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The construction and representation of race and ethnicity in the Caribbean and the world / Mervyn C. Alleyne.

By: Publication details: Barbados : University of the West Indies Press, 2002.Description: x, 266 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9766401144
  • 9789766401146
Other title:
  • Race and ethnicity in the Caribbean and the world
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8/009729 22
LOC classification:
  • GN564.C37 A45 2002
Other classification:
  • 71.50
  • MS 3300
Online resources:
Contents:
The origins of racial and ethnic awareness and evaluation -- History of race and ethnicity: Europe -- Asia and Africa -- The Caribbean -- Puerto Rico -- Martinique -- Jamaica.
Summary: "The definition and evolution of the categories of race and ethnicity have long been debated among historians and scholars of social anthropology. Mervyn Alleyne's work examines how the meanings and values of race and ethnicity have been constructed historically and how they are represented symbolically, with particular focus on the Caribbean." "Alleyne examines the historical development of these categories in Europe, in Asia and in Africa and then proceeds to an analysis of the Caribbean, with a focus on Puerto Rico, Martinique and Jamaica as three different modalities of race and ethnicity and three different colonial systems. Through a unique approach grounded in linguistic, ethnographic and historic analysis, Alleyne draws on a wide array of evidence to ultimately oppose the widely held notion that racial antagonism against black people is the consequence of New World slavery in the period following the "discovery" of the Americas in the late fifteenth century."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.

The origins of racial and ethnic awareness and evaluation -- History of race and ethnicity: Europe -- Asia and Africa -- The Caribbean -- Puerto Rico -- Martinique -- Jamaica.

"The definition and evolution of the categories of race and ethnicity have long been debated among historians and scholars of social anthropology. Mervyn Alleyne's work examines how the meanings and values of race and ethnicity have been constructed historically and how they are represented symbolically, with particular focus on the Caribbean." "Alleyne examines the historical development of these categories in Europe, in Asia and in Africa and then proceeds to an analysis of the Caribbean, with a focus on Puerto Rico, Martinique and Jamaica as three different modalities of race and ethnicity and three different colonial systems. Through a unique approach grounded in linguistic, ethnographic and historic analysis, Alleyne draws on a wide array of evidence to ultimately oppose the widely held notion that racial antagonism against black people is the consequence of New World slavery in the period following the "discovery" of the Americas in the late fifteenth century."--Jacket.

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