Midterm 1 Terms Flashcards
Multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary
Bringing together contrasting research methodologies, like qualitative and quantitative approaches from the social sciences and the natural sciences with analytical and interpretative approaches from the humanities might yield better answers to solving major issues (disease, the environment, global migration, etc.)
Greater and Lesser Antilles,
Greater - Cuba Jamaica Haiti Puerto Rico DR
Lesser Antilles - Antigua Guadeloupe Martinique
Continental Enclaves
Belize, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
Circum-Caribbean
Coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico,Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico,
Southern United States
Tainos, Caribs -
Both Native Americans, Caribs were known as barbaric
Cacique
Chief of Tainos
Conuco
Vegetable garden
Borinquen, Cubanacán, Ayiti, Quisqueya
Boriqquen- Puerto Rican
Cubancan - Cuban
Ayiti - Haiti
Quisqueya - DR and Haiti
Christopher Columbus
Sailed the ocean blue 1492, explorer from Italy sent by Spain
Columbian Exchange
The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Dominican Friar from 14814 to 1556 who spoke out against colonialism and killing Indigenous people
Black Legend
The idea that the Spanish were colonizers and killed a lot of Native life
European conquest
“More than an encounter, it
was a cultural and biological
erasure, despite vestiges of
the native population that
remained through cultural
and biological hybridization
(mestizaje), a few words,
toponyms, foods, and crops”
(FM 94).
European Colonialism
Europeans conquered a lot of native lands
Encomienda
System where Spanish crown granted land and people to different Spanish lords in the colonies
Creole
In the broadest sense, means of the new world. Something or someone orginating in = Europe (or Africa) and reproducing itself in the New World.
Linguistic meaning: languages (spoken vernaculars) that emerged from mixing cultural influences
Sankofa
It is a bird that represents going back to the past and also freedom
African Slavery
What was new about African
slavery?
-Legal ownership and exploitation of one human
being by another
1. Forced migration between continents
2. Hereditary status
3. Exclusive emphasis on agricultural labor
4. Large scale
5. Race
Middle passage
Slaves were packed on a Ship unable to move
Triangular Trade
Cotton and sugar back to the Old World and gold to Africa and then to the Americas
Sugar Plantation
hard process with the planters at the top, no social mobility or escapping
Francisco Manzano
his autobiography is the only existing narrative account ofonly existing narrative account of
slavery in Spanish America.
Esteban Montejo
his biography is based
on interviews he gave inon interviews he gave in 1963, at the1963, at the
age of 105
Asian indentured labor
Chinese and Indian workers came to Guyana and Trinidad and were known as coolies
