This week we had another zoom call to check up on eachothers progress and address any questions we had. We wernt sure what type of referencing to use, as UCD and UWI mainly use two different types, so we planned to ask our lecturers during the next class to see which one theyd prefer us use throughout out project. We all agree that meeting up weekly on zoom is helping the project run smoothly and in a timely manner, giving us time to complete our goals and add any ideas or changes we deem necessry along the way. Even though it is not mentioned in The Swinging Bridge, we decided to include Mauritius because, when talking about indentured labour, it is one of the most important locations. It was the first location that Indian indentured labourers were brought over from India by the British, to work on the plantations. It is a very important to acknowledge Mauritius, and in fact, the Aapravasi Ghat has been declared a world heritage site. This week was quite quiet in terms of challenges or queries as we are just working on the tasks we were assingned last week. We all agree to meet up again next week through zoom and do a pracitse run of our presentation to the class. We aloctae someone to share their screen during the presentation, and allocate someone to email the finished project to our lecturers at the end of the month.
For our final reflection, we all wrote a paragraph each to summarise our general thoughts and experiences on the project. Why we chose this topic, how we worked as a team and the progress weve made over the past few weeks. Bilqees: As an Indo-Trinidadian young woman whose great-grandfather was an indentured labourer from Bihar, having arrived to work in Trinidad in 1873, this was the most illuminating project I've undertaken as it relates to Indo-Caribbean history. I think society is generally given a brief, reductive outline of what indentureship was in the context of the Caribbean. There is a disconnect between our idealized tropical modern-day reality and the harsh history that its backdrop. Little Indo-Trinidadian people know the socio-economic state of British India that even led to the indentureship programme (or, scheme) that brought hundreds of thousands of Indians to the Caribbean. In working on the excerpt from Espinet's "The Swinging Bridge", I was able
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