In:Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
Eleonora Esposito
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 93] 2021
► pp. 23–50
Chapter 2Ethnicity, nationalism and the political process in Trinidad and
Tobago
Published online: 27 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.93.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.93.c2
Article outline
- 2.1A short socio-political history
- 2.1.1Afro-Indian relations in colonial Trinidad
- 2.1.2Politics and Afro-Indian relations in the post-independence era
- 2.1.3The 2010 election: Kamla Persad-Bissessar and The People’s Partnership
- 2.2Ethnicity, identity and nationalism
- 2.2.1“The African and the Asian will not mix”? Between plurality and creolization
- 2.2.2Callaloo or pelau? The discursive construction of the postcolonial nation
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