Tag: Guyana

  • How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean

  • The Dougla Defect Without Wax 2013-12-15 Sara Bharrat Dougla Defect? Indian speaks to a Dougla woman about her Dougla baby Indian: The baby getting nice now. Now he complexion comin’ lil clear. —(Rochelle Etwaroo photo and testimony) For Rochelle Etwaroo: the hybrid of two great people and a seed of hope. The Dougla Defect is…

  • Indian, African-Guyanese numbers continue to decline, census finds Stabroek News Georgetown, Guyana 2016-07-19 Staff Writer – mixed race, Amerindian populations still growing Although the country’s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and…

  • A Multiethnic Movement Emerges in Guyana to Counter Politics-as-Usual The New York Times 2015-01-17 Girish Gupta GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Swaying to the rhythms of Afro-Guyanese reggae, the protesters, descendants of African slaves and indentured laborers from India, gathered on the streets of Georgetown in a show of unity against the country’s president. A few years…

  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity Latin American Issues Volume 13 (1997) (The Caribbean(s) Redefined) Article IV Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Associate Professor of Sociology Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario For people of formerly colonized countries, race mixing among the populace has always been a reality. This is particularly true for Caribbean peoples. This paper…

  • Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean York University, Toronto, Ontario The Fourth Annual Jagan Lecture Presented at York University on 2002-03-02 George Lamming, Visiting Professor Brown University The Jagan Lectures commemorate the life and vision of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Caribbean thinker,…