Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean

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ISBN: 9789766401351 | 9766401357
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2003

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This groundbreaking book explores the political culture of the Caribbean in order to understand the idiosyncrasies of Caribbean politics.

Introduction

Politics and Culture in the Caribbean

Holger Henke and Fred Reno

Part 1: Elements of Political Culture in the Caribbean

Chapter 1 Is There a New Political Culture in the Caribbean? Challenges and Opportunities

(18)

Fred Constant

Chapter 2 "Racing" Caribbean Political Culture: Afrocentrism, Black Nationalism and Fanonism

(38)

Anton L. Allahar

Chapter 3 The Race-Class Problematic and the Caribbean Left

(31)

Perry Mars

Chapter 4 Cultural Identity versus Political Identity in the French West Indies

(21)

Jacks Dahomay

Part 2: The Ab/Uses of History

Chapter 5 Freedom Ossified: Political Culture and the Public Use of History in Jamaica

111

(30)

Holger Henke

Chapter 6 Presenting the Past: The Construction of National History in a Jamaican Tourist Site

141

(40)

Anita M. Waters

Chapter 7 Icon and Myth in a Caribbean Polity: V.C. Bird and Antiguan Political Culture

181

(31)

Douglas Midgeit

Chapter 8 Imagined Communities: Articulating a Return to Mythical Homelands in the African and Indian Diasporas

212

(27)

Simboonath Singh

Part 3: Civil Society and Changes in the Political and Economic Sphere

Chapter 9 Global Culture and the Politics of Moral Deregulation in Jamaica

239

(37)

Obika Gray

Chapter 10 The Frontline: Valentino, Pablo Moses and Caribbean Organic Philosophy in the 1970's

276

(26)

Brian Meeks

Chapter 11 Cuba: Civil Society within Socialism - And Its Limits

302

(20)

Bert Hoffmann

Chapter 12 Fidel Castro's Heirs: Obstacles to and Perspectives on a New Political Culture in Cuba

322

(29)

Hans-Jurgen Burchardt

Part 4: The Politics of Confrontation and Fragmentation

Chapter 13 Guyana's Dominant Political Culture: An Overview

351

(19)

David Hinds

Chapter 14 The Dutch Caribbean: Studies in the Fragmentation of a Political Culture

370

(25)

Edward Dew

Chapter 15 Rethinking Democracy in the Post-Nationalist State: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago

395

(29)

Percy C. Hintzen

Chapter 16 Democratic Transition and Authoritarianism: The Case of Haiti

424

(28)

Fred Reno

Contributors

452

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Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean

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