"I am interested in Caribbean transitions - from trace to terrace and the rot that follows the sapodilla when it moves from country to town; the transformation from peasant to middle class life styles; how mass education has changed Caribbean society; how race and class have turned everything, including Carnival, upside down. But above all, I am interested in people, male relationships in particular, and how the 'outside child' remains a deep-rooted West Indian constant that you can't put out of the house." Cynthia James. 2006