Callaloo or tossed salad? : East Indians and the cultural politics of identity in Trinidad /
Callaloo or Tossed Salad? is a historical and ethnographic case study of the politics of cultural struggle between two traditionally subordinate ancestral groups in Trinidad, those claiming African and Indian descent. Viranjini Munasinghe argues that East Indians in Trinidad seek to become a legitim...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ethnicity and nation
- Foretelling ethnicity: East Indians between ex-slaves and planters
- Situating ethnicity: East Indians against the nation
- To be ethnic in a place in between
- To be mixed up in a place in between
- Nation building within the state: consolidating an Afro-Caribbean nation
- Breaking the silence: the disintegration of hegemonic rule
- Redefining the national image.