Caribbean Transnational Experience

by Harry Goulbourne

Overview

This book examines today's vibrant and creative trans-Atlantic Caribbean community. Chapters explore questions of definition and theory, the common Atlantic heritage and fate, social and economic contexts of Caribbean transnationality, Africa, the USA and the Caribbean in popular discourses in Britain, transnationality of families and the propensity for Caribbean-born and their offspring to return to the Caribbean from the mother country. Caribbean Transnational Experience concludes with a discussion about possible future directions of what is increasingly being described as the Caribbean Diaspora.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745317632
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	07/20/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Harry Goulbourne is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Race & Ethnicity Research Centre, South Bank University, London. He has published numerous books, including Race Relations in Britain since 1945 (Palgrave, 1998), Race & Ethnicity (ed) 4 vols (Routledge, 2001) and with M. Chamberlain (eds) Caribbean Families in Britain and the Trans-Atlantic World (Palgrave, 2001).

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Preface & Acknowledgements
1. Questions of theory, definition, purpose
2 .A common trans-Atlantic heritage
3 Contemporary social and political dimensions of British-Caribbean transnationality
4. Africa and the Caribbean in Caribbean consciousness and action in Britain
5. Black America in Caribbean public discourse in Britain: Uncle Tom, Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis
6. Having a voice: Caribbean publishers and diasporic communication
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

'Finally, a detailed study of Caribean people and their transnational experiences ... a fascinating collection of essays''A timely account and analysis of the lived reality of the hundreds of thousands of West Indians who now tenant the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain. A welcome addition to the growing literature on the creolisation process which has shaped the Caribbean over centuries'

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