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Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle
Duke University Press, 1991 Cloth: 978-0-8223-1114-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-8166-2 | Paper: 978-0-8223-1119-5 Library of Congress Classification F2384.W55 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 988.1
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Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building. See other books on: Cultural pluralism | Ethnicity | Guyana | My Name | Pluralism (Social sciences) See other titles from Duke University Press |
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Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-8223-1114-0
eISBN: 978-0-8223-8166-2
Paper: 978-0-8223-1119-5
Cloth: 978-0-8223-1114-0
eISBN: 978-0-8223-8166-2
Paper: 978-0-8223-1119-5
Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities.
Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building.
Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building.
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