#Caribbean American Heritage Month

[latinowerebear8]

So it’s not only pride month this month it’s also Caribbean American Heritage Month. Was away for a bit but now that I’m back I can acknowledge all the holidays and stuff I’ve missed out on like how it was Mother’s Day for the Dominican Republic a few weeks ago and being half Dominican I wasn’t going to let that just slide by so I wrote this poem about it and the way culture can make you celebrate something again so soon. Kind of fitting too since my last post here was also a Mother’s Day poem.

[heavenboy09]

June Is CAHM /

Caribbean-American Heritage Month is celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States in June to honor the achievements and contributions of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants living in the United States, particularly in government, sports, entertainment, and the arts. Events are held throughout the month celebrating and educating the public about Caribbean-American history and culture.

The heritage month was first officially observed in 2006, after being unanimously adopted by the House of Representatives on June 27, 2005 in H. Con. Res. 71, sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, recognizing the significance of Caribbean people and their descendants in the history and culture of the United States. The Senate adopted the resolution on February 14, 2006, which was introduced by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. On June 5, 2006, George W. Bush issued a presidential proclamation declaring that June be annually recognized as National Caribbean American Heritage Month to celebrate the contributions of Caribbean Americans (both naturalized and US citizens by birth) in the United States. Since the declaration, the White House has issued an annual proclamation recognizing June as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month.

THIS IS CARIBBEAN 🇧🇶🇯🇲🇨🇺🇧🇸  AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH  #CaribbeanAmericanHeritageMonth

[murderousink23]

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[curryvillain]

OLDIES SUNDAY: @MarcAnthony - You Sang To Me (2000)

The Month of June is recognized as “Caribbean American Heritage Month“, and today we close the Month on “Oldies Sunday“ with a Singer who has solidified himself as a legend. Today’s selection comes from Puerto Rican-American Singer/Actor Marc Anthony with “You Sang To Me“. Co-Produced with Cory Rooney and released through Columbia Records in 2000, Marc Anthony was all about falling in love in…

[caribbeanart]

Themes in Contemporary Caribbean Art

This blog is mainly focused on art before the 1980s but if you're interested in exploring themes in contemporary Caribbean art this article by Tatiana Flores (available in English and Spanish) looking at the theme of water is a great place to start.

This idea of water as something so essential for all life and the interconnectivity it represents of both living and non-living things (like water itself) is exemplified here by the hydrocommons, a term that looks to connect environmental movements with historical inequalities and the reclaiming of ancestral memory among other things; exploring how the arts can help us reimagine newer, more sustainable relationships with ourselves, other living beings and our natural environment (with a strong interest in performance, as a historically undervalued art form).

You do have to subscribe to their newsletter in order to access this article, a great resource if you're interested in larger contemporary trends across Latin America and the Caribbean. But rest assured, you can always unsubscribe if it's not what you're looking for.

(See also: Key Themes in Caribbean Art)

[14th-century-verona-queer]

reminder that Latino characters are more than just “angry and love to gossip” (even tho people like this do exist and that’s okay)

reminder that not all Latinos are inherently sexual, are whores, and are willing to hook up with anyone

reminder that aspec Latinos exist

reminder that not all Latino men are cheaters

reminder that we still go through very-real and very hard struggles BESIDES the threat of deportation (even though this is still very important and should continue to be talked about!)

reminder that not all Latinos are illegals

reminder that Latinos and other immigrants aren’t “stealing american jobs”

reminder that not all Latinos do bad in school

reminder that not all Latinos do physical labor jobs because “they weren’t smart enough for something better”

reminder that Latinos are not inferior to you, we are all people and don’t need to prove ourselves for your respect

reminder that not all Latinos can speak Spanish

reminder that we didn’t ask for your opinion on whether or not we’re “Latino enough.” fuck you.

reminder that Latinos can be abused too

reminder that Latinos can also be mentally ill

reminder that Latinos face racism and micro-aggressions too

reminder that not all Latinos are Mexican. (even though we love to see the representation and I love seeing their culture being explored!)

reminder that’s Brazilians and Hatians are Latinos too (even though some might not identify themselves as Latino)

reminder that there are Latinos in the Caribbean too

reminder that latinos are El Salvadorians, Columbians, Peruvians, Haitians, Venezuelans, Dominicans, Bolivians, Cubans, Mexicans, Brazilians, Uruguayans, Chileans, Puerto Ricans, and many more

reminder that Latinos can be white, black, brown, mixed, short, tall, fat, skinny, chubby, and all the in-betweens, and we’re all beautiful

reminder that not all Latinos fit the stereotypes

reminder that the ones that do fit stereotypes deserve the same amount of respect as Latinos who don’t fit the stereotypes

reminder that no matter if you fit some, all, or none of these, it doesn’t make you any less Latino

Te amo, mi gente Latina 💜

you are all wonders of this world, la luz en la vida de alguien

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!

[skaianbruja]

Also a reminder this Latine Heritage Month that Latine ≠ "Native speaker of Romance language" You're thinking of Romanophone.

Latine is an ethnonym given to people of Latin American origin or descent, as well as to the US descendants of the original Hispanic settler and Hispanicized Native populations of the United States

Furthermore more Latin America and South America are not the same thing. They are two over lapping but separate geopolitical regions. Mexico is part of Latin America but not South America. Suriname is part of South America but not Latin America

Mexico is part of North America

While the Anglo and Dutch Caribbean are not part of Latin America, the Black and Native populations of the regions are sometimes considered to be Latines

Quebec is not part of Latin America, and the Québécois are not Latines

Needless to say, Spaniards, Portuguese people, Italians, French people, Romanians etc. are also not Latines

[lgbtqreads]

Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month

Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month! We’re celebrating as we do, with queer Caribbean fiction! Middle Grade Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender Being born during a hurricane is considered unlucky where twelve-year-old Caroline Murphy lives, and she has had her share of bad luck lately. She’s hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands. A spirit only…

[herbs-and-poultices]

A Vaguely Whumptober-Themed Anthology of Folk Songs from the British Isles / Transatlantic Tradition: Part 2

Part 1 Last Year's Part 1 Part 2

(What’s a random American gal with no English/Scottish/Irish heritage doing listening mostly to songs like these? Blame my parents for raising me on murder ballads and ceilidh tunes.)

16) Wound Cleaning: A' Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais (Son of John Son of James) X

An old traditional Gaelic song.

Dòmhnall mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais was shot with an arrow while leading his clan at the Battle of Carinish in 1601. According to legend, this song was composed and sung by his foster-mother as she removed the arrow and tending his wound. In the tradition it is more commonly sung as a waulking song (women's work song), but this is the first version of it I heard, performed live some 12 years ago, and it has a beautiful aching quality of love and grief.

17) Shipwrecked | "We had a good run": Barrett's Privateers (X)

A Canadian classic from the Folk Revival (20th c)

The ship was a wreck before she even set sail, it's a miracle she held up for the three months it took her to get from Canada to the Caribbean. One encounter with a merchant ship was more than enough to finish the job, leaving the sole survivor to try to make his way back home

18) Revenge: Banks of Sweet Dundee (X)

A broadside (19th c) ballad.

An orphan girl's uncle and a wealthy suitor conspire to have her low-born sweetheart pressed and sent to sea. The intrepid heroine seizes her suitor's weapons and takes her happily-ever-after by force.

He put his arms around her, “Stand off, stand off,” says she “You’ve sent the only lad I love from the banks of Sweet Dundee” She took the weapons from him and the sword he used so free, She boldly fired and shot the squire on the banks of Sweet Dundee Her uncle overheard, and hastened to the ground “Since you’ve killed the squire I will give you your death wound" “Stand off, then,” young Mary cried, “undaunted I will be” The sword she drew and her uncle slew on the banks of Sweet Dundee

19) "Is there anybody alive out there": Battle of Harlaw (X X)

A rather inaccurate account of the battle, most likely composed a few hundred years after the fact, but a fine old song nonetheless.

O’ fifty thoosan’ Heilan’ men but fifty-three gaed hame, And oot o’ a’ the Lawlan’ men fifty marched wi’ Graeme Gin onybody spier at ye o' them that marched awa’, Ye can tell them plain and very plain they’re sleepin' at Harlaw

** spier = ask

20) Emotional Angst: Lovely On The Water (X)

An old traditional ballad.

For Tower Hill is crowded With mothers weeping sore For their sons are gone to face the foe Where the blundering cannons roar

21) Body Horror: Donald MacGillavry (X)

A Jacobite song. Not precisely period trad (having been written some 60-70 years after the fact), but it's a real good one!

Things done to shoe leather should generally not be done to people.

Come like a cobbler, Donald Macgillavry Beat them, and bore them, and lingel them cleverly Up wi’ King James and Donald Macgillavry!

22) "Oh that's not good": Fire and Flame (X)

A memorial to the Halifax Explosion in 1917, composed by the latest generation of folksters.

'Twas in early December 1917 She was packed to the gills with Grade-A TNT They were bound for the fighting in High Germany When towards them the other ship turned The Norwegian ship Imo, some fault in her gears She struck Mont-Blanc's side like the mightiest of spears And the benzol ignited the captain's worst fears As the fire consumed bow to stern

23) "I'm doing this for you": Loch Lomond (X X)

Period trad (as far as I know) from shortly after the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

After the failure of the final Jacobite rising, the victors made brutal examples of their prisoners through public execution. One chose to die so that his comrades (or in some versions of the story his brother) might go free.

The 'high road' is the way over land back to Scotland. The 'low road' refers to the way traveled by the souls of those who die in foreign lands when, in Scottish tradition, they return home one last time.

24) “I never knew daylight could be so violent”: Bonnie Blue (X)

A Jacobite song. Not precisely period trad (having been written some 60-70 years after the fact, and the final verse added more recently).

Thanks once again to General John Cope for his contributions to the Scottish musical tradition.

Fast, fast their foot and horsemen flew, caps were mixed wi' bonnie blue Dirks were wet - but no wi' dew, upon that fatal morning... Run, run, ye gangling crew, this morning's work ye lang will rue The bonnie blue bonnets are after you tae wish ye's a' guid morning

25) Being Monitored | "It's for your own good": The Deserter (X)

When first I deserted, I thought myself free Until my cruel comrade informed against me. I was quickly followed after and brought back with speed, I was handcuffed and guarded, heavy irons put on me...

The resulting three-hundred three (!!) lashes was not enough to deter this desperate unwilling recruit from trying again. The second time around the sentence was execution, but thanks to the Prince's 'mercy' even that release would not be his:

Then up rode Prince Albert in his carriage-and-six Saying where is that young man whose coffin is fixed Set him free from his irons and let him go free -- For he'll make a good soldier for his Queen and country

26) Nightmares: Famous Flower of Serving Men (X)

An old ballad composed in the 17th century, of the gory family strife / star-crossed lovers variety.

After her husband and infant child are brutally murdered in front of her, a young woman takes her fate into her own hands. Cross-dressing, supernatural intervention, and fiery revenge ensue.

But all alone in my bed at e'en It's there I dream a dreadful dream I see my bed swim with blood I see the thieves stand 'round my head

27) Voiceless: One Hundred Feet (X)

A haunting memorial to the wreck of HMS Iolaire bringing soldiers home to the Hebrides at the end of WWI, composed by the latest generation of folksters.

One hundred feet from shore, We will hear their voice no more, Though I’d swear I heard them calling on the wind...

28) Denial | "They caught me red handed": Clark Sanders (X)

An old traditional ballad, another of the gory family strife / star-crossed lovers variety.

A lesson in how to talk your way out of anything... provided you aren't caught with the evidence and are actually awake at the time, that is.

"But you take a kerchief in your hands and tie up both your eyes, you may So you may say your oath to save, you ne’er saw me since yesterday And take the sword from out my scabbard, you can use it to lift the pin So you may say your oath to save, you never let your Sandy in And take me up all in your arms, you can carry me to the bed. So you may say your oath to save, on your bower floor I never tread" But in and come her five brothers, and all their torches in their hands They said "We have but one sister and see her lying with a man"

29) "Who said you could rest": Twa Recruiting Sergeants (X)

One of a family of old recruiting songs, this version aimed to lure poor farm laborers in rural Scotland.

It is intae the barn an' oot o' the byre This auld fairmer thinks ye'll never tire For it's a slavery job of low degree So list, bonnie laddie, an' come awa' wi me

How much their lives were actually improved by this change in career... well...

30) Recovery | "What have I done": Johnny I hardly knew ya (X) / Poor Johnny (X X)

Joining up was not Johnny's brightest idea.

They said he was a hero and not to grieve Over two wooden pegs and empty sleeves They carried him home and they set him down With a military pension and a medal from the crown You haven’t an arm, you haven’t a leg The enemy nearly slew you You’ll have to go out on the streets to beg Oh poor Johnny what have they done to you

31) "I'm alive, I'm just not well": Braes of Killicrankie (X)

I'll leave you with another Jacobite song. A period trad tune from the 1689 Rising, with lyrics added later.

A traumatized Government soldier recounts the horrors he experienced in a stunning defeat at the hands of the Jacobite forces.

The bauld Pitcur fell in a furr And Clavers got a clankie o Or I had fed an Athol gled On the braes o' Killicrankie o

** As best I can figure out: 'Thank goodness the Jacobite leaders were finally killed, otherwise I would have been supper for the local vultures.'

An ye had been whaur I hae beenYe wadna been sae cantie o An ye had seen what I hae seen On the braes o' Killiecrankie o

** an = if, cantie = cheerful

[bosses-stay-flawless]

🐚🌴🌊June Is National Caribbean American Heritage Month 🐚🌴🌊

Ocean to Ocean: “Each One Teach One”

Focus: We Are The Legacy of the Ocean, Some were here, some where brought here, in time many other came here. #childrenoftheOCEAN

[hinako-supremacy]

its caribbean-american heritage month so that means everyone that is mean to me has to give me one thousand dollars

[d1rlin]

Happy June. The month June spreads awareness surrounding;

Read more here

African American Music Appreciation Month

Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month

Caribbean American Heritage Month

Great Outdoors Month

National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month

National Oceans Month

National Pollinators Month

National Rivers Month

National Rose Month

Pride Month

Professional Wellness Month

Women’s Golf Month

World Infertility Awareness Month

[curryvillain]

OLDIES SUNDAY: @Aventura - Obsesión (2002)

The Month of June is recognized as “Caribbean American Heritage Month“, and on “Oldies Sunday“, we want to highlight a few Artists who are a part of this. Today’s selection comes from the Dominican-American Bachata band Aventura with the single, “Obsesión“. Produced by Franklin Romero and released through Premium Latin Music in 2002, “Obsesión” was Aventura’s lead single off of their 2nd official…

[cowshorsesandgardenias]

Day 2: In doing the research to highlight Caribbean Americans who have contributed to Black History, I learned June is Caribbean heritage month. In addition, I learned that Jackèe Harry and Alfonso Ribeiro are Trinidadian American. #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory365 #blackpopculture #nialong #nickiminaj #jackeeharry #lorrainetoussaint #tatyanaali #alfonsoribeiro #caribbeanamerican (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoKmq-iuO7D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[a-star-in-the-darkness]

Book List: Caribbean Authors

This month I really want to focus on book lists themed around the month’s celebrations. Obviously, later this month I want to do a Pride List but today I’m focusing on a Caribbean list, because June is National Caribbean American Heritage month. Though a lot of us dream of visitng the Caribbean islands, the truth is a lot of us also didn’t realize how much Carribean people have contributed to the…