Is social progression achievable when one from ten leaves naught?

¿Es factible el progreso social cuando diez menos uno es igual a cero?

This paper discusses the opinions of sixteen Caribbean scholars on social progression, and concludes that such a thing is really unattainable in the Caribbean, where metanarratives decimate masses and keep a few elites’ power position. Under this light, an important step towards social advance in the Caribbean would be the evisceration of entrenched European meta-narratives.

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