Bahamas: On the Caribbean

“What is the Caribbean? is not an unanswerable question. But there isn’t — will never be — a single, definitive answer that can encompass the complications of the geographic region named for the Caribs of half a millennium ago, its history and its culture”: So writes Bahamian blogger Nicolette Bethel for The Caribbean Review of Books in her review of anthropologist Sidney Mintz's latest offering.

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