Book Review of Mirror, Mirror Essay - 1960 Words

BOOK REVIEW OF MIRROR MIRROR IDENTITY, RACE AND PROTEST IN JAMAICA by Rex Nettleford Taneisha Malcolm April 1, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page3 Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 4 Summary of Content ---------------------------------------------------------------------- page 6 Conclusion --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 10 Reference ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 11 TITLE PAGE Title of Book: Mirror Mirror Identity, Race and Protest in†¦show more content†¦The country’s motto, ‘Out of many one people’ was referred to multiple times in the new introduction reflecting a multiracial nationalist ethic. This was purported by many of the upper educated class and even the mostly uneducated, black lower class. However, there were a few such as Pro. Nettleford, who saw the motto as an aspiration rather than reality. Thus affirming this inharmonious state of half black, half white, serving to keep the nation in a constant state of schizophrenia. For Pro. Nettleford, Jamaican and Caribbean nationalisms all fall victim to this fragmented sense of self because for the most part the newly independent Caribbean countries have all bought into a hybrid, creolized model that validates the assimilation into a Euro-Creolized New World heritage and away from the historical precursor of slavery and Africa. The mimicry of European cultural values is therefore a day-to-day reality for postcolonial citizenship. In revisiting Mirror Mirror, Professor Nettleford presented a current perspective on the ever prevalent issues of Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica. 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