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  Topic: suspension
caribj

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PostForum: Site Management   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 22:27   Subject: suspension
Curious. Why was I suspended? I dont see any posts outlining the reason.
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 20:58   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
Are you suggesting that there isnt some colorism in the DR and that those closest to the European look dont have better opportunities for upward mobility within the private sector especially with thos ...
  Topic: Zanzibar and slavery
caribj

Replies: 4
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PostForum: International Stories   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 20:54   Subject: Zanzibar and slavery
the results, like in the nonHispanic Caribbean, have adopted an identity which separates them from the non mixed (or minimally mixed) Africans.
Are you implying that Hispanic Caribbeans have NOT &quo ...
  Topic: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
caribj

Replies: 32
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PostForum: Latin America   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 20:41   Subject: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
If blacks and mulattos are the same why not use one description, blacks, as in the USA.
I neither know nore care why the book reviewer repeatedly lumped the terms together. The point is that there wa ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 02:10   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?

As far as the real penchant for Dominicans to favor lighter color and straight hair when in fact most of them are not fair nor have naturally straight hair this is somewhat complicated and often att ...
  Topic: Zanzibar and slavery
caribj

Replies: 4
Views: 124

PostForum: International Stories   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 01:31   Subject: Zanzibar and slavery


THere was intermarriage but the results, like in the nonHispanic Caribbean, have adopted an identity which separates them from the non mixed (or minimally mixed) Africans. More of an Arabized ide ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 00:29   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
CIMMERIAN it is possible that the skepticism about those West Indians who view Dominicans as self hating comes not out of the notion that they dont also have their own issues of colorism/shadism and s ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Fri 20 Nov 2009 00:04   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?

Dominicans dont travel to Jamaica. Ask some one from say Antigua what image Dominicans have on that island. I was in an immigration line in St Kitts and had to change lines because two Dominican wo ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 23:54   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?


When have I romanticized Cuba?


There is significant human trafficking out of the DR to other parts of the Caribbean and to Europe.

I posted a link to that in another thread. The article ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 23:49   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?

As your fellow compatriot, William Javier Nelson said in another thread here Latins arent always willing to admit that there is aproblem. That however doenst mean that all is well.
You're being ve ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 23:43   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
Well on behalf of the many West Indians of East Indian, Chinese, European, Amerindian and mixed ancestry you are wrong. In fcat Trinidad is 62% NON African identifying and Guyana 70%. The other islan ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

Replies: 91
Views: 6573

PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 23:38   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?

Well on behalf of the many West Indians of East Indian, Chinese, European, Amerindian and mixed ancestry you are wrong.
No, I'm not wrong because I personally know about the many different ethnic ...
  Topic: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
caribj

Replies: 32
Views: 1275

PostForum: Latin America   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 23:25   Subject: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
The first source references struggles of blacks AND mulattos in the early 20th century and a political party they established. This seems to indicate an ethnopolitical group identity that manifested i ...
  Topic: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
caribj

Replies: 32
Views: 1275

PostForum: Latin America   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 22:40   Subject: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba

In the USA not so because we are broken into the black, hispanic boxes and also Cuban exiles are mainly white. Also many Caribbean migrants who left the Caribbean a while ago have missed the increa ...
  Topic: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
caribj

Replies: 32
Views: 1275

PostForum: Latin America   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 22:23   Subject: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
Please provide a source for the claim of a three-caste society in Cuba. I have never seen any objective evidence of such a thing, neither in restrictive laws nor in genetic discontinuity. See, for exa ...
  Topic: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
caribj

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Views: 1275

PostForum: Latin America   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 01:35   Subject: Race-based clubs see revival in Cuba
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/sawyer/Cubapat.pdf

This might be of interest. It indicates different identities among Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Cubans.
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 01:15   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
"Los blancos, morenos/Cobrizos, cruzados/Marchando serenos,/Unidos i osados,
La Patria salvemos/De viles tiranos/Y al mundo mostraremos/Que somos hermanos."
Juan Pablo Duarte

Jamaica's ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

Replies: 91
Views: 6573

PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 01:09   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
No, I was not talking about Dominican (and non-Dominican) intellectuals who according to you share a perspective similar to mine, not at all.
These various authors have various different academic pe ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

Replies: 91
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PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:53   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
clearly from a west Indian point of view the stereotypical Dominican is mixed. The question will be are they the type of mixed race people who "tink dey white", an accusation thrown at mixed ...
  Topic: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?
caribj

Replies: 91
Views: 6573

PostForum: Caribbean Basin   Posted: Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:44   Subject: What Influences Dominican Self Identity?


Well on behalf of the many West Indians of East Indian, Chinese, European, Amerindian and mixed ancestry you are wrong. In fcat Trinidad is 62% NON African identifying and Guyana 70%. The other i ...
 
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