Blog - Amilcar Sanatan

“Home Should Not Be a Privilege”: Interview with Shaunasea Brown

Posted on April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

Shaunasea Brown (born March 19, 1990) is a Jamaican-Canadian and Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Her scholarship presents the artistic and intellectual work of Black and Caribbean diaspora women in Canada. Her politics of care extend to her family and community-based networks. I met Brown in 2021/2022 in a […]

“Whenever Whenever Comes”: Interview with Khalid Romain

Posted on April 23, 2025April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

Khalid Romain (born October 18, 1980) is a dual citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. We crossed paths on social media a few weeks ago. Romain attended secondary school at Trinity College, Moka and Queen’s Royal College in Trinidad and Tobago and went on to pursue higher education at Howard University, Washington D.C. He […]

The Rights of the Child, Race Matters and Political Media

Posted on August 7, 2020April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

Both the People’s National Movement and the United National Congress have posted photographs of children in the images of campaign engagements. Children in political media is not a problem in itself, some children in the media are children and relatives of candidates, children of prominent community political activists and also children whose parents explicitly authorised […]

April Fool’s & The “Recalcitrant Minority” in Trinidad and Tobago

Posted on April 2, 2020April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

In Trinidad and Tobago, you would be shocked to know how much a very specific term “recalcitrant” especially when married to the word “minority” is part of the popular vocabulary. The phrase “recalcitrant minority” has a particular resonance in the “young, multiethnic, multicultural, newly-independent state” (Rohlehr 1997, 849). Rohlehr’s description of the society in 1997 […]

Hello, Rum and Coca-Cola Neo-Colonial Fantasy

Posted on August 10, 2018April 23, 2025 by Amílcar Sanatan

Spoiler alert: Sociological critique of the construction of a white man’s paradise and neo-colonial gaze with reference to the Caribbean “The national bourgeoisie organises centres of rest and relaxation and pleasure resorts to meet the wishes of the Western bourgeoisie. Such activity is given the name of tourism, and for the occasion will be […]