Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean

by Henke, Holger; Reno, Fred

• ISBN13: 9789766401351
• ISBN10: 9766401357
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of West Indies Pr

Summary

This groundbreaking book explores the political culture of the Caribbean in order to understand the idiosyncrasies of Caribbean politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Politics and Culture in the Caribbean	xi
Holger Henke and Fred Reno
Part 1: Elements of Political Culture in the Caribbean
Chapter 1 Is There a New Political Culture in the Caribbean? Challenges and Opportunities	3	(18)
Fred Constant
Chapter 2 "Racing" Caribbean Political Culture: Afrocentrism, Black Nationalism and Fanonism	21	(38)
Anton L. Allahar
Chapter 3 The Race-Class Problematic and the Caribbean Left	59	(31)
Perry Mars
Chapter 4 Cultural Identity versus Political Identity in the French West Indies	90	(21)
Jacks Dahomay
Part 2: The Ab/Uses of History
Chapter 5 Freedom Ossified: Political Culture and the Public Use of History in Jamaica	111	(30)
Holger Henke
Chapter 6 Presenting the Past: The Construction of National History in a Jamaican Tourist Site	141	(40)
Anita M. Waters
Chapter 7 Icon and Myth in a Caribbean Polity: V.C. Bird and Antiguan Political Culture	181	(31)
Douglas Midgeit
Chapter 8 Imagined Communities: Articulating a Return to Mythical Homelands in the African and Indian Diasporas	212	(27)
Simboonath Singh
Part 3: Civil Society and Changes in the Political and Economic Sphere
Chapter 9 Global Culture and the Politics of Moral Deregulation in Jamaica	239	(37)
Obika Gray
Chapter 10 The Frontline: Valentino, Pablo Moses and Caribbean Organic Philosophy in the 1970's	276	(26)
Brian Meeks
Chapter 11 Cuba: Civil Society within Socialism - And Its Limits	302	(20)
Bert Hoffmann
Chapter 12 Fidel Castro's Heirs: Obstacles to and Perspectives on a New Political Culture in Cuba	322	(29)
Hans-Jurgen Burchardt
Part 4: The Politics of Confrontation and Fragmentation
Chapter 13 Guyana's Dominant Political Culture: An Overview	351	(19)
David Hinds
Chapter 14 The Dutch Caribbean: Studies in the Fragmentation of a Political Culture	370	(25)
Edward Dew
Chapter 15 Rethinking Democracy in the Post-Nationalist State: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago	395	(29)
Percy C. Hintzen
Chapter 16 Democratic Transition and Authoritarianism: The Case of Haiti	424	(28)
Fred Reno
Contributors	452