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"The Ethics of Gender in the (Post)colonial Plantation Space uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates. Using the history and geography, memory and place signified by the remnants of the plantation system, the author will analyze the particular instantiations of women emerging as agents in the similarities and differences of particular post-colonial situations"--

Machine generated contents note: Preface ix -- Introduction: National Boundaries/Transnational Identities -- Grant H. Corwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard 1 -- Part I. Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: -- Contested Ownership of National Culture -- 1 Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation-Building: -- The "Douglarization" Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago -- Eve Walsh Stoddard and Grant H. Comwell 29 -- 2 The Chinese in Thailand: Ethnicity, Power, and Cultural -- Opportunity Structures -- Ansil Ramsay 51 -- 3 "To Be French": Franco-Maghrebians and the Commission -- de la Nationalite -- Judith DeGroat 73 -- 4 Spectacular Imaginings: Performing Community -- in Guatemala -- Kirk W. Fuoss and Randall T G. Hill 93 -- Part II. Multiculturalism and Race: -- Alternative Constructions of Black and White -- 5 Brazil: Interactions and Conflicts in a Multicultural Society -- Edimilson de Almeida Pereira and Steven E White 123 -- 6 Songs in a Strange Land: Dual Consciousness and the -- Narrative of African American Identity in the United States -- Joseph Kling 143 -- 7 Letting the Side Down: Personal Reflections on Colonial -- and Independent Kenya -- Celia Nyamweru 169 -- 8 Race and the Formation of Cuban National and -- Cultural Identity -- Henley C. Adams 193 -- Part mI. Multiculturalism and Politics: -- Constitutional Approaches to Inequality -- 9 The Zimbabwe Constitution: Race, Land Reform, and -- Social Justice -- Patricia Alden and John Mw. Makumbe 215 -- 10 Bosnia: Two Days in November -- William Hunt 239 -- 11 The Crisis of the Mexican State and the Nation: -- Chiapas as Metaphor -- Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy 263 -- 12 China's Ethnicities: State Ideology and Policy in -- Historical Perspective -- Anne Csete 287 -- 13 Official Multiculturalism in Canada: Between Virtue -- and Politics -- Louis Dupont and Nathalie Lemarchand 309 -- Index 337 -- About the Contributors 351