Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…Using data collected in Jamaica, this text exposes the main arguments presented by advocates of reparations, as well the arenas where they have been more active: public education, awareness raising campaign and archival reconstruction of documentation evidencing the economic impact of slavery. …”
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Pós-colonialidade, pós-escravismo, bioficção e con(tra)temporaneidade by Denise Carrascosa

“…This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named “biofiction”, the post-colonial theory and the issue of Africa n - diasporic subjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then ( 2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. …”
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“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…Following the war, Mary Seacole a colonial subject from Jamaica, published a memoir of her experiences nursing sick soldiers in the Crimea. …”
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Teaching how to critically read Indo-Caribbean bodies in nineteenth-century postcards by Rupa Pillai

“…From learning the history of indenture in the Caribbean to looking at similar colonial representations from the South Asian subcontinent, the students better appreciate how colonial ideologies of race, gender and progress are produced and reinforced through the visual.…”
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