CARIBBEAN WORLD

‘Illuminating’ event looks at black divide By Olivia Bane | Published 03/19/15 12:45am Students from the Black Student Movement and Organization for African Students’ Interests and Solidarity came together Wednesday night to address an issue not often discussed on a national level. “Our divide in America is between white and black, but there’s a divide between African and African-American that white people may not see,” said Shy’Kiya Lee, a nursing major and member of BSM. Participants talked about how people tend to lump everyone with dark skin into the category of the black “other,” forgetting or ignoring that not all black people are the same. Lee said there is a clear split between African and African-American UNC students. “It’s funny how the black people say we know all of the other black people at UNC, but we don’t include all of...

St. Vincent and the Grenadines moves mountains for airport Posted on September 20, 2010 | By Aubrey Cohen Rendering of the entrance of the planned $240 million Argyle International Airport in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, set to open in the Spring of 2012. (Business Wire) St. Vincent and the Grenadines will start construction later this year on a new $240 million international airport, the Southern Caribbean nation announced Monday. “The new Argyle International Airport will be a game changer for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as it will finally allow us to attract direct flights from major North American and European cities,” Glen Beache, tourism minister for the collection of 32 islands and cays, said from the World Route Development Forum, in Vancouver, B.C., according to a news release. Expansion of the existing E.T. Joshua Airport wasn’t feasible, so the country broke ground on the replacement, its largest development project ...

O professor que desafia os EUA a 'descolonizar' Porto Rico Ramón Nenadich | Foto: João Fellet Nenadich reclama assento para Porto Rico (Borinken, segundo ele) na Celac Nos corredores da terceira cúpula da Comunidade de Estados Latino-americanos e Caribenhos (Celac), realizada nesta semana na Costa Rica, um homem distribuía panfletos e atraía olhares curiosos. Chapéu com pena de falcão à cabeça, bigode farto e camisa com bordado amarelo no peito, Ramón Nenadich se dizia "presidente do Estado Nacional Soberano de Borinken" e reclamava um assento no fórum, que agrega todos os países das Américas menos os Estados Unidos e o Canadá. Borinken, explicava, era o nome indígena da ilha caribenha de Porto Rico antes da colonização espanhola e seu posterior domínio pelos Estados Unidos, em vigor desde 1898 com a derrota da Espanha na Guerra Hispano-Americana. Ele era acompanhado por uma mulher de cabeleira branca e xale rosa-choque, Maria Villeneuve, a quem apresentava ...

'A vida no Brasil não é normal, é só trabalho', conta boliviana que foi escravizada em SP Malena trouxe do Brasil uma imagem da Nossa Senhora Aparecida | Foto: Mariana Schreiber Malena chegou a dormir, com a filha pequena, em cozinha de oficina em São Paulo "Eu sinto saudade do Brasil. Mas não era uma vida normal. Era só trabalho", resume a boliviana Malena Aruquipo Rios, de 37 anos, 15 deles vividos em São Paulo. Após duas passagens pela capital paulista (uma de quatorze anos e outra de um), ela está de volta a El Alto, uma cidade satélite contígua à capital La Paz, desde 2013. Com tradição no setor têxtil, El Alto é o principal pólo de emigração para São Paulo, a metrópole onde milhares de bolivianos são explorados em oficinas de costura. Considerada a capital mundial da etnia aymara – do presidente Evo Morales –, a cidade se desenvolveu nos últimos anos, mas continua exportando mão de obra barata para o Brasil. A presidente Dilma Rousseff desceu de seu ...

Above: Gosier, Guadeloupe (All photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell Despite its proximity to the United States, the French department of Guadeloupe remains under the radar for most American travelers. That’s starting to change, however.In November, Guadeloupe opened a tourist office in Manhattan. But more importantly, in April, the first-ever direct flight from the US will come to Guadeloupe from Miami on American Airlines. And Guadeloupe has been receiving greater international attention as the filming location for the fictional island of Saint-Marie on the hit BBC mystery show “Death in Paradise,” which is now airing in the US as well. Now, Guadeloupe’s tourist board is making what it says is a concerted effort to draw visitors from the US, branding Guadeloupe as the “Guadeloupe Islands,” as it is actually a five-island archipelago. To learn more, Caribbean Journal talked to Sandra Venite, who is leading Guadeloupe’s US push, at the Caribbean Travel Marketplace Conference on Paradi...

African stylies/esthétiques capillaires Au moment où une certaine aliénation culturelle guette nos soeurs, retour historique sur la coiffure dans les sociétés africaines Par Belinda Tshibwabwa Mwa Bay    Coiffure d’une femme peuhle (1903) A l’heure où les Beyoncé Knowles , Christina Millan et Alicia Keys , au teint pâle et aux cheveux lisses sont les icônes incontestées de la beauté noire, à l’heure où l’apologie du métissage nous impose des canons de beauté de plus en plus blancs et de moins en moins noirs, la créativité de l’esthétisme capillaire africain a depuis longtemps cédé sa place aux marchands de cheveux en plastique des quartiers de la Goutte d’Or et de Château d’Eau. Perruques, tissages, mèches, multicolores, synthétiques ou naturels "Made in China" , s’arrache...

Je sais que par les temps qui courent, une telle affirmation passe pour une véritable hérésie. Mais avant d’être condamnée au bûcher par l’Inquisition négro-afropolitano-kémite, j’aimerais expliquer pourquoi et comment j’en suis arrivée à commettre un tel sacrilège. Tout a commencé par un sentiment d’indifférence, puis de décalage et enfin de franc agacement face à la déferlante du « Malaise noir » en France. Une vague névrotique déclenchée il y a quelques mois, par la haine inexpliquée d’un Bourguignon à l’encontre de l’innocente tubercule qui donne à mon foufou sa saveur si unique. ...