Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean

Allison O. Ramsay, Jerome Teelucksingh

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666943986
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean is a collection of critical perspectives on independence and the legacies of colonialism in the post-colonial Caribbean. The contributors examine themes relating to culture, identity, gender, nationhood, heritage and historic preservation in the post-independent Caribbean. In a twenty-first century context where calls for reparatory justice for the people of the Caribbean who have been disadvantaged by the effects of colonialism have intensified, this book is quite relevant as some chapters examine colonialism through relics, laws, statues and monuments, while other chapters explore the implications of African enslavement, the role of Indian indentureship, the Federation of the West Indies and the effect of the American based Black Lives Movement on the Caribbean.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Colonial Relic? Trinidad and Tobago and the Trinity Cross
• Chapter 2: The “George Floyd Effect” in the Caribbean: Re/Igniting Popular Discourses on Colonial Public Memory
• Chapter 3: Examining the Contested Heritage Value of Historic Bridgetown in Barbados
• Chapter 4: Crossing the Threshold: Exploring the Five Islands’ Role in Trinidad’s Indian Indentureship Legacy
• Chapter 5: Monuments to Freedom and Nationhood: Preserving the Heritage of Barbados in Metal and Stone
• Chapter 6: The Survival of Hinduism through Temples: The Case of the Temple in the Sea, Triveni Mandir, and Brothers Road Hindu Mandir in Trinidad
• Chapter 7: “To Be Joined Together in Freedom”: Statues, Identity Politics and Agency in the Netherlands Antilles, 1940–1960
• Chapter 8: Gender Imbalance in Statues and Building Names in Trinidad and Tobago and at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
• Chapter 9: Codrington College and the Problematic Legacy of Christopher Codrington
• Chapter 10: Independence Undermined from the Beginning: Deconstructing Legal Vestiges of Colonialism
• Chapter 11: “A People Can Become a Nation”: The West Indies Federation and Jamaican Independence
• About the Editors