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History & Culture
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Videos
"Coolies: How the British Reinvented Slavery" A six part series by the BBC "Legacy of Our Ancestors" A six part series by Premier Video Productions |
Audio
Indo-Caribbean History in Audio
By Annmarie Bhola |
Written
Indo-Caribbean Heritage
By Vinay Lal |
Local organizations in New York
Jahajee Sisters
Jahajee Sisters is a movement-building organization, led by Indo-Caribbean women, committed to creating a safe and equitable society. They foster solidarity and empowerment through dialogue, arts, leadership development and grassroots organizing.
Caribbean Equality Project
The Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) is a community-based organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Black and Brown, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, and queer Caribbean immigrants in New York City. Through public education, community organizing, civic engagement, storytelling, and cultural and social programming, the organization's work focuses on advocacy for LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, gender equity, racial justice, immigration and mental health services, and ending hate violence in the Caribbean diaspora. To date, CEP is the only educational-based agency serving the Caribbean-American LGBTQ+ community in New York City, with a dedicated aim to cultivating supportive and progressive Caribbean neighborhoods free of violence, oppression, and discrimination.
Rajkumari Cultural Center
The Rajkumari Cultural Center (RCC) is a community-based, multi-arts organization that works to rejuvenate Indo-Caribbean cultural and artistic life and to restore self-esteem to this new American community. Cultural artistic skills and craftsmanship emerge with year-round interaction in classes and workshops with elder custodians, master-artists, scholars and young tradition-bearers with community youth and families.
Jahajee Sisters is a movement-building organization, led by Indo-Caribbean women, committed to creating a safe and equitable society. They foster solidarity and empowerment through dialogue, arts, leadership development and grassroots organizing.
Caribbean Equality Project
The Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) is a community-based organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Black and Brown, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, and queer Caribbean immigrants in New York City. Through public education, community organizing, civic engagement, storytelling, and cultural and social programming, the organization's work focuses on advocacy for LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, gender equity, racial justice, immigration and mental health services, and ending hate violence in the Caribbean diaspora. To date, CEP is the only educational-based agency serving the Caribbean-American LGBTQ+ community in New York City, with a dedicated aim to cultivating supportive and progressive Caribbean neighborhoods free of violence, oppression, and discrimination.
Rajkumari Cultural Center
The Rajkumari Cultural Center (RCC) is a community-based, multi-arts organization that works to rejuvenate Indo-Caribbean cultural and artistic life and to restore self-esteem to this new American community. Cultural artistic skills and craftsmanship emerge with year-round interaction in classes and workshops with elder custodians, master-artists, scholars and young tradition-bearers with community youth and families.