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Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean: Its History and Its Promise
Contributor(s): Abraham, Sara (Author)

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ISBN: 073911686X     ISBN-13: 9780739116869
Publisher: Lexington Books
OUR PRICE: $57.74  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2007
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Annotation: Labour and The Multiracial Project in the Caribbeani covers major twentieth-century political developments in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. It pays particular attention to social movements, class formation, and new emancipatory ideas on liberation from colonial legacies in political structure and racial division.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- History | Caribbean & West Indies - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 305.800
LCCN: 2007017490
Series: Caribbean Studies (Lexington Books)
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.01" W x 8.98" L (0.83 lbs) 258 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 74
 
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Publisher Description:
The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean is a detailed case study of emancipatory racial unity in post-colonial politics. Sara Abraham argues that the Caribbean provides a good site for studying unity as the major population groups share equal power bases, unlike in metropolitan countries. She offers a rich exploration of the four historical periods of multi-racial political unity in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana: the 1930s, 1970s, and the 1980s. In each of these cases unity was an important goal and the focus of organized social movements as the countries attempted to break out of colonial legacies of division. Abraham explores several immediate factors which led to social change, including: the structural conditions in the political system that allowed movements of unity to gain center stage, the new class formation as the social basis for a new politics, and the moral courage of the activists themselves, which is represented by first hand accounts from contemporary activists and a Caribbean political elder. *The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean* is a comprehensive and accessible work, suitable for sociologists and historians of the area as well as general readers with an interest in race relations.
 
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