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100
Birthplace of reggae musician Bob Marley and Rastafari
What is Jamaica?
100

A character from a Shakespeare play who says, “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me”

Who is Caliban?
100
Refers to a dehumanizing incident in 1781 when more than 100 Africans were thrown overboard from a ship and left to drown
What is the Zong massacre?
100
Psychiatrist and influential anticolonial thinker who was born in Martinique and fought alongside Algerian freedom fighters against France
Who is Frantz Fanon?
100
A literary-intellectual movement associated with French-speaking people from the Caribbean and Africa such as Aimé Césaire
What is Négritude?
200
A poet and politician from Martinique who faced criticism for writing in French rather than nation language or French creole/patois
Who is Aimé Césaire?
200
Both "a man and a myth," this individual was key in the Haitian Revolution
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
200
Refers to a group of people from the Caribbean who arrived in England after WWII to rebuild London yet faced racism
What is the Windrush Generation?
300
A former Prime Minister of Jamaica who promoted social and economic reforms such as wage equity and free education
Who is Michael Manley?
300

A "white" writer from Dominica who authored the novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which is often considered a prequel to the British novel Jane Eyre

Who is Jean Rhys?
300
A historical period after slavery where the conditions of slavery were NOT drastically changed
What is Emancipation and Apprenticeship?
400

A historic warrior woman referenced in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven

Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
400
A Jamaican-born journalist who envisioned a passenger ship service for members of the African diaspora to return to Africa
Who is Marcus Garvey?
400
This epochal event in the Caribbean resulted in a new nation
What is the Haitian Revolution?
500
A Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright from St. Lucia who sought to reconcile the African and European presences of the Caribbean in his writing
Who is Derek Walcott?
500
A religion where Jah, Haile Selassie, and ganja play important roles
What is Rastafari?
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