Course Description
Cultural diversity concept is associated with accepting and respecting each other. Cultural diversity emphasis on the need to recognize and understand everyone’s unique and different attribute. Differences among people include the political implications of ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, physical abilities, nations and political beliefs (Erbas, n.d.). To maintain the rich cultural diversity individuals ought to respect and embrace individual differences instead of tolerating them. This course focuses on the cultural diversity theories and its impacts on multicultural relations. In every two weeks, the course covers a particular country within the Caribbean region including the different foods, values, lifestyle, cultural beliefs, religion and myths.
Course Calendar
Week 1: Jamaica- Food, Values and Lifestyle
Ferguson, G. & Iturbide, M. (2015). Family, Food, and Culture: Mothers’ Perspectives on Americanization in Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Psychology. 7(1) 43-63. Retrieved December 12, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289377544_Family_Food_and_Culture_Mothers'_Perspectives_on_Americanization_in_Jamaiсa
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Week 2: Jamaica- Religion, Cultural beliefs and myths
Picking, D., Delgoda, R. & Vndebroek, I. (2019). Traditional Knowledge Systems and the Role of Traditional Medicine in Jamaica. CAB Reviews Perspectives in Agriculture Veterinary Science Nutrition and Natural Resources. 14(45). https:// 10.1079/PAVSNNR201914045
Atkinson, L. (2010). Taino Influence on Jamaican Folk Traditions .1-5 Retrieved December 12, from http://www.jnht.com/download/influence.pdf
Week 3: Cuba- Foods, Values and Lifestyle
Garth, H. (2017). Food in Contemporary Cuba. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. https:// 10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.446
Garth H. (2014). The Impact of Nitza Villapol’s Cook Books and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking. Food Culture and Society. 17(2), 359-377. https:// 10.2752/175174414X13948130847981
Week 4: Cuba- Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Lefever, H. (2001). When the Saints go Riding in: Santeria in Cuba and the United States. Journal for Scientific Study of Religion, 35(3) 318-330. Retrieved December 12, from http://users.clas.ufl.edu/murray/courses/Cuba_Hispaniola_PR/Readings.on.line/Lefever.1996.saints.santeria.cuba.us.pdf
Week 5: Panama -Foods, Values and Lifestyle
Britannina. Panama. https://www.britannica.com/place/Panama/Sports-and - recreation .
Spalding, A. (2013). Lifestyle Migration to Bocas del Toro, Panama: Exploring Migration Strategies and Introducing Local Implications of the Search for Paradise. International Review of Social Research. 3(1) 67-86. Retrieved December 12, from http://irsr.eu/issue07/04_Spalding_p67-86.pdf
Sherwood, J. (2020). Panamanian Gastronomy: The Roots of Panama’s Food Culture . Retrieved December 12, fromhttps://www.thelostandfoundhostel.com/blog/2020/5/23/panamanian-gastronomy-the-roots-of-panamas-food-culture
Week 6: Panama- Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Howe, J. (1992). Protestants, Catholics and Gentiles: The Articulation of Missionary and Indigenous Culture on the San Blas Coast of Panama. 23(2), 139-155. Retrieved December 12 ,from https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/anthro/documents/media/jaso23_2_1992_139_156.pdf
Week 7: Aruba- Food, Values and Lifestyle
Wolfs, E., Lacle, F., Bbalo, M., Beukering, P. & Pols, R. (2017). Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) for Local Community in Aruba. Retrieved December 12, from https://www.wolfscompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Cultural-Value-of-Nature.pdf
Cole, S. & Razak, V. (2009). How far and how fast? Population, Culture and Carrying Capacity in Aruba. 41, 414-425.
Midterm Exam: Covering Jamaica, Cuba and Panama Cultures
Week 8: Aruba’s Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Blom, J., Poulina, I. Gellecum, T. & Hoek, H. (2015). Traditional Healing Practices Originating in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao: A Review of the Literature on Psychiatry and Brua. Transcultural Psychiatry. 52(6). https:// 10.1177/1363461515589709
Week 9: Haiti’s Food, Values and Lifestyle
Fews Net, Oxfam International & CNSA (2015). Haiti Rural Livelihood Profiles. Retrieved December 12, from https://fews.net/sites/default/files/documents/reports/Haiti-LH-profiles-2015-04.pdf
Week 10: Haiti’s Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Thomas, K. (2010). Haitian Zombie, Myth and Modern Identity. Comparative Literature and Culture. 12(2), 1-10. Retrieved December 12, from https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/194582613.pdf
McGee, A. (2012). Haitian Vodou and Voodoo: Imagined Religion and Popular Culture. Studies in Religion/ SciencesReligieuses. 41(2), 231-256. https://10.1177/0008429812441311
Week 11: Dominican Republic-Food, Values and Lifestyle
Leon, Y. (2007). The Impact of Tourism on Rural Livelihoods in the Dominican Republic’s Coastal Areas. Journal of Development Studies. 43(2), 340-359. https:// 10.1080/00220380601125214
Week 12 Dominican Republic- Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Sanchez-Carretero, C. (2005). Santos Misterios as Channels of Communication in the Diaspora: Afro-Dominican Religious Practices Abroad. Journal of American Folklore. 118(469), 308-326. Retrieved December 12, from https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36025524.pdf
Estevez, J. (2016). Buyio Taimani- Agua Dulce Continuing Taino Traditions in the Dominican Republic- Part 1 of 2. Retrieved December 12, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311946428_Buyio_Taimani-Agua_Dulce_Continuing_Taino_Traditions_in_the_Dominican_Republic-Part_1_of_2
Week 13: Belize- Food, values and Lifestyle
Wilk, R. (1999). Real Belizean Food: Building Local Identity in the Transnational Caribbean. American Anthropologist. 101(2), 244-255. Retrived December 12, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24195680_Real_Belizean_food_Building_local_identity_in_the_transnational_Caribbean
Week 14: Belize’s Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Roessingh, C. (2007). Mennonite Communities in Belize. International Journal of Business and Globalization. 1(1). https:// 10.1504/IJBG.2007.013722
Roessingh, C. & Boersma, K. (2011). We are Growing Belize: Modernization and Organizational Change in the Mennonite Settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Busines. 14(2), 171-190.
Week 15: Bahamas-Food, Values, Lifestyle, Religion, Cultural Beliefs and Myths
Tajerina, L., Perez-Cuevas, R., Adderley, B., Delevaux, C., Braithwaite, N., Kuster, R., Osorio, I. & Garcia, G. (2018). Associated Factors of Healthy Lifestyle in the Bahamas. Improving Lives. Retrieved December 12, from https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Associated-Factors-of-Healthy-Lifestyle-in-the-Bahamas.pdf
Bethel, N. (2003). Junkanoo in the Bahamas: A Tale of Identity, (Ed.) J. Minnis in Junkanoo and Religion: Christianity and Cultural Identity in the Bahamas. Media Enterprises.
Turner, C. (2019). Mediating the Sacred between Junkanoo and the Church in Contemporary Bahamian Society. Open Cultural Studies. (3) 85-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0008
Week 16: Final Exam
Final Day of Class
Bibliography
Erbas, I. Cultural Diversity. Effects of Global Risk in Transition Countries. Retrieved December 12, from https://www.academia.edu/7527669/CULTURAL_DIVERSITY
