Word: kincaide
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...Kincaid, who feels uneasy defining even herself, is uncomfortable with much of the language and rhetoric that often characterizes campus discussions on race...
...think left alone, I wouldn't say I'm Black. I don't know I'm Black until someone tells me I am," Kincaid continues. "It's quite true I'm Black, But I can't say that I find any solace in it, or I find any particular pride in it, But it's just a fact...
...great things about coming to the United States, Kincaid says, was the freedom to be different--a freedom she didn't have in her more homogeneous homeland...
...Kincaid travelled here in 1966, at the age of 17, to attend college and to "better myself." While her stories are usually set in the west Indies, her perspective has necessarily changed...
...sort of someone with a dual personality," Kincaid says. The American side is used to privilege, accustomed to taking more than her share of the world's wealth. The Antiguan side is a native of a third world country, no stranger to life without the simplest necessities...