Identify at least three challenges that Caribbean women face as evidenced in the stories you have read. Cite at least two stories for each challenge. Discuss the ways women cope and succeed as evidenced in the stories you select.

Write a critical/analytical essay discussing the challenges women face in the English-speaking Caribbean and their ways of coping and surviving as evidenced in the stories assigned for this class. Do not include references to Annie John or Crick Crack Monkey.

Nunez, Elizabeth and Jennifer Sparrow. Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers
at Home and Abroad. Seal/Avalon, 2006. 10: 1-58005-139-1. This is an anthology and contains stories by all the writers to be discussed.

Make a plan and Identify at least three challenges that Caribbean women face as evidenced in the stories you have read. Cite at least two stories for each challenge. Discuss the ways women cope and succeed as evidenced in the stories you select.

1. Class and color discrimination: Senior, Marshall, Nourbese Philip, Edgell, Hopkinson.

2. Gender discrimination: McWatt, Hemans, Brand

3. Limited economic options for women in the Caribbean: Leach, Brand, Powell

4. Police corruption and violence against women: Mordecai, Cezair-Thompson

5. Alienation experienced by white Caribbean women: Rhys, Cliff

6. Struggles for educational opportunities for female children: Collins, Pollard, Hemans, Cliff

7. The consequences of emigration ( leaving the Caribbean): Levy and Marshall

8. Coping with the social, psychological, economic effects of the history of slavery and colonization: Melville, Hopkinson

must included in text citations from book.

Write the citation and annotation When writing your annotation, the complete citation should always come first, and the annotation follows.

 Racism:

You need to write a paragraph describing each of the 50 sources you use for your paper topic. The topic for this Annotated Bibliography is Racism (REQUIRED TO HAVE 50 SOURCES!)

The student will select a subject for the Annotated bibliography that should be relevant to this course “Deviant Behavior”. Topic has to be focused on some type of social deviance

This has to be a descriptive/ informative annotated bibliography based on a topic of your choice ( regarding a type of social deviance )

• Step 1:

Choose your sources Before writing your annotated bibliography, you must choose at least 50 sources. This involves doing research much like for any other project. Locate records to materials that may apply to your topic.

• Review the items Then review the actual items and choose those that provide a wide variety of perspectives on your topic. Article abstracts are helpful in this process.

• Write the citation and annotation When writing your annotation, the complete citation should always come first, and the annotation follows.

[You will want to include at least the following]


1. The purpose of the work

2. A summary of its content

3. Its relevance to the topic

Annotated bibliographies may be arranged alphabetically or chronologically,

Guidelines for formatting the citations

Format style and citations should follow American Psychological Association (APA) formatting instructions.