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Indian immigrants to Guyana in the 1800’s
To be precise, I am an Indo-Guyanese-American: The mother of all hyphenated identities and an illustration of a historic journey from India to the Caribbean. This heritage is commonly packaged in a number of different terms, all of which are heavily used as referential identifiers: Indo-Guyanese. Indo-Caribbean. Caribbean. West Indian. Indian. It is most aptly described as the Indo-Caribbean experience—an experience that is shared by Indians living throughout the Caribbean diaspora and thus serving as the blueprint for my existence.
This unique cultural disposition is why the Indo-Caribbean are able to culturally identify with public figures ranging from Hasan Minhaj to Nicki Minaj. It is why bursts of Caribbean intonation in Rihanna’s voice blanket me in the comfort of home, while the ballads of A.R. Rahman awaken pained demons within me, crying to connect with a history that was ripped from my hands long before I was born.
My parents hail from Guyana, a small country on the northern coast of South America. Guyana is one of the original colonies of the British West Indies and, although not located in the Caribbean Sea, the CARICOM Seat of Secretariat is located in Georgetown, Guyana, thus rendering the country a crucial member of the Caribbean family. [Read more]
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#diary entry#photo diary#digital diary#fantasy#grandmother#west indian#caribbean women#trinidad#island priestess
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#caribbean#caribbean culture#caribbean women#caribbean woman#caribbean gyal#carnival#carnival 2023#Barbados#bajan#crop over#crop over 2023#wine#dance#soca#west indian#west indies#krave the band#island gyal#island life#black#black women#black woman#black women are beautiful#black is beautiful#beautiful woman#beautiful#beautiful women
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First ever gay couple (Melinda Angel and Danika Marquez) to get married in Curaçao on July 27th 2024, after the official legalization of same-sex marriage on July 12th 2024.
#lesbian#curaçao#gay marriage#wlw#Caribbean#marriage#absolutely off topic but I had to share#finally i can marry in my own country#yes i came back just to post this goodbye#happy birthday to all my gay Curaçaons#i stopped my movie and my letterboxd run just to post this#curacao#gay couple#gay wedding#wedding#sapphic#lesbian couple#melinda angel#danika marquez#lgbt#lgbtq#same sex marriage#same sex relationships#west indian
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📍Morne Puilboreau, Haïti 🇭🇹
via @jeanoscar.a
#haiti#ayiti#haitian#caribbean#ayisyen#west indian#west indies#afro caribbean#caribbean culture#carribean#les antilles
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Life Dump🤎
#me#blacktumblr#blackgirlmagic#caribbean#black tumblr#melanin#caribbean women#beauty#tumblrgirl#tattoos#beachlife#west indies#west indian#saint lucia#black girl magic#life dump#photo dump#SoundCloud
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The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean
On view: September 4 through December 14, 2024
"Illuminating the often-overlooked Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, 27 artists across 14 countries address notions of visibility and invisibility, spirituality, and archiving across various media. Named after a 1975 work by Japanese-Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura, The Appearance primarily focuses on artwork created from 1940 onwards." [x]
#caribbean art#latin american art#south american art#asian art#asian diaspora#art history blog#chinese art#brazil#brasil#peru#ecuador#argentina#jamaica#cuba#cúba#cuban art#guadaloupe#indian art#japanese art#perú#peruvian art#costa rica#east asian art
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After just using the well-known Caribbean phrase "massa day done" as a tag in reference to the sun finally setting on the British Empire, I thought I'd revisit Dr. Eric Williams' famous 1961 speech decrying the appointment of a rich white man to political office as a "feather in the cap" of the party, the speech where the term was solidified in our culture as shorthand for self-determination and independence. And I couldn't stop laughing because it was exactly the way that a certain class of educated West Indian STILL talks to this very day when irritated:
This pack of benighted idiots, this band of obscurantist politicians, this unholy alliance of egregious individualists, who have nothing constructive to say, who babble week after week the same criticisms that we have lived through for five long years, who, nincompoops that they are, think that they can pick up any old book the day before a debate in the Legislative Council and can pull a fast one in the Council by leaving out the sentence or the paragraph or the pages which contradict their ignorant declamations for people like these power is all that matters.
I love this aspect of Caribbean language-ways and how we adhere to that particular era of English that came over on the boats. It's like how the specific form of Bhojpuri spoken by East Indian indentured labourers didn't develop in an Indian context but alongside/blended with other language groups in Trinidad & Tobago, and why our words for things don't scan with Hindi-speakers from the sourceland.
When I moved back to Canada from Trinidad and spoke with other Indian people, sourceland Indians, they never knew "what I was" or what I was saying when I used Trini Hindi. It was a source of embarrassment then, constantly having to explain that we from the diaspora are still Indian and also distinctly individual, but now I love it. My sister nearly physically fought some dude in a kebab shop in England over her identifying as Trini-Canadian rather than South Asian because he said she "wasn't proud of who she was".
We have to tick "South Asian" on forms because there's no space for us and any reference to Caribbean is Afro-Caribbean, but that's not really what I identify as. I'm the granddaughter of those sugar cane plantation workers who were told (in 1926!) "the less education your children have, the better". I'm the daughter of a man who grew up in the plantation barracks where the sugar employers thought it "unnecessary to provide adequate sanitary facilities for their employees, because the workers would not use them".
Massa day done. It's a powerful phrase when you're constantly decolonizing your own identity in the face of a world that isn't aware of what you are.
Massa Day Done, Sahib Day Done, Yes Suh Boss Day Done. - dr. eric williams
#chromatic voice#trinidad and tobago#eric williams#post colonialism#west indian#caribbean#indo-trinidadian#indo-caribbean#blood sugar trade#indentured servitude#kala pani#massa day done#school of ruckus#says miss maggie
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One love
#jamaica#black tumblr#photography#danielle myers#beach#one love#Jamaican#negril#negril beach#seven mile beach#7 mile beach#Bob Marley#caribbean sea#caribbean#west indies#west indian
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🇯🇲🩷 carnival ‘24 🩷🇯🇲
#me#melanin#blackgirlmagic#brownskingirl#mine#black girls with colored hair#naturalhair#caribbean culture#caribbean carnival#west indian
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Belize Born & Raised 🇧🇿
#caribbean women#belize#black women#dark skin#nature#beachlife#tropical#vacation#knotlessbraids#curly hair#hairstyle#black fashion#self care#self improvement#brown skin#west indian#lifestyle#swimwear#black beauty
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Menelik Shabazz - Step Forward Youth (1977)
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Port of Spain at night, by Emile Rahaman.
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#caribbean#caribbean culture#caribbean women#caribbean woman#black#beautiful#melanin#wine#dance#soca#carnival#mas#masqueraders#west indian#west indies#black women#waistline#trinidad carnival#trinidad
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Artists: Michel-Jean Cazabon (1813-1888)
#michel-jean cazabon#fine art#colonial history#trinidad and tobago#caribbean#west indian#french artists#creole#english history#landscape#landscape painting#cottagecore#tropical aesthetic#peaceful atmosphere#forest#forest aesthetic#summer aesthetic#peace and quiet#countryside#country landscape#rural areas#art#history of art#caribbean history#colonialism#art blog#moodboard#art moodboard
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Ayiti, Hayti, Haïti — Land Of High Mountains.
📍Cap-Haïtien, Haiti via Jean Oscar Augustin
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