Cape Verdeans going home again
By: James F. Smith
April 27, 2009
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April 27, 2009
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Summary
James F. Smith has been observing Claire Andrade-Watkins, a Fox Point native who is a film-maker and professor at Emerson College in Boston who has been trying to celebrate Cape Verdeans culture around in hope of them returning to their community of Fox Point in Providence, Rhode Island ever since they left around 1960. She had planned a procession with many Fox Point descendants helping her. Although they struggled, the work was not useless because the Cape Verdeans had finally returned and are building new lives in the United States.
My Thoughts, Comments, and/or Reaction
I thought it was very nice of Claire's effort to bring the Cape Verdeans back into the U.S. to establish their culture and new lives. Bringing culture around and spreading the ideas of it is great in my opinion. It's letting everyone trying something new. Without it, I don't think America would have been diverse as it is today.
Article's Relation to Culture
Although this article did not take place in Cape Verde, it showed the struggle and importance of keeping a culture alive and stop it from dying out but reliving it. With Claire's effort, the Cape Verdeans from Cape Verde are able to share their culture within the U.S and will eventually spread around the world. Real culture can be established anywhere. With much help around the country, different types of cultural are able to be spread and acknowledge by different people.