HUMA 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geoeconomics, Collective Identity, Transculturation
25 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
The Plantation System: Slavery (17th-19th century)
Pigmentocracy
The colour of the skin
The hierarchy shows white skin is superior .
Commercial capitalism/ mercantilism
It’s the ealy form of capitalism and essentially based on trade
The Plantation System: Indetureship (19th century)
Industrial capitalism
Neo-colonialism: Wage Labour (19th-21st century)
Political independence
American imperialism
things like satellite tv, CNN being broadcasted everywhere.
Transnational capitalism eg. Life and Debt & Mighty Gabby, “Jack”
Globalization
In the 16th century with colonialism, Caribbean’s become apart of this global system.
Resistance and Nationalism
It begins with
1. The struggle of Caribbean Peoples
Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples
2. European servants eg. Irish, Scottist, English indentured labourers, small farmers
3. Enslaved Africans eg. Akan, Nago, Yoruba, Bakango
4. Indian and Chinese indentured workers
5. Peoples of mixed heritage
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Caribbean people were objects instead of the subject, the early history was written by European
explorers, travelers.
Someone external looking at the region and writing about it.
Internal perspectives would therefore be completely different from a person of actual carribian
descent.
The struggle of Caribbean people is a key theme within the course.
Culture and Identity
Dehumanization > reclaim humanity
The Caribbean as a diaspora
Rastafari: captivity, exile>dispersion
Memory of motherland, cultural retentions
The Caribbean as Home
Transculturation, creolization> caribbeanization
The Second Diaspora
Involuntary and voluntary migration
Caribibbean, Americas
England, France, Holland, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada
Famous theorist Stuart Hall: Caribbean people “twice diasporized”
Caribbean was the first place to be scattered. What began in the 16th century connected the carribian
to the larger global world.
CONCLUSION
Caribbean and the wifer world are closely interconnected
Historically- capitalist expansion
Geographically- movement of people
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Document Summary
The hierarchy shows white skin is superior . It"s the ealy form of capitalism and essentially based on trade. American imperialism things like satellite tv, cnn being broadcasted everywhere. Transnational capitalism eg. life and debt & mighty gabby, jack . In the 16th century with colonialism, caribbean"s become apart of this global system. It begins with: the struggle of caribbean peoples. Indigenous or aboriginal peoples: european servants eg. irish, scottist, english indentured labourers, small farmers, enslaved africans eg. akan, nago, yoruba, bakango. Indian and chinese indentured workers: peoples of mixed heritage. Caribbean people were objects instead of the subject, the early history was written by european explorers, travelers. Someone external looking at the region and writing about it. Internal perspectives would therefore be completely different from a person of actual carribian descent. The struggle of caribbean people is a key theme within the course. England, france, holland, united states, australia, new zealand, canada.
