Notes
and musical cultures, 66
Africanness as a source of liberation, 144
Age of revolutions, 117
Aluminium Company of Canada, 88, 90 94 95
Anancy, 155
AntipodeFoundation, 102
archipelago as metaphor, 139
archival practice, 102
archives in the Caribbean, 38
authenticity, 72
Bahamas
colonial history, 39
communities, 38
Eleuthera Arts and Cultural Centre, 49
foreign investment, 44
House of Assembly, 45
intangible heritage, 51
personal memories, 39–44, 46, 48
Progressive Liberal Party, 45
Tarpum Bay Historical and Heritage Society, 52
United Bahamian Party Black Power, 46
Beach as metaphor, 139
Bishop’s High School (Guyana), 109, 180
Black aesthetics, 68
Black Atlantic, 57
Black British youth, 58, 63, 63, 74;
the raising of, 176
Black cultural knowledge, 66
Black exploitation and responses to, 63
Black History Month, 100
Black Power in Guyana, 108
Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, 7, 176
Booker’s Company, 109
Botswana, 84
Bourbon reforms, 122
Brexit, 111
Bronze Woman, the, 34
Brutus of Julius Caesar, 154
Burnham, Forbes, 109
Bustamente, Alexander, 153
and Anancy, 164
and Caesar, 165
and Jamaican independence, 164
Caesar of Julius Caesar, 155, 157
Canada, colonial status, 98
Caribbean federation, 88
Caribbean immigration to Britain, 31, 108
experiences of racism, 6, 108, 173
resistance against racism, 7, 173
finding employment, xii, 32, 33
finding housing, 33
Caribbean War Memorial, Brixton, 79
Cassius of Julius Caesar
and social equality, 154
and Anancy, 157
and democracy, 157
Central Intelligence Agency interventions in Guyana, 112
whistleblowing, 112
community knowledge, 11
Congress of Vienna, 122
consuls
citizenship, 118
information exchange, 118
the political geography of, 123
relation to surveillance, 118
counter-culture, 61
Creole culture, 136
Creole language, 136
Creolisation, 144
De Tragedy au Julias Ceazaa/Julius Caesar in Jamaican English, 159
Decolonial gestures, 140
Decolonisation
in the Caribbean, 107
and the creation of a new history, 144
(de)colonisation, 1
and the everyday, 2
histories of, 1
in Jamaica, 153
and open access, 11
decolonising memory, 87
demystification, 143
development studies, 107
diasporic dialect, 70
displacement within the Caribbean, 100
dread talk, 160
Earl’s Court West Indian Students’ Centre, 109
Education, 110
in the colonial Caribbean
and the military, 81
in the commonwealth, 153
Eurocentrism: resistance against, 71
free trade, 122
Garvey, Marcus, 136
contribution to global politics, 162
Georgetown (Guyana), 174
Glissant, Édouard, 136, 140, 141
Glocal
language, 67
experience, 75
Government Training College (Guyana), 179
Griot, 60
Guyana
and Britishness, 7
and colonialism, 9
Guyana Freedom Association, 6
Guyanese High Commission, 109
Haiti
and ‘exceptionalism’, 124
and exclusion from the consular Caribbean, 124
and imperialism, 111
and independence, 4
Henaksiala, 91
Hudson Bay Company, 90
Huntley Collection, 177
Huntley, Jessica, 6
migration to Britain, 176
hybridity
cultural, 68
linguistic, 69
Indigeneity, 88
Indigenous
scholars, 102
Institute for Indigenous Government and Langara College, 98
island talk, 69
Jagan, Cheddi, 108
Jamaica
child welfare, 21
coat of arms, 87
and colonialism, 9
colonisers, 88
and emigration, 20–1, 24–6, 97, 157–8
English invasion of, 3
farming communities, 95
impact on British popular culture, 160
independence day celebrations, 19–20
national identity, 22
national memory, 88
neighbourhood clearances, 24
post-colonial government, 22
return migration, 27
social unrest, 24
student protests, 28
sovereignty, 162
and youth, 19
People’s National Party, 23
origins of, 165
Jamaican Labour Party, 165
Jamaican Sound Systems, 58
Jonestown Massacre, 110
Kincaid, Jamaica, 133, 137, 138
Kingston Methodist School, 179
La Rose, Irma, 177
La Rose, John, 177
Little Theatre Movement Pantomime (Jamaica), 166
London Metropolitan Archives, 177
Macbeth, 157
Mackenzie, Charles, 128
Mais, Roger, 29
Manichean world view, 142, 143, 144
Martinique, 139
Mercantilism, 117
in relation to Brutus, 163
Middle Passage, 135
catastrophes, 113
Canadian ownership of, 113
multiracialism, 84
Nandy, Ashis, 2
Napoleon Bonaparte, 125
Napoleonic Wars, 128
National Archives (Kew), 111
National sovereignty (Caribbean), 119
Négritude, 135
Neo-colonialism, 109
National Health Service, 81
Caribbean staff, 80
equal opportunity, 80
and ethnic minority staff, 82
Nobrega, Cecil, 34
outernational, 71
Padmore, George, 136
Pakistan, 84
People’s National Party, 154
People’s Progressive Party, 108
plantocracy, 99
pollution by multinational corporations, 113
Post Office Workers Union (Guyana), 174
post-Windrush migrants, 107
postcolonial studies, 98
poverty, conditions of, 138
Puerto Rico, 120
Queen’s College (Guyana), 109
Queen Elizabeth, loyalty to, 81
Race Relations Act, 81
and language, 160
reggae music, 61, 63, 74, 154, 159
its listeners, 66
as transcendental, 67
religion of Caribbean migrants, 80
Return to Africa, 135
Rhodes Must Fall, 9
Royal Air Force, 81
Royal Shakespeare Company, 166
Saint-Domingue (Haiti), 120
relations with the Spanish Empire, 125
schooling in England, 35
self-emancipation, 110
shadeism, 162
and political inequality in Jamaica, 164
Shakespeare, William, 156
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies, 91, 94, 95
Smith Memorial Church School, 174
Spanish American revolutions, 121
Spanish Empire, 120
relations with the US, 121
spatiality, 140
Stop and Search Law, 176
Tanzania, 84
Territorial contest, 124
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
as a postcolonial text, 166
relation to Jamaican national sovereignty, 156
Thomas Jefferson, 125
tourism, 133
transcendentalism, 68
Treaty of San Lorenzo, 119
Trotman, Joyce, 7, 1, 21, 73, 179–80
University of the West Indies, 88
US Constitution, 118
and mining, 100
West Indian Federation, 165
West Indian Student’s Centre, 177
white supremacy, 61
whiteness, 58
Windrush
impact on British society, 84
scandal, 111
teachers and educators, 8
Working People’s Alliance Support Group, 110, 111
World Peace Council, 175
World War Two, contribution of Caribbean personnel, 79