Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index.
Contents
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.
Summary
'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.