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This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are
constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and
inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also
armed with latent links to the women's abolition movements in the
homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a
paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of
an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the
huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural
indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts
the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured
Indian women's cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the
politics of change and control impacted their social organization
and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial
commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the
indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized
Indians from 1834 through 1917.
This book addresses the relationship between high school students'
HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related
attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the
Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective
stigma-reduction combined intervention programs. Presenting an
international cross-sectional study using a purposive sample of
high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South
Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean) to assess
HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age,
religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the book shows
how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact
interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS.
The new millennium juxtaposes different generations who were
witnesses to the genesis of turmoil in Guyana. Since the year 1992,
in which democracy returned to Guyana, opposition elements continue
to be unreceptive to electoral defeats. The disinclination to
concede electoral loss since 1992 has become a normative historical
behavior in the Guyanese context. International observers have
validated the four national elections in 1992, 1997, 2001, and 2006
as being free, fair, and transparent. Today, electoral defeat has a
relationship with the infamous political/mass media/racial complex
that constantly pursues the destabilization of the state and
undermines nation-building. Essentially, this complex is a
community of irrationality, engaging in a persistent dissemination
of despair. This book focuses on politics, media, and race. The two
main objectives of the work are: demonstrating the modus operandi
and the dysfunctional consequences of this community of
irrationality through the political/mass media/racial complex, and
showing the rational behaviors that have held the society together
since 1992. In the interest of building a strong nation, it may be
useful to work toward a transformation of this community of
irrationality to a community of rationality.
In the grand design of slavery in the Caribbean, White planters
separated African slaves of similar tribal and linguistic groups in
an effort to destroy African cultural traditions. The result was an
African population that lost most of its African heritage and
adopted a creolized variant of European culture. The dominance of
Creolization, a colonial legacy, ignores the Caribbean multiethnic
mosaic and endangers national unity, good governance, and political
stability. Through a series of readings, this book argues that the
Creolization is antithetical and challenging to nation building and
results in cultural and working-class fragmentation, competition
for national space, ranking, ethno-cultural categorization,
racialization of consciousness, cultural imperialism, use of the
'political' race card, and ethnic dominance. This book acknowledges
the need to create a framework for mutual cultural appreciation and
institutionalization of all cultures in the pursuit of national
unity in the Caribbean.
This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are
constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and
inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also
armed with latent links to the women's abolition movements in the
homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a
paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of
an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the
huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural
indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts
the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured
Indian women's cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the
politics of change and control impacted their social organization
and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial
commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the
indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized
Indians from 1834 through 1917.
This cross-sectional study used a purposive sample of 379 high
school students from fifteen urban and rural high schools in Guyana
and assessed their HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related
attitudes, and the relationships among gender, age, religion, and
race/ethnicity and HIV and AIDS knowledge. Most of the high school
students displayed an overall moderate level of HIV and AIDS
knowledge. The students understood the modes of HIV transmission;
they recognized the symptoms of HIV and AIDS; nearly half of them
believed that a blood donor was at risk of contracting HIV; and
about one-fifth of the students embraced myths and misconceptions
surrounding HIV and AIDS. There was no statistically significant
difference in the knowledge scores of male and female students.
Knowledge scores, nevertheless, differed significantly between the
13 to 15 and 16 to 18 age groups, and among the religious and
ethnic groups. Stigma-related attitude scores did not differ
significantly for gender and age, but differed significantly for
religion and ethnicity among students. The study showed fissures in
HIV/AIDS knowledge and substantial stigma-related attitudes.
Limited understanding of the myths and misconceptions of HIV and
AIDS demands a new focus on how HIV is not transmitted through
moving beyond conventional strategies toward a social
constructivist approach. This book is essential reading for medical
professionals, policymakers and educators throughout the Caribbean
region.
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