Ethnicity in the Caribbean essays in honor of Harry Hoetink (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
Originally published in 1996 on the occasion of Hoetink's retirement from Utrecht University
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : ethnicity as ever? / Gert Oostindie -- Race, culture and identity in the New World : five national versions / Richard M. Morse -- Ethnic difference, plantation sameness / Sidney W. Mintz -- Haiti and the terrified consciousness of the Caribbean / Anthony P. Maingot -- Museums, ethnicity and nation-building : reflections from the French Caribbean / Richard and Sally Price -- Ethnicity and social structure in contemporary Cuba / Franklin W. Knight -- "Constitutionally white" : the forging of a national identity in the Dominican Republic / Michiel Baud -- The somatology of manners : class, race and gender in the history of dance etiquette in the hispanic Caribbean / Angel G. Quintero Rivera -- Jamaican decolonization and the development of national culture / Colin Clarke -- Ethnicity, nationalism and the exodus : the Dutch Caribbean predicament / Gert Oostindie
Addresses the workings of ethnicity in the Caribbean where, from the early days of empire through today's post-colonial limbo, it has arguably remained in the centre of public society as well as private life