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Ethnic Affairs of The State
All men are created equal. In the books this statement is valid, but in everyday life we have a long way to go before this becomes more than just a perception. The Caribbean Islands that were once onl...

Brooklyn, Madison - Hot Baby Names of 2008
What is the newest trend looming over a generation of babies? It is naming babies after cities, rivers, countries and even continents. If you have just come back from a trip to Greece and learned...

New Female Culture
In the book "The Autobiography of My Mother" Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of young girl Xuela, a slave from the Caribbean island. With the death of her mother, Xuela becomes reliant only on...

Mother-Daughter Relationships
In the works of Jamaica Kincaid she tries to rewrite the history of West Indies and in the book "The Autobiography of My Mother" she touches upon the identity problems and the topic of hybridi...

Kincaid's Novels
Colonialism and its effects on political, economic and social lives of society are the prominent topics of Jamaica Kincaid. Many of her works are devoted to the problem of colonialism and its conseque...

Fight for Culture of Caribbean Slaves
Jamaica Kincaid writes that during the imposing time the fertility of slaves' women was considered as beneficial to the European masters as they wanted by means of them to increase the population of s...