ABSTRACT
Strategic outcomes are produced from intentionally designed environments. In this chapter, the author recognizes a need to expand his worldview, to sufficiently analyze intentional realities in the Caribbean. In a strategic effort to establish a comprehensive appraisal of the socioeconomic crisis in the Caribbean and reduce the probability of errant positions, the author utilizes the works of Caribbean scholars as a filter of understanding. He highlights the voice of Afro-Carib scholars in order to develop a relevant course of meaning to analyze the relationship between creative practice and socioeconomic crisis in the Caribbean. Political divisions and external control are major blocs to the consolidation of a Caribbean identity and the charting of an independent course of development in the interest of Caribbean peoples. However, to keep the Caribbean from developing into a global competitor they utilized their hegemonic position to establish a relationship of dependency.
