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Softcover. Condition: Fine. This book is the second printing from 1995,239 pages. "This anthology brings together extracts from autobioghies, slave narratives, unpublished letters, oral accounts and public records from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribeean writers who spent time in Britain." FINE SOFTCOVER Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 104 pages. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. A Hansib/University of Warwick, Centre for Caribbean Studies publication in co-operation with the London Strategic Policy Unit. 326pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xi, 222 pages ; 22 cm. Contents: Notes on the Editors and Contributors - A Note on Nomenclature - Introduction by David Dabydeen and Brinsley Samaroo - PART 1: RACE RELATIONS: East Indian-Creole Relations in Trinidad and Guiana in the late Nineteenth-Century;Malcolm Cross - Race and Ethnic-Relations in Burnhamite Guyana;Ralph Premdas - Control, Resistance, Accommodation and Race Relations: Aspects of Indentureship Experience of East Indian Immigrants in Jamaica, 1845-1921;Verene A. Shepherd - PART II: RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES: Hindu Elements in the Shango/Orisha Cult of Trinidad;Noorkumar Mahabir and Ashram Maharaj - 'Official' and 'popular' Hinduism in the Caribbean: Historial and Contemporary Trends in Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana;Steven Vertovec - Authenticity and Authority in Surinamese Hindu Ritual;Peter van der Veer - PART III: BIOGRAPHY: Cheddi Jagan: The Writings of a Visionary Politican;Frank Birbalsingh - PART IV: Early History: Indian Government Policy Towards Indentured Labour Migration to the Sugar Colonies;Basdeo Mangru - The Repatriates;Marianne Soares Ramesar - Early African and East Indian Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago;Brinsley Samaroo - Select bibliography - Index "Useful collection of essays is derived primarily from 1988 conference on East Indians in the Caribbean. Contributors are not mainly ethnographers; however, their subject matter (race relations, religious and cultural practices, etc.), and their manner of dealing with it, are essentially anthropological. Includes 10 chapters dealing with Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname".…