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Multiracialism as more than the sum of ethnicities
Sara Abraham
University of Toronto-Mississauga
How can we define a multiracial unity, and what does it mean in practice? Our understanding of it needs to go beyond notions of cultural and group rights, to embrace the challenges such unity has posed to the postcolonial status quo in the Anglophone Caribbean. The active creation of multiracial unity in specific political struggles has had a liberatory impact, but we also need to go beyond this to look at it vis-à-vis human relations more generally.
Key Words: black-brown coalition • Black consciousness • group rights • identity politics • multiculturalism • WPA
References
- See Will Kymlicka, Finding Our Way: rethinking ethnocultural relations in Canada (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1998).
- See Paul Gilroy, `There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': the cultural politics of race and nation (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991); Vijay Prashad, Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian connections and the myth of cultural purity (Boston, Beacon Press, 2001); Julia Sudbury, `From the point of no return to the women's prison: writing contemporary spaces of confinement into diaspora studies', Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 23, no. 2, 2004), pp. 154—64.
- Michael Macdonald, Why Race Matters in South Africa (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2006).
- Steve Biko, I Write What I Like: a selection of his writings (London, Bowerdean Publishing, 1996).
- See Sara Abraham, Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean: its history and its promise (Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).
- Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar (eds), Antimonies of Modernity: essays on race, Orient, nation (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2003), p. 3.
- See Nalini Parsram, `The importance of being cultural: nationalist thought and Jagan's colonial world', Small Axe (No. 15, March 2004).
- Shalini Puri, The Caribbean Postcolonial: social equality, post-nationalism and cultural hybridity (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2004).
- The success of communication at some times only matched its absence or weaknesses at other times. There were numerous polemical confusing pamphlets put out by sections of the Trinidadian Left.
- Belinda Bozzoli, Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
- Wazir Mohamed, interview.
- Khafra Kambon, For Bread, Justice and Freedom: a political biography of George Weekes (London, New Beacon Books, 1988), p. 252.
- Open Word (6 June 1983).
- `The Afrikaner and the Anglo South African liberal are figures that represent psycho-corporeal variants in the uncanny intimacy of apartheid — a wall of ignorance but centuries of projections' Mark Sanders, Complicities: the intellectual and apartheid (Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2002), p. 195.
Race & Class, Vol. 49, No. 2,
91-100 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/03063968070490020604
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