The Caribbean Essay -- Caribbean History Essays

The CaribbeanPerhaps nowhere on earth is a much culturally varying region than in the Caribbean. The recent history has organize these islands into a confused, random area, hiding much of its peoples indistinguishability and heritage. Due to European Imperialism, extermination of aboriginal peoples, sla truly, the plantation system, and the ethnic form of the inhabitants the Caribbean does not allow itself to be classified as one. In particular little can be grouped together. Sydney Mintz, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, and Michelle Cliff try to cook up sense of the combination and loss of culture as well as the reemergence of new ones. They do this from different perspectives, Rojo though the eyes of a Cuban and a literary critic, Mintz as a political scientist and Cliff as a Jamaican born and raised citizen.Sydney Mintz and Antonio Benitez-Rojo argue a very similar viewpoint. When the Europeans arrived in the late fourteen hundreds they took control of the native macrocosm an either e nslaved or exterminated them. Over the years the European countries swallow juggled ownership of the islands, shifting in...