Within sectors of North America's African-American community, the colloquial expression "being touched by the brush" describes a multi-ethnic individual that possesses subtle Negroid physical features which are only detectable by close inspection by a "trained eye." Here, Edison discusses the historical factors in Puerto Rico and Panama that make up the foundation upon which Francisco Arrivi's "Los Vejigantes" and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's "Chombo" were constructed.;
Birbalsingh discusses Indo-Caribbean culture, and the origins and influences of Indo-Caribbean short stories, beginning with the marriage of Indian and African oral traditions. Several authors from throughout Indo-CAribbean literature are profiled, including A. R. F. Webber, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon.;