Verene Shepherd

Verene A. Shepherd (* 1950 ) is a Jamaican social historian.

Verene A. Shepherd wrote her PhD at Cambridge University . Her research interests are Jamaican economic history in the time of slavery and the history of women in the Caribbean. She hosts the radio show Talking History , which is broadcast across Jamaica . She is also head of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . Shepherd is Professor of Social History at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica .

In October 2013 she hit the headlines because she called the Dutch customs at the Sinterklaasfest around the figure of Zwarte Piet as racist and called for an end to the tradition.

Publications (selection)

• Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica . 2009.
• I want to disturb my neighbor . 2007.
• Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean . 2002.
• Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspectives . 1998.

Web links

• Verene Shepherd on the University of the West Indies website
• Verene Shepherd on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Prof Verene Shepherd appointed to UN group. (No longer available online.) Jamaica Observer, April 11, 2010, archived from the original on January 14, 2015 ; Retrieved on October 24, 2013 (English): "PROFESSOR Verene Shepherd, who heads the Department of History and Archeology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, has been appointed a member of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, the foreign ministry announced yesterday. “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Accusation of racism: UN calls for the end of the St. Nicholas Festival in Holland. spiegel.de, October 23, 2013, accessed on October 23, 2013 .