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Antilles: see West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Taking place precisely at the time that African slavery became central to Antillean economies, this transformation seems, as Peabody notes, counterintuitive. Stuart Hall discusses the mobility of the Caribbean, calling the Antillean the "prototype of the modern or postmodern New World nomad, continually moving between center and periphery" in "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" in Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader, ed. The Netherlands Antilles was a former colony, and the traditional Antillean culture is based on acculturation of African and European elements. |
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