Caribbean Ethnicity Revisited
Author: Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780677066158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Author: Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-14
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 113676061X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers by a number of eminent anthropologists explores the patterns of ethnicity in the Caribbean. A valuable contribution to current literature in the field, these papers greatly increase our understanding of Caribbean societies. The variety of theoretical approaches to the processes that shaped Caribbean ethnic relations make this work a fascinating and vital study of the region as a whole.
Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation
Author: Reuel Reuben Rogers
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780511314728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about American democracy. Does racism still complicate or limit the political integration patterns of racial minorities in the United States? With the arrival of unprecedented numbers of immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean over the last several decades, there is reason once again to consider this question. The country is confronting the challenge of incorporating a steady, substantial stream of non-white, non-European voluntary immigrants into the political system. Will racism make this process as difficult for these newcomers as it did for African Americans? The book concludes discrimination does interfere with the immigrants' adjustment to American political life. But their political options and strategic choices in the face of this challenge are unexpected ones, not anticipated by standard accounts in the political science literature.
Ethnicity in the Caribbean
Author: Gert Oostindie
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2005-10-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9053568514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRace and biologized conceptions of ethnicity have been potent factors in the making of the Americas. They remain crucial, even if more ambiguously than before. This collection of essays addresses the workings of ethnicity in the Caribbean, a part of the Americas where, from the early days of empire through today’s post-colonial limbo, this phenomenon has arguably remained in the center of public society as well as private life. These analyses of race and nation-building, increasingly significant in today’s world, are widely pertinent to the study of current and international relations. The ten prominent scholars contributing to this book focus on the significance of ethnicity for social structure and national identity in the Caribbean. Their essays span a period from the initial European colonization right through today’s paradoxical balance sheet of decolonization. They deal with the entire region as well as the significance of the diaspora and the continuing impact of metropolitan linkages. The topics addressed vary from the international repercussions of Haiti’s black revolution through the position of French Caribbean békés and the Barbadian ‘redlegs’ to race in revolutionary Cuba; from Puerto Rican dance etiquette through the Latin American and Caribbean identity essay to the discourse of Dominican nationhood; and from a musée imaginaire in Guyane through Jamaica’s post independence culture to the predicament of Dutch Caribbean decolonization. Taken together, these essays provide a rare and extraordinarily rich comparative perspective to the study of ethnicity as a crucial factor shaping both intimate relations and the public and even international dimension of Caribbean societies.
In Motion
Author: Howard Dodson
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated chronicle of the migrations--forced and voluntary--into, out of, and within the United States that have created the current black population.
Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas
Author: Bernd Reiter
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781611860405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an amalgamated “cosmic race” of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative strategies and ideologies, ranging from scientific racism and eugenics to the more sophisticated official denial of racism and ethnic difference. This book, among the first to focus on African descendants in the region, brings together diverse reflections from scholars, activists, and funding agency representatives working to end racism and promote human rights in the Americas. By focusing on the ways racism inhibits agency among African descendants and the ways African-descendant groups position themselves in order to overcome obstacles, this interdisciplinary book provides a multi-faceted analysis of one of the gravest contemporary problems in the Americas.
Creoles, Revisited
Author: Nicholas G. Faraclas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-16
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1000386333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.
Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940
Author: Glenn A. Chambers
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2010-05-24
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0807137480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlenn A. Chambers examines the West Indian immigrant community in Honduras through the development of the country's fruit industry, revealing that West Indians fought to maintain their identities as workers, Protestants, blacks, and English speakers in the midst of popular Latin American nationalistic notions of mestizaje, or mixed-race identity.
Law and Anthropology: International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology
Author: René Kuppe
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 1994-10-27
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780792331421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 7 of "Law and Anthropology" brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject. This volume developed from the idea that it can be useful to consider current discussions in various legal systems facing issues of cultural difference that cannot be regarded as legal problems related to indigenous societies alone. The book focuses on contradiction between national law and complex and diverse kinship structures, which are essential for the cultural identity of both indigenous groups and cultural minorities. The social construction of gender relations and gender conflicts is an important theme in many essays. Some of the essays examine the area of conflict between cultural practices and universal human rights standards. The demand for cultural rights may collide with human rights standards, especially with the principles of gender equality. This volume will be of great interest to academics and to all those with practical involvement in the field of cultural pluralism. Previously published by VWGO Verlag in Austria, "Law and Anthropology" will be published and distributed by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers from Volume 7 onwards.
International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology, Volume 7
Author: René Kuppe
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-07-24
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004638903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 7 of Law and Anthropology brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject. This volume developed from the idea that it can be useful to consider current discussions in various legal systems facing issues of cultural difference that cannot be regarded as legal problems related to indigenous societies alone. The book focuses on contradiction between national law and complex and diverse kinship structures, which are essential for the cultural identity of both indigenous groups and cultural minorities. The social construction of gender relations and gender conflicts is an important theme in many essays. Some of the essays examine the area of conflict between cultural practices and universal human rights standards. The demand for cultural rights may collide with human rights standards, especially with the principles of gender equality. This volume will be of great interest to academics and to all those with practical involvement in the field of cultural pluralism. Previously published by VWGO Verlag in Austria, Law and Anthropology will be published and distributed by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers from Volume 7 onwards.
