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obstinate

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so

Oxford Dictionary of English

The Chachas

of St. Thomas

VIMovingCenter, 2007

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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage

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References

  • Allsopp, R., & Allsopp, J. (Eds.). (2003). Dictionary of Caribbean English usage. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
  • De Albuquerque, K., & McElroy, J.L. (1985), Race and ethnicity in the United States Virgin Islands, Ethnic Groups. Vol. 6, pp. 125-153.
  • Hall, S. (1997): The Spectacle of the ‘Others’, in Stuart Hall (Ed.): Representation – Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, London: SAGE Publications, s. 223-290
  • Hillinger, C. (1987): Cha Chas Preserve a Generations-Old Identity, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1987, http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-12/news/vw-898_1_cha-cha
  • Machin, D., & Mayr, A. (2012). How to do critical discourse analysis: a multimodal introduction. Los Angeles: SAGE.
  • Shaw, E.B. (1934). The Chachas of St. Thomas, The Scientific Monthly, 38 (2), 136-145
  • Williamson-Bryan, V. (n.d.). One, two, Cha Cha Cha. On US Virgin Islands: America’s Caribbean Paradise, Travel website, http://www.usvi.net/archives/vi-in-depth-archives/caribcat-one-two-cha-cha-cha/

All photos and maps courtesy of The Royal Library, Denmark

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Stereotypes get hold of a few ‘simple, vivid, memorable, easily grasped and widely recognized’ characteristics about a person, reduce everything about the person to those traits, exaggerate and simplify them, and fix them without change or development to eternity.

– Stuart Hall, 1997

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