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Students' Resources & Archives: Caribbean Studies


On this page:

 Caribbean Universities, Programs
    and Research Centers
 Research Centers &
    Caribbean Studies Programs
 Caribbean Journals & Publications
 Caribbean Conferences,
    Associations, Discussion Groups
 Caribbean Literary & Cultural Websites
 Caribbean Language Studies
 Caribbean Studies Bibliographies
 Caribbean Libraries, Electronic Archives
    & Special Collections
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Caribbean Universities, Programs and Research Centers: Go back to the top of the page

Antigua State College (St. John's, Antigua)
   
El Centro de Estudios Avanzados del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
   
Casa de las Américas, Caribbean Studies Center (Cuba)
   
Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
   
Inter American University, San Germán, Puerto Rico
   
Inter American University, Metropolitan Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
   
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (St. Lucia)
   
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (UWI- Cave Hill, Barbados)
   
L'université des Antilles et de la Guyane
   
Universidad Metropolitana (UMET de Puerto Rico)
   
Universidad del Turabo (Puerto Rico)
   
University of Puerto Rico (UPR - Main Page)
   
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto de Estudios del Caribe
   
University of the Sacred Heart (Puerto Rico)
   
The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI - Mainpage)
   
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
   
The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
   
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad

 

Research Centers & Caribbean Studies Programs: Go back to the top of the page

Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College (CUNY)
   
Casa de las Américas, Caribbean Studies Center
  Material and information on the primary cultural organization in Havana Cuba.
   
Central Conneticut State University Caribbean and Latin American Studies Center
   
Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (in Canada)
   
Centro de Estudios del Caribe en Brasil
   
Dartmouth College, Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Program (Undergraduate)
   
Duke University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Center
  Part of the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
   
Indiana University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
   
Institute of Caribbean Studies
  A Washington DC-based non-profit organization established in 1993, dedicated to research, policy analysis, and education with a focus on issues that impact the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora.
   
New York University Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies
   
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (UWI- Cave Hill, Barbados)
   
   
SSRC Translocal Flows: Contesting Urban Spaces in America:
  An initiative of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) designed to promote research and to strengthen mechanisms for transnational intellectual dialogue about contemporary social processes and cultural practices in the Americas.
   
Tulane University, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute
  Part of Tulane's Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
   
University of Conneticut, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
   
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
   
The University of Miami - Caribbean Literary Studies Program
   
University of Michigan, Latin American and Caribbean Studies International Insititute
   
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto de Estudios del Caribe
   
The University of Warwick, England -- Center for Caribbean Studies
   
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program
   
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
   
York University (Canada), Latin American and Caribbean Studies Undergraduate Program

 

Caribbean Journals & Publications

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  Anthurium, a Caribbean Studies Journal (University of Miami)
  A Caribbean Studies journal published at the University of Miami.
   
Caribbean Studies
  A journal published by the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
   
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
   
  Conjunto, revista de teatro latinamericano
  Published by Casa de las Américas, Habana, Cuba
   
Journal of Caribbean Literatures (University of Arkansas)
   
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (UPR)
   
  Sargasso
  A refereed journal of critical articles, book reviews and literature by or about Caribbean cultures, literatures and languages published by the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
   
  Small Axe, a journal of Caribbean criticism
  A Caribbean journal of criticism published by Johns Hopkins U Press.
   
The Caribbean Writer
  A journal of Caribbean creative writing, published at the University of the Virgin Island, St. Croix.
   
The Jamaica Journal
  Published by the Institute of Jamaica.
   
The Journal of Caribbean Literatures
  Edited by Maurice A. Lee at the University of Central Arkansas.
   
The Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies
  A refereed, quarterly journal produced by Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (UWI-Cave Hill Campus). JECS has a reputation for publishing research geared towards addressing Eastern Caribbean issue problems.
   
The Journal of West Indian Literature (UWI)
   
Tonguas
  A yearly publication of the Tonguas collective, a performance poetry group at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
   
Wadabagei
 

The Intellectual Voice of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora. Edited by J.A. George Irish, Holger Henke and D. Alissa Trotz, of Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Now published by Lexington Books. Website has publishing information, submission guidelines and subscription forms.

   
Wasafiri
  A journal of Black British, African, Asian and Caribbean literatures, edited by Susheila Nasta and published three times yearly.

 

Caribbean Conferences, Associations, Discussion Groups and Other Information: Go back to the top of the page

  Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
   
  Caribbean Island Cultures Network
   
  Caribbean Lit. Group at Yahoo
  A discussion group and literary bibliographic archives on Anglophone Caribbean literature. Founded and moderated by Serafin Roldan. You must have a yahoo email account (free) and ask to join the group to get access to the files and discussion list.
   
Caribbean Studies Association
  Sponsored by the Florida Gulf Coast University.
   
Creole TALK at Yahoo Groups
  Must join the list to read messages.
   
Mark Sebba's British Creole Resources Page
  Has a few links to other web resources and a list of publications related to Caribbean languages in Britain.
   
The Virtual Caribbean Institute
  Founded in 1997 by a group of concerned Caribbeanists, the Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies (VICS) is an independent, New Jersey (USA) based internet forum committed to stimulate, coordinate, and disseminate research on various topics relevant to the development of Caribbean peoples at home and abroad.
   
Society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
  Must join the list to read messages.
   

 

Caribbean Literary & Cultural Websites Go back to the top of the page

  Caribbean Literary Studies
  English Department of University of Miami.
   
  The Caribbean page of the Postcolonial Literature in English website
 

A prize-winning website created and managed by Dr. George Landow with materials on postcolonial theory as well as on literature, culture, and society of Africa, Australia, the Carribbean, the Indian Subcontinent, Singapore, and other regions that have produced literature in English. The Caribbean page has sections on Caribbean Authors, Themes, Economics, History, Nations, Bibliography, and Related Web Sources. Mirror site at National University of Singapore.

   
  Carnival Culture
  by Michael Eldridge at Humboldt University. Has links to Carnival Resources on the Web,  and a link to his own multimedia, interactive "Iere Now and Long Ago": A Century of Calypso in Trinidad" which is only available with a password.
   
Banyan Limited
  Entertainment production company located in Port of Spain Trinidad.
   
Interview with Errol Hill
  The transcript of a 1989 interview of Errol Hill by Banyan Limited in Bridgetown Barbados.
   
Peepal Tree Press
  An important publisher of Anglophone Caribbean writers and works on the region. Includes a secure, on-line bookstore. Lots of information and links and an e-mail newsletter that can be signed up for.
   
Russ Filman's Caribbean Literature
  has listings of works by Anglophone Caribbean writers sorted by island, including a section for "unspecified".  Updated regularly with links to other websites related to Anglophone Caribbean literature.

 

Caribbean Language Studies: Go back to the top of the page

  Creole List Archives
  The list no longer updated, but the archives remains a valuable tool for linguists of Caribbean languages.
   
  LINGUISTICS - DIALECT SPEAKERS
  Administered by Dr. John Rickford and Dr. Robin Sobino, includes information on African American Vernacular, Dialect, Creole, Patois, Pidgin and ESL.
   
  Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
   
Society for Caribbean Linguistics:
  In Dutch, French, English and Spanish (with Jamaican, Papiamento, and St. Lucian versions soon to be added). Has links to major websites relevant to Caribbean linguistic studies.

 

Caribbean Studies Bibliographies: Go back to the top of the page

  Annotated Bibliographies of Three Caribbean Writers
  R. Antoni, V.S. Naipaul and Kamau Brathwaite (by P. Dalleo, SUNY, Stony Brook)
   
  Bibliography of Caribbean Critics
  Compiled by P. Dalleo, SUNY, Stony Brook
   
  Caribbean Children's Literature - a Selected Annotated Bibliography
  Compiled by Annette Wallace.
   
Caribbean Literature Bibliographies
  (Compiled by Serafin Roldan) Bibliographies on General Caribbean Literature - major authors, reading lists and links on Caribbean Migrations, Chroniclers and Travel Writers, Postcolonial Theory, V.S. Naipaul, the Mimic Men, among other topics. Must join the list (free) and then look under "Files" to download the material.
   
Caribbean Studies at Duke University
  A list of reference resources as well as links to major sites on Caribbean and Latin American Studies.
   
  Caribbean Studies Reference Resources
  Compiled by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Afro-Americana Bibliographic Unit.
   
Caribbean Studies Reference Sources
  Compiled by Cornell University Africana Library
   
Dictionary of the Taino Peoples of the Caribbean
   
Selected Bibliography of Literature on or about Carnival, Pan and Calypso
  By Eldridge at Humbolt
   
Wilson Harris Bibliography

 

Caribbean Libraries, Electronic Archives & Special Collections: Go back to the top of the page

  Caribbean Collection in the British Library
  Has the most extensive collection of historical documents on the Caribbean.
   
  CONUCO
  Index of Puerto Rican Periodicals.
   
  CARINDEX
  Maintained by UWI. An index to the contents of some 70 West Indian journals, published within in the Caribbean region. It also includes theses and papers presented at conferences.
   
Caribbean Regional Resources
  A list of sites pertaining to the Caribbean region, hosted by the University of Texas LANIC (Latin American Network Index Center).
   
Casa de las Américas, Caribbean Studies Center
  Material and information from the primary cultural institution in Havana Cuba.
   
CASBAH
  A pilot web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.  Includes access to a searchable database which contains information from a UK-wide sample of relevant archive, printed and audio-visual resources held in academic, public and special libraries and repositories.
   
Jamaica Virtual Reference Library
   
LAMECA
  Le Médiathèque Caraïbe de la Guadeloupe et Martinique. An electronic archival and data collection project  with material on the French, English and Spanish Caribbean.
   
The National Library of Jamaica
   
The National Library of Trinidad & Tobago
   
Proyecto Atlantea at UPR
   
University of Puerto Rico Libraries
  Main page to indexes and catalogues of the University of Puerto Rico system.

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Last update:  December 15, 2007 17:09
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