How citizens are produced and ethnicity is maintained in post-colonial Mauritius, with special attention to the creoles : an anthropological study / Espelencia Marie Baptiste ; with a foreword by Brackette F. Williams
Imagineering the Mauritian nation in the fissures of ethnicity -- Violence, ethnicity and the state -- Galoupe ek boule dan mo lippie: creole children in the Mauritian education system -- The prodigal children of the nation: history and the construction of Mauritian citizenship -- The prize and the weapon: language and identity in the Mauritian education system
Summary
This book examines how an education system can provide mechanisms for nation building This work exposes how these mechanisms influence imagining, building, and enacting nation in a country with no native population It also examines how its colonially introduced ethnic groups proudly proclaim their differences in language and history
