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Informationen zum Autor Diana Thorburn is a Jamaican researcher, writer, and editor, and is the director of research at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), an independent public policy think tank based at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Klappentext In the interest of locating race and ethnicity as sociological and political categories that are inimical to contemporary conceptions of the nation state, editor Anton L. Allahar explores the geopolitics of the Caribbean through a comparative focus. The result is a 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 and other former colonial modern nations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Situating Ethnic Nationalism in the Caribbean Chapter 3 Are We All Creoles Now? Ethnicity and Nation in a Heterogeneous Caribbean Diaspora Chapter 4 Nationalism, Identity and the Banking Sector: the English-Speaking Caribbean in the Era of Financial Globalization Chapter 5 The Contemporary Crisis in Guyanese National Identification Chapter 6 Black Power and Black Nationalism: Lessons from the US for the Caribbean? Chapter 7 All Power a la Gente: Black Power, the Young Lords and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the US, 1966-1972 Chapter 8 Political and Ethnic Identity in a Post-Colonial Communal Democracy: the Case of Fiji Chapter 9 Ethnicity and Nationalism: the Kurds in Turkey, 1923-1980 Chapter 10 Class, 'Race,' and Ethnic Nationalism in Trinidad
