Defining the Caymanian identity : the effects of globalization, economics, and xenophobia on Caymanian culture /

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Main Author: Williams, Christopher A. (Assistant professor) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Section I. Caymanian ethnogenesis: accounting for the antagonistic processes and racial identities that led to a distinct Caymanian cultural outlook characterized by material hardship
  • Becoming native Caymanian
  • The more things change: the stubborn decline of racialism during immediate post-emancipation
  • Section II. Toward and beyond a monolithic Caymanian cultural identity bound by material hardship
  • And then there was light: the shaping conditions of a distinct national-cultural Caymanian identity and its subsequent traditionalisms
  • Bringing traditionalist ideas and conceptions to bear on a cultural Caymanian identity beset by material hardship
  • The sustenance of Caymanian identity in geographical displacement: a case study approach
  • Outgrowing the surrogate mother: accounting for the dramatic shift in Caymanian perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans during the federation era
  • Section III. Mapping the effects of globalization, multiculturalism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia on expanding "Caymanian" identifications
  • Proliferating Caymanianness: accounting for the factors that lead to division within Caymanian nationality
  • Theory in practice: bringing the legitimacy of carnival and the carnivalesque to bear on fractured rhetorical Caymanian culture
  • Conclusion: Why can't we all just get along?