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- Book Title
- Caribbean Masala : Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
- Publication Name
- Caribbean Masala
- Title
- Caribbean Masala
- Subtitle
- Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781496828255
- ISBN
- 9781496828255
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Subject
- Social Sciences
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 04/06/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Series
- Caribbean Studies Series
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / General, Emigration & Immigration, Gender Studies, Caribbean & West Indies / General
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Number of Pages
- 186 Pages
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Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award. In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central. In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization.
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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN-10
1496828259
ISBN-13
9781496828255
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28038676891
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Book Title
Caribbean Masala : Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Emigration & Immigration, Gender Studies, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
186 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
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Sociologists Lewis (Bucknell Univ.) and Ramsaran (Susquehanna Univ.) employ ethnography, economics, history, and gender studies to explore the culturally adaptive strategies used by persons of southeast Asian Indian descent in the Caribbean. The authors consider, for example, the ways intergroup conflict initiated by European colonizers on their African slaves and Indian indentured laborers plays out even in today's racial dynamics. Globalization's effects are also examined--in particular, the process of creolization. The authors contend that creolization in Trinidad and Guyana is more or less a derivative of experiences of the aforementioned European colonizers and their African slaves: this predominating experience thus places Caribbean Indians in a conundrum as they grapple with how their own identity fits into this experience and how they are to maintain it. A sizable portion of this very readable book deals with such questions, using some fine ethnographic work. There are some other nuggets of discussion that persons not normally attracted to interethnic studies could find interesting, such as a global treatment of the varying types of masculinity, including the predatory version practiced by twenty-first-century oligarchs., Sociologists Lewis and Ramsaran employ ethnography, economics, history, and gender studies to explore the culturally adaptive strategies used by persons of southeast Asian Indian descent in the Caribbean. The authors consider, for example, the ways intergroup conflict initiated by European colonizers on their African slaves and Indian indentured laborers plays out even in today's racial dynamics. Globalization's effects are also examined--in particular, the process of creolization. The authors contend that creolization in Trinidad and Guyana is more or less a derivative of experiences of the aforementioned European colonizers and their African slaves: this predominating experience thus places Caribbean Indians in a conundrum as they grapple with how their own identity fits into this experience and how they are to maintain it. A sizable portion of this very readable book deals with such questions, using some fine ethnographic work. There are some other nuggets of discussion that persons not normally attracted to interethnic studies could find interesting, such as a global treatment of the varying types of masculinity, including the predatory version practiced by twenty-first-century oligarchs., A relevant and up-to-date depiction of the way in which the eternal ambivalence of cultural flux and persistence shapes the lived experience of still understudied Caribbean communities., Ramsaran and Lewis have the courage to confront difficult political truths and dispel convenient mythologies that for too long sustained a one-dimensional view of Indian populations in Trinidad and Guyana. In Caribbean Masala , they unsettle dominant notions of what constitutes ethnic or racial boundaries, producing a new blend of identity that might be constituted as Asian Caribbeanness.
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Series
Caribbean Studies Ser.
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