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A Conversation with Jamaican Young Adult Author, Melanie Schwapp
Melanie Schwapp was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Two short migrations at two key stages of her life opened Melanie’s eyes to the cultural and social discriminations in society, and thus began her quest for understanding through writing. At the age of five she moved to England with her family, where she was awakened to the nature of color prejudice, and then during her late teens and early twenties she attended the University of South Carolina, where the subtle traits of discrimination cemented her interest in the social repercussions of theses prejudicesMore...