Boston College Front Row

Rhonda Frederick, assistant professor of English, teaches courses in Caribbean and African American literature, with emphases on political and cultural themes, and women's writing. She is the author of "Colon Man a Come": Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). In her lecture she develops materials from her course on culture and the impact of globalization in Jamaica. She describes how the expansion of commerce has had led to "unanticipated flows of people, goods, and capital."