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Caribbean Studies may refer to: The study of the Caribbean islands, the Caribbean people , the Caribbean Community or the Caribbean Sea Caribbean Studies (journal) , a journal published by the University of Puerto Rico and the research institute which publishes it
A Caribbeanist is a scholar who specializes in the study of the Caribbean region of the Americas-- its literature, culture, politics, society, ecology and so forth. In some academic disciplines Caribbean studies are seen as a branch of the larger field of Latin American studies .
Caribbean studies journals (10 P) S. Society of the Caribbean (15 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Caribbean studies" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 ...
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...
Sidney Wilfred Mintz (November 16, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food. Mintz received his PhD at Columbia University in 1951 and conducted his primary fieldwork among sugar-cane workers in Puerto Rico.
War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939–1945 (1988). Baptiste, Fitzroy Andre. "The British grant of air and naval facilities to the United States in Trinidad, St. Lucia and Bermuda in 1939" Caribbean Studies 16.2 (1976): 5–43. Black, Clinton V. 1997. The History of Jamaica. Longman Publishers.
The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean plate borders the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate and the Cocos plate.
DNA studies changed some of the traditional beliefs about pre-Columbian Indigenous history. According to National Geographic, "studies confirm that a wave of pottery-making farmers—known as Ceramic Age people—set out in canoes from the northeastern coast of South America starting some 2,500 years ago and island-hopped across the Caribbean ...