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Author Jackson, Shona N.

Title Creole Indigeneity : between myth and nation in the Caribbean / Shona N. Jackson
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 310 pages)
Series First peoples : new directions in Indigenous studies
First peoples.
Contents Creole Indigeneity -- Labor for Being : Making Caliban Work -- "God's Golden City" : Myth, Paradox, and the Propter Nos -- From Myth to Market : Burnham's Co-operative Republic -- The Baptism of Soil : Indian Belonging in Guyana -- Conclusion: Beyond Caliban, or the "Third Space" of Labor and Indigeneity
Summary During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new natives, displacing Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies. Looking particularly at the nation's politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, Jackson explores Aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents, in
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Creoles -- Race identity -- Guyana
Creoles -- Guyana -- Social conditions
Indigenous peoples -- Guyana
Myth -- Social aspects -- Guyana
Nationalism -- Social aspects -- Guyana
Myth -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area
Nationalism -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Colonial influence
Creoles -- Social conditions
Indigenous peoples
Nationalism -- Social aspects
Race relations
Indigenes Volk
Indigenismus
Kolonialismus
Kreolen
Kulturelle Identität
Nationalbewusstsein
SUBJECT Guyana -- Colonial influence
Guyana -- Race relations
Caribbean Area -- Colonial influence
Subject Caribbean Area
Guyana
Guyana
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012030016
ISBN 9780816681952
0816677751
9780816677757
081667776X
9780816677764
0816681953
9780816681952
1452948232
9781452948232