I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada.(Book Review) From: Resources for Feminist Research | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Barrero, Patricia Diaz | COPYRIGHT 2004 O.I.S.E. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I KNOW WHO I AM: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada

Yvonne Bobb-Smith Toronto: CSPI/Women's Press, 2003; 250 pp.

In I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's Identity in Canada Yvonne Bobb-Smith is particularly interested in reminding us that many of us, as immigrants, and particularly as immigrant women, need to rethink how we use the experiences that have brought us from an objectivity of oppression to a subjectivity of change with responsibility. Immigrant w...

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