Decolonizing the Caribbean Record : an Archives Reader

Contents: Introduction : decolonizing the Caribbean record / Jeannette A. Bastian, Stanley H. Griffin, John A. Aarons -- Historical developments in Caribbean archives and record keeping / John A. Aarons and Sharon Alexander-Gooding -- Puerto Rico's archival traditions in a colonial context / Joel Blanco-Rivera and Marisol Ramos -- The return of the historical archives (1661-1975) from the Netherlands to Suriname / Rita Tjien Fooh -- The National Archives of Barbados : making lemonade with limes -- my archival life / Christine Matthews Rocheford -- National Archives of the Bahamas, an interview with Gail Saunders -- Working at the National Archives of Guyana : experiences, challenges & lessons / Hugh (Tommy) Payne -- The British Virgin Islands Archives experience : frustrations and obstacles / Verna Penn Moll -- The Jamaica Archives : reflections on changes over the years / John A. Aarons -- Information Rights (IRs) and recordkeeping in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Cherri-Ann Beckle -- The records of West Indies Federation and the acquisition of the archives by the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Sharon Alexander-Gooding -- Frameworks for managing government records : a case study of Trinidad and Tobago / Helena Leonce and James Lowry -- Recordkeeping, strategic priorities, and governance in small island Caribbean communities / Victoria Lemieux -- Records in geopardy : natural disasters, disaster planning and recovery in Montserrat / Gracelyn Cassell -- Reparations and the historical record : the Barbados Department of Archives in the reclaiming of the historic past / Pedro Welch -- Making the West Indian Archive accessible : Ken Ingram's archival cartography / James Robertson -- Battling the ailment of sameness : innovative approaches to archiving at the National Archives Authority of Saint Lucia / Margot Thomas -- Preserving archival collections in the 21st century : the Caribbean experience / Racquel Stratchan-Innerarity -- Which court is the ball in now? A case study of archival outreach in St. Kitts / Victoria Borg-O'Flaherty -- Unearthing societies with secrets in the Anglophone Caribbean through archival research / Allison O. Ramsay -- Maroons in the archives : the uses of the past in the French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois -- Private archives -- "An untapped treasure" : the view from Jamaica / John A. Aarons -- Capturing personal stories, oral histories and microhistories : a case study from Montserrat / Gracelyn Cassell -- Putting up ah resistance" : Rastafari records, struggles, and triumphs / Stanley H. Griffin -- Play Mas' : carnival in the archives and the archives in carnival : records and community identity in the United States Virgin Islands / Jeannette A. Bastian -- Breaking the silence : the case for establishing sound archives in the Caribbean / Elizabeth F. Watson -- The monument as public archive / Verene Shepherd -- Building an inclusive past, democratizing heritage : an evaluation of community recordkeeping in Trinidad and Tobago / Roma Wong Sang -- The reggae archives : confessions of an accidental archivist / Roger Steffens -- Forgetting is not democratic : the digital archive of Radio Haiti-Inter, a case study / Laura Wagner -- Documenting Trinidad and Tobago's Mas / Lorraine Nero -- Jamaican Tai-no symbols / Ivor Conolley -- Reading historical remains : a museum perspective / Suzanne Francis-Brown -- Never catch me : land and law in attending to the Haitian past / Winter Schneider -- Authenticating heritage / Karl Watson -- Is we speak to we now : the making of Caribbean Archives in London / H.J.M. Ishmael -- Researching Anglophone Caribbean literature : archival encounters and hidden histories in the Atlantic world / Alison Donnell -- Records of the Moravian Church in the Caribbean / Paul Peucker and Thomas J. McCullough -- Genealogy and family history in the Caribbean : an archivists toolkit / Guy Grannum