After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society

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:	9781317949138
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/08/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	147
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Howard Johnson

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;