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Callaloo Nation - Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad (Paperback, New)
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Callaloo Nation - Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad (Paperback, New)
Series: Latin America Otherwise
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Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity,
creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope
in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined
with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about
mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted
and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal
the tension that exists between identity as a source of equality
and identity as an instrument through which social and cultural
hierarchies are reinforced. Focusing on the Indian diaspora in the
Caribbean, Khan examines this paradox as it is expressed in key
dimensions of Hindu and Muslim cultural history and social
relationships in southern Trinidad. In vivid detail, she describes
how disempowered communities create livable conditions for
themselves while participating in a broader culture that both
celebrates and denies difference.Khan combines ethnographic
research she conducted in Trinidad over the course of a decade with
extensive archival research to explore how Hindu and Muslim
Indo-Trinidadians interpret authority, generational tensions, and
the transformations of Indian culture in the Caribbean through
metaphors of mixing. She demonstrates how ambivalence about the
desirability of a callaloo nation-a multicultural society-is
manifest around practices and issues, including rituals, labor,
intermarriage, and class mobility. Khan maintains that metaphors of
mixing are pervasive and worth paying attention to: the assumptions
and concerns they communicate are key to unraveling who
Indo-Trinidadians imagine themselves to be and how identities such
as race and religion shape and are shaped by the politics of
multiculturalism.
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