Door Wouter Veenendaal. Door niet samen te werken met buureilanden blijft Sint Eustatius gevangen in de relatie met Nederland. Vandaag vergadert de Tweede Kamer ...
For many Dutch people, the Antillean alphabet stops after A, B and C. During the parliamentary elections, the evening news and the average history lesson, little attention is paid to the six islands in ...
‘Indenture in the Long Nineteenth Century’ in: Seymour Drescher, David Eltis, and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume IV, AD 1804...
Afgelopen zondag ging de bevolking van Puerto Rico voor de vijfde keer in vijftig jaar naar de stembus voor een referendum over telkens weer dezelfde vraag: wat moet de status worden van het eiland? Moet de ...
'In Suriname, an endless refrain: boom, bust, and Bouterse', an article by Rosemarijn Hoefte on news site The Conversation: "Recent street protests in Suriname haven’t made many international headlines. Only ...
In this 9th CCC Newsletter, you will find updates on the research, publications, exchanges and what have you of the various team members, including our new colleague Malcom Ferdinand. His observation...
Thank you for taking the time to read our very first Traveling Caribbean Heritage (TCH) Newsletter, of which many more will follow in the years to come. We will strive to publish an issue every three months or so...
Rosemarijn Hoefte has been elected president of the ACH, the Association of Caribbean Historians during their annual conference in Tobago. The ACH is an independent, non-profit, professional organization ...
"What does it mean to be Aruban, Bonairian or Curaçaoan? In the Traveling Caribbean Heritage project historian Gert Oostindie studies this question together with PhD candidate Joeri Arion and heritage specialist ...
The Literary Encyclopedia has just published a new entry on Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, authored by Kasia Mika, postdoc researcher at KITLV. Edwidge Danticat (1969) is an award-winning Haitian...