Cohen,Colleen Ballerino (Author), Wilk,Richard R. (Author), and Stoeltje,Beverly (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
New York: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
256 p, Includes Colleen Ballerino Cohen's "Contestants in a contested domain: staging identities in the British Virgin Islands"; and Richard Wilk's "Penny Van Esterik -- Connections and contradictions: from the Crooked Tree Cashew Queen to Miss World Belize"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
301 p, Contents: The rise of class, race, and party : making differences, 1890-1949 -- The muting of distinction and the making of the "BVIslander", 1950-1990 -- Stereotypes and the immigrant problem -- Race, place, and citizenship -- Immigrants between legislated and chosen identities -- Making family, making genealogy : one hundred years of family land -- The Cadastral survey : a modern reordering of the territory -- Making history for the nation
Little-reported developments in two Caribbean highlight the current dynamics at play in the complex and often difficult set of relations that exist between the UK and its territories.
