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In the grand design of slavery in the Caribbean, White planters
separated African slaves of similar tribal and linguistic groups in
an effort to destroy African cultural traditions. The result was an
African population that lost most of its African heritage and
adopted a creolized variant of European culture. The dominance of
Creolization, a colonial legacy, ignores the Caribbean multiethnic
mosaic and endangers national unity, good governance, and political
stability. Through a series of readings, this book argues that the
Creolization is antithetical and challenging to nation building and
results in cultural and working-class fragmentation, competition
for national space, ranking, ethno-cultural categorization,
racialization of consciousness, cultural imperialism, use of the
'political' race card, and ethnic dominance. This book acknowledges
the need to create a framework for mutual cultural appreciation and
institutionalization of all cultures in the pursuit of national
unity in the Caribbean.
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen,
the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies.
For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most
articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in
Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of
Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora
studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first
given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival:
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in
Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled. Reproducing Domination
contains some of Hintzen's most important Caribbean essays over a
twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have
broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs of Regime
Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated
the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Anglophone
Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in
Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence
of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to
power and governance, Hintzen's work assumes even more resonance
beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This groundbreaking volume
serves as an important guide for those concerned with tracing the
consolidation of power in the new elite that emerged following flag
independence in the 1960s.
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the
interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the
Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars
delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at
close range the encounters of different forms of blackness
converging on the global scene. Contributors examine the many ways
blacks have been misrecognized in a variety of contexts. They also
explore how, as a direct result of transnational networking and
processes of friction, blacks have deployed diasporic consciousness
to interpellate forms of white supremacy that have naturalized
black inferiority, inhumanity, and abjection. Various essays
document the antagonism between African Americans and Africans
regarding heritage tourism in West Africa, discuss the interaction
between different forms of blackness in Toronto's Caribana
Festival, probe the impact of the Civil Rights movement in America
on diasporic communities elsewhere, and assess the anxiety about
HIV and AIDS within black communities. The volume demonstrates that
diaspora is a floating revelation of black consciousness that
brings together, in a single space, dimensions of difference in
forms and content of representations, practices, and meanings of
blackness. Diaspora imposes considerable flexibility in what would
otherwise be place-bound fixities. Contributors are Marlon M.
Bailey, Jung Ran Forte, Reena N. Goldthree, Percy C. Hintzen,
Lyndon Phillip, Andrea Queeley, Jean Muteba Rahier, Stephane
Robolin, and Felipe Smith.
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen,
the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies.
For the past thirty years, Hintzen has been one of the most
articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in
Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of
Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora
studies. His work on the postcolonial elites in the region, first
given full articulation in his book The Costs of Regime Survival:
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in
Guyana and Trinidad, is unparalleled. Reproducing Domination
contains some of Hintzen's most important Caribbean essays over a
twenty-five-year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have
broadened and deepened his earlier work in The Costs of Regime
Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated
the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Anglophone
Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in
Anglophone Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence
of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to
power and governance, Hintzen's work assumes even more resonance
beyond the shores of the Caribbean. This groundbreaking volume
serves as an important guide for those concerned with tracing the
consolidation of power in the new elite that emerged following flag
independence in the 1960s.
This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America,
and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions
which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Given
the structure of political and economic organization typical of
these countries, and of the web of international relations of which
they are a part, political survival can very often depend on a
leader's willingness to serve the interests of a small, but
politically strategic minority. In both Guyana and Trinidad
post-independence leaders made politically expedient decisions that
foreclosed policy choices consistent with the satisfaction of
collective needs. As a result both countries experienced a series
of political and economic crises. This in-depth comparative study
of Guyana and Trinidad will be of interest to all scholars,
students and policy-makers concerned with aspects of political and
economic development in the Third World.
This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America,
and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions
which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Given
the structure of political and economic organization typical of
these countries, and of the web of international relations of which
they are a part, political survival can very often depend on a
leader's willingness to serve the interests of a small, but
politically strategic minority. In both Guyana and Trinidad
post-independence leaders made politically expedient decisions that
foreclosed policy choices consistent with the satisfaction of
collective needs. As a result both countries experienced a series
of political and economic crises. This in-depth comparative study
of Guyana and Trinidad will be of interest to all scholars,
students and policy-makers concerned with aspects of political and
economic development in the Third World.
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