Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean
Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean Views of the modern Caribbean have been constructed by a fiction of the absent aboriginal. Far from extinction, or permanent marginality, the…
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Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean
Views of the modern Caribbean have been constructed by a fiction of the absent aboriginal. Far from extinction, or permanent marginality, the region is witnessing a resurgence of native identification and organization. Yet, all across the Caribbean Basin, individuals and communities are reasserting their identities as indigenous peoples, from Carib communities in the Lesser Antilles, the Garifuna of Central America, and the Taino of the Greater Antilles, to members of the Caribbean diaspora.
Territories covered include Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, St. This is the only volume to date that focuses concerted attention on a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Writing from a range of contemporary perspectives on indigenous presence, identities, the struggle for rights,