Caribbean Racisms Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Caribbean Region

by Law, Ian; Tate, Shirley Anne

• ISBN13: 9781137287274
• ISBN10: 1137287276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.
The thirty contemporary territories of the Caribbean and their differing colonial and post-colonial contexts provide a highly dynamic setting urging a re-assessment of the ways in which contemporary processes of racialisation are working. This book seeks to develop a new account of racialisation in this region, challenging established arguments, propositions and narratives of racial Caribbeanisation.
 
With new insights into contemporary forms of racialisation in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, this will be essential reading for scholars of Race and Ethnicity.

Author Biography

Shirley Tate is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK.

Ian Law is Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Racial Caribbeanisation: Origins and Development
2. Racial States in the Post-emancipation Caribbean
3. Mixing, Metissage and Mestizaje
4. Whiteness and the Contemporary Caribbean
5. The 'post-race Contemporary' and the Caribbean
6. Polyracial Neoliberalism