Colonial education embedded English literary culture into young Black Caribbean children.

Evidence

I was about six years of age when I got hold of my mother’s copy of Shakespeare. There were 37 plays in it, or 36, and there was an illustration in the front of each play. The illustration had below it the Act and the Scene which it illustrated and I remember the illustration before Julius Caesar saying, “How ill this taper burns.” Now I could not read a play of Shakespeare but I remember perfectly looking up the Act and Scenes stated at the foot of the illustration and reading that particular scene. I am quite sure that before I was seven I had read all those scenes. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1174

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US colonial education reforms aimed to Americanize Puerto Rican students — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 929