Florida Award to Sir Philip Sherlock

Florida Award to Sir Philip Sherlock

Sunday Sun, July 26, 1981. Jly •• 1111 FlOrida· award Sir Phit• Sherlock Caribbean Review, a quarterly Ca ·the UNICA Foundations and ' ribbean- Studie� Association · journal published by Florida continues to work for one of his in spring 1932, should be .;ent to International University and ,deals, a Pan-Caribbean dedicated to the Caribbearl, The Editor,, Caribbean Latin America and their im­ Review, Florida Internatiqnal migrant groups, has presented University, Miami, Florida- its annual award to Sir Philip 33199. • M. Sherlock, Jamaican educator, historian, writer and The award recognizes in­ pOet who founded UNICA, the jjvidual effort regardles:; or- Association of Caribbean field, ideology,-national origin Universities and Researcfl or pla<:e of residence. Institutes. In the special edition in· The award is presented· which the Sherlock award was annuaJly to an individual who -announced, editor Barry B.­ has contributed to the ad­ Levine, associate professor of vancement of Caribbean in­ sociology-anthropology at· tellectual life. A plaque and an honorar'iumor $250, doriated by FIU. and the writers focus on �he International Affairs recent elections in the Centre of FlU, are presented C::tribbeanand their relation to to the recipient. the status of democracy. The award was announced in In an editorial, he said tba,t the spring Caribbean Review, the issue on the status of a special edition focusing on democracJ tn the Caribbean is the status of democracy in the an attempt to assess the Caribbean validity of the widespread fear Sherlock, 30, whom· the that the Caribbean ts tnregoing magazine called "a Caribbean its long-s_tanding commitment renaissance man," has been a to democratic politics. school teacher and head­ master, a member of the pre­ He concludes that while he­ ind�pendence Legislative 'SIR PHILIP... "Carib believes that democracy is Council ( 1952-59) and with the " renaissance man" alive in the Caribbean today, University of the. West Indies and the region has indeed since 1947 as director of the society. stepped back from radicalism department of extra-mural The award committee in­ to become more conservative studies, pro-vice chancellor cludes Lambros Comitas, than in the recent past, the and then vice chancellor. chairman · of Columbia range of articles offered He has publisb�d many Pniversity, r'uat Andie, should enable the readers can books of history and folklore, conclusions. Universidad de Puerto Hi co,· . draw thetr own including ··short History of the San Juan: \\'enrlell BP!I, Yale John m \\·est Indies.·· with U t' 1 v e r s 1 t ) L o L k s 1 e ) Arltcles on the elections P·1rn which became the Edmona�on .Jamaica, Guyana, Dominica � ;wi. and staud·a d· work on the subject. Anthuny P. 1\I ingot, f Il and Puerto Rico and related material on Tnnirlad and He established U!\iiCA in ·ominatnn ·or the 1982 1968 lll Tobago, Bermuda Sunname an organization which Cartbbean Rn 1ew 1\wc..rd 60 Trinidad and the Eastern now includes more than �J� presented · l the sE'venth Caribbean appear in the insti ulions Sir Philip heads annual mee tng oi the special edition_ .

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