Category: National Identity

Richard Wright was the breakthrough man who came all the way up from all the way down. He was suckled on resentment, nurtured on anger, grew up on rootlessness, and tested every violent flavor of alienation and hostility. But his bitter rootlessness, resentment, alienation and hostility are the creations of poverty and humiliations attendant upon…

Popular music has always been one of the central defining elements involved in forging various Caribbean national and cultural identities because of its expansion and exposure of different identities cultures and music coming together forming new genres from similar areas and the talented artists behind it all, expressing themselves through the rhythms in a matter…

National identity is a sense of a nation and its people as a connected whole from an internal and external perspective (internal, as the people of that nation see themselves, and external, as the rest of the world views the people of that nation), which has developed over time. The development of identity is something…