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Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana after Slavery 1838-1891 (Caribbean Studies)

Moore, Brian L.

History

Routledge

Drawing on a wide range of historical, sociological, and anthropological theory and data, Moore describes and analyses the institutions, customs, and beliefs of Afro-Creole, Indian Bhojpuri, Portuguese Latin, Chinese Hua-Qiao, and Victorian élite subcultures that make up Guyanese society. He looks at the way British colonizers used their power to transform and submerge the cultures of other ethnic groups and establish their own cultural model as dominant, and he examines the efforts of the diverse subordinate groups to resist such cultural imperialism and retain aspects of their own traditional cultures. Moore argues that it is the intricate interplay of these conflicting and competing forces that determined the extent of sociocultural integration or pluralism that the society as a whole achieved. Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism makes a significant contribution to Caribbean historiography and the study of multiracial societies.

Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900 (Volume 22) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Americas

Carleton University Press

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups. It also focuses on the theoretical issues in the debate on pluralism versus stratification and provides a detailed interdisciplinary analysis of the process of structural change in a composite colonial society over a significantly long historical period - over half a century.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism)

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"Seeks to determine manner in which colonial elite used culture and consensus of values to maintain their hegemony, and examines responses of the subordinate groups to these initiatives and nature of the resulting cultural fabric. His conclusion - that 19th-century Guyanese society consisted of a number of 'discrete cultural sections which shared very little with one another other than a common commitment to making money in the plantation society' - suggests the presence of acquisitive materialism that now inhibits growth of consensus-building mechanisms at the national level"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Cultural Power Resistance & Pluralism: Colonial Guyana 1838-1900

University Press of the West Indies

Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920

An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed. The authors compellingly and convincingly demontrate that Great Britain deliberately built a new society in Jamaica founded on principles of Victorian Christian morality and British Imperial ideology. This resulted in a sustained attack on everything that was perceived to be of African origin and the glorification of Christian piety, Victorian mores, and a Eurocentric idealized family life and social hierarchies. This well-written and meticulously researched book will be invaluable for students of the period and those interested in Jamaican history and/or imperial history

Johnson, Michele A.

An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed.

"This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.

They Do As They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay

This book is a companion to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004. It examines the secular aspects of culture in Jamaica, namely, material culture (architecture and home furnishings, dress, and food), rites of passage, language and oral culture, creative and performance arts, popular entertainment, sports and games, social clubs and fraternities, and the issues of drinking and gambling. It also examines the lifestyle cultures of Indian and Chinese immigrants who were new arrivals in Jamaica. The book argues that although a vibrant and fully functional creole culture existed in Jamaica, after Morant Bay diverse elements within the upper and middle classes (the cultural elites) formed a coalition to eradicate that “barbaric” culture which they believed had contributed to the uprising, and to replace it with “superior” cultural items imported from Victorian Britain in order to “civilize” and anglicize the people. It reinforces the prime thesis of Neither Led nor Driven that the lower classes, the main targets of this campaign, drew on their own Afro-Creole cultural heritage to resist and ignore the new elite cultural agenda; but they did selectively embrace some aspects of the imported Victorian culture which they creolized to fit their own cultural matrix. Ultimately, the cultural elite efforts at “reform” were hampered by their own ambivalence, hypocrisy and disunity, and they actually impeded the sponsored process of anglicization. This book advances our understanding of the concept and process of creolization. It extends the pioneering work of Kamau Brathwaite and reassesses the theories of other scholars, particularly Richard Burton and Nigel Bolland.

"They Do As They Please": The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after Morant Bay

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Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society: Guyana after Slavery 1838-1891 (Caribbean Studies)

Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900 (Volume 22) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism)

Cultural Power Resistance & Pluralism: Colonial Guyana 1838-1900

Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920

Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920

They Do As They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay

"They Do As They Please": The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after Morant Bay