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                                    <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ARIS</journal-id>
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                                                      <journal-title specific-use="original" xml:lang="es">Arte, Individuo y Sociedad</journal-title>
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                                    <issn publication-format="electronic">1131-5598</issn>
                                    <issn-l>1131-5598</issn-l>
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                                                      <publisher-name>Ediciones Complutense</publisher-name>
                                                      <publisher-loc>España</publisher-loc>
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                                    <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/aris.98665</article-id>
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                                                                        <subject>Reseñas</subject>
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                                                      <article-title>Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4410-6520
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                                                                                          <surname>Hoyte-West</surname>
                                                                                          <given-names>Antony</given-names>
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                                                                        <institution content-type="original">Independent scholar, United Kingdom</institution>
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                                    <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="2025-01-09">
                                                      <day>09</day>
                                                      <month>01</month>
                                                      <year>2025</year>
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                                    <volume>37</volume>
                                    <issue>1</issue>
                                    <fpage>231</fpage>
                                    <lpage>231</lpage>
                                    <page-range>231-231</page-range>
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<p>As ongoing discussions attest, the impact of European colonisation of the Caribbean continues to
                                                  leave its mark. Allison O. Ramsey and Jerome
                                                  Teelucksingh’s edited volume brings together
                                                  regional scholars to survey tangible and
                                                  intangible aspects of this controversial legacy.
                                                  In its eleven chapters, the work combines
                                                  perspectives from historians, lawyers,
                                                  sociologists, and cultural heritage experts.
                                                  Ramsey and Teelucksingh’s Introduction opens by
                                                  presenting debates relating to monuments and their
                                                  role in history, culture, and memory. Bridget
                                                  Brereton analyses the historical, religious, and
                                                  cultural debates surrounding the Trinity Cross,
                                                  once Trinidad &amp; Tobago’s highest national
                                                  honour, noting the controversy caused as an
                                                  ostensible symbol of a multi-religious nation.
                                                  Stanley H. Griffin delves into the impact of
                                                  George Floyd’s 2020 murder on the Caribbean,
                                                  examining how it catalysed discussions on race,
                                                  national identity, and decolonisation through case
                                                  studies of Lord Nelson’s statue in Barbados and
                                                  the governor-general’s insignia in Jamaica. Sheron
                                                  Johnson also highlights the replacement of the
                                                  Nelson statue, exploring how esteem has been
                                                  attributed to the intangible cultural heritage of
                                                  Barbados’s capital Bridgetown. In Trinidad,
                                                  Ashleigh John Morris delves into the history of
                                                  the Five Islands archipelago, formerly the site of
                                                  a depot used to process indentured labourers from
                                                  India and their families on arrival in the colony.
                                                  Allison O. Ramsey returns to Barbados, providing
                                                  an overview of monuments and their role in public
                                                  history, noting the lack of statues of women.
                                                  Shaian Albert provides detailed case studies of
                                                  the creation of three notable Trinidadian Hindu
                                                  tem­ples, and Margo Groenewoud examines the
                                                  intersection of statues and identity in the
                                                  colonial Netherlands Antilles between 1940-1960.
                                                  In underscoring the dearth of statues and
                                                  landmarks commemorating women in Trinidad &amp;
                                                  Tobago, Danalee Jahgoo outlines the specific case
                                                  of the St Augustine campus of the University of
                                                  the West Indies. In Barbados, Lynette Mills
                                                  examines the contentious impact of Christopher
                                                  Codrington, a slave-owner and benefactor whose
                                                  name is still given to a theological college, as
                                                  well as the library at All Souls, Oxford. And
                                                  though most Caribbean nations became independent
                                                  decades ago, Timothy Affonso draws attention to
                                                  the legal ramifications of colonisation which, in
                                                  some instances, still prevails. Finally, Renee A.
                                                  Nelson sheds lights on how the ill-fated West
                                                  Indies Federation influenced Jamaican
                                                  conceptualisations of independence and nationhood.
                                                  In summary, this is an extremely timely and
                                                  important volume which offers valuable
                                                  interdisciplinary contributions to key debates in
                                                  the Caribbean context.</p>
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