After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society / Edition 1

by Howard Johnson

Overview

First published in 1990. This collection of essays examines the position of immigrants and minorities in Caribbean creóle society which, as M.G. Smith and Edward Brathwaite have pointed out, originated from the interaction between Europeans and Africans in the New World context during the period of slavery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714633572
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Black over White: The ‘Poor-White’ Problem in Barbados Slave Society; Chapter 2 The Liberated Africans in the Bahamas, 1811–60; Chapter 3 The Settlement of Chinese in Guyana in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 4 The Madeiran Portuguese and the Establishment of the Catholic Church in British Guiana, 1835–98; Chapter 5 British West Indians in Haiti in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 6 Indians and Blacks in Jamaica in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Micro-Study of the Foundation of Race Antagonisms; Chapter 7 Structure, Process and Indian Culture in Trinidad; Chapter 8 Overseas Indians in Malaysia and the Caribbean: Comparative Notes;