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Ethnicity in the Caribbean Gert Oostindie

Ethnicity in the Caribbean By Gert Oostindie

Ethnicity in the Caribbean by Gert Oostindie

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Addresses the workings of ethnicity in the Caribbean where, from the early days of empire through today's post-colonial limbo, it has arguably remained in the centre of public society as well as private life.

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Ethnicity in the Caribbean: Essays in Honor of Harry Hoetink by Gert Oostindie

ethnicity|race relations|slavery|colonial history|decolonisation|anthropology|intellectual history|cultural studies|social geography|identity politics|political studies|Caribbean|Latin America|Cuba|Dominican Republic|French Caribbean|Haiti|Suriname|Netherlands Antilles|Aruba|Puerto Rico

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'The range is impressive ... as thorough a baptism into the complexities of race and classpokitics in the Caribbean as a layman is likely to find.. intimacy and sophistication' - Caribbean Beat

About Gert Oostindie

Gert Oostindie is director of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.

Table of Contents

Contents - 10[-]The Contributors - 12[-]Acknowledgements - 15[-]Ch 1: Introdudtion: ethnicity, as ever? - 18[-]Ch 2: Race, culture and identity in the New World:five national versions - 39[-]Ch 3: Ethnic difference, plantation sameness - 56[-]Ch 4: Haiti and the terrified consciousness of the Carribean - 70[-]Ch 5: Museums, ethnicity and nation-building: reflections from the French Carribean - 98[-]Ch 6: Ethnicity and social structure in contemporary Cuba - 123[-]Ch 7: 'Constitutionally white': the forging of a national identity in the Dominican Republic - 138[-]Ch 8: The somatology of manners: class, race and gender in the history of dance etiquette in the Hispanic Carribean - 169[-]Ch 9: Jamaican decolonization and the development of national culture - 199[-]Ch 10: Ethnicity, nationalism and the exodus: the Dutch Carribean predicament - 223[-]Index - 250

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NLS9789053568514
9789053568514
9053568514
Ethnicity in the Caribbean: Essays in Honor of Harry Hoetink by Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie
Amsterdam Academic Archive
New
Paperback
Amsterdam University Press
2005-10-24
258
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