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Indo-Caribbean African-isms: Blackness in Guyana and South Africa

In an attempt to close the gaps between diaspora and regional studies an Afro-Asian comparative perspective on African and Indian identity will be explored in the countries of Guyana and South Africa. The overlying aim of the ethnographic research will be to see whether blackness can be used as a unifier to those belonging to enslaved and indentured diasporas. Comparisons will be made between the two race models of the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean worlds. A substantial portion will be set aside for a critique of the concept of Coolitude including commentary on V.S. Naipaul. Further, mixing, creolization, spirituality and the cultural politics of Black Consciousness, multiculturalism, and dreadlocks will be exemplified as AfroAsian encounters.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/35554
Date10 July 2013
CreatorsBasheir, Andre
ContributorsWalcott, Rinaldo
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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