Rose Mary Allen
Rose Mary Allen (born 1950) is an Curaçaoan anthropologist, who has published on the oral history of former enslaved people of the Dutch Caribbean islands.Her dissertation Di ki manera: a social history of Afro-Curaçaoans, 1863-1917 draws largely on the collected oral histories of Afro-Curaçaoans.[1] She holds a PhD and is a lecturer at the University of Curaçao.
She has a wide anthropological production For example:Emigración laboral de Curazao a Cuba a principios del siglo XX: una experiencia En: Revista Mexicana del Caribe, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 40-103, 2000. Also available on http://kaleidoscope.caribseek.com/Rose_Mary_Allen/Curacao_Cuba .Ta Cuba mi ke bai. Testimonio di trahadónan ku a emigrá for di Kòrsou bai Cuba na kuminsamentu di siglo XX. Curaçao: ICS, 2001.Regionalization of identity in Curaçao: migration and diaspora. In: Caribbean transnationalism : migration, pluralization, and social cohesion edited by Ruben Sewpersad Gowricharn, Lanham, MD [etc.] : Lexington Books, 2006.The Complexity of National Identity Construction in Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean. In: The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/ Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, October 2010.“Learning to be a Man”: Afro-Caribbean Seamen and Maritime Workers from Curaçao in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. In : Caribbean Studies Volume 39, Number 1, January-June 2011, pp. 43-64.Music in Diasporic Context: The Case of Curacao and Intra-Caribbean Migration. In: Black Music Research Journal. Vol. 32, No.2, fall 2012:51-66; National identities, Belonging and citizenship in Curacao: the complexity of changing nationhood narratives and performances in a Caribbean small island context. In: Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer and Elisabeth Echteld (eds).Multiplex Cultures and Citizenships: Multiple perspectives on Language, Literature, Education, and Society in the ABC-Islands and Beyond Twentieth century migration from the English-speaking Caribbean: discursive inclusion and exclusion. In: Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer and Elisabeth Echteld (eds) Researching the Rhizome. Studies of transcultural language, literature, learning and life on the ABC Islands and Beyond, 2013.[1]
In 2015 she was awarded a knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Netherlands[2] and she also won the Cola Debrot award.[2]
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