The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places

Race, Class and Gender

Ian Bethell-Bennett, Jessica Minnis

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781836955184
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

The views of space and place of people living in the Caribbean are different from Northern folk; Inequality is bound to socially constructed traits like race, gender, class, sexual orientation and other aspects of discrimination. Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.

Table of contents

• The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART I . -Establishing Identity in Place and Space
• CHAPTER 1. Puerto Rico’s Path Towards MoreI nclusive Notions of Identity and Social Justice
• CHAPTER 2. The Impact of Colonialism on Identity, Education and Justice in St. Martin
• CHAPTER 3. ‘Raizality’ and the Meaning of Being Home
• CHAPTER 4. Moving to the ‘Other’ Space
• PART I I . Gender (In)Justices in Place and Space
• CHAPTER 5. So You Went to Convent
• CHAPTER 6. ‘Small Up in the Space, Lady!’
• CHAPTER 7. Unmasking the Culture of Ignorance in The Bahamas
• CHAPTER 8. Home, Space, Place, Violence, Gender
• PART I I I . Environmental Dynamics in Place and Space
• CHAPTER 9. Caribbean Falling and theUnsayable Real
• CHAPTER 10. The Uglification of Jamaica
• PART I V. Recolonialisation in Place and Space
• CHAPTER 11. Engineering Space
• Conclusion
• Index