Caribbean Masala

Dave Ramsaran, Linden F. Lewis

ISBN 10: 1496828259 / ISBN 13: 9781496828255

Editore: University Press of Mississippi, US, 2020

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Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award.In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct.In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central.In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization.

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• Titolo: Caribbean Masala
• Editore: University Press of Mississippi, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1496828259
• ISBN 13: 9781496828255
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 240 grammi

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Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award

In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct.

In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central.

In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization.

Informazioni sull'autore

<b>Dave Ramsaran</b> is professor of sociology at Susquehanna University, author of <i>Breaking the Bonds of Indentureship: Indo-Trinidadians in Business</i>, and editor of <i>Contradictory Existence: Neoliberalism and Democracy in the Caribbean</i>. <b>Linden F. Lewis</b> is associate dean of social sciences and professor of sociology at Bucknell University. He is editor of <i>The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean</i> and <i>Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization.</i>