Category: Identity & Culture
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When a language dies, an entire way of seeing the world disappears with it. Not just words, but concepts, stories,… Read more
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In the hills of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and other Appalachian states, there exists a Christian tradition that most Americans… Read more
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Two Homes, One Person Here’s the reality nobody prepared you for: you can be fully American and fully Caribbean simultaneously,… Read more
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For decades, you filled out your census form and checked the box marked “White.” Two weeks later, you’re at the… Read more
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The Languages They Dismissed Caribbean languages—Creoles, patois, and linguistic innovations born from colonialism’s violence—represent some of the most complex linguistic… Read more
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Between Two Closets Being LGBTQIA+ and Caribbean means navigating dual rejection—too queer for Caribbean spaces, too Caribbean for white-dominated LGBTQIA+… Read more
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Food Is Memory Caribbean food isn’t just sustenance—it’s history you can taste, culture you can share, and resistance you can… Read more
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The Minority Within the Minority Indo-Caribbean people exist in an identity space that most Americans don’t even know exists. We’re… Read more
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Walk down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and you’ll find some of the oldest Arab American businesses in the country—businesses with… Read more
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More Than a Party If you’ve only experienced Caribbean carnival as a tourist attraction or Instagram moment, you’ve missed the… Read more
