Patricia Mohammed
Biographic Data
| ID | 643848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Mohammed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohammed |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAMMED P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
AnthroNow Digital Archive (2015)
AnthroNow Digital Archive (2015): Rasanblaj Continua Interview. Anthropology Now. Ahead of Print. AnthroNow Digital Archive (2015): Rasanblaj Continua Interview. Anthropology Now. Ahead of Print
The generous genius of Brinsley Samaroo
Professor Brinsley Samaroo made a sterling contribution to the field of history, particularly that of Indian indentureship and the atrocities of the colonial past. He was a historian of the people, had entered national politics in one phase of his career and continued all his life to serve as a public intellectual for the society of Trinidad in defence of many groups and causes. In this tribute to his life, the author establishes the intellectual…
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Carnival is Woman
Considering the Impact of Indians in Trinidad on Visual Culture
This paper proposes that a multivaried Indo-Trinidadian aesthetic contribution drawn from ritual, domestic, and imaginary space continues to remain historically and culturally submerged in both the definition of artistic practice and in the national consciousness of Trinidad society. The art works and artists analyzed here were selected from an exhibition held at the National Museum and Gallery in Port of Spain on the occasion of Indian Arrival D…
Beyond Geography or Closed-Circuit Ethnicities
Negotiating gender policy and politics in the Caribbean
This is a timely body of work dealing with strategies in the Caribbean for over two decades to create equality and equity through gender interventions. The publication is well timed in that these p
The Point of No Return
This essay examines the organic connection between the methods and materials used by Indian artist Wendy Nanan and the metaphysical ideas that underpin her creativity. Her exposure to a mixture of religious and cultural practices drawn from Presbyterianism and Hinduism, to the variegated festivals of a postslavery postindenture society of Trinidad is re-presented in the symbolic and allegorical pieces that Nanan has produced for over two decades.…
Morality and the imagination – mythopoetics of gender and culture in the Caribbean
Positioning an East Indian ethnicity as central to its argument, and using the multidisciplinary lens of art critique, literary criticism, and feminist theory, this paper proposes a politics of inclusion as a defining narrative in Caribbean subjectivity to heal the wounds of colonisation evidenced by racialised exclusions, competing victimhoods, and anger. It suggests that such traumas have limited the aesthetic expression of creativity through a…
The Asian Other in the Caribbean
This essay examines the problem of being Asian in the Caribbean, Asian referring generically to settled groups originating from the sub-continent of Asia. The essay traces how demographic minority status and religious difference have historically led to the process of becoming the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the "home and the world" in which "otherness" emerges as metaphors in the fictio…
Callaloo Nation
The Sign of the Loa
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Sign of the Loa Patricia Mohammed Patricia Mohammed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Mohammed; The Sign of the Loa. Small Axe 1 September 2005; 9 (2): 124–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-124 Download cita…
Haiti I'm Sorry
Haiti is not a place for the squeamish or the unseasoned traveler. Attendez derriere la ligne jaune - Wait behind the yellow the sign says when you manage to find your way through the chaotic two and three headed snaky lines and get up to the glass fronted airport cubicles of the Haitian immigration officers. Surprisingly, the immigration officials waited patiently, for the incoming visitor or returning Haitian. But no one stayed behind the line.…
Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947
This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gend
Gendered Realities
Gendered Realities is an interdisciplinary reader that situates the present understanding of Caribbean feminist scholarship after fifteen years of in-depth and increasingly sophisticated research. The book provides a space for scholars to put forward new and challenging ideas and attempts to encourage new contributions to intellectual thought in the Caribbean. The essays deal with diverse and rich topics including the role of women in Caribbean a…
Taking Possession
Small Axe - Number 11 (Volume 6, Number 1), March 2002
But Most of all mi Love me Browning
One of the most common threads in the Caribbean tapestry races which have populated the region over the last five centuries largely through forced or voluntary migration, is that there have emerged mixtures of the different racial groups. A large proportion of Caribbean women and men are referred to euphemistically as 'mixed race'. The terms used to describe people of mixed race vary by territory and have been incrementally added to or changed ov…
Rethinking Caribbean Difference
Who is creating the 'Other':interrogating difference in the Caribbean - Patricia Mohammed, Women's organizations and movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean - Rhoda Reddock, In search of our memory: gender in the Netherlands Antilles - Sonia Cuales, Gendered testimonies: autobiographies, diaries and letters by women in Caribbean history - Bridget Brereton, Gender systems and the project of modernity in the post-colonial Caribbean - Eudine Barrite…
Towards Indigenous Feminist Theorizing in the Caribbean
This attempt to develop an indigenous reading of feminism as both activism and discourse in the Caribbean is informed by my own preoccupation with the limits of contemporary postmodern feminist theorizing in terms of its accessibility, as well as application to understanding the specificity of a region. I, for instance, cannot speak for or in the manner of a white middle-class academic in Britain, or a black North American feminist, as much as we…
Midnight's Children and the Legacy of Nationalism
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 4, Fall 1997
Gender as a Primary Signifier in the Construction of Community and State among Indians in Trinidad
Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad
Women in Trinidad have made enormous gains during the last twenty years in relation to equality in education, employment and equal pay. Nevertheless, there has been a backlash which is experienced by all women regardless of class, ethnicity, professional standing, or position. It is as if the society (read male-dominated patriarchy) allows women freedom on the one hand, but ensures that there are still mechanisms for control. My hypothesis is tha…
Women's Responses in the 70s and 80s in Trinidad
(1989). Women's Responses in the 70s and 80s in Trinidad: A Country Report. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 36-45
But Most of all mi Love me Browning
One of the most common threads in the Caribbean tapestry races which have populated the region over the last five centuries largely through forced or voluntary migration, is that there have emerged mixtures of the different racial groups. A large proportion of Caribbean women and men are referred to euphemistically as 'mixed race'. The terms used to describe people of mixed race vary by territory and have been incrementally added to or changed ov…
Towards Indigenous Feminist Theorizing in the Caribbean
This attempt to develop an indigenous reading of feminism as both activism and discourse in the Caribbean is informed by my own preoccupation with the limits of contemporary postmodern feminist theorizing in terms of its accessibility, as well as application to understanding the specificity of a region. I, for instance, cannot speak for or in the manner of a white middle-class academic in Britain, or a black North American feminist, as much as we…
Rethinking Caribbean Difference
Who is creating the 'Other':interrogating difference in the Caribbean - Patricia Mohammed, Women's organizations and movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean - Rhoda Reddock, In search of our memory: gender in the Netherlands Antilles - Sonia Cuales, Gendered testimonies: autobiographies, diaries and letters by women in Caribbean history - Bridget Brereton, Gender systems and the project of modernity in the post-colonial Caribbean - Eudine Barrite…
Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad
Women in Trinidad have made enormous gains during the last twenty years in relation to equality in education, employment and equal pay. Nevertheless, there has been a backlash which is experienced by all women regardless of class, ethnicity, professional standing, or position. It is as if the society (read male-dominated patriarchy) allows women freedom on the one hand, but ensures that there are still mechanisms for control. My hypothesis is tha…
Taking Possession
Small Axe - Number 11 (Volume 6, Number 1), March 2002
The Asian Other in the Caribbean
This essay examines the problem of being Asian in the Caribbean, Asian referring generically to settled groups originating from the sub-continent of Asia. The essay traces how demographic minority status and religious difference have historically led to the process of becoming the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the "home and the world" in which "otherness" emerges as metaphors in the fictio…
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Negotiating gender policy and politics in the Caribbean
This is a timely body of work dealing with strategies in the Caribbean for over two decades to create equality and equity through gender interventions. The publication is well timed in that these p
The Sign of the Loa
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Sign of the Loa Patricia Mohammed Patricia Mohammed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Mohammed; The Sign of the Loa. Small Axe 1 September 2005; 9 (2): 124–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-124 Download cita…
Women's Responses in the 70s and 80s in Trinidad
(1989). Women's Responses in the 70s and 80s in Trinidad: A Country Report. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 36-45
Gender as a Primary Signifier in the Construction of Community and State among Indians in Trinidad
Women's Responses in the 70s and 80s in Trinidad
(1989). Women's Responses in the 70s and 80s in Trinidad: A Country Report. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 36-45
Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad
Women in Trinidad have made enormous gains during the last twenty years in relation to equality in education, employment and equal pay. Nevertheless, there has been a backlash which is experienced by all women regardless of class, ethnicity, professional standing, or position. It is as if the society (read male-dominated patriarchy) allows women freedom on the one hand, but ensures that there are still mechanisms for control. My hypothesis is tha…
Gender as a Primary Signifier in the Construction of Community and State among Indians in Trinidad
Midnight's Children and the Legacy of Nationalism
Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 4, Fall 1997
Rethinking Caribbean Difference
Who is creating the 'Other':interrogating difference in the Caribbean - Patricia Mohammed, Women's organizations and movements in the Commonwealth Caribbean - Rhoda Reddock, In search of our memory: gender in the Netherlands Antilles - Sonia Cuales, Gendered testimonies: autobiographies, diaries and letters by women in Caribbean history - Bridget Brereton, Gender systems and the project of modernity in the post-colonial Caribbean - Eudine Barrite…
Towards Indigenous Feminist Theorizing in the Caribbean
This attempt to develop an indigenous reading of feminism as both activism and discourse in the Caribbean is informed by my own preoccupation with the limits of contemporary postmodern feminist theorizing in terms of its accessibility, as well as application to understanding the specificity of a region. I, for instance, cannot speak for or in the manner of a white middle-class academic in Britain, or a black North American feminist, as much as we…
But Most of all mi Love me Browning
One of the most common threads in the Caribbean tapestry races which have populated the region over the last five centuries largely through forced or voluntary migration, is that there have emerged mixtures of the different racial groups. A large proportion of Caribbean women and men are referred to euphemistically as 'mixed race'. The terms used to describe people of mixed race vary by territory and have been incrementally added to or changed ov…
Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947
This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gend
Gendered Realities
Gendered Realities is an interdisciplinary reader that situates the present understanding of Caribbean feminist scholarship after fifteen years of in-depth and increasingly sophisticated research. The book provides a space for scholars to put forward new and challenging ideas and attempts to encourage new contributions to intellectual thought in the Caribbean. The essays deal with diverse and rich topics including the role of women in Caribbean a…
Taking Possession
Small Axe - Number 11 (Volume 6, Number 1), March 2002
Haiti I'm Sorry
Haiti is not a place for the squeamish or the unseasoned traveler. Attendez derriere la ligne jaune - Wait behind the yellow the sign says when you manage to find your way through the chaotic two and three headed snaky lines and get up to the glass fronted airport cubicles of the Haitian immigration officers. Surprisingly, the immigration officials waited patiently, for the incoming visitor or returning Haitian. But no one stayed behind the line.…
The Sign of the Loa
Research Article| September 01 2005 The Sign of the Loa Patricia Mohammed Patricia Mohammed Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Mohammed; The Sign of the Loa. Small Axe 1 September 2005; 9 (2): 124–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-124 Download cita…
Callaloo Nation
Morality and the imagination – mythopoetics of gender and culture in the Caribbean
Positioning an East Indian ethnicity as central to its argument, and using the multidisciplinary lens of art critique, literary criticism, and feminist theory, this paper proposes a politics of inclusion as a defining narrative in Caribbean subjectivity to heal the wounds of colonisation evidenced by racialised exclusions, competing victimhoods, and anger. It suggests that such traumas have limited the aesthetic expression of creativity through a…
The Asian Other in the Caribbean
This essay examines the problem of being Asian in the Caribbean, Asian referring generically to settled groups originating from the sub-continent of Asia. The essay traces how demographic minority status and religious difference have historically led to the process of becoming the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the "home and the world" in which "otherness" emerges as metaphors in the fictio…
Negotiating gender policy and politics in the Caribbean
This is a timely body of work dealing with strategies in the Caribbean for over two decades to create equality and equity through gender interventions. The publication is well timed in that these p
The Point of No Return
This essay examines the organic connection between the methods and materials used by Indian artist Wendy Nanan and the metaphysical ideas that underpin her creativity. Her exposure to a mixture of religious and cultural practices drawn from Presbyterianism and Hinduism, to the variegated festivals of a postslavery postindenture society of Trinidad is re-presented in the symbolic and allegorical pieces that Nanan has produced for over two decades.…
Beyond Geography or Closed-Circuit Ethnicities
Considering the Impact of Indians in Trinidad on Visual Culture
This paper proposes that a multivaried Indo-Trinidadian aesthetic contribution drawn from ritual, domestic, and imaginary space continues to remain historically and culturally submerged in both the definition of artistic practice and in the national consciousness of Trinidad society. The art works and artists analyzed here were selected from an exhibition held at the National Museum and Gallery in Port of Spain on the occasion of Indian Arrival D…
Carnival is Woman
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
The generous genius of Brinsley Samaroo
Professor Brinsley Samaroo made a sterling contribution to the field of history, particularly that of Indian indentureship and the atrocities of the colonial past. He was a historian of the people, had entered national politics in one phase of his career and continued all his life to serve as a public intellectual for the society of Trinidad in defence of many groups and causes. In this tribute to his life, the author establishes the intellectual…
AnthroNow Digital Archive (2015)
AnthroNow Digital Archive (2015): Rasanblaj Continua Interview. Anthropology Now. Ahead of Print. AnthroNow Digital Archive (2015): Rasanblaj Continua Interview. Anthropology Now. Ahead of Print
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