부산대학교 도서관

The comparative study of race and culture contacts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean regions is predominantly an interest in the comparison of race relations in the Anglo-Saxon and Latin subregions of the Caribbean region. That this is so becomes clear from a definition of what we understand by Mediterranean and Caribbean regions or, in other words, the European and the American Mediterranean. In both cases, a centrally located, that is to say, a truly Mediterranean sea unites rather than separates the surrounding coastal rimlands. Sicily is nearer to Tunisia than to Savoy, as recent events have taught us anew, and Morocco is facing Spain across the narrow Straits of Gibraltar while it is separated from the Sudan by the desert belt of the Sahara. Likewise, Louisiana is closer to Cuba than to Massachusetts, as Colombia is closer to Puerto Rico than to the republics of La Plata from which it is separated by the Arizonas jungles. Mediterranean civilization may be said to reach as far as the olive tree is grown while its outer frontiers are marked by the northernmost and southernmost extension of vine cultivation.