroyed with slaves being regarded as animals, here it is seen that it is the same "animals" bodies that was used to provide nutrition for the next generation of their "masters". The need for revisionist history here lies in irony. Women were used and abused at will on various levels inside and outside of the plantations. The African woman was dealth a sincere blow not only to the realities of her experiences but also to the testiment of her enduring strength.]]> 2017-04-21 01:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167403128 kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167403849 This page is dedicated to all Caribbean history lost due to Colourism and Eurocentric ideals. The Caribbean has long been plagued with a culture of teaching a history that is not entirely our own and correct. From Christopher Columbus' discovery to the naming of the Taino and Kalinago people as Carib and Arawaks the necessity of the work of revisionist historians is evident. This page is an insight into some of the misdeeds done and how Caribbean people are taking back their history.]]> 2017-04-21 01:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167403849 kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167405451 2/3/2017- The Caribbean has been influenced by many cultures and countries and each individual island's culture is representative of that melee. While many people have a general understanding of what the Caribbean is, the boundaries of the Caribbean are unknown to them. The Caribbean identity is shaped heavily by the common history of colonialism and slavery. There are many territories which make up the Caribbean that are not island states such as Guyana. Caribbean people have long been plagued with competitive divisive mantras between islands and struggle with the idea of one Caribbean identity. Instead they idolize the experiences and culture of that of the North American mainland by choosing to identify and replicate aspects of their cultures rather than nurturing their own. Revisionist history in this case has taken up a mantra to uncover hidden truths of the Caribbean's history , teach it and make it appeasing to the Caribbean people. ]]> 2017-04-21 02:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167405451 kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167406304 17/2/2017- One of the major issues in the debate of revisionist history is whether or not there is sufficient evidence to support a claim that Africans visit the New World before the European "discovery." Ivan Van Sertima is a scholar and author who wrote extensively on the compelling evidence, such a the stone structure depicted below, that proves African arrival and trade. In recorded history thus far, the only documented and accepted meeting in the new world is from Europe. Van Sertima asserts his point with regard to the stone sculptures by assessing the features of the man depicted. He regards the man's broad nose and big lips as African traits and notes other physical evidence such as the presence of alloys only made in Africa, discovered in the "New World" (Van Sertima,2003). Without revisionist history much of the world's history will go undocumented. Were it not for the dedicated revisionist historians the Caribbean people would not be able to understand truly where and what exactly the Caribbean identity is made up of.]]> 2017-04-21 02:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167406304 kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167407226 Caribbean Civilisation has been an enlightening journey. Coming from completing form 6 History, I felt like I was aware fo what it meant to be a part of the Caribbean. This course has not only shown me what isn't taught in school but it has opened my eyes to an authentic Caribbean history like none before. The course, while eye opening does have its shortcomings. For me it proved rather difficult to follow the online lectures. The media forum while progressive proves distracting and does not easily keep the audience's interest. The course in this manner is very discouraging as it may prove boring to many. In the future, interpersonal lectures may be better suited as a teaching mechanism. While this course was a mandatory foundation course for me, It was one of my most enjoyed content.]]> 2017-04-21 02:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167407226 kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167407251 Beckles, Hilary Mc.D. Taking Liberties: Enslaved Women and Anti-Slavery Politics."In 2011 Engendering Caribbean History. Cross Cultural Perspectives: A Reader, edited by Verene Shepherd, 369-380. 2011. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers. Print.
Gabriel, Deborah. Layers of Blackness: Colourism in the African Diaspora. London: Imani Media, 2007. Print.
Meltzer, Milton. Slavery. New York, Cowles Book Co., 1971.
Mohammed, Patricia. Feminism: Caribbean. In Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, edited by Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 2000. Routledge: New York. Print.
Mohanty, Chandry. Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity. In The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics, edited by Nancy Holmstorm. 2011. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press. Print.
Pargass, Gaietry and Roberta Clarke. Violence Against Women: A Human Rights Issue Post Beijing Five Year Review. In Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Reality or Illusion, edited by Gemma Tang Nain and Barbara Bailey. 2003. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers. Print.
Reddock, Rhoda, and Christine Barrow. Caribbean Sociology: Introductory Readings. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2001. Print.
Ron. "Seasoning African Slaves By Thomas Clarkson." Seasoning African Slaves By Thomas Clarkson. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.
Sertima, Ivan Van. They came before Columbus: the African presence in ancient America. New York, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003.

]]> 2017-04-21 02:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167407251 kelsie_nancoo https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167411174 26/1/2017- Christopher Columbus - That name has very different meanings depending on one's heritage and nationality. For Caribbean people, he is noted as the Spanish conquistador that discovered  the region's islands. The eurocentric idealist history taught of Columbus' arrival tells of savage, cannibal natives who were placed into a humane system of labour. When, infact the encomienda system was a horrible system of over work, malnutrition of workers and abuse. Sir Hilary Beckles in his book "Liberties Lost" describes the genocide of the Indiegenous societies for the horrors it truly existed to be. This again proves how important and dyer revisionist history is to society. With correct information not only about about the Indiegenous groups that existed, one can refute the cannibalistic claims, inhumane conditions of the endomienda system and the even the presence of natives on the islands before they were "discovered."]]> 2017-04-21 03:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kelsie_nancoo/portfolio/wish/167411174