Media analysis papers are designed to allow you to deepen your understanding of the depth and scope of anticolonial thought and writing by placing what we’ve learned in class in conversation with an external source.

Your media analysis papers should accomplish three things:

1. Contextualize your chosen external source: In no more than one (1) page, summarize the core ideas of your selected item (what is this piece trying to achieve?), and offer relevant background context to understand it

a. Questions to ask yourself: What is happening in the Caribbean/world at the time this piece was written, and how do these events shape the ideas in the piece? Who is the writer, and how does this piece fit into the writer’s broader interests?

Drawing Links: Draw at least two clear and meaningful links between one source from our course syllabus/class sessions and your chosen external source. These links should be thoroughly and convincingly explained, illustrated with specific quotations from both.

Synthesis: Clearly articulate how your chosen item advances, complicates, or challenges your understanding of Caribbean anticolonial thought in at least one significant way

External Sources

The online archival resource, the Digital Library of the Caribbean (or dLOC), houses a number of Caribbean periodicals that were, and are, influential repositories of thought on Caribbean nation- building, sovereignty, arts, culture, and politics. Additionally, the Small Axe Project is a central hub for Caribbean intellectual and artistic thought, and is a site for cutting edge conversations about the Caribbean region today.