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Today we are going through Chapter 1 of "Sexing the Caribbean" by Kerala Kempadoo
Please share widely and contribute your own thoughts about the chapter.
The convention is:
No brackets are paraphrases from the book (brackets is tweeter opinion)
Global media often portrays the Caribbean as exotic and "backward"
A sex crazed and not advanced society.
This book aims at undoing this Colonial view of the Caribbean.
(some Caribbean people share that colonial view 😒)
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As Frantz Fanon (we should be reading his work soon as well) said:
"Colonial Discourses are deeply embedded in the psyche and behaviour of the colonised"
(we see this frequently in how we police women like its the early 20th century still)
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Caribbean sexuality is of significance to understanding the past, present and future of the Caribbean
(one YSJ member highlighted how 🇹🇹 has not done a proper post colonial introspection. Hopefully works like this help)
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The book uses the broadest definition of the Caribbean as possible, but indicates that some sections would only apply to sub definitions of the Caribbean.
For this book
Caribbean = all the islands plus Belize, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana
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