CRB 100 Midterm: Midterm Notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Caribbean Studies
• Course: CRB 100
• Professor: Camille Hernandez- Ramdwar

Document Summary

1: geopolitical belonging to various organizations, economics caribbean community & common market (caricom); shared status as democratic & capitalist, associations of caribbean states (acs) economies, cultural shared aspects of creolized cultures (language, food, religion, music), predominant mixtures of african & European cultures with other influences (indigenous, indian, chinese, middle eastern: historical share histories of colonialism, slavery, indenturship, the sugar plantation. Diversity: geographical, historical, political, economic, ethnic, racial, demographic. An invented region: transplanted people, flora, fauna, customs & culture. Colonies of exploitation: two kinds of colonies colonies of settlement and colonies of exploitation, canada was colony of settlement (as opposed to colony of exploitation) desire was to create. Diaspora: caribbean societies are arguably the first and original diasporic societies, people migrated (forced or otherwise) from may different regions: south america, europe, africa, asia, middle east, new peoples, cultures, societies, landscape, economies became the result.