New Caribbean Thought: A Reader 9766401039, 9789766401030

The dawn of the twenty-first century is an opportune time for the people of the Caribbean to take stock of the entire ex

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Table of contents :
Introduction : on the bump of a revival / Brian Meeks -- Reinterpreting the Caribbean / Norman Girvan -- Negotiating Caribbean identities / Stuart Hall -- Caribbean dependency theory of the 1970s : a historical-materialist-feminist revision / Cecilia Green -- Democratic governance in the Anglophone Caribbean : threats to sustainability / Selwyn Ryan -- Rethinking democracy in the postnationalist state / Percy C. Hintzen -- Reconsidering the role of the middle class in Caribbean politics / Rupert Lewis -- The contestation of race in Barbadian society and the camouflage of conservatism / Linden Lewis -- Conceptualizing 'difference' in Caribbean feminist theory / Rhoda Reddock -- Rethinking power : political subordination in Jamaica / Obika Gray -- The emergence of a Caribbean iconography in the evolution of identity / Patricia Mohammed -- A scuffling of islands : the dream and reality of Caribbean unity in poetry and song / Gordon Rohlehr -- Caribbean diversity and ideological conformism : the crisis of Marxism in the English-speaking Caribbean / Folke Lindahl

Caribbean Marxism : after the neoliberal and linguistic turns / Paget Henry -- Themes in liberalism, modernity, Marxism, Postmodernism and beyond / Hilbourne Watson --New light on Afro-Caribbean social mobility in New York City : a critique of the Sowell thesis / Winston James -- The government of freedom / David Scott -- Caribbean and Latin American development theory and policy : an agenda for deconstruction-reconstruction / Maribel Aponte-Garcia -- Revisionist ontologies : theorizing white supremacy / Charles W. Mills -- On reconstructing a political economy of the Caribbean / Clive Thomas -- The new world order, globalization and Caribbean politics / Alex Dupuy

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