How a Movable House Shaped Barbadian Identity


A House as Metaphor for Barbados. Barbados itself is a goods home of sorts-- a small island that declined to stay where the world tried to position it. It picked up its identity and shifted it through centuries of turmoil:
• Amerindian origins
• English colonial guideline
• African survival and reinvention
• The plantation period
• Emancipation.
• Migration.
• Education.
• Independence.
• Republic.
At every turn, the island adjusted without losing itself. That is the effects house spirit.
Movement without rooting out.
Strength without rigidness.
Identity that travels however does not fade.

Based on: Rogues in Paradise.


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