Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism

Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions

Anton L. Allahar

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2005
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739154830
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type are often steeped in economic and social discourse. Race and ethnicity are seen as either being subsumed by this discourse or are entirely ignored as incidental to this type of political thought. In Ethnicity, Class and Nationalism: Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions specialists writing on the Caribbean form of the nation-state place race and ethnicity-along with class-in its proper context: at the very foundations of the modern nation. Editor Anton L. Allahar has handpicked scholarship that is both contemporary and expert in its consideration of Caribbean geo-politics. Furthermore, essays in this volume include comparative cases from around the globe. In the interest of locating race and ethnicity as sociological and political categories that are inimical to contemporary conceptions of the nation state, Allahar explores spaces other than the Caribbean. The result is a comparative study that is unique in scope and also in its level of scholarly reflection. This book is the first of its kind. It is essential reading for anyone interested in advancing their analysis of political, economic, social, and cultural thought in the Caribbean.

Table of contents

• Caribbean Studies
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 - Situating Ethnic Nationalism in the Caribbean
• 2 - “Are We All Creoles Now?” Ethnicity and Nation in a Heterogeneous Caribbean Diaspora
• 3 - Nationalism, Identity, and the Banking Sector: The English-Speaking Caribbean in the Era of Financial Globalization
• 4 - The Contemporary Crisis in Guyanese National Identification
• 5 - Black Power and Black Nationalism: Lessons from the United States for the Caribbean?
• 6 - Black Power and Puerto Rican Ethno-Nationalism in the United States, 1966—1972
• 7 - Politics of Ethno-National Identity in a Postcolonial Communal Democracy: The Case of Fiji
• 8 - Theoretical Reflections on Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Kurdish Question in Turkey, 1923–1980
• 9 - Class, “Race,” and Ethnic Nationalism in Trinidad
• References
• About the Contributors