Full Description
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
Contents
Contents - 10[-]The Contributors - 12[-]Acknowledgements - 15[-]Ch 1Introdudtion: 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



