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Locator map for the Antilles islands. The Antilles are an island group in the Caribbean Sea which are divided into the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.

Group of West Indian islands, divided north–south into the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti–Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) and Lesser Antilles, subdivided into the Leeward Islands (Virgin Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, and Guadeloupe) and the Windward Islands (Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, and Grenada). Total population (2001 est) 29,544,000.



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Taking place precisely at the time that African slavery became central to Antillean economies, this transformation seems, as Peabody notes, counterintuitive.
Race matters in the colonial South by Spear, Jennifer M. / Journal of Southern History
Stuart Hall discusses the mobility of the Caribbean, calling the Antillean the "prototype of the modern or postmodern New World nomad, continually moving between center and periphery" in "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" in Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader, ed.
"There was no resisting John Canoe": circum-Atlantic transracial ... by Reed, Peter / Theatre History Studies
The Netherlands Antilles was a former colony, and the traditional Antillean culture is based on acculturation of African and European elements.
Netherlands Antilles: a bold journey by Delfina, Richard / Childhood Education
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