Caribbean political thought : theories of the post-colonial state / edited by Aaron Kamugisha.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Post-colonial failure? / by Aaron Kamugisha -- Theories of the post-colonial state -- Contemporary political trends in the English-speaking Caribbean / Walter Rodney -- Afro-Creole nationalism as elite domination : the English-speaking West Indies / Percy Hintzen -- The development of Antihaitianismo into a dominant ideology during the Trujillo era / Ernesto Sag as -- State against nation / Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- Clientelism, power and democracy / Carl Stone -- The political moment in Jamaica : the dimensions of hegemonic dissolution / Brian Meeks -- The rise of the authoritarian state / C.Y. Thomas -- Politics, corruption and the police / George Danns -- Expropriation and compensation from a Third World perspective / Norman Girvan -- Against colonialism : political theory and re-colonisation in the Caribbean / George Belle -- Confronting power and politics : a feminist theorizing of gender in Commonwealth Caribbean studies / Eudine Barriteau -- Caribbean options under global neoliberalism / Hilbourne Watson

Theorizing post-colonial citizenship -- The West Indian middle classes / C.L.R. James -- Not just (any)body can be a citizen : the politics of law, sexuality and postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas / M. Jacqui Alexander -- Fictions of citizenship, bodies without sex : the production and effacement of gender in the law / Tracy Robinson -- Predation politics and the political impasse in Jamaica / Obika Gray -- The Asian other in the Caribbean / Patricia Mohammed -- Smadditizin' / Charles Mills -- Caribbean regionalism, integration, diaspora -- Are we seeing the birth of a nation in the West Indies? / Frantz Fanon -- The agony of the Eight / Arthur Lewis -- "A scuffling of Islands" or a nation? / Patsy Lewis -- Identity, space and the West Indian Union / Havelock R.H. Ross-Brewster -- Thinking the diaspora : home-thoughts from abroad / Stuart Hall -- Towards Caribbeanness / Edouard Glissant -- Political culture -- Cultural domination and political subordination : notes toward a theory of the Caribbean political system / A.W. Singham and N.L. Singham -- Racism and culture / Frantz Fanon -- The political leader considered as a man of culture / Eric Williams -- Learning to blow the abeng : a critical look at anti-establishment movements of the 1960s and 1970s / Rupert Lewis -- Cultural identity versus political identity in the French West Indies / Jacky Dahomay -- Politics and culture / George Lamming -- Re-engineering blackspace / Erna Brodber -- The Pope must have been drunk, the King of Castile a madman : culture as actuality, and the Caribbean rethinking modernity / Sylvia Wynter -- Afterword: Contours of political thought in the post-independence Caribbean / Paget Henry.

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