Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, May 1923. / Typewritten (carbon copy). Cover title: French colonization. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: numb. l. 158-160.

There are a lot of Swedish people who are aware of former Swedish colonies. St. Barthélemy in the West Indies, has many streets and towns named after Swedish people, exemplified by the capital Gustavia, named after King Gustav III. What many fail to learn about however, is the fact that slavery and slave trade is a relatively large part of Sweden’s cultural heritage. These are events that Sweden doesn’t seem to want to remember.   This study aims to look at Swedish history books to study historical writing about Sweden’s involvement in slavery and slave trade. The study will also analyze the social debate regarding slavery in Swedish newspapers, in an effort to showcase why these historical events have been forgotten and purposely evaded. The study will make use of theoretical standpoints revolving around historiography and use of history.   The results show that social debates in Swedish newspapers is largely in agreement regarding the grim nature of slavery and the shameful historical events that transpire. In addition to this, the papers seem to be in agreement regarding the need to address this part of Sweden’s history in an effort to tackle future conflicts facing multicultural countries such as Sweden. In regard to history books, the result is telling. In essence, history outside of Europe has been neglected, and thus Sweden has been allowed to create their own historical narrative, leaving slave trade beyond the horizon.

La rénovation urbaine de Pointe-à-Pitre (1961-1981) fut l'une des plus vastes jamais menée en France entre 1961 et 1981 et la première programmée en outre-mer. Elle avait pour but de répondre à la crise du logement et de réhabiliter des quartiers de cases insalubres qui s'étaient étendus de façon non maîtrisée sur des marécages situés autour de la ville. Cette rénovation urbaine ne fut pas simplement une opération d'aménagement car elle servit de front pionnier et de laboratoire aux acteurs de la composition urbaine en outre-mer par la mise en place d'organismes publics à qui l'État confia une compétence fonctionnelle pour aménager le territoire. A cette occasion furent introduits en Guadeloupe, une nouvelle architecture et un nouvel urbanisme retlet de la modernité. / Urban renewal of Pointe-à-Pitre (1961-1981) was one of the 1argcstever conducted in France during the years (1961- . 1981) and the fust programmed overseas territories. 1'0 respond to the housing crisis and renovate parts of unhealthy ceUsthat had spread in an uncontroUed manner on wetlands located around the city it was intended to. Urban renewal was not simply a development operations because it served as a frontier laboratory and the actors of the urban composition overseas by sctting up public bodies to which the State gave a functional competence develop the territory. On this occasion were introduced in Guadeloupe, a new architecture and new urbanism reflection of modernity.

The purpose of this project was to examine how Afro-Caribbean girls from the island of Sint Maarten narrate, navigate and negotiate their girlhood experiences. As a Black woman from Sint Maarten, this project is important due to the lack of sociological scholarship surrounding Black girls in the Dutch West Indies. This project utilized a qualitative approach that involved interview participant photography and semi-structured audio and video recorded interviews with 9 Afro-Caribbean girls who were 14-, 16- and 17-years old living in Sint Maarten. I analyzed the interview data and interpreted it using a combination of Black, Caribbean and transnational feminist frameworks which I named Afro-Caribbean transnational feminism. This framework specifically centers the lives and lived experiences of the girls. The findings show that Afro-Caribbean girls in Sint Maarten navigate their social worlds by negotiating different aspects of their lives, including their hair, appearance and food consumption to in various ways resist heteronormative ideas in Sint Maarten. This data serves as an important starting point and experiential reference to understand Afro-Caribbean girlhood in the Caribbean broadly, and specifically in the Dutch West Indies. / Master of Science / The purpose of this project was to examine how Afro-Caribbean girls from the island of Sint Maarten narrate, navigate and negotiate their girlhood experiences. As a Black woman from Sint Maarten, this project is important due to the lack of sociological scholarship surrounding Black girls in the Dutch West Indies. This project utilized a qualitative approach that involved interview participant photography and audio and video recorded interviews guided by a set of questions. There were 9 Afro-Caribbean girls who were 14-, 16- and 17-years old living in Sint Maarten who participated in the project. I analyzed and interpreted their responses using a combination of Black, Caribbean and transnational feminist frameworks which I named Afro-Caribbean transnational feminism. This framework specifically centers the lives and lived experiences of the girls. The findings show that Afro-Caribbean girls in Sint Maarten navigate their social worlds by negotiating different aspects of their lives including, hair, appearance, and food consumption to in various ways resist heteronormative views, which aligns biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles, in Sint Maarten. This data serves as an important starting point and experiential reference to understand Afro-Caribbean girlhood in the Caribbean broadly, and specifically in the Dutch West Indies.

The West Indies College is an institution of higher education in Jamaica which was established by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in 1909. It has had three names: 1909-1923, West Indian Training School; 1924-1958, West Indian Training College, and 1959-present, West Indies College. The school has been served by over 20 presidents. The needs of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, the Mandeville community, Jamaica, and the West Indies region continue to play an important role in the addition and elimination of academic programs at the college. Present programs have attracted students from Africa, North and South America, the West Indies, and Europe. The college has industries that are used as facilities to provide the work-study program for students to fulfill the college's operational philosophy of educating the entire person. The industries assist students in the development of manual skills and in the payment of tuition. The West Indies College is funded by grants of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, tuition fees, profits from industries, and individual contributions. The school also receives a financial advantage in the form of tax exemption from the Jamaican government. An organized Department of Alumni Affairs assists the college in moral, professional, and material support. Due to the generosity of individual alumni, scholarships have been established to help needy students.

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<p>Dreams of a "tropical Canada" that included the West Indies occupied the thoughts of many Canadians over a period spanning nearly forty years. From the expansionist fever of the late nineteenth century to the redistribution of German territories immediately following the First World War, Canadians of varying backgrounds campaigned vigorously for Canada-West Indies union. Their efforts generated a transatlantic discourse that raised larger questions about Canada's national trajectory, imperial organization, and the state of Britain's Empire in the twentieth century. </p><p>This dissertation explores the key ideas, tensions, and contradictions that shaped the union discourse over time. Race, nation and empire were central to this discourse. Canadian expansionists' efforts to gain free access to tropical territory, consolidate British possessions in the Western hemisphere, and negotiate the terms under which West Indians of color would enter the Canadian federation reflected and perpetuated logics that were simultaneously racial, national, and imperial. </p><p>Canada-West Indies union campaigns raise important questions about the processes at work in the ideological and material formation of the Canadian "nation" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Employing a wide range of public and private manuscript material, diaries, travelogues and newspapers, this dissertation argues that Canadians' expansionist aspirations in the West Indies were inextricably connected to a national vision. To the campaign's advocates, acquiring colonial satellites - particularly in tropical regions - was a defining feature of nation-state formation.</p> / Dissertation

Cette recherche se base sur une ethnographie des bandes de jeunes dans les zones urbaines marginalisées en Guadeloupe. Héritiers d'une histoire politique caractérisée par l'esclavage, la colonisation et la dépendance, confrontés à la stigmatisation, la violence, le chômage, le désœuvrement, la drogue et la misère, ces jeunes ont néanmoins produit un univers culturel qui leur est propre. Dans cette thèse, je m'interroge sur les conceptions du pouvoir et du politique parmi ces jeunes dans un contexte social et politique oppressant afin de comprendre comment des pratiques quotidiennes de rébellion et de transgression s'articulent avec une désertion du politique tout en prévenant l'émergence de toute action collective qui remettrait en question les rapports de pouvoir en Guadeloupe. Du fait de la désertion du politique, ces conceptions se révèlent de façon diffuse dans la culture des jeunes des zones urbaines marginalisées. Cette thèse est donc avant tout une exploration des différentes facettes de la vie quotidienne de ces jeunes : la rue, la danse, la musique, l'économie informelle, la sexualité, la violence. L'univers culturel des jeunes des faubourgs est travaillé par deux dynamiques : la marginalité et la quête de puissance. La marginalité émerge d'un rapport complexe avec la société guadeloupéenne, marqué par la transgression, l'évitement et l'interdépendance. La quête de puissance est à la fois un mode d'interaction avec les pairs qui se substitue aux rapports de pouvoir et un principe structurant les représentations du monde auquel les jeunes des quartiers marginalisés ont recours, tant pour expliquer le monde contemporain que pour ériger des valeurs compensatoires, eut-égard à leur situation sociale. Puissance et marginalité sont deux dynamiques qui se déclinent sur le mode de l'hubris : un refus fondamental de sa propre incomplétude qui se traduit par une passion violente pour la démesure et l'exubérance. Dans les zones urbaines marginalisées, l'hubris se réfère aussi bien au refus de la misère qu'au poids du legs esclavagiste, réactualisé par une situation sociale d'une extrême précarité. / This research is based upon a fieldwork amongst young people in marginalized urban areas in Guadeloupe. Inheriting the political history of slavery, colonization and subsequent dependency, whilst also confronted with stigmatization, violence, unemployment, aimlessness, drugs and poverty, these young people have, nonetheless, established their own culture. In this thesis, I study the conceptions they have about power and politics in an oppressive social context, to understand how daily practices of rebellion and transgression link up with a desertion of politics while preventing any collective action able to question the power relationships in Guadeloupe. Due to the desertion of politics, these conceptions reveal themselves in the culture of young people living in marginalized urban areas. Subsequently, this thesis is an exploration of the daily lives of these young people: street life, dance, music, informal economy, sexuality and violence. The culture of young people in marginalized urban areas is influenced by two dynamics: marginality and the search for power. Marginality comes up from a complex relationship with Guadeloupean society, characterized by transgression, avoidance and interdependence. The search for power is both a way to interact with others and a principle structuring the world representation that young people use to understand the contemporary era and to create compensating values. Marginality and Power are two dynamics that proceed according to hubris: a refusal of one's own weakness which is expressed by a violent passion for excessiveness and outrageousness. In marginalized urban areas, hubris refers to the refusal of both poverty and the inheritance of slavery.