Cultural Identity and Creolization in National Unity: The Multiethnic Caribbean - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761834478 ISBN 13: 9780761834472

Verlag: University Press Of America, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Prem Misir is currently the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He is also the author of seven books. His most recent publications are Ethnic Cleavage and Closure in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Race, Ethnicity, and Class (2007) and Cultural Identity & Creolization in National Unity: the Multiethnic Caribbean (University Press of America, 2006).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press Of America
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761834478
• ISBN 13: 9780761834472
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Misir Prem
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland