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From:Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (Vol. 13)I. INTRODUCTION Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, tells of a group of women who withhold sex from their husbands until their husbands make peace with the Spartans. (3) This simple story creates a powerful image of...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGeorge Leacock was born in 1915 in Belmont, Trinidad, and moved to Tobago in 1923. HALL: When did you get involved in Carnival in Tobago? LEACOCK: When I left Trinidad in 1923, well I left after Carnival, eh. When I...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTen years after the British took over the island of Trinidad, the first British census of 1808 records the presence of 22 Chinese among a mixed population of English, Spanish, French, German, and Corsican whites,...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 32, Issue 11)The government has set aside $500,000 (U.S. $81,000) to turn the childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul into a museum and re source center for Caribbean literature, BBC News reported October 23. A...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCaribbean peoples have have been roaming, what I refer to as "contemporary Middle Passages," for several generations. Many of us continue to live in suspension between our island homes and metropolitan cities of the...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmong the one and one-third million people living in Trinidad, few can claim purely Amerindian descent. Trinidad never instituted an Indian reservation system, and Amerindian resistance never produced great heroes like...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 110, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTOMLINSON v. BELIZE; TOMLINSON v. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. [2016] CCJ 1 (OJ). At http://www.caribbeancourtofjustice.org. Caribbean Court of Justice, June 10, 2016. On June 10, 2016, the Caribbean Court of Justice (Court...
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From:British Journal of Criminology (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Trinidad and Tobago jury system was studied to determine the effect of perceptions of social class on the selection of jury forepersons. These perceptions were found to have a substantial effect and to represent a...
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From:The Review of Black Political Economy (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents a comparative analysis of labor market demand in the three major economies of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) in the period since 1970. The regression analysis indicates that the...
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From:International Monetary Fund Staff Papers (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper uses a computable general equilibrium model of the economy of Trinidad and Tobago to assess the effects of trade liberalization and terms-of-trade shocks on the real exchange rate and the overall fiscal...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 4)Byline: MIKE CEASER St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago -- Satanand Sharma's voice never rises as he gently reprimands a pair of students, guiding and cajoling them through a two-hour practice session of steel-pan...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCarnival is a many-faceted pre-lenten festival with both native, Afro-Trinidadian, and European roots. It social, political, and religious; both highly theatrical and musical; and deeply imbedded in common culture....
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMinshall reflects on the origins of 'mas' Carnival theater, and on his long influential career. A tribute to mas pioneer George Bailey (1935-1970), and a history of women's involvement in Carnival are also provided....
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOver the past six decades, calypsonians have had to produce their songs for that many-headed monster, the market, while retaining close contact with their communities and struggling to maintain aspects of calypso...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedInstitutional and regulatory environments have a profound impact on land markets and prices. This paper argues that affordability of land and housing ownership in less developed countries is largely affected by...
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From:ARSC Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article sheds light on the indigenous art form of calypso and highlights significant milestones--first recordings, first live performances, first music publishing, and first recordings on film. Emanating from a...
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From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 88, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEric Williams (1911-1981) was one of an illustrious cohort of colonial leaders who led their countries to independence in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Most of these men had campaigned for years in the political trenches....
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNaipaul's acerbic reflections in The Middle Passage (1962) link advertising agencies to three things: modernity, derivative modes of taste, and instruction. Given that Naipaul's account assumes a somewhat distorted view...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn February 1970 the Black Power movement in Trinidad exploded as thousands of young people took to the streets in massive demonstrations that rocked the island. The government responded by arresting activists and...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLooking back now to our obligatory Carnival Sunday-night fetes that led into Jouvay, at whole families linked together, at the lime with friends, the strands of green bush held aloft, old, young, everybody out to...