Blooming with the Pouis: Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum : a Rhetorical Reader for Caribbean Tertiary Students

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ................................................................................................................ xiii Acknowledgements ............................................................................................. xv Introduction ....................................................................................................... xxi SECTION 1 EXPOSITION EDUCATION 1. 2. 3. Early West Indian Society and Education .................................................... 1 M.K. Bacchus A Brief Historical Sketch of Tertiary Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean ................................................................. 3 Errol Miller Geography in the Caribbean Classroom ....................................................... 6 David Barker GENDER & FAMILY LIFE 4. 5. 6. 7. The Impact of Family Structure on Children ............................................... 17 Maureen Samms-Vaughan Children Caught in the Crossfire.................................................................. 21 Maureen Samms-Vaughan Gender Division – The Sowing .................................................................... 25 Barry Chevannes Red Thread’s Feminism ................................................................................ 31 Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz MUSIC & CULTURE 8. All Hail, Nutmeg ......................................................................................... 41 Wendy-Ann Brissett 9. In Celebration of the Patty .......................................................................... 44 Barbara Gloudon 10. In Search of the Perfect Patty ....................................................................... 47 Alex D. Hawkes 11. African Feasts in Trinidad ............................................................................. 49 Maureen Warner Lewis 12. The Spirit of Garvey — Lessons of the Legacy ............................................. 57 Rex Nettleford 13. How the Captaincy Evolved ......................................................................... 62 Trevor McDonald 14. Introducing Bredda Anancy .......................................................................... 67 Louise Bennett 15. Honduras ..................................................................................................... 70 Rachel Sieder RELIGION, HISTORY & POLITICS 16. Atlas: Excerpted from A History of West Indian Cricket ..................................... 75 Michael Manley 17. Oil and the Twentieth Century Economy 1900–62 ....................................... 78 Bridget Brereton 18. Small Islands, Big Media: Challenges of Foreign Media in Covering the Caribbean............................... 83 Matthew Roberts 19. Costa Rica ................................................................................................... 89 Kathleen Royal and Franklin Perry SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT 20. What to look for Under the Sea ................................................................... 95 Ralph Robinson 21. Flowers, not Flirting, Make Sexes Differ – Caribbean Hummingbirds .......... 98 Susan Milius 22. Coral Killing Dust ....................................................................................... 100 Sarah Simpson 23. Major Caribbean Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Real Risk .............................. 103 Woods Hole 24. Environmental Guidelines for Housing in St Lucia ...................................... 107 Fillian N. Dujon 25. What You Should Talk to Patients with Hypertension About: A Special Focus on Nutrition ...................................................................... 112 Emily Rose 26. Parasitology ................................................................................................. 122 J.F. Lindo and T.S. Ferguson SECTION 2 ARGUMENT Introduction To Argument ................................................................................. 131 EDUCATION & SCIENCE 27. Computers in the Mathematics Classroom ................................................... 141 John Hayter and Mike Egan 28. Biotechnology – Relevance for Caribbean Agriculture ................................... 144 P.U. Umaharan 29. Inefficiency of the Educational System ......................................................... 146 Elsa Leo-Rhynie 30. The Right to Write ...................................................................................... 150 Paulette A. Ramsay FAMILY LIFE 31. Womb Rights .............................................................................................. 155 Clinton Chisholm 32. Outlook for the Future ................................................................................ 157 Elsa Leo-Rhynie 33. Are Caribbean Youth in Crisis? ..................................................................... 161 Oliver Mills HISTORY & POLITICS 34. Women in Caribbean Literature: The African Presence ................................ 167 Leota Lawrence 35. The Arawaks Arrived Before Columbus ........................................................ 176 Phillip Sherlock 36. White Women and Slavery in the Caribbean ................................................ 181 Hillary McD. Beckles 37. Livestock Farmers and Marginality in Jamaica’s Sugar-Plantation Society: A Tentative Analysis ...................................................................................... 188 Verene Shepherd 38. A Small Place ............................................................................................... 195 Jamaica Kincaid 39. The Plight of the Guyanese Migrant Worker ............................................... 200 Mark Brantley 40. Putting on the Dog ..................................................................................... 203 Morris Cargill 41. Shackled to the Past, Trapped in the Present ................................................. 206 Wendell Abel MUSIC & CULTURE 42. Caribbean Music and the Discourses on AIDS ............................................. 211 Curwen Best 43. A Review of Paulette Ramsay’s Aunt Jen ........................................................ 218 Curdella Forbes 44. On Reggae and Rastafariansim – And a Garvey Prophecy .............................. 222 Pamela O’Gorman 45. Dutty Wine ................................................................................................. 227 Stephen Vasciannie 46. Vile Vocals .................................................................................................... 229 Carolyn Cooper 47. Migration and Remittances: A Case Study of the Caribbean ......................... 232 Wendell Samuel SECTION 3 MIXED MODES 48. The Manifestation of Tawhid: the Muslim Heritage of the Maroons in Jamaica ........................................... 237 Sultana Afroz 49. Jamaica’s Muslim Past: Disconcerting Theories ............................................. 250 Maureen Warner-Lewis 50. The Meal is the Message — The Language of Brazilian Cuisine .................... 256 Roberto DaMatta 51. Trophy and Catastrophe .............................................................................. 260 Gordon Rohlehr 52. U-Roy the Originator .................................................................................. 267 Kevin O’Brien Chang and Wayne Chen 53. Emancipate Yourself from Mental Slavery ..................................................... 272 Rupert Lewis 54. The Sovereignty of the Imagination ............................................................. 280 George Lamming 55. The Legacy of Our Past ............................................................................... 283 Pauline Christie 56. Gender and Attitude to English ................................................................... 289 Beverly Bryan and Gwendolyn Shaw SECTION 4 PASSAGES FOR ADDITIONAL READING & ANALYSIS 57. Hens Can Crow Too: The Female Voice of Authority on Air in Jamaica ...... 297 Kathryn Shields-Brodber 58. ‘Soy una Feminista Negra’ – Shirley Campbell’s Feminist/Womanist Agenda ... 309 Paulette A. Ramsay 59. The Early Use of Steam Power in the Jamaican Sugar Industry, 1768-1810 ... 326 Veront Satchell 60. Trinidad’s Free Coloureds in Comparative Caribbean Perspectives ................ 333 Carl Campbell 61. Laryngeal Tuberculosis: Diagnosis and Prevention of Dissemination ............ 354 F.E. Ologe and S. Segun-Busari 62. Chronic Heart Failure .................................................................................. 358 Dharam Sawh 63. Jamaican Reggae and the Articulation of Social and Historical Consciousness in Musical Discourse .................................................................................... 362 Jorge L. Giovannetti Writing in the Digital Age — The Internet and Research .................................... 370 Glossary ............................................................................................................. 373