The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World

by Mervyn C. Alleyne

Overview

Mervyn Alleyne’s work examines how the meanings and values of race and ethnicity have been constructed historically and how they are represented symbolically, with particular focus on the Caribbean. Alleyne examines the historical development of these categories in Europe, Asia and Africa and proceeds to an analysis of the Caribbean. Through this analysis, Alleyne draws on a wide array of evidence to ultimate oppose the widely held notion that racial antagonism against black people is the consequence of New World slavery in the period following the “discovery” of the Americas in the late fifteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789766401795
Publisher:	The University of the West Indies Press
Publication date:	08/01/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mervyn C. Alleyne is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of the West Indies, and Visiting Professor, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Origins of Racial and Ethnic Awareness and Evaluation
History of Race and Ethnicity: Europe
Asia and Africa
The Caribbean
Puerto Rico
Martinique
Jamaica
Conclusion
References
Index