1,427
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Caribbean Womanism: decolonial theorizing of Caribbean women’s oppression, survival, and resistance

ORCID Icon &
Pages 2702-2722 | Received 07 Aug 2019, Accepted 15 Oct 2020, Published online: 30 Nov 2020

References

  • Bahadur, Gaiutra. 2013. Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. University of Chicago Press.
  • Baksh-Soodeen, Rawwida. 1998. “Issues of Difference in Contemporary Caribbean Feminism*.” Feminist Review 59: 74–85.
  • Barriteau, Eudine. 1992. “The Construct of a Postmodernist Feminist Theory for Caribbean Social Science Research.” Social and Economic Studies 41: 2.
  • Barriteau, Eudine. 2002. “Women Entrepreneurs and Economic Marginality.” In Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Barriteau, Eudine, 221–248. Kingston: University of West Indies Press.
  • Bellot, Gabrielle. 2018. “Borderlands.” In Can we all be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism, edited by June Eric-Udorie, 47–60, New York: Penguin Books.
  • Boyce Davies, Carole, Meredith Gadsby, Charles Peterson, and Henrietta Williams. 2003. Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies. Trenton: Africa World Press.
  • Brereton, Bridget. 2002. “Gender and the Historiography of the English-Speaking Caribbean.” In Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Patricia Mohammed, 129–144. Barbados: University of the West Indies Press.
  • Burnard, Trevor G. 2004. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Chancy, Myriam. 1997. Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Chevannes, Barry. 2001. “Gender and Adult Sexuality.” In Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by P. Mohammed, 486–494. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press.
  • Chin, Staceyann. 2009. The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. 1996. “What’s in a Name? Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond.” The Black Scholar 26 (1): 9–17.
  • Collins, Patricia Hill. 2015. “No Guarantees: Symposium OnBlack Feminist Thought.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 38 (13): 2349–2354.
  • Cullors, Patrisse. 2016. The Rise of Black Lives Matter. [Youtube] Directed by Nirit Peled. Netherlands: VPRO Documentary.
  • Glave, Thomas, ed. 2008. Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and gay Writing From the Antilles. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Goulbourne, Harry, and John Solomos. 2004. “The Caribbean Diaspora: Some Introductory Remarks.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27 (4): 533–543.
  • Hodge, Merle. 2002. “We Kind of Family.” In Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Hodge, Merle, 474. Kingston: University of West Indies Press.
  • Hosein, Gabrielle Jamela. 2011. “Caribbean Feminism, Activist Pedagogies and Transnational Dialogues.” Feminist Review 98: e116–e129.
  • Hudson-Weems, Clenora. 1993. Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves. Troy, MI: Bedford Publishers.
  • Jayawardena, Chandra. 1963. “Family Organisation in Plantations in British Guiana.” International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology 1: 43.
  • King, Rosamond S. 2014. Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
  • Kolawole, Mary Ebun, Modupe. 1997. Womanism and African Consciousness. Trenton: Africa World Press.
  • Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press.
  • Loyd, Jenna M., and Alison Mountz. 2018. Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Meeks, Brian, and Norman Girvan. 2010. The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation. Kingston: Ian Randle.
  • Mehta, Brinda. 2004. diasporic (dis) Locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani. Kingston: University of West Indies Press.
  • Mendez, Xhercis. 2015. “Notes Toward a Decolonial Feminist Methodology: Revisiting the Race/Gender Matrix.” Trans-scripts 5: 41–56.
  • Mohammed, Patricia. 2000. “‘But Most of all mi Love me Browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired.” Feminist Review 65: 22–48.
  • Mohammed, Patricia. 2002. Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought. Kingston: University of West Indies Press.
  • Mohammed, Patricia. 2016. “A Vindication for Indo-Caribbean Feminism.” In Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought, 23–36. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Momsen, Janet. 2002. “The Double Paradox.” In Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Patricia Mohammed, 44–55. Barbados: University of the West Indies Press.
  • Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa. 2015. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. 4th ed. Albany: State University of New York (SUNY) Press.
  • Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. 1997. “Decolonizing Feminism.” Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century, 63: 3–17.
  • Peake, Linda. 1993. “The Development & Role of Women’s Political Organizations in Guyana.” Women & Change in the Caribbean: A Pan-Caribbean Perspective, 109.
  • Peake, Linda, and D. Alissa Trotz. 2002. Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana. New York: Routledge.
  • Reddock, Rhonda. 1993. “Transformation in the Needle Trades: Women in Garment and Textile Production in Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad.” Women and Change in the Caribbean, 249–262.
  • Reddock, Rhoda. 1999. “Jahaji Bhai: The Emergence of a Dougla Poetics in Trinidad and Tobago.” Identities Global Studies in Culture and Power 5 (4): 569–601.
  • Rodney, Walter. 1981. A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905 (No. 988.1 R6).
  • Shepherd, V. A. 2018. “Constructing Visibility: Indian Women in the Jamaican Segment of the Indian Diaspora.” In The Subaltern Indian Woman, edited by Shepherd, Verene A., 195–214. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Smith, Faith L., ed. 2011. Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
  • Surajbali, Preeia D. 2016. “Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology: A Personal and Scholarly Journey.” Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought, 37–48.
  • Trotz, Alissa. 1996. “Gender, Ethnicity and Familial Ideology in Georgetown, Guyana: Household Structure and Female Labour Force Participation Reconsidered.” The European Journal of Development Research 8 (1): 177–199.
  • Ulysse, Gina A. 2007. Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Vertovec, Steven. 1992. Hindu Trinidad. Religion, Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Change, Warwick University Caribbean Studies. London and Basingstok: Macmillan Caribbean.
  • Walker, Alice. 1983. In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  • Williams, Eric Eustace. 1970. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969. London: Deutsch.
  • Williams, Eric Eustace. 1984. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Wynter, Sylvia. 2003. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3 (3): 257.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.