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EXISTING SYLLABUS
(Approved by SUBSEC in April 2016)
- Protests: 1903 water riots in
Trinidad; 1905 riots in Guyana; riots
in Belize.
Theme 2: Nationalism and Nation Building
(a) Haiti in the twentieth century:
(i) Social and economic development;
(ii) Political development (democracy,
leadership in the 1970s, 1980s, and
1990s);
(iii) Regional relations (with the Dominican
Republic and CARICOM); and,
(iv) International relations (with France,
United States, and other powers).
(b) Political Transformations: movements
towards independence and integration:
(i) The Protests of Caribbean men and
women in the 1930s: causes and impact.
(ii) Nationalism and the Movement towards
independence.
(iii) Integration Movements (Federation,
CARIFTA, CARICOM to 1992).
(c) Assimilation and Departmentalisation in the
French Caribbean since 1946.
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PROPOSED SYLLABUS
(See Appendix III)
(ii) Cooperatives, credit unions, friendly
societies, benevolent societies, benefit
societies and Lodges.
(iii) Susu, box hand, and partner.
(iv) Black Entrepreneurship: development
and challenges (merchant activity, shop
keeping, transportation, hotels and
property ownership).
(b) Indentured Workers (Chinese, Indians and
Portuguese): Settlement and Citizenship.
(i) The drive for upward social and
economic mobility by Indentured and
post-Indentured workers: education,
religious conversion, cultural
assimilation, agricultural, commercial,
and professional activities.
(ii) Resistance to capitalist exploitation,
religious conversion, unjust laws and
cultural assimilationist policies.
Theme 3: Nationalism and Nation Building
(a) Haiti 1804–1825
(i) Social and economic reconstruction.
(ii) International relations.
(b) Cuban Revolution: regional and international
impact 1959–1983
(i) Fidel Castro’s rise to power.
(ii) Cuba’s Socialist transformation up to
1975.
(iii) Regional and international impact up to
United States invasion of Grenada in
1983.
(c) Independence and integration movements in
the British:
(i) The Protests in the 1930s.
(ii) Nationalism and the Movement towards
independence
(iii) Federation, CARIFTA, CARICOM to 1992.
(d) Assimilation and Departmentalisation in the
French Caribbean to 1992.
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