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Callaloo nation: metaphors of race and religious identity among South Asians in Trinidad

By Khan , Aisha

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780822333760, 0822333767, 9780822333883, 0822333880
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
948 kB (970983 bytes)
Series
Latin America otherwise
Pages
xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\281
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Aziaten;Ethnische Identität;Etnische groepen;Hindu

Description

'Callaloo Nation' analyses the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways that social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in Trinidad and Tobago.;Introduction : "this rainbow has teeth" -- A "crazy quilt society" -- Locations and dislocations -- The problem of "simi-dimi" -- Carving knowledge from ways of knowing -- "No bakhti, only gyan" -- "You get honor for your knowledge" -- Conclusion : mixing metaphors -- Appendix : three generations of religious change. Introduction : "this rainbow has teeth" -- A "crazy quilt society" -- Locations and dislocations -- The problem of "simi-dimi" -- Carving knowledge from ways of knowing -- "No bakhti, only gyan" -- "You get honor for your knowledge" -- Conclusion : mixing metaphors -- Appendix : three generations of religious change.

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