Ethnicity, class, and nationalism : Caribbean and extra-Caribbean dimensions / edited by Anton L. Allahar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allahar, Anton.

Series:

Caribbean studies (Lanham, Md.)

Caribbean studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Caribbean Area.

Ethnicity.

Nationalism--Caribbean Area.

Nationalism.

Group identity--Caribbean Area.

Group identity.

Social classes--Caribbean Area--Cross-cultural studies.

Social classes.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Globalization.

Race relations.

Caribbean Area--Race relations.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 281 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2005]

Summary:

Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the almost complete disappearance of a "second world," and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents of globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, more familiarly, the immigrant. Arguments of this type are often steeped in economic and social discourse. Race and ethnicity are either seen as 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 geopolitics. 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 its 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 an analysis of political, economic, social, and cultural thought in the Caribbean.

Contents:

Situating ethnic nationalism in the Caribbean / Anton L. Allahar

"Are we all Creoles now?" : ethnicity and nation in a heterogeneous Caribbean diaspora / Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Nationalism, identity, and the banking sector : the English-speaking Caribbean in the era of financial globalization / Diana Thorburn

The contemporary crisis in Guyanese national identification / Shona N. Jackson

Black power and Black nationalism : lessons from the United States for the Caribbean? / Anton L. Allahar

Black power and Puerto Rican ethno-nationalism in the United States, 1966-1972 / Jeffrey O.G. Oghar

Politics of ethno-national identity in a postcolonial communal democracy: the case of Fiji / Steven Ratuva

Theoretical reflections on ethnicity and nationalism: the Kurdish question in Turkey, 1923-1980 / Cenk Saraçoğlu

Class, "race," and ethnic nationalism in Trinidad / Anton L. Allahar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278).

ISBN:

0739108875

073910893X

OCLC:

56904988