the effects of globalization, economics, and xenophobia on Caymanian culture /
First Statement of Responsibility
Christopher A. Williams.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Lanham :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Lexington Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2016]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxxii, 241 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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?