Mirror Mirror Rex Nettleford

There are varying perspectives in Caribbean Psychology which have attempted to record and review as well as explain our unique psychological view on life and how we have evolved as a people. Such perspectives have attempted to explain with consideration the impact of our past on our present, colonialism as well as the struggle for independence and in latter years definition as to who we are as a people, we have chronicled our adaptation, explained our resilience and tenacity as a nation.
Professor Nettleford’s book “Mirror Mirror “is an invaluable source of reference which seeks to explain some cultural modalities. Professor Nettleford explores some of the prevalent issues such as that of identity , Race and Protest in Jamaica and gives a current perspective on such issues. In so doing the writer wishes for his audience to look at the preceding times and draw a comparison between then and now with the hope that all who read this book will somehow be forced to look at Jamaicans through all walks of life and realize how social and racial cohesion can never be ignored; if we have decided that out of many one people we will strive to move forward as one cohesive unit and survive as a nation and develop accordingly as well as amidst all these global changes. ‘Mirror Mirror ‘demonstrates Mr. Nettleford’s deep knowledge and understanding of issues which are currently galvanizing the attention of people in Third World countries outside of Jamaica’s borders. According to Nettleford “These essays have been concerned mainly with problems of the Jamaican black majority and the uncertainties and contradictions of their role in what is supposed to be their country. The sixties, goes the argument, was marked by the threatening trinity of identity, race and attention to the threat- whether through piecemeal social engineering of a government in power, economic nationalism of a party in opposition, cultural rediscovery and definition by sensitive intellectuals and