341 Lecture: Locating the Caribbean in Time and Space Part 1

Instructions

Answer the following questions using the information from the lecture.

The focus of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to evaluate your own learning. Answer the questions to the best of your ability. You will receive the grade for completing the assignment well. Complete the assignment and compare your answers to those in the answer key.

1. Watch the calypso Prof Harewood used to open this week's lecture - Columbus Lie by The Mighty Shadow (1991). In about 200 words, explain clearly what aspects of Caribbean history Shadow is refencing and why Columbus Lie could be described as 'counter hegemonic.'

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-PKN8Ovtkk

2. Columbus Lie is a calypso and we will be examining calypso later in the quarter. Still the film Family of the Caribbean which you watched last week already introduced you to calypso. What aspects of calypso, described in the film, can you recognize in Columbus Lie?

Family of the Caribbean Link:

https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C1689473

3. Eurocentrism can be defined as focusing on Europe. Is this true or false?

4. What does it mean when Prof Harewood says "all meaning is political"?

5. Name four ways that imperialist knowledge making was used to control the lives of the Indigenous people of the region.

6. The Plantation owners during the colonial period were often Absentee owners. What does this mean, why does it matter, and where do we see the pattern replicated today?

7. Why is the period 1838 to 1930s in the English speaking Caribbean sometimes called The Long 100 years?

8. In what way was the British response to the cultural heritage of Asian indentured servants different from the approach they had taken to cultural heritage of African descended people?