{"id":33237,"date":"2013-08-28T03:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33237"},"modified":"2013-08-28T03:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:44:26","slug":"jahaji-bhai-the-emergence-of-a-dougla-poetics-in-trinidad-and-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33237","title":{"rendered":"Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1070289X.1999.9962630\" target=\"_blank\">Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/gide20\" target=\"_blank\">Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/gide20\/5\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 5, Issue 4<\/a>, 1999<br \/>\nSpecial Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest<br \/>\npages 569-601<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/1070289X.1999.9962630\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/1070289X.1999.9962630<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sta.uwi.edu\/crgs\/april2007\/rhodareddock.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rhoda Reddock<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Gender and Development Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This paper explores the issues of ethnicity and identity in the post\u2010colonial Caribbean with special reference to Trinidad and Tobago. As with other multi\u2010ethnic post\u2010colonial societies, the collapse of post\u2010World\u2010War II promises of unified national projects based on the nation\u2010state or class politics has seen the re\u2010emergence of racial\/ethnic based trajectories. In the context of the contestations of ethnicity, class, and gender in Trinidad and Tobago, the voice of the \u201cDougla,\u201d or those projecting \u201cdougla identities\u201d of mixed African and Indian ancestry, has been largely missing. Unlike in the North, conceptions of \u201cmixed\u201d identity have existed in the region for many decades. A concept of multiracial identity, however, is relatively new and underdeveloped. This paper explores tentative attempts through the popular culture to express such multiracial identities, especially through the medium of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calypso_music\" target=\"_blank\">Calypso<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soca_music\" target=\"_blank\">Soca<\/a> and the contestations that greet such an emergence. The dynamics of the changing social, political, and cultural context are also taken into consideration. It does so through the contrasting 1996 \u201chits\u201d of two singer\/songwriters in the Calypso\/Soca genre, Brother Marvin and Chris Garcia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Calypso fictions and narratives, fantasies and commentaries, venture into vitally important areas of social intercourse which, because of unspoken protocols of civil discourse, remain sensitive areas of darkness. Within the freedom of performance, a space hallowed by tradition,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/1070289X.1999.9962630\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999 Special Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest pages 569-601 DOI: 10.1080\/1070289X.1999.9962630 Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Development Studies University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,1196,8],"tags":[13166,1392,15566,9563],"class_list":["post-33237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-identities-global-studies-in-culture-and-power","tag-music","tag-rhoda-reddock","tag-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}