Hi Everyone, Two Saturdays ago, the Guyana Cultural Association of New York, held its annual symposium, and this year the theme was: Who are we?
The theme asks a timely question and one that certainly gives us pause. In the call for papers, the organizers referenced a Stabroek News editorial in August with a headline that asked the same question: Who are we? Among the many things that the editorial spoke to was the hybridity of the Caribbean and how much of our culture, particularly our youth culture “…is largely derivative of American culture.” While I agree with much of what was said in the editorial,
