Caribbean: What does the word before the colon mean? · Global Voices
Georgia Popplewell

“What does “Caribbean” mean? What a vast weight of confusion & possibility & debate those four little syllables have to bear,” says Nicholas Laughlin in a thoughtful post inspired by a long-gone writing deadline, by the debates around the restructuring of the Global Voices “Americas” region, and by Taran Rampersad's mention of what Nicholas terms “the phenomenon that some call brain drain & others call the diaspora.”