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Callaloo Nation : Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad /

Analyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khan, Aisha, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "this rainbow has teeth"
  • A "crazy quilt society"
  • Locations and dislocations
  • The problem of "simi-dimi"
  • Carving knowledge from ways of knowing
  • "No bakhti, only gyan"
  • "You get honor for your knowledge"
  • Conclusion : mixing metaphors
  • Appendix : three generations of religious change.