Race, Rape, and Representation: Indo-Caribbean Women and Cultural Nationalism

Puri, Shalini

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“…We must recognize in Cro Cro's song long‐standing stereotypes of Indo‐Trinidadians as clannish, acquisitive, and disloyal to the nation, redeployed in an analysis of social inequality. An economic critique from the shop floor, then, is shown to be mired in historical resentments and jealousies that are stoked by a continuing ethic politics which ‘have consistently posed African and Indian economic advancement in mutually exclusive terms’ (Puri 1999: 239).…”

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“…Writing about a 1958 calypso by Lord Superior (whose refrain ‘ Tax them! ’ resonates with Cro Cro's message more than forty years later), Puri argues that ‘the recurrent theme of Indian wealth is framed here as a fear of Indian economic dislocation of Afro‐Trinidadians’ (Puri 1999: 241). Afro‐Trinidadian workers' depiction of themselves as dominated by the Indo‐Trinidadian middle classes rests upon racist representations of Indo‐Trinidadian greed and a common view of ethnic politics as a zero‐sum game in which each party advances at the expense of the other.…”

Section: ‘You See How We Is Treated?’: the Predicament Of Indo‐trinidmentioning

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“…However, Shalini Puri (1999) draws our attention to the historical ways in which Indo‐Trinidadians have been repeatedly caricatured as acquisitive, treacherous, conniving, and disloyal. Writing about a 1958 calypso by Lord Superior (whose refrain ‘ Tax them!…”

Section: ‘You See How We Is Treated?’: the Predicament Of Indo‐trinidmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Kidnapping go build back we economy’: discourses of crime at work in neoliberal Trinidad

Prentice

2012

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Drawing on participant observation in garment factories in Trinidad, West Indies, this article explores circulating discourses of crime among shop‐floor workers, managers, and factory owners during a national ‘epidemic’ of kidnappings‐for‐ransom. As sites of inescapable social heterogeneity, garment factories were experienced as places of potentially risky mixture between antagonistic categories of people. Kidnapping talk communicated this fear of social proximity while simultaneously heightening it. The everyday politics of labour under a neoliberal regime is shown to be not a universalizing experience but instead a deeply local and situated one. Résumé À partir d’une observation participante dans des ateliers de confection de Trinité, dans les Caraïbes, l’article explore les discours sur la criminalité circulant parmi les ouvriers, les gérants et les propriétaires des ateliers au cours d’une «épidémie » nationale d’enlèvements avec demande de rançon. Les ateliers de confection, lieux d’une hétérogénéité sociale inévitable, étaient alors perçus comme le creuset d’un mélange potentiellement dangereux entre des catégories de personnes antagonistes. Les histoires de kidnapping ont propagé cette crainte de la proximité sociale tout en l’intensifiant. L’auteure montre que la politique quotidienne du travail sous un régime néolibéral n’est pas une expérience universalisante, mais plutôt profondément locale et fortement située.

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‘Kidnapping go build back we economy’: discourses of crime at work in neoliberal Trinidad

Prentice

2012

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…A principal feature of Trinidad's society is the racial dichotomy between Afro-and Indo-Trinidadians-a racialized 'us' and 'them' (Eriksen, 1992;Puri, 1999). Puri (1997Puri ( , 1999 shows that a colonial preoccupation with black-white mixing has been replaced, in postcolonial Trinidad, with a concern about African and Indian mixing on the part of political parties and the general population. The 'us and them' dichotomy in postcolonial Trinidad consists of a polarization of Afro-and Indo-Trinidadians (Eriksen, 1992;Hernandez-Ramdwar, 1997;Puri, 1997Puri, , 1999.…”

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“…In this poem, the Indian woman enters a traditionally Afro-Trinidadian cultural space. The subject of this poem sings calypso, which is understood in Trinidad as a traditionally Afro-Trinidadian cultural form in contrast to chutney, an Indo-Trinidadian musical form (Puri, 1997). The Indian woman in the poem also imagines herself as a performer in carnival, a traditionally Afro-Trinidadian space.…”

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The Politics of Hybridity

Tanikella

2003

Cultural Dynamics

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National and academic discourses on the Caribbean celebrate metaphors of cultural hybridity as pluralistic solutions to racial tensions and challenges to (neo-)colonial oppression within the region's nation states. When cultural hybridity is theorized and deployed as a metaphor for Caribbean national sovereignty, differences are reified and power and social inequalities erased, thereby limiting the potential of hybrid social forms and movements to challenge structural inequalities. This article critiques celebratory discourses of hybridity by focusing on Trinidadian women's writing and the ways in which Trinidadian women locate themselves in their cultural and social poetics. By rereading hybridity as a space in and through which Trinidadian women voice their subjectivities, I situate creative practice as a politics that calls into question and attends to social inequalities within Caribbean nation states.

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Calypso and the Performance of Representational Politics

Harewood¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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This chapter focuses on the intersection of representation in calypso performance, representation in calypso research, and representation in parliament. The chapter highlights the ways in which a particular discourse of citizenship shapes the ways in which calypso is thought about and how the democratic project in the English‐speaking Caribbean is imagined through calypso performance. The argument focuses on the productive nature of calypso research. It is contended that much of this research, though vitally important to identifying the significance of calypso within the region, has, nevertheless, tended to reinscribe a rather limited view of citizenship. The chapter makes a case for reimagining calypso's political significance by suggesting ways to reinvigorate the creative practices of calypso research.

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Race, Rape, and Representation: Indo-Caribbean Women and Cultural Nationalism

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‘Kidnapping go build back we economy’: discourses of crime at work in neoliberal Trinidad

The Politics of Hybridity

Calypso and the Performance of Representational Politics

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