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The Terms "West Indian" and "Caribbean" and the colonial problematizing of identity.
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QUESTION 7: The Terms "West Indian" and "Caribbean" and the colonial problematizing of identity A little bit of everything makes my world an interesting place and while we're on the subject of diversity WE ARE NOT ONE BIG RACE! and there's no country called "the islands" and no, I'm not from there. From "Crossfire" by Staceyann Chin What are we? Who are we? Where are we going? These are the questions that plague us. Christopher Columbus' error in geography left us with the term "West Indies". He decided that since he was planning on going to India anyway he would just give wherever he landed that name anyway in an effort to cover up his navigational miscalculation. The very name is a contradiction since "Indies" means "East" ergo the Indies cannot be in the West! Moreover it creates confusion for those whose ancestry is in India and have the confusing designator of "East Indians who are from the...
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