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'Post-Colonial Trinidad is a valuable addition to the ethnography of pre- and post-colonial Trinidad. . . The journal traces the evolution of the East Indian community from the time of its arrival in 1845 and the manner in which this community sought to reconstruct its life after the deconstruction occasioned by the trauma of departure from India . . . The great benefit of Post-Colonial Trinidad is that it clears up vast areas of darkness in the sociology of Caribbean Indianismé. It explains the antecedence of the Indo-Caribbean struggle to carve a space in the New World and gives a canvas against which current analyses can be made. The work is specific to Trinidad, but it closely relates to the situation in neighbouring Guyana and finds resonance in other mixed societies such as Mauritius and Fiji. It will remain relevant for a long time." - Journal of Latin American Studies
"This work is truly unique, both in terms of its focus and its location at the very beginnings ofa post-colonial Caribbean society. Although the journal was created almost fifty years ago, and much has changed, the central issues continue to inform theory and practical politics. The journal itself is well written and lively, and full of rich ethnographic detail." - B.W. Higman, Australian National University
About the authors
PROFESSOR COLIN CLARKEÂ is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, UK.
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GILLIAN CLARKEÂ has taught in secondary schools on Merseyside and in the Oxford-London region, and her final post was as Head of German and Head of Careers at Wycombe Abbey School, a leading academic girls' school.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-Colonial Trinidad
Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic Journal
Authors: Colin Clarke, Gillian Clarke
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106857
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62200-5Published: 03 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38378-8Published: 03 September 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10685-7Published: 24 May 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 246
Topics: Latin American Culture, Geology, Latin American Politics, Ethnicity Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social Structure, Social Inequality