However, if one acknowledges the fact that some of these skills, and even certain measures of intellect, are often determined by one's skin color, the idea of fairness is nullified. ... Equality, in its barest form, involves different characters possessing the same qualities or characteristics. ...
Closely related to the Mammy was the character of the Sambo. ... He paved the way for the Jim Crow character first introduced by T.D. ... The Coon was a comical character that seemed to be able to do no right. ... Previously most of the characters of the Coon and Jim Crow were played by white men in black face in addition the up and coming black entertainers found that as the characters had been exaggerated in the past they too had to exaggerate their own features. ... The Coon presented an efficient and effective example of freedom given to the Black American and how they could not ever me...
Benitez-Rojo claims that the "Caribbean, in substantial measure, was shaped by Europe for the plantation, and the generalized historical convergence shown by the different territories in the region are always related to that purpose" (Pg. 39). ... The main character, Clare Savage, struggles with her identity throughout the book. ... In Cliff's novel Abeng, the main character Clare suffers this phenomenon. ... Powell's character. ...
The psychologist, Jean Phinney (1987:10), further notes that there are "widely discrepant definitions and measures of ethnic identity, which makes generalizations and comparisons across studies difficult and ambiguous". ...
