Moving Beyond Borders Analysis

Thus, the British and the American treat the colonized as the other, this treatment causes an identity crisis throughout the construction of the colonized otherness, this binary opposition puts the colonizers in the inferiority position Hall states that ''Not only, in Said's 'Orientalist' sense, were we constructed as different and other within the categories of knowledge of the West by those regimes. They had the power to make us see and experience ourselves as other'' (qtd in Cultural Hybridity 187).
Even though the early life with one's family served as foundation for the early identity as Alana Butler shows in her article Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora that ''the early family socialization was pivotal for each of these women. The family served as a foundation of their
The savage's family leaves Jamaica to the United States in 1960 when Clare was fourteen years old. Clare's life in America was the turning point in her life and the place in which was the eye opener for her, America was for the Savage's family and Clare the land of new life ''This was a new start in a new world'' (Cliff 54). The family escaped from the violence and racism, and they expected that they left racism behind. America was the new world for them, the greatest country in the world, the land of opportunities, boy reassures to his daughters that their life in America is a great chance for them ''he told his girls, was a grand chance to find out about this country firsthand. The greatest country in the world'' (Cliff 54).Eventhough Kitty (Clare's mother) and Jennie (Clare's sister) were dark skinned but they thought it was a chance for them to live in the new country ''we're blessed to have such a chance at a new life'' (Cliff