Trinidad Ethnicity

In Trinidad, ethnicity permeates all of the society’s social, cultural, political and economic institutions. Trinidians count among their number the descendants of people from Africa, China, Europe, India, the Middle East and from those native to the Americas. This collection of original articles from a number of academic disciplines represents a concentrated attempt to explicate the phenomenon of ethnicity as it exists in one of the most economically-developed and possibly the most ethnically diverse of Caribbean territories. Ethnicity is discussed in relation to such topics as class in an historical perpective, colonial categorization, marriage, economic marginality, politics, religion, gender, liminal identities, literature and popular culture. This book is one of the few “country studies” of a Caribbean nation and with a particular focus on ethnicity.