How does a multi-ethnic society resolve the contentious issue of resource allocation without damaging the state? This study examines inequality in terms of distributive justice, adaptation of political institutions, the role of symbols of recognition in representation and conflict management in power sharing, resource allocation and public policy
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Examines how identities are formed & expressed in multiethnic Trinidad & Tobago in terms of an analytic typology comprising four identities: ethnonational/ethnolocal, national, regional, & trans-Caribbean Trinidadian. Demonstrated is how these identities form & are engaged, revealing competing & supportive forces. It is found that the ethnolocal family & community bond provides the basis for the self. Three samples of national sites of interethnic conflict are presented: elections/political campaigns, employment in the public bureaucracy, & cultural politics. However, countervailing forces of unity exist in the shared school & public transportation system, language, sports, workplace, & laws. Yet balance is seen to lean toward the contentious forces. Regionally, some unifying themes are apparent, but they cannot redefine the range of shared Afro- & Indo-Trinidad meanings that underpin the respective ethnic communities. At the transnational level, antagonisms reproduced by the older generations are less apparent among the new metropolitan-born generations of the Trinidadian diaspora who are influenced by environmental factors & forces in the recasting of transnational identities. 2 Tables, 41 References. J. Zendejas